The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-03-16
ADDITIONAL LOCAL

business men about sinking another
gas well
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. T.. Nicholson
returned to lola from Nevada Tues
day aud Will soon begin house
Keeping on south Washington avenue.
The REGISTER is very sorry to
learn that Charlie Often is quite III
having recently suffered an attack of
heart trouble, a repetition of which
the doctor says m light prove fatal.
Miss Florence Snow, of Neosho
Falls, came ar. from Chsnute Monday
afternoon, where she has been attend
ing Conference, aud is the guest of
the family Of the editor of the REGIS.
TER
The LaHarpe Ne,Us says that
George w Stevenson, who used to
run big store at Moran and later
moved to Blue Mound, has contracted
for a Nxl00 foot building and will
move to LaHarpe.
ChanUte Times Miss Mitchell.
uperintendent Of the lola schools,
spent last sunday with Miss Ellis.
Miss Mitchell Is not much bigger
than a pound of soap, but she IL said
to be blue lightning in the school
room.
sunday was regular summer day
and brought people out of doors. Few
Of them drove because OF the rough
roads but the signs of spring were
numberless. There were several
parssols and II. M. Miller wore a
s-t-r.a-w hat.
The most envied boy in the north
part of town is Lyman Carter, who
lives on North street. Lyman owns
hurro, a toy naturally endowed by
Nature with patience sufficient TO
endure all the vSgaries OF boys
ardent affection.
The way the city of Parsons
abolished the auction eale nuisance
was by fixing the license at 500 and
leaving out the clause by which the
local auctiOneer could save the tax to
the seller. When man moves in
in there and skins off a weeks cream.
he pays the fiddler.
Among the mineral specimens
brought back from Arkansas by G. e..
Lucock is handsome ten pound
chunk OF lead from the Captain Mack.
II is beautiful specimen and If there
Is enough stuff like IL in the mine
there Is money galore for the owners
who are lola people.
Horace Hobart has bought the half
interest of his brother-n-law in the
Alhambra restaurant on east Madison
avenue and will run it himself here
after. The restaurant prospered be-
yond the expectations OF the founders
aud Mr.. Hobart is certain to win a
fine business this season.
One of the nestest and most In
genious little machines that has come
ing machine bought by McNiel Bros.
Engraving on metal is done by it
with the same ease and accuracy that
drawing is made by laying . trans
parent piece Of paper over an outline
picture.
j. B. Hardesty while unloading
heavy gas pipe at tho cement works /
Friday afternoon oAme near hay-
ing very severe accident. He was
using . pick to lift the pipe and a slip |
caused the pick to swing against his |
side, severely bruising his ribs. He
was knocked down but seems TO have |
no serious injuries.
Do you come to lola regularly to
trade ? lfnOt, come and see for your
self that our merchants are doing |
Just what they notwithstanding |
goods just as cheap, and, in many
cases cheaper, than they can be
bought elsewhere. lola has always
been good trading point, and itiss
better now than ever before.
G. G.. LucOck, who has been pros.
pecting in the Arkansas zinc territory.
Is very enthusiastic about that coun-
Try and about the land which the
different lola crowds hold. He SAWS
hat the most OF 1t is AS fine pros pect
as any land in the zinc country and
ne Will be surprised in the same de-
gree that the owners Will be disap-
if there are not diamonds TO
wear.
Saturday afternoon one of team
d horses attached to buggy and
lea In front OF the Sleeper furniture
'tore found that he was sinking slow
y but surely into the mud, 80 turned
'Ver on his back and held his feet up
n the air. He looked so funny in
his position that the other horse
aughed and this was the strange
loise which startled the town.
Mr.. f. A. Sauer spent Sunday in
jhanute and reports that the new
yas we'll recently struck near that
own Il one of the best yet found in
hat field, yielding about million
eet day, besides five or six barrels
# oil. The strike is of special inter
'st for the reason that the well is To-
'ated about four miles west of town.
hus opening up practically a new
leld. The REGISTER reports these
acts with much salisfactiOn, and
lncerely hopes that Chanute will
ealizeher richest expectations.
Thursday afternoon the police were
lastily summoned to the east part of
own to remove from A. w. Beck,s
'orch man. He was a man full of