The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-02-09

nesday for Parsons where they will |
make their future home. Mr.. Lewis |
was in the meat business here with |
Glen Kreuter for awhile but sold out
to Mr.. French.
The cement company received |
today huge water pump for its
pumping line from the river to the |
tank on the mound. The tank is
nearly completed and looms up SO ~
to be visible for miles.
Mr.. and Mrs. Root, of Chicago, ale
nere looking over the city and rs
they are well pleased they are think
ing of 10 eating and opening real
estate office, buying and selling for
themselves and for their patrons.
Before the close of the present
century lola may number among her
facl cries n pottery works whtre jugs
and crooks and churns will be turned
out. The material Is here and parties
are figuring on establishing such q
plant.
Street Commissioners Harris lie put
ting in his time now bridging Coon
Creek. He has built a sixteen foot
bridge over it at North sycamore
steet aud will have To make II thirty
foot opening beneath the bridge on
East Douglas.
The drilling machinery used in the
Carlyle well got out of order Tues
day through two slight breaks and
operations stopped. AS soon as re-
pairs are made old mother earth will
be asked that poItentous question:
Is there gas here?
His many friends will be glad to
learn that Ray Duffy has secured the
position of time keeper at the cement
plant and has already entered upon
his new duties. Ray liz ali old lola
boy and his return TO the town is
proper and fitting.
The Hutchinson News says there Is
youth at Wellington who refused to
be vaccinated but wears instead a
sack of asafOetida around his neck.
so far it has served eXcellently as no
one will approach near enough to
| take the contagion.
Drs. Fulton aud Chastain performed
Tuesday, upon John Richardson,
the very delicate operation known rs
aspiration of the liver, that organ
being punctured and some eight
ounces of pus being extracted. The
operation greatly relieved the patient
who has rested easy since.
Newcomer Yes, | want to buy
property.
lola Real Estate Man: MY dear sir,
III sell you the finest lots in the city
you're bound to make fifty per
cent
Newcomer: My friend, tits deeds
not words shat count with me.
Lev Bostwick, who is making the
Cherryvale Clarion mighty good
paper says that Cherryvale Is q COM
ing town and that the paper lie doing
nicely, which would seem to indicate
that the people down there are appre-
ciating q good paper after having none
for six months. He was up Sunday
for visit.
The quarantine was raised In lola
Sunday and the prisoners are out en-
j0ying the open again. Mr.. Worick
says he kept vinegar boiling on the
stove in the house all the time. A side
from the tO-be-expected lassitude af-
ter ten days in door, the quarsntined
people feel no worse and none of them
were sick.
The rumOrs of the striking of gas at
Carlyle have considerably bolstered
up the faith of the men who have
plated additions on the north side OF
town. n. Hankins is contemplating
planting a crop of town lots in his
field southeast of the house. And the
old inhabltant will not believe 1t until
he sees the stakes.
ElsmOre Enterprise: The Esmore
Creamery Co. has bought in round
numbers 100000 pounds of milk IN
1899 and Laid S. 900 for 1t, an average
of so cents per 100 pounds. They also
paid out over 81 200 for labor and
shipped about 10000 pounds aside
from that used at home by the patrons
and the town people.
, The efficacy OF the FIT. Scott mad
stone has had additional proof in thu
fact that it's former work was com
plete. John Foust went over Satur
day night and applied 1t again and il
refused to adhere. Then he applied
the one at Spencer's store and it re
fused to stick. His hand IS healed VI
and seems to have no tendency to in
} flame.
Mr.. j. Herring, the proprietor of the
cigar store on West Madison has pur
chased lots ten and eleven in block
ninety-seven on South Buckeye sire
and Will build hands some home and
: definitely link his future with Iola's
Mr.. Herring has met with gratifying
! success with his factory and has 9
= certainty ola large and increasing
business.
Willie Campbell, the boy who was
bitten on the leg by the dog which
created so much excitement is limpine
} around with very bad sore from the
bite. The Fort Scott mad stone ad.
.hered to the wound for ten hours but
seems not to have extracted all the
poison. He is now wearing a plaster
on the scar to draw the poison and
the wound will probably heal al
right soon.