The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-01-04

tnelr meeting next Monday. lie asks
all who have bills against the county
to get them in this week.
The examination OF applicants for
mail clerks and carriers will be held
January Is and it is presumed that
those who took out books and in
structions blanks are busily engaged
studying to be ready for it.
In the list of institute conductors
and instructors made out by the state
board of education, appear the names
of l.. H. Wishard as conductor and
w. f.. Register, l.. r.. Lewis and Miss
Sophia Donica, as instructors.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Frank Smith, of
Pleasanton, are here visiting Mr.. and
Mrs. Lutte Northrup. Mr.. Smith is
editor of the Pleasanton Herald and
Mrs. Smith lived here years ago
when she was Miss Cara Marsh.
Clark Jacoby, who for the past six
months has been studying at Lane
University and was sent home early
owing to the breaking out of smallpox
in that institution, will goto Lawrence
next Monday and finish his year there.
The rattle for the candy barber pole
conducted by w. G. Miller, giving a
chance to vote with each candy pur-
chase of five cents worth, has ended
and ticket number 292 wins. MIR.
Miller asks the holder thereof to call.
a whole host of lola young people
spent many happy hours on the ice on
the cement pond Tuesday. The ice
was smooth and firm and the con-
venience of the pond, as predicted in
the REGISTER last summer, was joyful
ly welcomed.
"Old Yaller," the Wells Fargo Ex-
press horse, who is about II years old
and some ten years in the service,
knows his work we'll. He will trot to
the depot and turn and back the wagon
into place without hand on the lines
and then stand as if tied.
Holes lor electric light poles are be-
ing dug around the square and on the
west side. They will he set just inside
the curbing of the cement walks. For
this holes are cut through the walk
and it is like chiseling through solid
rock for a foot to get through.
Purifies the blood--flls the system
with life, health and vigor. -Begg's
Blood Purifier. 1t cured me of dys-
pepsia and costiveness, and other dis
eases arising from impure blood; |
think it is splendid medicine" says
Mrs. Alice Reed, Butler, Mo. Evans
Bros.
AS provided by law the probate
Judge Saturday counted the cash in
the hands of the county treasurer and
found $72, 060.99. About week
ago she had $50, 900 and over, but paid
the state tax of $40, 629O 90 and the state
school tax of 81, 40, and thus reduced
the sum.
Mrs. William Adams has bought
two lots on North street on top of the
hill in front of the +. V. Lanyon resi-
dence, and has begun the erection of a
$l400 home for herself and family.
This will be convenient for her two
daughters who teach in the lola
schools.
All the real estate men report a live
ly condition of real estate, inquiries
being numerous and buyers neither
hard to find nor hard to persuade
The REGISTER confidently expects that
the wheel will turn this spring and set
lola off at pace never before equal led
in town.
y birds eye view of gas town is
interesting on u cold morning. Not a
single column of smoke, but a little
waving veil of white steam over each
chimney. All around lola the factor
les are hidden by piles of white cloud,
the cement plant being particularly
noticeable.
An lola youth has just received the
ve:y latest in handkerchiefs from
Paris, consisting of IA large square of
cloth checked off into smaller squares.
The festive Partisan beau wears these
with "a goodly corner obtruding from
his pocket, but the lola youth hardly
has the gall.
Senator S. j. Stewart was up from
Cottage Grove Saturday on bus
mess. His brother Major Watson
Stewart, who like the Captain is an
old Allen county pioneer, but whose
home is now in Iowa, was with him,
and was cordially greeted by the few
old friends who are still here.
Gather up the years magazines
and bring them to the REGISTER Bind
cry and have them made into hand
some books. 1t will only cost you a
dollar a volume mot so much if there
are . or more volumes) and it is the