The Iola register., 1901-12-13
GOSSIP Of OUR NE|GHBORS
Thinks Allen County Editors Have
Thought and Sights that They
Have Seen.

settled in the south end OF the county.
Jim Lockhart, county commissioner,
has been entertaining regular SOL
dier from Ft Riley at his home near
Humboldt, but then Jim always was
pretty regular in his habits.
Gas City has new sanitary ordin.
ance. 1t orders clean stables and
clean alleys and streets and socks q o.
hne on anyone who spits on the floor
or walls OF the city hall. Splitting on
the ceiling is still higher.
Some lines of business at Gas CITY
are hourishing in spite of the drouth.
The police Judge is having extensive
repairs to his house made.
Gas City Headlight: The second
block of furnaces at the Cockerell
works was charged Wednesday. This
calls for about forty more experienced
smelter men. Mr.. Cockerel says he
will have the third block going by
February |.
Savonburg's dentist tellsthe Record
that he "is enjoying a good bust
ness" How about his customers?
Wise mothers at Savonburg always
cough loudly in the hall before enter
ing the room where their daughter is
entertaining company. Yet it is
strange, for the daughters never catch
cold entertaining.
The Humboldt Union devotes a
column to warning people against TAX
ing cold, and says they should be like
the Indian mentioned by Henry Ward
Beecher. He was clad i'm gee string
and IA pair of moccasinson cold day
and when asked by white man if he
didn't fear catching cold asked the
white man if his face was cold, de-
claring that the;Indian's body was all
like the white mans face. The Union
thinks it would be we'll for Humboldt
people to run around like that Indian.
1t is up to brother McElroy to set the
fashion and the REGISTER promises a
large and enthusiastic delegation from
lola TO see him parade around Hum
boldt's square clad in loin cloth.
There are :only twenty lodges in
Humboldt and the Union wants some
more.
EugenelDaniels of Elsmore topped
the Kansas City market last week with
three carssof cattle of his own feeding
that brought him So, 5,3ls so.
Elsmore thieves steal without fear
or favor. One swipcd halfa hog from
the smoke house of the United Breth-
rem preached the day he killed it.
the Enterprise says if the thief was
where he ought to be he could cook
that meat without starting fire.
The Elsmore Enterprise speaks of
man from there being in lola "on
business and paying taxes" Which
looks as iflthe editor considered tax
| paying not business but pleasure.
The man who predicted an early
winter has been located at Humboldt
but insists now that he meant early
next spring.
The LaHarpe News calls Jay
Matthews Jay Matthews" probably
because Jay was formerly one of the
editors of the Moran Herald and is
said to be looking at LaHarpe with
an eye to engaging in business.
LaHarpe News: Last week while
digging a well, the Funk boys struck
II siX-inch coal bed on their place
southeast of LaHarpe. They took out
about forth bushels of good coal from
the we'll.
The Allen Center correspondent of
the LaHarpe News says; The Lanyon
Zinc Co. have their pipe line laid to
the creek, aidistance of two and half
miles and are pumping water from
their station at the Center and fore
ing it to the smeter and Rolling
Mills, theySalso have their telephone
line complete, Doug Arnett placing
the boxes on Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jay Matthews and
Miss Cornie.Thayer arrived Saturday
night from Manitowac, Wisconsin,
and will remain here for some time
visiting lrelatives, Jay has decided
to locate either at Gas City or in some
town insOklahoma but is undecided as
to which place he will move,
The.abiity of Clark Thomas tocon-
centrate his items is shown by the fact
that he squeezed a review of MOran's
buildinglboom into one and half
columusioisthe Herald this week.
The Moran Herald says Neosho
Falls has been sued by the drillers for
the gas we'll sunk which proved lizzle.
The eiFalls people wanted il drilled 10
Mississippi limestone and refuse to
pay,
Word has been received that Cyrus