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The Iola register., 1901-06-07
THE lola NATURAL GAS BELT
Figures Show 1t to he Il Very Pros
porous Locality.

From the Topeka Capital.
The Allen county gas belt of which
lola is almost the center is one of the
richest spots in Kansas. The natural
resources of this belt are gas, clay
and stone, of which there seems an al
most unlimited quantity. The develop
ment of this belt has been going on
slowly for years and recent investi-
CATION of the region by w. l.. A..
Johnson, secretary of the State Socie-
ty of Labor and Industry, has reveal
ed the fact that it is now beginning to
develop more rapidly.
The number of men employed in
factories in this belt during 1899 was
l., 1S9 and in 1900 this number was in
creased TO ,447. The number of tons
of raw material consumed by the fac
tories in 1899, 6s, 377. In 1900this was
increased to l54 ,2Sl, or an increase of
So, 9l4 tons. The value of the products
manufactured i'm the belt in 1899 was
S3, ,020 952 and in 1900 this valuation
was increased to So, sos, 2l2. This is
an increase Of over one-half million
dollars. The cement plant recently
established there refused to give an
estimate of the valuation of the manu-
featured product turned out by the
plant or the increase overlS99. 1t is be-
lieved this would have been increased
more than one million dollars. One
half million dollars was spent during
1900 in the belt for improvements put
on factories in operation there.
The Iola register., 1901-06-07

master, gave little talk on the sub
ject "Can the Negro Become
Scholar" He proved his case, cit
ing such notable instances as Fred
Douglas, Booker Y. Washington
Bishop Turner, w. G.. Vernon aud j.
c. Price, all known the country over.
Mr. Seymour made the address of
welcome to the graduates. expressing
the pride and joy which their rela-
tives and friends feel in their gradu-
alton. Each of the girls responded
briefly to the welcome. Frank Ross,
a graduate Of Mound City, spoke well
on Ordinary School Life" y. w
Green talked of "The Progress of the
Negro" and he cited many facts that
were instructive and surprising of the
way in which individuals have forged
ahead and of the advance of the race
from the helpless condition it was in
when slavery was ended. f.. G.. Green
answered the toast "Does Persever-
ance VIM" with an emphatic Eyes.
He talked of the general advance in
education of the .uegro and his talk
was good.
The four young men who originated
the happy thought of giving the ban
quet are Ellis Dixon, who graduated
at Chanute in 1893, Il. G. Green, y.
w. Green and f. G. Seymour. They
were assisted by Mrs. j. c. Phelps,
Mrs. Mitchell, Mrs. Reed and Miss
RoNie Brown, Everybody present en-
ioyed the evening and it was after mid
night when the crowd started for home.
The REGISTER hopes the young people
in school will set their hearts on re-
ceiving such Ia reception and that it
may soon become an annual event.
Such recognition ought to prove a
stimulant to perseverance and scholar
ship.
The Iola register., 1901-06-07
A Word of Correction.

The REGISTER regrets exceedingly
that it was misled by "a report which
has since proven wholly groundless
concerning the details OF the death of
Mr.. Davis in Oregon. 1t was re-
ported that letter had been received,
but the first letter arrived last even
ing, being received by Win Moore, a
brother ofIMrs. NJ. A. Moore.
Mr.. and Mrs. Davis lived at Med
ford, Oregon, and while returning
from days pleasure trip took a
boat ride on a lake near Klamoth
Falls. The two were alone in the
boat and reached shore. AS Mr.
Davis started to get out he drew his
rifle toward him, the hammer caught
on the boats side and was discharged, =,
the bullet penetrating his stomach
He lived but short time. Mrs.
Moore was soon surrounded by sym
pathizing friends and the funeral on
May 81 was held at Medford and vas
very largely attended. Mrs Moore
won universal admiration for her
bravery during the trying days.
Present plans are for her to return to
lola with her father.
The Iola register., 1901-06-07
COUNTY NEWS
NEoSHU VALLEY.
c. L. ARNOLD. Correspondent

