The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-05-17

Miss McCallum, Mr. and Mrs. o. f.
Baker and Mrs. Jas. Baker arrived
rom Garnett to visit their relative,
Mrs. L. II. Watts and other friends.
Corn, kaflir corn and oats will be
.aken at Claiborne's mill in exchange |
tor flour, shorts, bran, corn meal, |
chop corn, oats, buckwheat flour
graham flour, sorghum syrup, cider
vinegar and apple butter.
Joe Rosenberg and son returned this
week from a business trip to Lake
Charles, La. He says there is lot of
oil excitement there but old land
grants and mixed claims have so con-
fused things a good warranty deed is
practically impossible.
George Ferguson has had watercon-
nections:made and will have water
motor fans put inhis east side billiard
hal to stir the air above the heated
brows of the pool sharks. And when
lola gets sewers and an outlet for
waste water the air motors will doubt
less become pretty common.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Ellis visited here
from Lawrence over Sunday. MIR.
Ellis returned home Wednesday
bnt Mrs. Ellis will remain until she
has found all her old friends. Sam
hasn't been here for five years, but
now he believes all the wonderful
stories he has heard about lola.
The public seems agreed that about
the handsomest finishing stone ever
used here is the cement rock used on
the Masonic Temple 1t is rich and
sets out well from the red brick The
chances are it will become quite Il
feature of future lola architecture as
the cement can be pressed into any
form desired.
All over town improvements are be-
ing made. New houses are going up,
curbing put in, lawns sodded, repairs
made, trees set out, walks laid, and
the endless things that make homes
look nice are being done. Five years
ago these things would have black
ened a mans repute for truth and ver-
acity if told; to-day they pass without
comment.
The Union State Bank at Union
town was chartered Friday with n cap
ital stock of $1,000. Emmett Hall, at
present deputy county treasurer, will
be cashier but the other officers have
not been elected. The stockholders
are S. B. Holt, John Glunz, H. L..
Page, f. A. Hornaday. Grant Horna-
day, d. +. Holt, NJ. L. Holt, H. w.
Holt and Emmett Holt.
Gas City Headlight; f. X. Taylor
was running around town Thursday
morning telling people that he had a
smelter in his pocket but had no place
to put it. He was negotiating with
Mr.. Remsburg whose land lies just
south of the town site. The town has
great faith in +. X. Taylor efforts and
believes he will be successful.
Just as Hunger, ravenous and i'm
perious, was knocking with violence
to attract Probate Judge Smiths at
tention at o'clock last Monday, Love
came meandering by and with his gen.
tie persua .iveness land a promise OF
a 81 80 fee) induced the Judge to turn
a deaf ear until he lad united in mar
riage John w. Hollan, of Blue Mound,
and Sadie NJ. Neal, of Bourbon coun.
ty.
lola people will recall that at the
time of the Galveston food sister o.
Mrs. Laura Barnes wrote an account
of the storm for the REGISTER. The
food nearly wiped the family fortune
away, but they stuck pluckily to theil
post and this year following huge
strawberry crop that brought then
hundreds of dollars week, comes the
oil excitement and the acres that were
under water now promise to prove un.
der oil.
kilograms from St. Louis this
morning stated that DR.. 7. n. Me-
Ginniss had suicided there yesterday
evening. Letters and papers found
on his person indicated that he was
formerly from lola and the newspa
pers sent enquiries here for particu
lars about him and why he left home
a REGISTER reporter interviewed al
the doctors but could learn nothing,
and a report that u veterinary of thai
name formerly lived here failed to bring
any light. So many doctors have drop
ped in here for short stays that tC
identify one by name is almost impos
sible.
Peabody News: A Salina DENTS
comes to Florence to fix teeth; Flor
ence dentist comes to Peabody to dc
work and the Peabody dentists ar,
called to Newton for the same pur
pose. That reminds us of list o
items we saw in the WELLINGTON Mai