The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-05-24

Mrs. John Henderson returned from
u visit to Carlyle.
j. w, Coffey is laying a new cement
sidewalk in front of his business house
on the east side.
The Leavenworth Times asserts
that it has caught the Chronicle "ly-
ing in its gizzard."
Mr.. Newton Campbell, of Par k
county, Indiana is here visiting his
sister Mrs. G.. w. Adams aud a lot
of old Indiana friends.
J. II. Kuder sends word from Sar-
coke, Missouri, where he is now stop.
ping and will remain for few weeks,
that he needs the DAILY REGTISER in
his regular daily life. He shall have it
The alumni banquet is planned for
next week and promises to be bigger
and better than ever. High school
alumni should call on Fred Nelson
and get right.
Engineers were busy today at Gas
City laying off the new smelter which
Mr.. Cockerell will Immediately build
there, as told exclusively in the REG
IsTER up to the present writing.
Judge Smith yesterday evening at
his office united in marriage w. N.
Robinson and Amy z. Bradford, both
OF lola. The groom holds good job
at the Star Brick plant.
The REGISTER is glad to learn that
Mr.. C. w. Dunaway is able to be
around after a seige Of the rheuma-
tism. He is using crutches but ex-
poets to go to Hot Springs soon to be
entirely cured.
Billy Mcclure returned last night
from Crawford county where he went
on the trail of the men who stole his
horse and buggy. He failed to find
any accurate news of the rig and after
doing all he could reluctantly return
ed home.
Mr.. Crouch, manager of the street
railway, asks the REGISTER to request
the public to exercise care in driving
along the streets where the grade
stakes OF the new road are set, so as
to not knock them down, thus putting
him to serious inconvenience andloss.
Memorial services will be held in
the park next Sunday by the G. A. r.
and a committee has charge of having
seats prepared. Old and young SOL
diers and all the lodges have been in
vited to participate in the services and
in the decorating on Decoration Day
next week.
Mr.. U. Coy is preparing to move
here from Coffey county. He was
here recently and bought the DR.. Pep
per home on south Buckeye. His son,
a dentist, expected to open an office
soon in the Northup building, but the
fire will delay him.
The new Hobart building and the
Beck repairs are being built so as to
conform with the rest of the block
west, and when completed the entire
block, with the single exception of
Klauman's corner, will present a uni
form appearance. And it looks
scrumptuous, too.
Prof. Lieurance, the Cherryvale
band man, was in town today in
quiring about the Mobile Minstrels.
He says he has the sheriff of Wood
son county on their trail, they having
stolen S25 worth of his music from the
Yates Center opera house. The troupe
went from here to Osawatomie.
There was man in from the east
ern edhe of the county yesterday
who said he came to see the new court
house, admitting that he and most OF
his neighbors voted against IL. When
asked why he said because lola mer-
chants didn't pay their share of taxes.
How did he know? Everybody said
so. Asked for an instance he cited G.
w. Stephenson. He declared that
Stephenson did not carry nearly as
large a stock OF goods as the New
York Store and yet paid more taxes
both at Blue Mound and Kincaid.
Told that neither OF these towns are in
Allen county he became indignant
until shown a map which proved the
former to be in Linn and the latter in
Anderson county. k, ss.A-e...lt IT.