The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-05-04
ADDITIONAL LOCAL

cigars to the dealers.
Mr.. r. }. Schall, after a few days
here, returned Sunday to his news
paper at Troy, Kansas.
Mr.. Josiah Lanyon, of Pittsburg, is
in the city visiting relatives and
looking after business interests.
PittSburg HeadGgbr g. Ii. Dun.
bar, of loIa, nas come TO Pitts burg to
take IA position as switchman i'm the
yards Of the Kansas City Southern in
this city.
Reddy GivIer informs the REGIS
TER that he has expended consider.
able capital aud thought in equipping
himself with good lawn mower and
he desires work at lawn clipping.
VIII scott, who has been engaged
IN the bar Der business at Coffeyville
for several years, came up today. He
has sold his shop and will remain
here indefinitely. possibly engaging
in business here.
Anton Bauer, T. V. Campbell and
&. A. Reynolds were up from Savon-
burg Monday. Reynolds runs the Re.
cord and he worked away day ana
night with that paper and prospered
and now is putting in an engine and
will save his muscle
There are new houses all over
town, on every street and almost
every block. There must surely be
fifty to 100 in course of construction
and they average up pretty well in
size. There Is not vacant house in
town and not less than twenty five
families are living in tents.
While Mrs. Wallis Ewing was
busy about her home last Monday
she started to pass out of door the
glass pane of whicn had been broken
and q long sharp point of the glass
entered the fleshy part OF her arm
and cut deep cash which the doc
tors had to sew up. The wound is
not dangerous but will be very pain
ful b efore ii heals.
Louis Root used to be very fond of
tomales, but he quit that habit some
time ago. He bought bunch and
opened up the first one. Beneath the
husk ke found coyly coiIed up a well
grown cockroaoh, which had its back
up to the warm meal and sleepily
waved its legs in greeting to the
astonished Louie. He has managed
since then to keep body and soul to-
gether without the aid of the tomales.
The Chanute issue OF the southwest
DeUeLoper is out and came 10 num-
ber of lola people who were all struck
by the handsome showing of gas wells
on the first page. OF course, gas
wells, good ones, look much alike,
but the ten thousand people who at
tended the lola log rolling in 1899 and
saw the "big gun" which lola exhib-
tied In her gas display on the square,
will recognize 1t prominently adorn-
ing Chanute's boom number. Two of
the other wells are from cuts owned
in lola, of wells here within half a
mile of lola.
Mr., and Mrs. M. A. Moore received
word Monday morning. from Tucson,
Arizona, of the marriage of their
daughter, Miss Clara to Mr.. Henry
NJ. Davis, prominent young busi-
ness man of that place Saturday
evening. Mr.. and Mrs. Davis will
make Tuscon their future home. Only
a few of Miss MOore's friends were in
they kept their couasel very well in
deed. The REGISTER joins Miss
Moore's host of lola friends in extend
ing the very best wishes to her and
her husband.
Il. s. Slower in working up an alb
stract had occasion to write to Mr..
w. G. O'Brien, of Mound Valley, who
was one of the Humboldt townsite
company and this morning he heard
from him. In his letter Mr.. O'Brien
recalled the fact that the company
bought the claim upon which Hum
boldt was built for a $40 gold piece
and pair of boots and at that time a
luxurious growth of prairie grass
covered the site, two tons to the acre
being cut from the principal street of
the town. That was only a genera
tion ago, in 1857.
Sheriff Hobart receives the Ithaca,
N. Y, papers regularly since he made
the capture of Chas. IDgersoll, the de-
faulting treasurer. AS will be remem-
bered by readers of the REGISTER,
Ingersoll, after being taken back
there after his arrest here, made his
escape and has not been recaptured.
The Sunday Ithaca paper SAWS that a |