=. IL. AhNObD, Correspondent
We presume that the items we sent
in for last weeks REGISTER will APP
pear in the coming issue so we will
make no effort to reproduce them.
A new barn looms upon Edgar Hag-
gArd's place.
A large crowd of people attended
Children's Day exercises at Salem
Chapel last Sunday
On Sunday afternoon j ID Hardin
went to McCune and on Monday as
sisted his sister in bringing his sick
mother up. Although she was placed
on bed in an easy rig while going to
and from the railroad she was consid-
erably fatigued when she arrived
Mrs Fetherngill and her daughter
Anna of Deer Creek and viii Enfield
who is doing their farm work, were
down to Children's Day service Sun
day.
George Burns and family OF Rock
Greek neighborhood dined at S T En-
fields Sunday.
Will Van Fossin and family were
among friends here Sunday.
Mrs Haten and Mrs Harshman sis
ters of A H Miller were out from
lola Sunday.
Mr. Scott Mckinley andI,wife of
Humboldt attended Children's Day
services and visited at G ICleavers
Sunday.
Chas Preston called in his neigh
bors Saturday and Monday to assist
in putting up the frame work of his
barn.
Chas Leak and Roscoe Clark left
Saturday for Oklahoma where they ex.
pect to work in the harvest fields.
On last Sunday Mr. George Ellis
ir. and Miss Emma Clark drove to
Kola and were united in marriage by
Rev VIM Hankins. All wish them
well.
G 4 Jacoby came home from the
State University Monday to spend
the summer vacation
1t is reported that VIII Brown
came bone from the State Normal
q few days ago, He expects to at
tend the summer school there.
Rev f. K King and wife, former
preachers here, have returned to the
United States from Africa, where they
were sent about two years ago by the
u Il Missionary Board. Their re-
turn was made necessary on account
of Mrs Kings health failing.
The Iola register., 1901-06-07

After Waterloo NJ. TrayauX, lead
ing lace merchant, turned his ware
house into Il hospital for British sol
diers. Such virtue was not left to be
It's own reward. His good action was
noised abroad, and when the stream of
tourists set in again all the English
made it point of honor to buy lace
of him; hence in few years his for
tune was made.
Many attempts have been made to
make brussels lace away from Brus-
sells, always though without success.
Though the mechanical processes are
strictly followed, something in the air
or water or soil gives n hallmark that
nothing else can attain.
The Iola register., 1901-06-07
A Country School Innovation.

The REGISTER had the pleasure this
week of meeting Mr.. d. w. Little, of
Wallace coupty, who is working in
the Interest of new plan for the dis
trict schools, which has been tried in
several state and pronounced most
profitable. The plan is to do away
with scattered small school houses
and each district maintain a graded
school at convenient point where
the scholars may secure better instruc-
tion and advance farther, stepping
from their district school into the
county high school and from it into
the State University. After the ex-
pense of the change it is found the
new system is as cheap and does bet
ter work than the present one. In so
much as State superintendent Frank
Nelson has become interested in the
move and hopes to see Kansas adopt
it, as she has alway done with i'm
proved school methods, and it may
become fact soon, the REGISTER in
duced Mr.. Little to briefly sketch the
plan. He had little time to work in
and fuller details will doubtless be
made public later. His outline is as
follows:
The consolidation of rural schools
is one of the important educational
movements Of the day. 1t has been
found TO be impossible to carry out
the needed course of study in the rural
school of one teacher and to attempt
anything like graded school work.
Besides in many rural communities,
the number of children attending
school is SO small as to make it very
expensive to maintain a school and it
has been found cheaper to send them
to an adjoining district, at public OK
pense.
Usually in states where it has been
tried the plan is to send all the child
ren in districts Immediately surround.
ing "A town or village to the central
school in the town. For this purpose
teams are hired to convey the children
to school in the morning and to the
homes again in the evening. 1t has
been found in nearly every instance
that this can be done for the same or
less expense than under the old plan
of separate schools. This is made
possible by the fact that the central
school being we'll graded, the teachers
can handle much larger classes. Be-
sides being as cheap or in many in
stances cheaper the pupils are given
the advantage of well graded school.
Then as the town or village school
will be usually fourd to be giving
more or less high school work, the
country pupils have that additional
privilege. Doubtless the plan will
ultimately result in all the youth of
Kansas being brought within reach Of
high school instruction, which shall
prepare the student for entrance to the
college or university and that without
being away from home.
The Iola register., 1901-06-07
SHEEP IN COW PASTURE.
They VIII Thrive on Herbage That
Cattle VIII Not Touch.


