The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-02-01
NEWS AROUND THE COUNTY.
A Glance at Allen County Happenings
Through Various Editorial and
Rep0rtOrial Specs.


vented a photograph with silver
records that he claims can be heard
ten miles, the Humboldt Union
snatches away the palm by citing w.
J. Bryan whose silver record could be
heard 10000 miles and then proved a
fizzle.
The aged father Of Harry Bragg, of
Humboldt, now IS years old, witnessed
both the coronation and marriage of
Queen Victoria.
The Mr.. Ottenjohn who has been i'll
in the Humboldt hotel is no relation
to Iola's Often, John.
Fred McCarty, of Humboldt paid
1896 for u hereford heifer at the X. G..
blooded cattle auction.
Robert White and George Mark
ham of Humboldt, who moved to New
York last November have given up
the struggle against ennui and the
alarms of the desolate metropolis and
will return to Humboldt. And the
Union swells three buttons off trying
not to yell 81 told you SOL"
Mr.. Nyrdyke has broken out at
Elsmore with lodge proposition. II
he don't trip up on his name he may
succeed.
The Enterprise believes the morals
of its neighborhood are going up
rapidly. More people took the notion
to call and settle subscriptions last
week than ever before.
Jonas Wall liked the looks of the
Miller farm west of Elsmore and
traded $4,000 for 1t.
Harry Doty, who lives north of
Moran, has a petition signed for a
rural mail route north of that town
2s miles long and serving 500 people
and more.
Harry Olmstead of Usage township
seems to have secured the aid of the
helpful hen. He recently shipped
chickens from Moran to Hot Springs,
Arkansas, for which he received 81
each for hens, Sl.5O each for more
and from $3.50 to SO each for five
roosters.
The Moran Herald says DR.. Lam
beth got 81 shot out of the face of
Melvine Coifey, the boy recently
accidentally shot there.
George Fox who located LaHarpe
on corner ofhis farm has just sold 100
acres 81 miles southeast of town to j.
w. Shahan of Iowa for IS, 900, taking
half of it in u 1850 Al miles north
east of town.
LaHarpe News: A grade was com.
menced Tuesday morning for an 1900
foot switch which will commence at the
west end of the depot on the south
side of the main track and extends
west This track will greatly improve
the switching facilities at this place.
For some time the amount of freight
handled here has caused such a num-
Der Of cars to be on tho siding that
nearly every night the crossings are
closed with trains waiting for the east
| bound passenger. Several men and
teams have been at work this week and
the new switch will be pushed to com
| pletion as soon as possible.
| The Savonburg Record notes that
lola has 1000 cases of grip with
sigh of envy that there are not that
many in that town.
The Record figures that Elsmore
township will save $l1, $50 in interest
on her Missouri Pacific bonds, thanks
to the refunding process
The following from the Savonburg
Record is reprinted not as u boast nor
for its complimentary flavor, but for
thereally magnanimous and exceeding
ly rare exhibition of newspaper courte-
sy where malice and envy so often are
in evidence:
The lola Weekly REGISTER is the Official
paper of Allen county. Few counties have
per that viii compare with 1t and many are
not nearly as good. If you are resident
Allen county it would be n good investment
to have your name enrolled on the REGISTER S
list and keep constantly in touch with the
county news. II costs ~ so per year but it is
| n newspaper
w. L. Yancy, Paducah, KY, writes;
81 had severe case of kidney disease
and three of the best physicians in
southern Kentucky treated me without
success | was induced to try FOLEY S
KIDNEYCURE. The first bottle gave me