The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-03-22

There were good congregations and
interesting services at the Episcopal
church Sunday, also Il fair Sunday
school for beginning. The Sunday
school will sbe continued next Sunday
morning at $40 O'Clock with Il good
superintendent and teachers. Arch
deacon Crawford expects to be with
us the week before Easter and Easter
Sunday.
Rev. John Maclean left Monday
for Eureka where he will attend
the annual conference of the NJ. +.
church, which will assign the minis
tiers to their charges for the coming
year. a strong letter went with him
from the entire lola congregation ask
ing the conference to send him back
here, and the REGISTER hopes that
such will be the result.
The K. c. Star picked few lines
out of an article in the REGISTER
about j. V. Crouch some weeks ago,
referred to him as lola gold brick"
and printed it. OF course it reached
him and half the people of his home
town were joshing him on the street
that day, he says, and asking him
what kind of graft he was working
on the people of Kansas.
One reason why you ought to regis
tersis in order to permit an idea to be
gotten of the towns population. To-
date 1856 people have registered but
there are as many more eligible to
vote at the spring election who have
not registered. Let everybody regis
ter this week, before Friday, when the
books close, and show the big, unfeel-
ing, unbelieving world that there are
1900 people here.
George A. Bowlus and L. c. Beatty
returned Sunday morning from their
trip back to the oil fields to look at
the gushing young thing in which they
are interested. Their lease covers a
tract of land large enough to support
some eight or ten wells and the gentle
men have an idea that they can stand
the strain of receiving daily dividends
from several more oil wells.
Gas City Headlight; Three car loads
of lumber arrived the latter part of
last week for the Cherkee-Lanyon
smelter Company. Nearly score of
carpenters and assistants are now re-
placing the frame of the block that
burned down few weeks ago. AS
soon as this building is done and the
block gets going the building of
another block will be commenced.
The fire horses are being put through
their PAGES daily now, in preparation
for the coming of the big engine.
| Hitched to a dray they are given Il
spin off on a country road and come
back with their coats covered with
foam. 1t will take a good man to
handle the team and the position of
chief fireman will be one of the difficult
ones to fill under the new regime,
Finding gas looks so easy to people
who haven't tried it, but even lola
spent several years in fruitless search
and had all but given up hope. So
there is little comedy mixed with the
pathos of items like this from the Con-
cordia Empire:
1.-Two strong.gas wells have emily been put
| wn at lola which means more manufactures
| for the place. II Concordia had few gas
wells we might have some manufactures too
Work on the new acid plant and
smelter has been greatly delayed by
the high winds, which sweep across
the prairie at such a rate as to render
impossible an attempt to raise frame
buildings. Steady work has been
done on the eXcavating and founda-
ton work and material has been I'M
loaded and piled up, so that when the
weather does permit the work can be
/ rushed.
THE REGISTEB notes with pleasure
that the Santa Fe rail road is making
plans to elevate some four miles of
tracks and erect fine new depot in
Chicago, all at cost of between four
and five million dollars. This i'm
provement will call for hundreds of
cars of cement. God cement, the "best
what is'-anI that ought to mean
nice order for the lola Portland Gem
ent Company, the only company oper-
ating plant and paying heavy freight
rates over the line.