The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-07-26

encouragement last Saturday one re-
tail firm in lola took cash over their
counter to the amount of S960.50.
That wasn't bad 1t was the biggest
days business in long career of the
firm. The combination of pay day
and Saturday did it.
Topeka Journal: DR.. and Mrs. s.
N. Burger Of lola, Kansas, have is
sued invitations to the marriage of
their daughter Bessie Belle and Mr..
William Offield of this city Monday
morning, August 9Th at half-past
eleven. The young people will be at
home after September in Topeka.
The selection of Salt Lake City by
the Elks as the place for their grand
lodge meeting next year at this time,
has already started the local lodge to
talking of going next year. The trip
to Salt Lake would be fine and on the
return there would be golden oppor-
tunities to stop and camp out and
fish.
Swift & Co., the big packers, have
communicated with the city officials in
regard to securing power for opera
ting an electric automobile here in'the
near future. They have one which
they are sending over the state as an
advertisement and have to have cleo
tricity to charge their storage battery
1t will probably be here early next
month and will probably stay several
days.
His friends will be sorry to learn
that Mr.. Frank Robinson was serious:
ly hurt this morning while attending
to the loading of car of brick at the
south plant of the lola Brick Compa-
ny. He was standing between the car
and loaded wagon when an engine
bumped into the car and as result
Mr.. Robinson's foot was severely
crushed. 1t is believed no bones were
broken but he will be laid up for some
time.
A number of lola people have dis.
covered that their bath rooms are un'
comfortably hot and that bathing in
doors is far from refreshing. So they
areingenious and the REGISTER know:
of two men who knightly gather in the
back yard, dressed much like Adam
the first day he walked down the MAR
street in the Garden stepping on the
shady side because the bot road burn
ed his tender feet, and turn the hose
on each other.
A delegation from the Chanutt
school board chaperoneo by Judge b
+. Gates and shown about this city by
Mr.. ID. p. Northrup, of theIola schoo
board, visited town today. They
came to view Iola's school buildings
and get ideas on architecture, equ p
ment and heating and lighting pro
cesses. They expressed considerable
admiration for Iola's buildings
tucked one of George Whites dinners
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for Humboldt to view the high schoo
building there.
The REGISTER regrets to learn tina
Miss Ollie Martin is again danger
ously i'll. For year or more the
struggle between life and death has
been going on, the victory seemingly
alternately won and lost. During the
present hot weather she has lost gradu
ally and little hope is now entertained
of her recovery. although she is re
ceiving the most tendercare from Mrs.
Joe Ross with whom she has lived fol
some years. Mr.. Ross is expected
home from Moran soon to render VIVA
assistance he can.
A REGISTER reporter drove down tt
the river last evening and was sur
prised at the amount OF water in tn,
pond, Some years ago when Their
was not much of drouth rock wa
hauled from the bed of the stream be
low the dam. Today, after an unpre
cedented drouth the water is runnin,
under the wagon bridge, and the waite
above the dam stands within less tina
a foot of the top of the dam. 1t woul
seem to prove conclusively that Iol
has water enough to supply all need
Jor evermore.
a Kansas paper published the fol
lowing story, which is pretty good
although hard on the merchants witt
sold the goods. An old bachelor VIII
bought pair OF socks found attache
to them these words: 81 am u yQun
lady of 20 and would like to CORE.
pond with a bachelor, with a view tC
ward matrimony." The name and az
dress were given. The bachelor wrot
and in a day or two got this lette
Mamma was married twenty year
. ago. The merchant you bought tho'
socks of evidently did not advertise {
he would have sold them long ag
Mamma handed me your letter al