The Iola register., 1902-07-25

its first brick last week.
Rev. Mark b. Taylor who is visit
ing his brother A. L. went to Chanute
for visit.
The REGISTER is sorry TO learn that
little Bessie Rankin is very i'll with
typhoid fever.
Mrs. Goodwin returned to her home
in Neosho Falls after visit with
Mrs. John Patterson.
Mrs. Adlai Ewing and daughter
left for Colorado Springs where they
will spend the summer.
Mrs. NJ. 5. Widows who has been
here visiting Mrs. NJ. p. Jacoby re-
turned to her home l LcDompton.
Mrs. G. G. Freeman has returned
from Parker, Kans., where she has
been visiting her parents. Mr.. and Mrs
John Dienst.
Neodesha Register: lola Labor Day
celebatiou Septemher is expected to
be the really big event not excepting
the coronatiou.
Evidently there is to be no drouth
in Kansas this year. The dry spells
that hurt always begin earlier than
the middle Of July.
Mrs. Blackburn, who has been Wis
iting her daughter, Mrs. G. H.
Shields, for the past two mouths, has
returned to her home in Chillicothe.
Neodesha Register: Mrs. Clara
Often has sofa the Frisco Bakery TO
Cash Edison who took possession yes
terday. Mrs. Otten is moving to lola.
Mr.. Edison has sold his dray business
to II. j. Shurtleff.
One firm OF doctors in lola has a
record Of the births since January l..
They have otiiciated at thirty-nine
AS there are about twenty doctors in
town there must have been some 800
births already this year, provided the
ratio holds good.
Ina Wright, one of the girls ar
rested on the charge of being an in
mate of the Schultz house in East
lola, has fled an appeal to the dis
trict court This means that the sweet
story is to be dragged once more be-
fore large and enthusiastic audience.
The Soldiers and Sailors Reunion
at Pittsburg began Monday and quite
cowd went down from here. A good
crowd also went from Gas City:among
whom we're Sam Fry, Ed Snyder, Sam
Polling, Harry DePointer, Al Jamisou
and wife, Tom Goes, Lake Dale and
John Levecott.
a letter from Major Foust, who re-
Gently left here with his daughter for
Seattle, Wash, where she will visit
this summer, states that they were in
railroad wreck on their trip in
which two Pullman sleepers turned
over. Luckily nobody was seriously
hurt and the lola folks escaped with
out injury.
A strangely acting stranger, camp
ing about in tent, making surveys
and field notes, refusing to talk and
in other ways demeaning himself con.
trary to the general habits OF Fl. Scot
peop lie has started the rumor in thai
town that the stranger is working fol
the Santa Fe and is seeking inforna
tion as to where the track of the st
Louis connection will go in.
Mrs. Martha A. Dunn, 3l4 Soutt
: Buckeye street, has received notice
of the allowance of her claim fol
widows pension. She received no
tice also that the claim of her lat'
husband for restoration and increase
had been allowed at the rate of $l2 {
I month from August 81, 1901, the dat,
of his death, January l6, 1902, anC
1 the accrued amount will be paid t.
her.
The ladies who organized an Iolt
Cemetery Association this spring hav,
certsinly deserved the gratitude O
D every citizen OF the town. They have
I expended all the money collected, ont
dollar from each OF such lot owners
. as desired to see the cemetery i'm
r proved, and have expended sl20 IL
having the grass moved, the trees
a trimmed and the grounds put in nea
I condition.
> The Chanute Tribune says the Cof
feyville Brick Company has won itl
suit over the gas lease which the cit!
tried to give the Dickey Tile Work
company and that this ends the case
! 1t knocks the Dickey company out o
its gas territory and it is ssaid, Dicke,
Q declared he will not try to locate a
s Chanute II he lost this lease. Now /
o the time to tell him about the Crouc