The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-09-13


Philippines. Some months ago he
was discharged and opened up bar
Der shop In Manila which he has been
successfully running. He is expected
here this week to visit friends.
Some time ago one of the council
men introduced a resolution which was
adopted by the city council that the
police should take in charge those
persons who, after due notice to pay
poll tax, declined or omitted to attend
to that pleasant duty. Yesterday a
list of delinquents was furnished to the
police and heading the list was the
name of the councilman who intro
duced that resolution.
Ord Christian has quit work prepar-
atory to returning to Kansas City to
resume his studies in medicine. He
has given an exhibition of grit and
nerve this summer that has won him
some mighty nice compliments. Be
ing compelled u work his way through
school took a night job at the cement
plant and for the past eighty days has
never missed a day that he did not
rise at O'Clock, seven days a week.
Grit like that--eighty days at a stretch
Ought to win out in this world.
w. G. Simons, one of the owners
and editors of the Lawrence World, is
in lola interviewing the manufacturers
and professional men in regard to
advertising in a special edition of the
Topeka Capital to be gotten out some
time hence. 1t is to be a 100, 200 copy
edition and proposes to show as fully
as possible the milling, manufactur-
ing and live stock business of the
State. He will probably get consider
able advertising here as lola has sew
eral things to talk about.
George Townsend came in fro m
west of the river Tuesday with
his hay wagon covered with farm
products for the fair. There were
pumpkins and wheat and melons and
so forth, but the main thing was a
shock of corn not less than from ten
to twelve feet high. The stalks were
rich and heavy and the ears had been
twisted to the outside and hung dowr
all the way around They were huge
and full. Such things make mighty
fine ad. for the county when givel
space AZ the fair.
The Epworth League of the Method
list church gave an entertainment last
night that Melted them $50. Ralph
Pickell, the Humboldt elocutionist,
was the chief attraction and he won
golden opinions by the way he did his
work. He is certainly "a clever and
versatile artist in his line. A ladies
quartette, consisting of Misses Hart,
Newton, Doggett and Miller, sang
several selections, nicely varying the
program. The League assumed 1925
on the church debt, and the money
secured last night will be applied on
this.
Yates Center News: l.. w. Duncan,
of lola, was here several days last
week delivering the history of Allen
and Woodson counties which he and
Chas. +. Scott compiled, and which
was printed in the Office of the lola
| REGISTER. The volume is handsome
ly bound and is valuable book to
have in the house or Office. There are
something owe? 200 Woodson county
men written up, some of the men have
photo accompaniment. The News ac-
knowledges the receipt of copy which
it prizes very highly. Messrs Duncan
and Scott are to be congratulated on
the work.
Yates Center News: f. b. Spicer
and wife spent Tuesday with the home
folks at Geneva. The Spicer family
have taken up thatvery pleasant habit
of holding a family reunion every year
and this is the occasion of their G4th
wedding: however owning to the great
number of friends and acquaintauces
in and around Geneva their family re-
union is more like neighborbood
picnic and love feast. Grandpa and
. ] 4 ,t.
east soon and take advantage of this
occasion by bidding their friends n
kind goodbye.
Charles Guy, the expert in cement
who S member of the lola Concrete
Company, has just finished hand
some little statue which is to adorn
the top of the cement fountain in front
Of Shannon's hardware. The statue
represents "A young woman sprinkling
a plant. The pose of the figure is
natural. the features are pretty and
every detail is worked out naturally
and symmetrically. tits as handsome
a bit of statuary as one would pay
five or ten dollars for at the stores
and is further proof that Mr. Guy is
an expert in the handling of cement,
The making of such ornamental fig
ures ought to prove "a very profitable
business in itself
Clarence Norton, of Allen county,
has been representing the Kansas
Farmer at a number of fairs, and the
Hutchinson News has this TO say of
his work there: 81. Clarence Norton,
the "Kansas Farmers" expert Judge,
passed on l46 hogs and 20sheep in two
and one half hours, and so we'll we're
the exhibitors and breeders pleased
with the decisions that they rendered
him vote of thanks and congratula-
ted him on his work done Mr., Nor
will be the judge at lei Dorado and
several other fairs and has made
host of friends among the breeders of
fine stock as he is a breeder himself of
show Shropshire sheep, Poland China
hogs and Bates Shorthorn cattle. The
Kansas Farmer Company have had
h m employed as their field man and
experimental farmer for the past six
years.
nttama hoe a hard lualr stony tbat lie