The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-08-02

from the secretary Of the state the
amount of the county's tax for state
purposes fort this year. Allen county
is taxed to the tune of S25, 900, which is
about four thousand more than last
year.
]. d. Hollingsworth has sued Rosa
j. Hollingsworth for divorce. They
wed led amid dreams of bliss in 1880
and three babies were born to them.
He says she left him in 1890 and he
wants freedom from his matrimonial liza
bilities via the divorce voluntary
bankruptcy route.
The city has finally received the last
car of pipe required for the extension
of the mains to the Standard Acid
Works and on North street to the
Fulton home. Some Of the pipe was
damaged and some delay may still
occur before the work of laying the
mains can be begun.
Mr.. r. S. Aspinwall received a tele-
gram Hast Tuesday bringing the sad
news OF the death of DR.. j, w. Drake
OF Chillicothe, Ohio, eldest brother
Of Mrs. Aspinall, at 10 O'Clock that
morning. Rev. and Mrs. Drake
reached the bedside of their son before
he died and sent the news.
Quite a number OF La Harpe men
we're in town who are interested
in the property on which the Fit. Scott
bank wishes to levy for Judgment
against j. d. Hill. Seeing the report
in the REGISTER they will take steps
to guard their interests and the REG
lister hopes they will win. $50
DR.. Mcmillan reports that he was
summoned to dress painful injury
sustained by o. p. Montgomery OF
Geneva. The latter while working
with a threshing crew Saturday got
the first finger of his right hand caught
in cog wheel on the machine and il
was severed at the first joint
G. j. Walker, who has been in the
hotel business at Holden, Missouri,
but recently sold out, was in town the
past few days looking over the situa
ton. He was here ten years ago and
was astonished at the growth lola has
made. He investigated the hotel bus
mess here but took no step toward 10
eating at present.
The Telephone Company is putting
up additional poles along Walnu
street to accommodate its lines. The
company now has over 300 telephones
in operation in the city and is con
stantly increasing that number, which
shows there are ways OF becoming al
Andrew Carnegie other than owning 9
steel works or Kiowa farm.
One of the gate and time keepers a
the cement plant is doing thriving
business on the side. He has fixed u
refreshment stand in his office ant
daily dispenses numerous cases of pc,
and lemonade beside gum and smok
ing tobacco. The place is so close t,
the works the men can get to it ant
back without neglecting their work.
Frank Scott, Walt McNiel anC
Glenroy Flake got in Monday fir on
the Kiowa country. They campeC
out with thelrest of the crowd and the
travelled over to the Wichita noun
: tains and pranced about the hills
} They reportItinding some fine countr,
? and think it:would have been grea'
place to live in before so many mel
came.
The dispatches state that the eight
ticket drawn in the Lawton distric
, was the property of Miss Minerva Nc
Clintick of.Oklahoma City. She wa
married the day before the drawing +
an Oklahoma man and when sh
learned that by her marriage she los
all chance to take the $40, 600 farm sh
wept AS if, forsooth, any man was
MT worth more than paltry so, 90
farm.
: One of the fake kilograms tellin
Otis Hodgson that he had drawn
farm Monday was brought to hir
while one of the perpetrators of Tn
joke was talking to him. The perpe
traitor had forgotten the affair an
Otis borrowed fifty cents from him t
pay for the dispatch. Now Otis dc
clines to pay it back-and nobod
blames him but Percy Harris.
The price of board at the liver
stables is said to be about to rise bu
any thoroughbreds now eating ther
who think they can do better by moN
: ing to the boarding houses had bette
think again. Notices are being serve
pretty generally on boarders that pro
vinder is scarce and higher and
general advance in the cost OF thrC
squares is being served over town.
License to wed was issued Saturda
and Rev. Shadwick Sunday performe
the ceremony which united in ma
riage Mr.. John Stratton and Mr.