The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-03-30

Mrs. II. j. House Of Wichita, is Wis.
iting Mrs. NJ. l.. Decker.
Humboldt has three tickets in the
field for the spring election, Law and
Order, Citizens and Independent.
Miss Maggie Peery OF Humboldt,
was visiting in lola and is the
first to register for the summer
normal.
Mrs. Geo. T.. Cole, of Topeka, who
has been the guest of Mrs. f. A.
Northrup for several days, left for her
homeIlsst week.
Carlyle and Elsmore are both try.
ing to raise money and build city
hall to be used for lodge purposes
and public gatherings of all kinds.
Mr.. Bert Vandicar, q young attor-
ney of st. Paul, Neb who has been
here the past week looking ever the
town, left for home He may
return later and locate
Mr.. David Sanders, formerly inter.
ested in the lola Manufacturing COM
psny, but new hot on the trail of
wealth, via the Missouri zinc route,
has been in lola for several days and
left today for Burlington.
A car load OF strange vehicles, two
wheeled and three wheeled, came in
Friday for the cement plant. They
look like big scrapers and are really
carrying and dump carts. They will
be used In many ways about the
plant.
K. C. Journal: General Fred Funs.
ton 10 now an uncle, his brother, POgue
Funston, having become the daddy
of a fine girl. But this Isn't half so
interesting as the rumor some old
ladies in California are passing
around.
lola Will want to clean up before
the Knights of Pythias meet here
next month-and there is no reason
on earth why the good work should
not be commenced right now. There
is much more of it now tnan there
used to be.
One set OF machinery at the cement
plant was operated last week aud tue
rattle was heard all over town. Just
walt until all those twenty one sets
get to doing business ana the fact
that lola il manufacturing town
will be advertised far and wide.
Topeka CapStal: Commercial
travellers can size up the merits OF
towns as easily as "a pointer locates
game. For that reason lola feels
pleased because a commercial traveller
of many years experience has quit
the road and catered into business
there.
Harry Grubbs is tenderly carrying
his hand around in sling, the result
of having the third finger badly
mashed by some gas pipe the other
day. 1t is thought the bones were
broken but Harry is standing the
severe pain in the hope of saving tn e
finger.
A plat was recorded Friday in the
register of deeds office of four blocks
containing So lots, in the Northrup
home tract in the southeast part OF
town. This 10 part OF the old farm
homesteaded by Lyman Rhoades
when he settled in Allen county, back
in the sixties.
An Atchison county man sold l2O.acrC
farm last week for $1,000 Topeka Capital.
Now an item like tina, is n mighty
good Neutrality-suspicious. but in A lien
county. G.. w. Parrish sold 1850 acres
six miles from lola for 500, 900. Where
do you suppose people will go to when
they die who don't believe in Iola2
Frank Alsop, who has held down q
chair in Hersh berger's barber shop
for several months, left last week fol-
Flagstaff, Arizona, where he will
enter a shop with q former partner
His summons came by wire and was
so urgent that he had not time to WISH
his parents at Bronson b9fOre leaving
The Independent long distance
telephone line which branches out
from lola Is making extensive i'm
provements New poles are being
nut in and instead OF one wire and
ground circuit eight wires and a
metallic circuit will be used. The
line covers some fifty towns, going
east via FIT. Scott to the Joplin zinc
country, north to Ottawa, Osawatomie
and Paola, and south to Parsons and
the Territory line. lola will be The
central exchange and Mr.. Arnett re-
GENTLY received and put up his switch
board.