The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-09-14

Street, of Stroud, Okla. Mrs. Street
was formerly Miss Flossie DeMoss
and lived here when a small girl.
b The announcement in another col
umn that Theodore Roosevelt will
be in lola the last of the monthwill he
welcome news to every citizen in the
county and the old town will see to it
that he is given warm welcome dur
ing his fifteen minutes stay here.
Sunday at the post Office the line
at the general delivery window
stretched across the room, out of the
door aud turned the corner and the
tail end of the procession was half an
hour getting inside the door even.
Freesdelivery will help this somewhat
as the carriers will all help, each
having a window of his own.
z Exchange: An old-time newspaper
friend of ours recently tried bis hand
at farming, but he couldn't make
things work right and is now back TO
the case. He had a wrong font team
mule and horse. He said that the
farmer fired him after he had pied"
three or four columns" OF potatoes.
He showed his limited experience by
asking the farmers wife if she wanted
the hens set loaded or solid.
Dispatches to the Sunday papers
told the listening world that there was
plan to build an electric trolley line
from Parsons to Neodesha through
! Cotfeyville Cherryvale and indie
pendence. The towns would all take
stock in the road and thus link
together goodly portion Of the gas
territory near the southern border.
The road would carry both passen-
gers and freight and the towns think
it could be made to pay.
Humboldt Union Monday fore
noon the sad news came 10y telegram
from Telluride, Colorado, that John
Hess had met with terrible accident
whereby he had lost both of his arms
and was otherwise injured. The dis
patch was sent 10y his brother George,
who was with him. There were no
/ particulars more than stated. John
was working for mining company,
and it is supposed he was injured
while in the performance of his duties.
Charles Hess left for Telluride on the
l O'Clock Santa Fe train Monday.
A bootlegger at the Baxter Springs
reunion made small fortune and
escaped arrest. He secured a lot of
pint bottles, filled them with cold tea
and circulated promiscuously among
the crowd. When he met promising
subject he asked if the subject didn't
want something. "What is it" asked
the subject. "You might CALI whiskey
but / call it tea. " said the bootlegger
and he sold barrels of it at 80 cents a
pint. He was arrested but was turned
loose as the law does not prohibit
selling tea.
The report of the storm at Calves
ton interested the Evans family deeply,
as their sister, Mrs. Dave Beatty has
made that place her home for years.
her husband owning considera bic
property there. They have every
reason to believe, however, that Mr..
and Mrs. Beatty were at the time in
California, Mr.. Beatty having re-
Gently sold ont his business. They
will be in for share OF the loss on
property, but the chief anxiety is re-
lieved in the probability that both
We're out Of the storm.
y prominent Populist of Humboldt
recently made the statement that all
the Germans We're going to desert the
Republican ticket on account of "im-
perialism' and he cited one case. \
nearer took the pains to visit this Ger
man, a prominent business man. and
he denied the story altogether so far
as he was concerned. The Populist
was afterwards asked what he meant
by imperialism" and to the huge de-
light of a group of by-standers he
houndered about woefully and finally
gave it up that he didn't know himself.
Several men have asked the REG
lister if lola was going to have a
foot ball team this fall. Can't say.
There is material here at the factories
for several winning teams. There are
a lot of smelter boys who have mag
nificent physiques and muscles hard
and enduring and with little training
ought to put up fine game. Then
there are several hundred cement boys
who could scare up a team. Likewise
the school boys, They could play
eachother and neighboring towns,
Why not?
Humboldt Herald: There is an old
saying that "lightning never strikes