While Professor Shaw says that
from 10 to 20 sheep could very well be
kept on every hundred acres on the
farm without costing the owner any.
thing for food in winter, we will go
further than that and say that we
think from two to six could be kept for
every cow that Is turned to pasture
nnd that on most farms that we have
seen the cows would find more feed as
n result. They eat many plants which
the COW does not eat, and many Of
them are such weeds and bushes as en-
croach upon the pasture unless they
are kept down by hand labor or other
means than the grazing of the cow.
That they enrich the land over which
they roam is too well known to require
any argument. The proverb that "the
hoof of the sheep is golden" is centu-
rles old and Is too evidently an allu.
sion to their ability to improve the
soil they travel over to need an ex-
PLANTATION. Cows have no objection TO
feeding over the droppings Of the
sheep. They are so fine and so scatter
ed and so quickly lose their odor that
the growth V hch is produced by this
fertilizing element is more liable to be
eaten too closely than to be neglected.
When they have been together n
short time, they will be found to keep
very closely together, the sheep learn
ing to look to the cows as their natural
protectors and the cows as ready to do
battle for them as for their calves. We
would not take a pasture suitable for
60 sheep and add 10 cows to it, for
they would find short picking, but the
pasture that would feed 10 cows must
have been exceptionally well kept from
weeds and bushes If there would not
be feed enough left that the cows had
rejected to feed from 80 to GO sheep
all the pasturagc they would need.
The Iola register., 1901-06-07
The wondcrfuI Number Seven.

Seven is n number of great promi-
nence and singulurlty. There are sew
en- planets, seven metals, seven colors
and seven tastes; there are seven prln-
clpal virtues-three divine and four
cardinal; there are seven days in the
week and seven ages of man; there are
seven windows through which the or
dlnary senses are eXercised-the eyes,
the ears, the nostrils and the mouth;
there are seven liberal arts, seven sci
ences and seven notes In music; the
seventh son is a wonder, and the sew
enth son of a seventh son Is simply
marvellous In his healing powers.
The Iola register., 1901-06-07
breeding Mules.

We are of opinion that mule breed.
ing has been too much neglected in the
south and perhaps elsewhere, The
mule is really the most useful draft
animal on the farm and by far the
most economical For real rough farm
work mules are better than horses,
They are not quite so speedy as horses.
but there Is much plowlng on every
farm that cannot be done both rapidly
and well, ana for steady pulling at
uniform speed the mule has no equal.
They are harder and more easily kept
and more cheaply fed than horses, and
when grown for market they are al
ways ready sale at higher prices than
farm horses. Large mares and well
bred jacks are needed TO produce mules
that will bring 5000 at 2 years DID,
Farm and Ranch.
The Iola register., 1901-06-07
National Hntreds.

King Joseph, in one Of his letters,
tells his imperial brother of France
that the people Of Naples have begun
to love their new sovereign and that
they hate the old queen. To this Ma
poleon replies by cynically advising his
brother not to believe any of the non
sense talked by courtiers as regards
popular likes or dislikes for particular
individuals. They are mere evanes-
cent expressions of feeling upon which
1t is quite unsafe to depend. What"
he adds, zone nation really hates is
another nation" We fear that there
is profound truth in this saying. Ma
tional hatreds are never obliterated,
though they are sometimes temporarily
concealed by the personal popularity
which particular man or woman may
gain in foreign country.
Review.
The Iola register., 1901-06-07
CARE OF WEAK LAMBS.
How to Treat Those That Are Unable
to Suck the Eve.

