The Iola register., 1902-01-10
AROUND ALLEN COUNTY
What the County Press Has Discovered
to Make Lite Interesting Dur
ing the Past Week.

Withfour trains daily on the Pacific, |
the dummy and street cars and the |
new road yet to start BaHarpe feels |
quite railroady.
LaHarpe is talking of widening
Locust street, and the city and Mis-
souri, Pacific are paving Franklin
avenue with retorts. All of which sug-
gests the speech of a real estate man
when LaHarpe was ''re-born." He
was showing q stranger the outskirts
of town. 81 tell you" he said, 1--WE
have room here for a town as large as
Chicago" There was pause and the
stranger said nothing. "And, [ tell
you, don't see why we won't have
it,
The Savonburg Record has in
creased its subscription list until print
ing on job press takes too much time
and Editor Reynolds has bought
new press. His paper will probably
not be as pretty, but there will be
more of it hereafter.
One of the best news items around
Savonburg is word that broombrush
is finding ready buyers at $l10.
The Record reports the gas meeting
held at Savonburg as being very un-
animous in favor of sinking test
we'll
Moran is all swelled up because a
little child became lost in the streets.
Her parents live half mile from town
and the council will be asked to erect
monument in return for the compli-
ment.
Some small Moran boys gave false
alarm of fire Saturday night, just to
see everybody run. But the talk of
punishment afterwards took all the fun
out of it for them, and they now know
there is law Furnishing such devil
ment.
Harry Doty, Moran's rural mail
carrier, says he carried 4,9l0 pieces OF
mail during his first month. Which
shows that Santa Claus is having an
easier time than he had before rural
routes started:
Flowing is going on all over the
county, these early January days
proving very fine for turning the soil.
All there, Italy!
Clark Thomas, of the Moran Herald,
notes the raid of lola joints and adds
that there are plenty more that weren
taken. Might not Clark be good
material for the grand jury?
Martin Henrincs, who has been one
of Humboldt's business men for forty
two years, announces in card in the
Union that he will retire, j. l.. Bar
nett, formerly of Humboldt, succeed:
to the business.
The Humboldt Union returns thanks
for Il huge legislation volume, which
the editor intends reading day
a Humboldt merchant advertised tC
give away bottle of money to the
person guessing closest to the amoun
in it. The sum was 80, and six thous
and guesses ranged from a dollar tC
300. Twelvep people guessed the exact
amount and received 70 cents each.
AT Elsmore merchant gave dol
to the correct guesser on can oi
beans and two unmarried men won
They are John Dudlum and Cliff Sny
der and the neighborhood is watching
to see which will need the doll first.
From Elsmore township two men viii
sit on the grand jury and four on tn
regular jury, and Elsmore township
alone was not favored with ga gran'
jury petition.
An epidemic among horses is killing
some good animals in the county.
The Moran Herald accuses the REG
lister of stealing items. This pape
never does that wilfully-and even tn
Herald has no grounds for complaint
Elder Rothwell has closed his wor
in the Humboldt Christian church an
the Herald says he goes to Chetopa.
LaHarpe News: The work on tn
brick plant is progressing satisfac
torily. The shaft is down about thirt
feet on an incline of about forty de
grees. The rock in which they are i
now, while not giving any trouble
" orks slowly. They have their larg
pond about completed and it is eS
pected that if nothing serious happen
they will be making brick by Apr
first.
Humboldt Union; f. b. Spicer, WI
was hurt SO badly Christmas eve,
able to be around, at his home i
Neosho Falls, but cannot open hi
mouth and has to take hisfeed throug
a tube. His, eve is all RIGHT. 1t