The Iola register., 1902-05-16


cises Thursday night. Among the
graduates was Lenora Ewell of lola
who will be remembered as a member
of the Ewell family (colored) of this
city, several of whom have secured
good educations.
Martin Sauer, an old man aged
seventy years who was taken to the
county poor farm from Humboldt sew
eral years ago, died at that place Sun
day May IL, of paral sis of the brain.
The funeral was held at the poor
farm at O'Clock Monday, Rev. John
Maclean officiating and the remains OF
the unfortunate old gentleman laid To
rest,
Henry Lambeth was in from Moran
this week. He skirmished around
and reports finding a fine gain in
Moran city and a good gain in the
township. The city now has 628 pop
ulation, gain over last year of 1872.
The township has 1011, gain over
last year of 20. 1t is the first gain yet
reported in the county, other town
ships all reporting losses.
Harry Stowe, who came here this
week with the remains of his father,
had not been in lola for twelve years
He once lived and followed the plow
on the present site Of Gas City and he
took ride out there on the street car
with Harry Brister, who knew where
things we're. Stowe was completely
lost and was deeply interested in the
changes which few years have
wrought,
The colored odd Fellows held their
annual Memorial Day service at the
opera house Sunday afternoon. The
local lodge turned out in body and
made good showing as the members
marched 20 the hall. The services
we're in charge of leading men of the
race and were according to the ritual
of the order being excellent in thought
and wording and well carried out.
The local colored lodge is in a
hourishing condition.
La Harpe News: The lola Fire De-
partment was ready Saturday morn
ing to send its fighting apparatus to
La Harpe, but they received word
that the fire out here was under con-
troll. We are very grateful for this
and sincerely hope that there will
never come a time when La Harpe,
when she gets tire-fghting apparatus,
will have to think aboutItaking it to
lola to fight fire, but If the time should
come, we will remember what help we
might have needed and Iola's willing
nesss to lend helping hand.
Humboldt Union: A special dispatch
to the Topeka Capital from Ft. Scott,
dated May 5, contains the following:
"Rufus Anderson, alias Young, alias
Smith, who was arrested at Humboldt
charged with making false afiidavits
to pension claims, was ordered to pay
" HHo VI cl souV' ne us an dSeu COL
ored man and he plead ignorance
His mothers name was Young, his
masters name was Anderson and he
ran away from his smaster when he
was a slave and enlisted in the war
under the name of Smith. He applied
for pension in his real name and in
this manner violated the law.
Talk of the strength of bugs, what
do you think of breed Of vermin
that will bury into a portland cement
sidewalk That is the kind that is
camping in lola right now. A new
walk was laid in front of the Our Way
restaurant Saturday night and by
morning it was burrowed full of holes
by the bugs. The cement was still
soft. of course, but the bugs dug into
it for half an inch, throwing the loose
cement out as an ant throws up a
mound about its hole. BY morning
the walk was hard as granite and the
bugs had quit work, but the little
heaps OF cement about the holes they
had burrowed testified to their energy.