The Iola register., 1901-08-09

Will Brister was in town Monday.
He is somewhat recovered from his
recent illness but is still too weak to
work and is planning to go to Colo
RADIO as soon as he feels able to travel.
Kansas City Star: Fancy 5000
horses all pulling together, and then
you will have an idea of the power
employed by the Portland Cement
at lola.
Her many friends will be sorry to
learn that Miss Mildred Swigart had |
to come home from Colorado where
she went to spend vacation and is
ill with typhoid fever.
That new third ward school bNilding
is nearing completion and it is going
30 be one of the handsomest buildings
in town. 1t is shapely, substantial
and causing a feeling of pride.
d. Northrup, home from Colorado,
sits around telling how he has been
sleeping under quilts, wearing over
coats and looking at snowstorms.
Some people have an awful poor idea
of good joke.
Mrs. James II. Dickey left this
morning for Piqua where she will
make her home with her son, Vincent
Lawson. Mrs. Dickey lost her hus-
band last week and thus the little
home was broken up.
Elk County Treasurer M. L. Decker
says after years hard work on his
farm where he succeeded in raising
beautiful prospect Of corn he will not
have a dozen messes Of roasting ears.
He feels a good deal discouraged.
With the completion OF the walk on
the west side of Evans Bros. Drug
store this week, another full
block OF twenty-foot cement walk was
added to lola's business front. 1t is
handsome, durable, clean and catches
the eye OF every visitor
Every saloon in Fit. Scott is closed.
including the two hotels, and the busi-
ness men who recently printed petit
tion OF four columns in the papers ad-
vocating open saloons are wild. 1t
will probably be the hottest booze
fight the state ever saw.
The lola Concrete Company. which
has the contract for the Electric line
bridges has begun eXcavating for the
foundations for the arches of the
cement bridge which will cross Rock
Greek Just about 100 feet below III,
present wagon bridge.
a letter was received by Mayor
Campbell from County Attorney Johr
Goshorn, now revisiting his old hom,
; in Pennsylvania. The letter says HI
is having good time and feeling fine
He is pleased to lind his father in ex
cellent health and looking younger az
the years pass.
There is more than a suspicion tha
= the present genialty of the Missour
hNlh' IA ~ Abiill0luE btNNtl bldll sci
vice requests for which it so lon.
I ignored. may be somewhat the resul
OF the talk of a new railroad parallel
, ing its line into town and sure to com
9 pete for passenger and freight bust
ness.
At a meeting of the allied trade
here Monday night it was unanimousl,
agreed to arrange TO take as big del
egation to the Labor Day celebration
. in Pittsburg as possible. AS lot O
D lola residents formerly lived in tha
5 town the excursion will d@ubtles
: prove popular ana big crowd vii
= probably attend.
Some time ago the people of thi
: city were pleased to hear that the cit
= was going to establish a rock pile an
. that the city would receive some sligh
:, return for the meals furnished the con
tinuous string of petty malefactors i
> jail. What has become of that pile
= 1t would do a heap of good, an
goodness knows the streets need roc
badly.
= j. w. Coutant has broke groun
behind his store building for
q new two-story brick business building
80 by % feet. He will leave an are
way between the new and the oil
4 buildings to permit breeze to ente
4 and give room for the stairway whic
: will lead to the second floor. Bot
upper and lower floors will be divide
into two rooms.
l. The gas prospecting scheme at BroI
Il son is to have the same man who sun
# the Moran well, sink one there updt
n the same terms. Moran gave IL
e driler, Mr.. Ross, a franchise autho
If izing him to sell gas to consumers fC
If 81 to 81 so per month for each hou'
d served as an inducement for him to d
% the work. 1t is said he has agreed I
c bore at Bronson on the same cond