The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-02-02

1t is pleasant to know that others
have shared our suffer ngs. The Mo-
ran Herald says:
For week the lola Daiies have been
running one line "Back Friday locals and
last night about everybody In town re-
but the words BLACK Friday. 1t is pre-
sumed to be an advertising scheme OF
which more will be developed later on,
The Dunkard. hospital is already
proving very great benefit to the
city. Four patients are being cared
for aud all are getting along nicely.
Mre. Dalton, the woman with dropsy,
slowly improving; old Mr.. Sweet,
i'll with consumption, IL doing as well
as could be expected; and the two
Vanderhayden children, recently lett
motherless, are being nursed back To
health after eeige, one with typhoid
fever, and the other pneumonia.
The editress of the LaHarpe Argus
slips her sleeves back In the position
for kneeding dough and then replies
thusly to the annexation editorial of
the REGISTERS evening contemor-
airy: "rhe remark about annexing
what the Record styles "our suburban
appendage" to lola, is too absurd and
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pu blication to notice. 1t would lower
our dignity to notice such insipid re-
marks"
Ft. Scott Monitor John Foust, a
young attorney of lola ana boy by
/ the name of Campbell were bitten by
mad dog in lola few days ago and
came to Fort Scott to have the mad
stone applied by 5. b. Ballinger,
the East Side barber. The stone adj
hered several hours to- the parts eff.
feoted until all of the poisonous ma =
ter was drawn out. lola is infested
with mad dogs and the Mayor has IT,.
sued proclamation that all dogs
must be muzzeled or shot.
The illness of Charles Barth, OF
which mention was made i'm last
weeks REGISTER, resulted I'm deaf h
Monday afternoon. The funeral SER
vices were conducted at the house
Wednesday afternoon at l o'clock
Rev. j. n. Leonard officiating and
the A q. u. w. lodge, of which de-
ceased was member, had charge OF
the exercises at the grave. An
obituary notice, prepared by one Of
the intimate friends of the family
will be published i'm next weeks
paper.
An exchange says: at is told of a
certain plutocrat in Beloit that in
order to save himself Inconvenience
when he had his house remodeled, he
included an automatic bath tub. The
tub was so arranged that he could lie
i'm bed and by pulling a button, the
tub would glide from the next room
to the side of his bed and then all Ia
would have to do was to roll over in
the tub and take his morning bath
The other day he was showing n
party of gentlemen over the house
and when he came to the room said
Let me show you my automatic bath
tub There was q scream and the
tub came sailing into the room with
his wife in it. She now takes hei
bath in q wash pan"
The Dodd City Republican this week
gravely announces that the editor
n. o. Watkins and s. G.. Brewster
inspected mine and the late cor
poral has become "PrOt }" q zinc ex.
pert. The paper says: "Supt. Wat.
kins had couple of shots put in 9
new opening which brought to light
quantity Of ore. AS the chunks OF
mineral were thrown out Prof. Brew.
ster used his hammer and passed his
opinion upon the quality, future pros
poets, etc, of the new mine. The
time came at last to think of home
and rest so we gathered up our speci
mems, consisting of everything from
flint rock to the finest lead and zinc
ore and returned to the city some,
what iatigued but highly elated over
the sights and scenes of the day"