The Iola register., 1901-12-13
LOCAL NEWS

fOdu IOr WnOlcSale hOuSei anu
makes his home at Bushnell, Ill.
The REGISTER was told that
the little old junk man who drives the
team of burros to the rickety little
covered wagon makes good wages
from the sale of the rags, bones and
metal helpicks up
II. b. Harmon, the brick mau who
sells brick machinery on this earth or
any adjacent planet, is here. He
smeled the LaHarpe Brick Company
a thousand miles away and came to
figure on their machinery.
Gas City received her new iron cells
for her city calaboose Thursday and
they were placed in the building. That
night was the proper time for dedicat-
ing ceremonies and man named
Leonard furnished the excuse.
Mr.. M. II. Holman was over from
Ft. Scott last week arranging for
the settlement OF the 1901 taxesassess-
ed against the firm. He says funds
were left in the hands OF local attor-
ney for all such matters and he sup
posed the taxes had been attended to.
Mack Travis is in Kansas City,
which he is working Tor and which is
interested in building the rolling mill
at LaHarpe. The next job the firm has
is in Louisiana and Mack will pro-
badly go way down south and sit
down
M. p. Jacoby. who is attached to the
city gas main leading to the water
works, was grunting about town con-
tentedly Since the cold wealth.
er he is enjoying gas in his house
west of the river and he says there is
nothing like it. And he tells the
truth.
The Chanute Tribune tells of an ac-
cident which befell the youngest
daughter of John Carroll, Who fell
from wagon, the wheel passing over
her stomach. Luckily she escaped So
rious injury. The little girl is a
granddaughter of j. w. Carroll of
this city.
Capt. S. j. St tewart was in town
and says he and his wife will, start
next week on a trip east, purely for
pleasure. He expects to go TO Wash
ington and remain there some time,
and that if he can do u service for
any old soldier or any one else will
gladly do it.
II. V. Crouch has the opera house
fever now. He has site on east Mad
ison in his minds eye and he thinks
the space, 100 by 1877 feet with west
and south fronts the best in town. 1t
is certainly to be hoped somebody
will engineer scheme through which
will give this town decent play
house.
Lutte Stover left last week for
Oklahoma to occupy seat at the big
banquet which his friend Joe Miller
will give to his Indian friends. Old
Whiteagle, one of the chiefs, will be
there and the piece de resistance of the
banquet will be roasted dog Mrs.
Stover, although invited cordially,
declined
In the list of those who passed the
examination to become registered
pharmacists at Leavenworth the other
day the morning papers include John
Tuzzles" of lola. Which of course
means John Tuggles, and his friends
will reioices that his tusssle with pill
rules is over and he is full ledged
pharmacist.
Bronson Record: r. \. Jennings
is entertaining brother and TWO sis
ters this week. The brother, =. NJ.
Jennings, lives in lola, one sister in
Appleton City, Mo, and the other in
!, Central Kansas. 1t is the first time
they have been togetheri in twenty-eight
years. Another brother was expected
but could not come on account of sick
ness in his family.
The starting of the electric railway
, is expected to give an impetusto boat
ing on the river and il seems proba-
BILE that there will be quite a collec-
tion of boats there in the near future
One young man is planning to have
his scull shipped here from the east
and the exceptionally fine water course
here above the dam may result in hav-
ing steam launch brought here.
Miss Sadie Travis reports CRATER
with new graft fleeing the good peo-
pie OF Gas City. Equipped with a
bottle containing some cotton and
, horse-radish he sells them at 81 per
bottle as electricity, throwing in enough
81 per yard cloth TO make dress. II
is not known how many new dresses
! he has disposed of, but it is believed
, he has sold several hundred morethar
he will deliver.
An lola man told the REGISTER the
other day that il he knew who the fish
warden of this section is he would like
to tell him some things. The creeks
I are low now and this man says that
| there are several people dynamitine
the larger ponds and killing of the
fish. little and big. IL is against the
law and the game warden, whoever he
! is. ought to know Of it and make an
} example of some one.
/ The A. }. Cockerel smelter /.
e rapidly taking its proper place amoul
I the factories OF this district Worl
of construction began last summer bu
by hustling the first block of furnaces
5 was put in operation some weeks age
T. and Wednesday the second block was
fred. This makes two blocks in uper
. alton and means the employment o
additional workmen. And that meant
IN T.. Al.