The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-05-11
BAXTER D. MCCAIN,
LAWYER.
Office Over p. o. lola, Kansas
ADDITIONAL LOCAL
lola, Kansas
Office Over p. O.

Miss Ida Weith went to Humboldt
to visit the family of Mr.. Newton.
Mrs. Brilliant and son went to Os-
wego for visit with friends and |
relatives.
The excavatlng for the wholesale
grocery building ls nearly done and |
the rock for the foundation is on the
ground.
One of the surest signs of live
town is the mum Der oftransfer wagons
doing business. lola keeps some
forty busy.
Mrs. b. f. Good win, who has been
visiting her daughter, Mrs. Frank
CurnOw, returned to her home In
Pittsburg.
About half q dozen business men
have improved the opportunity this
week to have the fronts of their places
Of business painted.
Rev. K. w. Reeson, formerly pastor
Of the Carlyle church and who went
from there to Yates Center, has now
taken q charge at Arlington, Reno
county.
Rev. Coffield, of the Lutheran
church at Hum boldt, has arranged TO
conduct services In the German
language at the court house In lola at
O'Clock each alternate Sunday be.
ginning May 20.
That little pile of brick in front Of
the new Northrup building contains
some 200, 900 brick and there is about
r t..N Ill
sample of things made in lola, Kan
sas, u. y. A." ought to be decorated
with label next week that the
visitors may know this fact.
The sheriff Wednesday held q
sale at the front door of the court
house which 10 . rather unusual thing
in lola. 1t was sale of personal Of.
fects of two men who failed to pay
their personal property tax. One
mans sofa was sold for 81 and the
other mans suit OF clothes, pair OF
rubber boots, hat and a revolver for
$3.50.
The souvenirs which next weeks
visitors will take from lola are zinc
medals, with a gas we'll on one side
and block of furnaces engraved on
the other. These will be suspended
from X. of p. ribbons and will be very
handsome, but to finish the job up
right, each man should be presented
with vitrified brick and o box of
cement also.
The gas committee Of the knights
OF Pythias, IL rejoiced at the news
from the cement company that the
: latter will pipe one oftheir largo wells
up town and turn the full flow into q
! "big gun" on the square. The big
, gun of log rolling fame was the best
exhibition of the power of gas ever
given here and Its temperance will
, be hailed with pleasure.
Mr.. Alex Bailey, who lives in
Woodson county. but is we'll known In
, lola and Allen county, Wednesday
. met OF the Missouri Pacific depot Miss
LetitiA K. Ross from Pennsylvania.
They secured marriage license from
the probate Judge and drove o
! Geneva where they were united in
marriage by Rev. Irwin.
The postmaster has received orders
from Washington to call in all box
keys, 30 that new receipts may be
given for them. When anyone rents
bex In the post-office he 10 given q
with a receipt from the postmaster
stating that tie twenty cents will he
retunded on the return of the kew.
The Department likes to have this
, Kew account checked up occasionally
t and hence the above order. All those
having KEYS must report them on or
before May %, or the twenty cents
p they have on deposit will he con-
, sidered donated to the Government.
: DR.. Cox left Wednesday for Elk
Falls, Kansas, to perform an oper-
; ton on Clyde Orsbin, a young boy
who has been suffering for five
months with a knee trouble which
the doctors seem unable to relieve.
: The boy was brought here Tuesday
" by his parents and the doctor made
g an examination of the knee with his
j X-ray machine, discovering thai
= there had been q partial dislocation o.
+ the joint, with q resulting swelling
?, gathering OF pus and decomposition
$ of the bone. Hhe true condition OF tn,
: knee being known, the doctor feel
confident that he can operate on thu
joint and bring relief and a cure.
e The ladies wonder how Mrs. b. man
= ages to preserve her youthful locke
e The secret is she takes Prickly Asl