The Iola register., 1902-01-24
AROUND ALLEN COUNTY
Something From the Newspapers of
This County of the Weeks
Doings.

truly wise will run a date line like
this: Taylor, nee Gas City, Kan.
sas.
On her third birthday Gas City
claims 800 population and challenges
infants in all classes to comparison.
There seems to be opposition to
changing the name of Gas City. The
Cherokee-Lanyon smelter favors it,
but employees at other smelters are
signing u remonstrance.
The Union says Humboldt needs
water-works. lola has tried this idea
and since trying has used no other.
w. T. Nee roy has been sick abed
at his home in Humboldt. He caught
cold hustling news for the Union, and
strained his back lifting sack full
of Unions in the post-ollice, of which
he is master. Yet there are those who
would dare the peril.
The Savonburg Record blossomed
out last week, enlarged to four times
its former size. 1t always q beauty
anu nu, it is handsome. And the
w,,o advertisers are supporting itas
il oes trves. The little paper has done
more 90 advertise Savonburg thanany
thing else the town ever owned.
The editor OF the LaHarpe News
puts in u bid for an invitation to the
irst big taify-pulliug after lola gets
her syrup works Maybe he would be
sweeter on lola than in the past
LaHarpe News: The poles for the
LaHarpe Local Telephone Company
arrived Tuesday and the erection of
the line was begun at once.
The Elsmore Enterprise suggests the
name of b. f. Ludlum for next county
commissioner from the first district.
Mr.. Ludlum is strong and we'll
known man.
Elsmore Enterprise: Jonas Wall
sold his fine farm west of town last
Friday to parties from Iowa for So
600.
Elsmore Enterprise; Lon Rowland
was elected county commissioner to
fill the vacancy caused by the re-dis-
tricting last fall. Mr.. Howland is n
good man, one of the best in the coun-
ty, and will doubtless fill vacancy,
that should never have been made with
credit TO himself and the couoty.
NJ L. Lacy has bought the G T.
McCallen place in Moran for 81, 600
and will move into it from his farm.
The Moran Herald has turned loose
a hard story on Bronson. 1t says the
Pacific agent there, u substitute was
drunk on New Years day. People
had trouble in getting tickets but moth
ing remarkable transpired. He man
aged to handle the regular trains all
right, but an extra freight from the
east surprised him. He jerked the
signal board, stopping the train. The
angry conductor demanded his reason
for he had orders to go right through.
The boozy agent made reply: New
Years, (hic) New Years all (hic)
ID trains stop on (hic) New
YEARS." The next day he got his
time.
d. A. Spatford, of near Moran, has
made two trips to lola, having
peculiar disease in his hand treated.
1t seems to be kind of bone rot and
one finger was amputated, only to
have the trouble reappear in his
thumb.
Humboldt Herald: The Kansas and
Texas Oil company have started
another drilling outfit in the southern
part of the county and if there is any
thing there they are going to get it.
Savonburg Record: While return
ing from lola Monday afternoon
Wyatt Ships horse died of what is
known as the blind staggers. The
animal became blind, swayed back and
forth from the road and finally fell.
Wyatt walked five miles to Moran and
came home on the train. Tuesday he
went after his buggy.
Humboldt Union; Chas. Blackmar,
who had been making his home with
his son-in-law, Harace Wixon, for
several years, was found dead in the
barnyard on Tuesday morning. He
was at work cleaning out the stable
when death came. A physician was
called and pronounced tho cause of
his death to be heart failure. Mr..
Blackmar was 10 years old and was a
veteran of the civil war.
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Thousands Sent Into Exile.
Every year large number of poor
sufferers whose lungs are sore and