The Iola register., 1902-02-21
LOCAL NEWS
(. P. .Waueb, DeDtist.
Bnckeye Churn at Coutant' s.

j. L. Duncan ana Wdllace DunSah
returned from Fredonia.
Ira Patterson has sold his building
on East Madison to S. Heller.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
Adams, Of 321 South Third street,
Monday February II, 1902. a daugh-
ter.
Cherryvale Clarion: Mr.. Rife, who
has been here for some time looking
over the oil and gas field, left his home
in Indiana today. He will stop at
lola and Chanute for few days.
Mrs. Isaac Ault of Wichita is in t
city visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. Ault'
Mr.. Ault went on to FIT. Scott to at
tend the Masonic grand lodge but will
stop here on his way back for visit
with his brother.
Kansas / S not overly crowded. II
the people of the state were scattered
out each person would be in the mid
die of forty acre field and would not
be in yelling distance OF each other
There are 81, 900, 900 acres of land in
the state with population of l,4OO,-
600.
There is talk of passing an order
making vaccination compulsory in the
public schools of this city. Medical
science has discovered buttwo methods
of heading off an epidemic of small
pox, one being to vaccinate and the
other isolate patients.
The ladies of the w. Il. c. cleared
about $40 on their chicken pie supper
at the G. A. II. hall Monday night,
which sum will be applied on the new
carpet for the hall. The ladies express
thanks to their friends who so gener
ously patronized the supper.
A Fort Scott dispatch says that
that city will have two candidates for
Congress in this distr e., b Hudson
and j Fl. Crider, both lawyers. The
dispatch adds, however, that IL is
locally understood that both candi-
dates will be run over by Bowersock
cohorts.
No wonder postotfice people make
mistakes. Any human being would.
Last week a letter came properly
to this Office, although the envelope
was addressed II Owe Lee Register. y
The writer was John d. Knowlton, OF
Eldorado Springs, Mo-, who is joker
on the side.
l. II. Coffman will sell at public
sale on his farm, Fairlawn mile
north and mile west Of Moran, or
Tuesday Feb. 25 property as follows
27 head short horn cattle, 20 head
horses and mules, full set OF farming
implements and assortment of house
hold goods. Also lot OF feed and
old corn.
The lecture to have been given here
next month by Gen. John b. Gordon
has been indefinitely postponed. Mr.
Gordon is seventy years old and ow
ing to an attack of illness has CANCEL
ed all engagements for his lectures
This will be unpleasant news to lot
of lola people who had prepared t.
hear his eloquent talk.
The other day the REGISTER re
printed from the Gas City Headlight
tale of distress about the family o
Frank Allison. The family lives in
tent south of the railroad and tn
charge made that suffering was caused
by the lack of gas should not be con
sidered reflection on the Ga
City Gas Company, for the tent is ou
of its reach.
X. c. Journal: In divorce suit IL
Montgomery county IA wife testified
that her husband had said he woul'
"choke the d--n Methodism out o
me-" But, continued the woman, "h
don't do it." And what foolisI
thought it was that Methodism coult
be choked out of anybody. Certail
kings once undertook to make apos
. taleS Oh Jne CdlNlhlSVlC thSuHOuloVS
But they couldn't cut it ont or burn
out Yet this Kansas Ounce though
he could send it skyhooting by simpl
pressing the trachea of woman.
An unusually distressing stor,
comes from Stark, which is south o
Savonburg on the Katy railroad,
Just over the line in Neosho county
Eugene Shepherd, a bachelor AM
wealthy stockman, committed suicid
by shooting the top of his head off wit
gun. This happened Sunday. o.
Monday a sister, for whom he ha'
telegraphed stating that he was sic
and wanted her to nurse him, arrived
from Indiana. When she reached he
brothers. home she discovered the hor
ribly mangled corpse. Shepherd wa
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