The Iola register., 1901-08-16
Miss Ida weith returned wednes.

Miss Ida Weith returned Wednes-
day to her home in Carlyle.
Mrs. f. j. Wright went to Piqua
Wednesday to visit her parents.
There will be an ice cream social
at Rock Creek school house Tuesday
evening Aug 20.
Deputy Sheriff Hutton took John
Harbon to the insane asylum at Ossa-
watomie Wednesday.
Miss Allie Moore returned We'd
nesday from Neosho Falls where she
has been for two weeks visiting with
friends.
Esther Henry, OF Leanna, is credited
in the dispatches with a pension just
issued of SS Il month. She is in tne
Original widow" class.
George often was in town Tuesday
and says he has selected Gas City as
the place where he will make bis daily
bread. He will move there and start
a bakery of his own.
The gentlemen appointed to view the
new roads route and assess damages
did not work Tuesday as planned and
the road has not been fixed any farth-
er west than Gas City.
Mr.. Ed. Gilbert. who took a home
stead on the Usage in 1862 and has
lived there ever since was in town to-
day, on his annual visit to town. He
says if corn averages five bushels to
the acre in his neighbhrhood people
will be agreeably surprised.
A report in someway has gotten out
among the folks in the county that the
lola school board has raised the tut
tion fee in the High School to $50 a
year. There is no truth whatever in
the report. The tuition is $3.50 a
month, or $3.50 for the nine month:
term.
The prospect of having the city take;
, soar again above the present figure
> which is S4.45 on the 800, is no
, pleasant, but there are worse places
The Coffeyyille journal says the ta>
this year will be S6.97 on the 800, bu
, comforts itself with the reflection tha
( at Independence the figure is S7.59.
2 A letter from Mrs. NJ. L. Brewste
states that she met her daughter Mis-
! - -, Na,, NAply tuhar ha 1att n
arrived on the steamer Pretoria.
, They had to wait while the passenger
were searched for dutiable goods an
, witnessed the taking of three dres
patterns from one woman They wer
9 sewed in her clothing.
y J. S. Turner returned Tuesda
p from the Kiowa country, where he ha
( been for the past month He is yer
+, much taken with the new land an
e thinks it has great future. He
Y one of the lucky ones but as his tim
e to draw comes late he devoted cor
t siderable time to looking over tn
5 country and has long list of desire
d BILE quarters.
Contributions to the Gas Belt re
v union fund have not come grudgingl
= but the men passing the subscriptio
e papers nave not been able to get
d every body as yet The prospect no
a is that if others contribute as liberall
several hundred dollars will be avail
!, able to help make the reunion a pleas
ant one for the veterans and help ei
:, tablish the reputation of the meeting
T.. r.. Cantrell, of Fredonia, Deput
. Grand Master of the State for the Z
" O. L. W., has beer here some time
- the interest OF the lodge. He has
- class of some fifteen members no
y ready to join and says the prospec
" are excellent for much lrger class
y The order has special dispensatio
: making the riding of the goat compa
- atively easy.
> Mr.. Wren, of the lola Creamer!
IT saws that while the business fell O
d possibly sixty per cent when Il
= drouth struck. the late rains have r
O vived the pastures and milk Is agai
d plentiful. The creamery is now turn
J. ing out some 1000 pounds of fine bu
d ter every week, and us the loc
d market is partly supplied with bu
le terine and more largely country bu
le ter, good portion OF the output