The Iola register., 1902-08-15


who for some years has
been engaged in the photograph busi-
ness in San Francisco, is here on
visit.
Miss Bowen, OF Chetopa, who will
teach in lola this winter came in last
Saturday from Topeka and will spend
a few days here visiting Miss Theo
Robinson.
The Santa Fe depot looked like a
Sunday School picnic There were
inside OF the depot by actual count
twenty-three children and they all be-
longed TO three women.
The first shower for week fell last
Friday. A small cloud of little
promise hove up from the south and
the way it turned loose of its liquid
contents was u surprise.
DR.. Harry Wiley, who is making
specially of increasing the lola cen
sus, reports the birth Of an 1l.pound
daughter today to Mr.. and Mrs. G. NJ.
Wiley, of 3l3 North Third street.
A license to marry was issued Fri
day evening to J. II. Williams, of
lola, and Anna NJ. Ma2ur, OF Colony.
Williams came here from Emporla
worked in the Oar Way short time,
later going to Colony where he met
his fate.
Probate Judge Smith last Friday
at his home made sedate married men
out of two jolly smelter boys. The
contracting parties we're: Z. c, Skin
ner and Emma Eckler, aud Robert
Tippie and Hattie Chase. All the
young people live in lola.
Tom Mcclure came in from Colo
rado Springs where he has been for
several years working and says that
he will remain at home while. Bus
mess is mighty dull there just at pres
eut and people who want to work for
their health are numerous.
L. x, Taylor brings the news to town
that Gas City is to have another news
paper. This one will be started by
Schell & Eaton, two young men of
Garnet, Kansas. 1t is expected to
put in a good plant, run n weekly for
for several months and possibly
launch into the daily field later.
A young man called at the county
clerks Office Friday and asked Miss
Belle Fronk for a "stickin plaster -
Only after vain search through the
Office stock did she discover that what
he wanted was a marriage license, and
she directed him to the probate Judge.
+. w. Robinson has brought suit
in the district court to collect last
years taxes from Aldo Funston, from
whom he bought house and lot S, M
time ago. The tax had not been paid,
Robinson settled, and now sues to re-
cover the amount, some eighteen dol
lars.
The lola people who have been at
tending the Y p. G. u. Convention Of
the U. b. church at Virgil returned
home Friday. In the party we're Rev.
Gillette, Earl Arnold, r.. II. Bennett,
Ethel and Lois Bennett, Ethel Vezie,
Lottie Reno, Cary Gillette and Helen
Pollock.
The Allen county horticultural So
ciety held its regular monthly meeting
Friday in the G. A r. hall in this city.
These meetings have proven very
popular and beneficial for those agri-
culturalists who have formed the habit
ot attending. One OF the Professors
d of the State Agricultural College was
expected to address the meeting,
p but he failed to get here. The usual
b big dinner and discussion Of live top
les were INDUCED in,
a Mr.. George f.. Nicholson, who has
- been with his family at Bay City,
Michigan, forseyeral weeks arrived
g in lola last Friday. His family will
a remain there during the hot weather
- but Mr. Nicholson was recalled by
business matters. He is yet unsettled
n in his plans, but wants to get action
. on that roll of money he received from
, | the New Jersey Company for his
smelters. He is considering a plan
which may continue his connection
with lola, brick instead Of zinc being
the medium, but nothing definite has
yet been settled.