The Iola register., 1901-08-23


Mrs. Walt Canatsey left last week
for Moran where they will make their
future home, Mr.. Canatsey having
gone into the plumbing business there.
They have many friends here who re-
gret them leaving but who hope the
change will be for the better.
Miss Margaret Wakefield was up
froms Monday the guest Of
Miss Frances Wilson. Miss Wake
field leaves again next Monday for
Arizona where she will spend the
winter with her brother, James, and
family. Being good natured, she
speaks good word even for Arizona.
Granatoid walks with broad steps
leading TO the doors and out to the
curb surround the Methodist church.
Curbing will be put in, the parking
put in shape and one of the duties OF
the ianitor will be to look after the
lawn. 1t will be perhaps the prettiest
corner in town when completely finish
ed.
Mrs. c. A. Remick of l6 South Wal
nut street, kindly offers to hold Sun
day afternoon school for children who
for any reason do not feel inclined to
attend the regular schools at the
churches. She offers to meet them at
her home at > O'Clock Sunday after
moons and instruct them in the Bible
teachings.
The Ottawa Herald says that Hipty
| Patterson, the negro who recently cut
Ben Thompson here in fight on Wal
nut street and got away. mixed up in
another cutting scrape at Ottawa Sun
day. He fled to Garnett, was captured
aud may be sent to the pen. The Her
aid says he is regular tough and
always making trouble
b. f. Eancoast was in theREGISTER
Office last Friday with some corn
which he secured on the James Town
send place in Horshoe Bend. The
ears measure seventeen inches in
length and fifteen inches around the
husks and experts estimate that the
field will yield siXty-fve bushels to the
acre. 1t is mammoth corn, as fine as
grown.
John Wood has recovered the eight
draft animals which he lost last We'd
nesday night. They were scattered
about in various places and seem to
have wandered away from the barn
and the pasture and the theory Of theft
has been wholly abandoned. 1t made
him feel better to see the $500 on
thirty-two legs come walking back in
to the fold.
Mr.. j. Herring is back from Lawton.
While there he bought nice business
lot for $500 in block which sold out
for prices ranging as high as 81 900.
His plan is to erect a building on the
lot and make it distributing point
for his cigars which he will continue
to manufacture at his lola factory
His son, Jack. will leave soon for the
new country and have charge of the
distri button.
f. w. Hall is back from the Indian
country and is tickled to death over
his luck. He spent considerable time
listing quarters he would like to own
and when his turn came he was able to
fl lie on the second selection on his list
Afterwards he examined the land and
believes is better than his first choice
A creek runs through it and thero is a
lot of good tillable land.
Rev, d. b. Shuey returned home
last week from Lancaster. Pa, whith-
err he took the remains of his mother
FOR burial. Besides attending church
meetings in session there, he visited
the Pennsylvania and New York
Chautauquas and spent a week at the
! Pan American. He says the eastern
ers are talking of the want and woe in
Kansas and expecting calls for aid.
His relatives played a mean trick on
Levi Kelley Friday. He was twen-
ty-eight years old, but instead of sit
ting about mourning his fate he was
at work out in Bricktown where he is
finishing house. Arrayed in jumpers,
his sleeves rolled up and his hair
awry, he marched into the unexpected
presence of houseful of guests, in
vited to help him celebrate his birth
day.