The Iola register., 1901-06-07

HUMBOLDT Uuion: Orlie Redlield
came down from lola Wednesday,
having been discharged from the pest
house after having been confined
thirty-two days with n severe case Of
small poN lie shows signs of having
had that dread disease, and it was
sometimes laughable TO see people
shy around him as if fearful Of being
exposed. We don't blame them
either, although there is no danger
from him now.
Sundays Globe Democrat devotes
a page to A Vision of Fair Women"
showing portraits of eleven ladies who
have been declared the most beautiful
women in the towns in which they re-
side, as a result OF the Globe Demo-
Gratis worlds Fair beauty contest.
Miss Minnie Conroy, of lola, is one
of the eleven, and the most beauii-
ful one, if her friends in lola are TO
be the Judges.
A woman in Idaho got divorce
from her husband because he would
not take her to the Paris Exposition.
He testified in court thathe was afraid
of water and that he was afraid to get
into batn tub even, it made him so
seasick. That man has indigestion
just as a good many others we know
and should take DR.. Caldwell's Syrup
Pepsin. Get ii at Chas. B. Spencer q
and Co. lola, Kinne & Son, Moran.
George Ferguson was the first man
to arrange for a water motor to .Qper-
ate fans. He had them installed in his
billiard hall on the east side and used
an old well in the rear of the building
as an outlet for the waste water. The
fans:worked all right but the we'll
quickly filled and after thinking the
matter over Ferguson decided he will
install an engine, use gas and run the
fans with it. Water motors will not be
success until sewers are built.
There was filed with the county re-
corder today release of mortgage
held by the Union Trust Company Of
New York on the Southern Kansas
railroad, for 81, ,479, 400. The mort
gage was an old one secured by the
bonds of the road and was to be re-
leased when the Santa Fe got all the
Indebtedness paid off this branch
The papers started in at Douglas
county and are being recorded in
every county through which the road
runs.
Four men stood in the waiting room
in the Kansas City depot recently
and the man with the uncertain voice
who calls the trains mentioned the
Southern Kansas in thismanner: "All
aboard, Santa Fe, for Ottawa, Cherry.
vale, Winfield, Oklahoma and the
Panhandle." The four Immediately
surrounded him and inquired the why
fore of emitting the best town on the
road from his list, namely lola. He
promised to take the matter under ad-
visement.
A number of lola people left We'd
nesday for Junction City to attend
the State G. A. II, encampment which
begins there Thursday and lasts until
Saturday. Rev. d. b. Shuey, Nc
Cook Postl commander, went as re-
preventative of this post, and Mes
danes H. M. Miller, G. W. Apple,
Lloyd Coe, and Lizzie Hartman,
went to attend the w. r. G. reunion.
H. M. Miller went along for full
measure, but he wasn't sure whether
he would hobnob with the boys or the
girls.
OldlDame Nature has clothed the
earth in beautiful garment of grass
and grain this spring and Monday
after seeming to neglect:her duty and
permitting good deal of dust to
collect on her raiment the old girl
came to, shook her clothes in the wind
grumbled little and then sprinkled
them. 1t was a timely, valuable
sprinkling and people who were SER
iOusly beginning to see ''drouth"
written large over everything have
renewed their hope. The northern
part OF the State is drier than this
tion, so Allen county is fortunate.