The Iola register., 1902-08-01

Miss Olive r. ~ '-- %
Topeka for visit. On her way home
she will visit in Ottawa.
Miss Eta Edwards retornod 10 her
home in Humboldt after n visit with
her sister, Mrs. j, N. Avel.L,,
Miss Anna Stout ra,irra6 bo hor
home in Coffeyville after months
visit here with ner slsuer, .u,s. y. ~.
Jones.
Miss Mabel Davis of Garnett who
has been here visiting Miss Sarah
Ewing went to Humboldt for few
days visit with friends there before
returning to her home.
d. C.. Wood, carpenter who re
sides at north Colborn street, had the
misfortune Saturday to fall across a
beam while working at the Acid
Works, fracturing two ribs.
The electric wire for the incandes-
cent uptown system is being strung
as fast as men can put il up. 1t seems
but matter of days, or at the outside
weeks, until lola will be sprawling be-
meath the folding breezes from power
fans.
Grandma Travis, who lives a short
distance northeast of Gas City cele-
brated her eighty-second birthday
Saturday. Quite a number of neigh
bors and friends gathered at her home
in honor of the occasion and the day
was spent very pleasantly.
A gentle shower which modestly
crawled into town during the evening
soaked the ground of Allen county
thoroughly during the nigL: The
rain may not L~,o s",ou "a. Urn
crop but il will aud the the size Of
the fodder and the length Of the ears.
David Stonerock, who works in the
crusher room at the Nicholson smell
ter, had the misfortune Sunday to
get the thumb on his right hand SOW
erely crushed. The flesh was mashed
oil the bone but the doctors reuleaced
it and hope to save the member.
w. II. Rickets has his ice chest nm
der lock these days. He formed the
habit since Saturday night, when some
thief broke into the chest and remov-
ed all the Sunday supply of eatibles,
taking everything even to the plates,
but. leaving the ice. He has no hope
of finding the thief unless somebody
suddenly develops gout.
The REGISTER has hopes of issuing
from the new press just installed down
stairs and when once it is in good
running order this paper will be
pleased 10 receive few thousand
more subscribers so that they may
appreciate the beauty Of receiving a
cleanly printed and folded paper reg
ularly every day.
The suspicion is beginning to grow
that owing TO the severe terms in
which the contract for doing the sewer
work for the city is drawn no bids
will be received for tho work. The
contract is very rigid and binds the
contractor in the most minute particu-
lars. w. w, Cook, who talked of
bidding, says he does not want such a
contract and the fact that no other
bids have been received leads to the
belief that nobody else wants it.
The Labor Day committee has word
from the Eldorado band that it intends
to come here and compete for the prize
offered. The band does not like the
idea, however, of remaining here two
days in order to be here for one day.
The matter has been taken up with the
Missouri Pacific and assurances given
that the road will an excursion from
the west and possibly from other
directions. w. T.. Wright viii be
furnished transportation on this line
to work up interest.
Saturday evening while standing at
the foot of the stairs of the Klaumann
building at the corner of Madison and
Jefferson avenues. stranger suffered
an attack which seemed for a while
destined to end his life. DR.. Shad.
wick attended to him and when he was
able to be moved he was carried on a
stretcher TO the lola Hospital where
he is getsing along nicely. The at
1 tack Effected his heart and was either
!, neuralgia orgas on ths stomach. The
young thaa n ball player who came
!, here recently from Texas to try oua
, wish tho lola team.