The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-11-22
A GLASS PLANT IS IN SIGHT
Ii Remains For lola to Subscribe
Enough Money for a Site and
On Good Gas Wells
What Say?
Do the people of lola want glass

Do the people of lola want a glass
plant?
That is all there is to the PROPOSE
ton before the house. II they do want
it they can have it and right away.
If they don want it it will,go to some
other town. The glass men have
made their terms to lola'and lola can
meet the terms or not as she sees fit
The REGISTER recently noted the
arrival here of a gentleman who rep
resented two glass men who were in
this town some weeks ago. .sThey had
corresponded with the commercial
club before coming and came here to
look the field over. What they saw
satisfied them and they returned home.
Now they have sent this gentleman
here to deliver their final decision on
the matter Of bonus andithat decision
has been communicated to the com
mercial club.
\ free site and Il good, average gas
we'll is all that lola is asked to give
to secure a factory that will employ
from fifty 10 hundred men and will
! pay out good wages to that number Of
skilled workmen, building new homes.
adding to the local pay roll andi in Al
very short time returning to the don
ors the money which they put up to
secure the industry.
| The commercial club SHEEN talk
/ ing the matter over and discussing
ways and means. II is:probable that
a subscription paper will be started
and subscriptions asked from all who
are willing. A gas we'll Twill cost about
from $500 to $500 dollars, because it
will probably have to be gas land it,
self. The members of.the commercial
club will head the paper with liberal
donations but they do not want to do
all the giving Every man in town
who owns any property can AFFORD to
give. There are 800 people in town
who own property that will be in
creased in value several times the
amount OF ten dollars. IT each of
these gives ten dollars the amount
needed will be easily raised, the donO-
ton will not he Il burden on any of
them and the glass plant will Ice as
sured. The addition of from fifty to a
hundred families to the population of
l., h.. . l.,t 1.
tie scattering Of the wages OF that
many Farmers of good wages, all will
tend to enhance the value of property
and to increase business in every
line. The clothing man. the grocer.
hardware man, dry goods merchant,
plumber lumber dealer carpenter,
painter it will put some money in all
their pockets. From purely selfish
standpoint it will be q good invest
meut to give toward the sum needed.
And then it will start the year 1902
of for lola H. it should be started.
With the electric line. the new rail
road, the rolling mill and the acid
works all nearing completion 1902 will
be Il corking good year for lola, bu
il this town keeps going9ahead it must
keep getting things to support the
growing population, one hundred
men working at good wages in fac
tory, getting their money from out of
town, will put life into trade and a
hundred more families will come here
and find support in supplying the
wants OF the one hundred.
1t has been Il lous time since Lola
people were asked to give a cent to
help build up the town. Now they are
not asked TO do so. They are sup
posed to be lola people and to have
their own interests and the town future
enough at heart to give willingly. A
paper will doubtless he in evidence in
the near future and it ought TO be
signed promptly and willingly. If
you want new factory sign and give
what you can.
II depends on you.