W SucA the 1--WE
There are many times when lambs
are dropped that are too weak TO get
up and suck the eve. If it chances TO
be one OF twins. 1t may be that before
it is found the other and stronger one
will have taken all the milk from the
eve, or the lamb may be so chilled as
not to have the power to suck. We
have saved such lamb when it scarce
ly had life enough TO swallow by giving
warm milk n little warmer than it
came from the COW, and If we had it in
the house we would add about a tea
spoonful of spirit or little warm gin
ger tea to the half cup of milk, says an
expert grower. 1t will take but one or
two teaspoonfuls of milk at time un-
til , or 3 days old.
When fresh milk is not mt hand, use
condensed milk. about Il teaspoonful Of
it to ten spoOnfuls of hot water. Be
sure to have it at least blood warm.
When it Is able to stand alone, the
lamb may sometimes be put back on
the eve IL she will own it and has milk
enough for both. If not, 1t can be
brought up on bottle and will usually
outgrow the one on the eve If given all
1t will drink Of good milk.
After the first feeding rub 1t dry and
wrap it in warm blanket, then place
it where 1t will keep warm. With
flock large enough to keep n man to
watch them at lambing time this may
not be necessary, but where they ara
visited two or three times in a night
there may some come in the interval
that will need attention.
The Iola register., 1901-06-07
,Banauet to Colored Gradnntes.

Under the leadership of four young
colored men the colored people of
lola Wednesday first expressed their
recognition Of the work Of members of
their race, by rendering banquet to
Dora Ellis aud Stella Croker, the two
girls who graduated from the high
school this year. 1t was a nice and
proper thing to do and an effort will
be made 10 induce other students to
stay with the school work to gradu-
alton, The two girls this year make
four colored people who have gradu-
ated here, the other two being Nelson
Grubbs and George Drumgool,
The reception was held at the Sec
ond Baptist church on north Chestnut
street. After a prayer by the pastor
of the church and music by the choir,
the forty invited guests satdown to the
tables spread in the church and when
the banquet was we'll under way, Mr.
Ellis Dixson, who acted as toast.
The Iola register., 1901-06-07
WASTE OF CORN FODDER.
Valuable Food That should BE T-rn-
ed Into Profitable Meat.

ed Into Profitable Meat.
Professor Shaw renews his plea for
greater economy upon the western
farm. OF that most palpable and use
less extravaganza witnessed in ninety
nine out OF every hundred cornfelds he
says:
The waste of corn fodder in the Mis-
sissippi valley is a grievous waste. In
the aggregate the uncut corn must
amount to millions and millions Of
acres. And one acre in those states
where the season IS long grows so
much food! In n recent ride from
Omaha to Kansas City for more than
half a day the train steamed along
through cornfields nearly all of which
were uncut.
There was enough of uncut corn in
this one part of the Missouri valley to
feed hundreds of thousands of cattle
through all the winter All this valu-
able food will waste. and it is only a
fragmentary portion of the waste that
will take place all up and down the
Mississippi and many of its tributaries.
The day Will come when all this will
change. The day will come when it
must change. At one time the greatest
profit may thus have been obtained by
large holders Of land. 1t may be so
still. But surely in those days Of high
priced meat and of shredders more
money could he made by using more Of
this valuable food. The people in those
areas where this practice prevails will
be hard indeed to persuade to change
their ways, the force of habit is so
powerful, but it is a change that ought
to be brought about
The Iola register., 1901-06-07
Sat Down in Hot Ashes

There was a peculiar accident at the
Nicholson smelter yesterday after
noon. One of the horses attached to
the dump cars in which spelteris haul
ed about the plant was driven past a
pile of hot ashes. He felt the heat on
his feet and instead of jumping to a
place Of safety, sat down in the ashes.
He became entungled in the harness
and it was some time before the driver
got him to arise from his warml seat.
He is considerably burned and sore
today.
One of the workmen, whose name
could not be learned, was severely
burned on the hands while drawing
metal al the same works.
The Iola register., 1901-06-07
PrOgranl.

