The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-09-06

Ottawa to see the goth reunion and
visit friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. Billbe celebrated
their fifty-eighth wedding anniversary
Saturday by taking dinner with their
son Grant and family.
We could not help it. We did our
best to wait on everybody. When we
announced cost prices on everything
at DeClute's it opened with rush.
Suits, suits, suits, suits, suits,
Shoes, shoes, shoes, shoes, shoes.
Cost, cost, cost, cost, cost.
DeClu.e, DeClute, DeClute, DeClute,
DeClute.
The district schools are rapidly re-
suming their winters grind now.
Fourteen began on Monday and most
OF the others will begin next Monday
or the week following.
Harry Koch of the Missouri Pacific
Office force went to LaHarpe Tuesday
where he will act as agent during the
vacation of Mr.. Mullen, who leaves
for Portland for an outing.
Mrs. Abner S. johnson who has
been here visiting her daughter, Mrs.
Ed Butler, went to Lawrence this
Tuesday where she will visit a few
days before returning to her home.
Fort Scott Tribune: Mrs. Rachel
Sofge, by. her attorney, G.. b. Griffith
to-day brought suit in the district
court to secure q divorce from her
husband, Harry Sofge, who was form
erly printer in this city. She alleges
abandonment.
Tom:Neal has consolidated all the
Kansas COWS and his combined animal
is long enough to drink from the
muddy waters of the Missouri and al
the same time brush with her ample
tail the snow from the crests of the
Rocky Mountains.
Mr.. Kimball and Mr.. Foust, the
former from. New York, and the latter
from Pennsylvania, are visiting in
town. They came west to buy horses
on the Kansas City market and ran
down TO visit the uncle of Mr.. Foust,
Hon. Oscar Foust.
One of the oil companies which has
just brought in gusher at Beaumont
has among its officers Joe Richards,
Ralph Richards and G.. f.. Benton, all
formerly of lola and now of FIT. Scott.
1t looks now as if each had made a
nice slice of from five to twenty thous-
and dollars.
Paola Republican: T. NJ. Hobson
was at La Harpe, Allen County, Sun
day and contracted to remove four
buildings there. The NJ. X. g. II. is
building branch road from Moran
to Piqua, to connect with the Parsons
and Junction City branch of their
road.
G. G Null Sunday attended the
funeral of David Van Nice, of Logan
ownship, father of Thos. Van Nice.
The old gentleman has been helpless
for eight years from paralysis, and
has received the tendercare of his son.
He was about so years old. The re-
mains we're buried at DeWittcemetery.
Last Friday LaHarpe held bond
election and voted So, OOOforanew school
house. There were 80 votes cast and
only four of them opposed the propo-
sition The building will be erected
right west of the lumber yard, close to
Lanyonville, and is intended mainly
for the benefit and use of Lanyonville
children.
Next Monday the students from lola
return to the University. The Old
crowd consists of Ruth Ewing, Marg-
aret Stevenson, Clark Jacohy, Wal
ter Jones and Harry Bedell. They
will be accompanied by these new
ones: Bruce Bowlus, Ray Taylor,
Sarah Ewing, Fred Ireland, Ruth Me-
Kinney and Christmas Wilson. Others
will attend other schools.
The Leav3nworth Times says of the
pen of an lola boy; 'Of all the ac-
counts of Aguinaldo's capture which
have come before the American public
none is more satisfactory than the
simple personal narrative which Lieu
tenant Mitchell, of General Funston's
staff, tells in the September number of