The Iola register., 1901-12-06
LOCAL NEWS

REGISTER stairs.
The working mems library will b
open every Sunday afternoon from
to . and every Wednesday night.
2 new cashiers's desk has been in
stalled at the Santa Fe which is S,
handsome that the wholeforce is prou
of it.
DR. Hendricks reports an eigh
pound girl born to MIR. and Mrs
George Strawderman who live west o
the river.
Judge Smith Thanksgiving after
noon united in marriage Milton j
Fairbanks and Grace r.. Hunt, both
of Colony.
Lew Horville lost two big steers
last week by death. They fed on corr
stalks that had smut on them and it /.
supposed were poisoned.
Miss Jones, teacher of Modern Ian.
guages at Baker University who has
been here visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Geo
! r. NICHOLSON went to Humboldt foi
a visit. sl '~"-.
Ir. f. A. Sprague who has lived m
the Deer Creek neighborhood since 'G4
has purchased Lot 10 in Block of
PoughtOn's subdivision and will build
house which he expects to occupy
| himself.
Mrs. Kal Fife wife of a l.kuown
farmer of Deer Creek township. died
Thursday morning of heart failure
The funeral was heldFriday from the
Methodist church at Colony.
The Mcpherson Republican Office
had a fire last Sunday. and accounts
say that the FLAMES broke into the
counting ROOM" That's where rich
merchants pile up sheckles and the
brothers wonder what use was found
found for it in printshop.
Mari 81 Son report that during the
first week they had solicitor out
they secured 250 certificates of mem
bership in the Mutual Burial Associa-
tion and believe they will have no
trouble in getting the desired 1000.
DR.. w. X. Jones, formerly physi-
clan here but now located at Bonner
Springs came in last week from
Humboldt where he has been visiting
a brother and will visit another
brother II. II. Jones here few davs.
y number of lola people met Miss
Jessie Noumans when she visited Mrs
Agnes Scott here last year from Kans-
as City and will he grieved to learn
that it was her father who met deathin
the terrible railroad wreck near De-
troit the other day.
Rev. Shuey has been making some
material improvements in the way of
parking along the Church and par
sonage on east Jackson. 1t improves
the appearance of the street and will
probably he carried out by the rest of
the property owners.
Mr.. John Armstrong, father of Mrs.
{. A. Savage who was called here by
the death of Mr.. Savage returned
last Friday to his home in DeSmet.
S. ID. Miss Lucille Whitehead who
came here some time ago to make her
home with Mrs. Savage returned with
him.
Editor Dallas, who runs the Mound
City Standard, was in lola Friday
visiting his old haunts and old friends.
He learned the printing trade in the
REGISTER Office years ago when Judge
Talcott and Nels Acers were editors
and has made success of the busi-
ness ever since.
a few thousand lola people would
liked to been in Denver THANKSGIVING
and been present at the wedding of viii
Brister and Bertha Randolph. They
are lola young people and the peorle
OF this town hope from their hearts
that the very best things of this world
will fall to their share, health, fortune
and happiness, and that they will
come back here to live by and by,
A man who has been out in the dis
u lets where there was the most oppo-
sition to the court house levy and
whose opinion can be relied upon,
says that the people are surprised to
find how little difference il has really
made In their taxes this winter. Many
of them had been led to believe that il
would be an oppressive burden but
they report now that they are glad
that it carried.
The REGISTER heard u local story
the other day. II. w. Kitchen and n
party of friends, including several
strangers, were out hunting. In the
timber they came across a deserted
log house. Kitchen gravely informed
one OF the strangers that the shanty
was where Fred Funston taught his
first school and that enthusiastic ad-
mirer of the Little General, worked
half an hour getting a nice. long
planb loose and carried IL away as a
souvenir. Funston never saw the log
house.
VIII Thompson returned last week
from his trip to Illinois. He met with
success in the law suit over an estate
which he went To look after getting
most of the $50, 900 involved for his
On the way home he Travelled
in style. He had u through ticket
from Illinois to lola. Then he went
back to look for his ticket and found
another one on the floor from Kansas
City to ri Reno, When he got on the
train he found his original ticket and
so came home on three tickets.
Jack McCarley got home the other
day from his hunting trip in Arkansas
and the Territory. He says they had
good luck and got several deer. Jack
came across one deer and got the buck