Eight concert Of the lola Concert
band Friday night at o'clock.
l. March, Kansas City journal Rocco Venuto
2, Overture, Murmurng Of the forest, Bouillon
3. Cornet Solo, Od Kentucky Home (requesO
4, March, New York journal. .Seitz
s, waltz, Thinking of her......,..... Frederick
6. Grand Medley of Gospel Hymns, Joy to
the World, arranged by farmhouse
= Cake Walk Cinderella SCOT, 49,. .Yahrling
8. Waltz, the Postlllion (by request) Fahrback.
The Iola register., 1901-06-07
County commissioners Adiomnod

Before the board adjourned it fixed
the assessment of the cement company
at 1925, 600, Last year the company
was assessed on personal property at
S25 900 and the raise this year was
higher than anyone expected. The
company will appear before the board
AT its next meeting and ask to have
the amount cut down. The assessment
of the smelters according last years
figures, which averages about 1000
to the block, put the three smelling
plants of the Lanyon Zinc Company
at about $ll7, 200.
The Iola register., 1901-06-07
Street Railway Building

Grading for the street railway is
now being done on East street north
of Brooklyn Park and the narrow
road at that point is nearly filed with
dirt which has been taken from the
cut made necessary by the hill at that
point. ON east Madison Avenue "a
deep cut was found necessary also, at
places the grade being two feet or
more below the old level. When the
track is laid it will be absolutely nee
essary for the city to cut out the road
way ON each side to the same level.
else the track will become gutter
and teams will be continually falling
down the embankment. Dirt from
this point is being hauled little far
ther east and used in grading over the
ravine in front ofthe Richards house.
This morning the work of stringing
the ties was begun. Several carloads
of ties have arrived, some on each
road, and MIR Crouch intends as
soon as possible to lay them in town
and cover up the hole he has dug.
The Iola register., 1901-06-07
Normal Institute Onens.

The Normal Institute of Allen coun-
ty begun its work in the high
school building in this city Monday
Prof. o T.. and Mrs. Olin and
Miss Berry, the three outside instr c.
tors arrived Saturday and We're READY
for work. Most of the time was
consumed in getting the members
registered and locating them in the
rooms they twill occupy during their
stay in town. Something like sixty
have been enrolled and asusual others
will Join later. The coming of the
Normalites to town is always Joy
Gus occasion. for they represent a
whole world OF brains and energy, of
intelligence and ambition. and they
are usually light hearted. The REG
lister will give a fuller report Of the
organization as soon as Miss Ohm
stead can get her report made up, and
will be supplied with items daily tell
ing of the doings of the teachers.
The Iola register., 1901-06-07
Docs He Relong Here2

The Ft. Scott papers have printed
several articles lately concerning IA
soldier who died at San Francisco and
whose body was shipped to that place.
The authorities lost track of the
corpse and it developed later that two
men OF the same name had died and it
is now supposed the remains of one
were shipped to the home Of the other.
The TT. Scott Monitor this morning
hints that one of the men belonged
here, but nobody seems to know any
thing about it. The Monitor says:
"Lieutenant Haskell of the recruit
ing station here has reason to believe
chat the body of John Davis which
was consigned to Ft. Scott by mis-
take for the body of Claude b, Davis
belongs at lola. John Davis died in
shs same ward at the Presidio hospital
where Claude b. Davis the FIT. Scott
boy was confined duringhi sickness. "
TT Scott Tribune: G. G. Nelson
INV 4lI' llOH"SloOh, llo ~ lIouls Uldl
who is interested with him in securing
right-of-way for the Ft. Scott & West
ern road through lola, in this city
this morning, and they went to lola.
They are having trouble getting into
lola because they want to go in
Through a street. If they fail they
will circle around south, touch the big
cement works, some of the smelters,
and skip the town proper,
The Iola register., 1901-06-07
lola Market RepOrtg,

THESE markets. are carefully taken on Thurs
day OF each week and are from actual sales
mnde that day in lola Date OF this correction
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