The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-01-18

who will invade the new Kiowa country
when it is opened. OF course the fell
low who worked the thing up "put |
Them on the inside"
Cards announcing the marriage |
of Mr.. j. w. French and Miss
Theresa Stewart, already reported in
the REGISTER, have been received in |
lola, and state that Mr.. and Mrs.
French will be sat home" in Feb
ruary.
Another Kiowa townsite and farm
land company is reported tohave been
formed last night among lola people
and G. L. Whitaker chosen as Captain
and head mogul. Persons desiring fur
Their information or membership, will be
accommodated by crossing the Cap
tain's palm with silver.
The last will and testament of the
late William j. Preston was probated
in court today. 1t gave to his daugh-
ter, Mary. Preston forty acres of
land together with his house and
furnishings, and divided the other
eighty acres equally between his three
sons. To his two nephews, Chas. and
George Smith he willed $50 each, and
appointed his son James M. Preston
executor without bond.
Frank Smith and Frank Travis have
formed partnership and will engage
in the insurance business under the
name of Frank e. Frank Their Office
will be Franks old office, Frank Civ
ing up his old Office and moving all his
things over to Franks Office. Frank
is really whole lot better business
man than Frank who, is inclined to be
lazy and reflective, but the combna-
ton of Franks energetic hustling and
Franks quiet scheming will make the
new firm one of the strongest in town
Walter l.. Allison, who is superin-
tending the laying of the gas pipe
from the city well to the power house
at the river, was down in the ditch
Saturday and met with quite an eX-
perience. He Strengthened up in the
ditch and one Il. A. Hardy, gentle
man from the country, saw him and
then and there presented him with a
wild goose weighing ten pounds, which
he had shot with rifle. They do say
that Allison wanted to return to the
ditch Sunday and look for more gee e
Among the Washington notes of in
terest to lola and Kansas is this from
Yesterdays dailies;
Congressman Bowersoclt introduced "a pc
tition of Bedcll Bros. and other citizens Of
lola against the proposed amendpent Of the
parcel-post system. Many similar protests are
coming in from different parts of Kansas.
The protest is against a proposed
bill to increase the size of parcels which
may be sent through the mails; "a
measure which would be of benefit to
department and mail order houses at
the expense of smaller retail establish
ments.
Lagrippe is rampant in town, every
doctor in the city having as many
cases as he can possibly visit by GO
ing day and night. 1t seems to differ
little from the old fashioned type, the
chief danger lying in relapses and
changes to more serious disorders.
The REGISTER started this morning to
make up list to print of those who
have il, but finds it much more con-
venient to state that aside from three
business men on the square and
family living in the edge of town,
everybody else has it.
just where the bad luck on the
Northrup building will end is beyond
human compilation. The original or
der of three huge plate g lass windows
for the store front arrived six weeks
ago. Two of them were all right and
were put in place, the third being
broken. Another order was placed at
once and the new glass arrived last
Tuesday. I,is l0J by ll74 inches and
worth $3.50. /, was broken in transit
and another order will have to be
awaited, meaning perhaps another six
weeks before the finaltouches aremade.
G. b. Hyde's return sheets for Dec
ember show that he has sent in during
the month ,, 43l furs, says the Wells
vile Globe. They brought him from
81 to IS apiece, and Melted him almost
81, POO. One days purchases amount
ed to $2l6. All his transactions are
on a cash basis, and the above repre-
sents tidy little sum divided among
the trappers of Franklin and Miami
counties. AS an item of news we give
list of furs shipped by him in Dec
ember: Civet cat, 73l; skunks, 944;
musk rats, 42O; house cats, 10; wolf,
2; otter, /.
lola has on this beautiful January
day in the year 1901 the muddiest
streets and sidewalks that the sun in
his whole course around the earth
looked down upon. The streets are
always bad enough, but with the