The Iola register., 1902-06-06
LOCAL N EWS


from Pittsburg where he has been for
"a few days on business.
A load of alfalfa hay fresh and
green, was seen on the streets today,
rather an unusual sight.
Mrs. Byron Cushman returned to
her home in Humboldt after u visit
with her sister Mrs. w. u. Bartels at
Gas.
At the meeting of the Topeka school
board to choose teachers for the next
term all married teachers we're re.
leased.
Eugene Ihrig wentto Boulder, Colo.
where he hopes to rid himself Of a bad
case of malaria which has made him
unfit for work.
The friends of George Jones, Colony
will be glad to know that he has been
granted dh increase of pension. He
will now draw Sl2 month.
Wichita Eagle: The first set of ping
pong has arrived in lola, and all the
girls are practicing up with cold bis
cults and the back of hand mirrors.
Mrs, Jennie (Colbmn) MoGett and
Miss Nellie Colburn started this morn
ing for Wallace, Idaho. This is Mrs.
MoGetts home and Miss Nellie goes
there for an extended visit.
Lots in the new town of LaGrange,
just west of Gas City, for sale at
prices about half what they are in
Gas City, j. S. Detwiler, lola, agent
for Mrs. LAGRANGE and j. ID. Van
nuys.
From Ft. Scott comes an interesting
story that during a trial a dispute
arose between lawyers billiard and
keene, the former striking the latter
several times, while women fed from
the court room and the sheriff strug-
gled to separate them.
Al Ellis has received word from the
department that the civil service eN.
animation which was to have been
held here June Nth, had been post
poned until June 2lst. Only three APP
plications we're filed for the June l4th
examination and the department de-
sires five.
MIR. 7. F. Kirby, who has rented the
front room of the DR.. Clearinghouse
hnil6inT hn oiAo 90 m
square for drug store, arrived from
Eldorado. His family will fol-
low little later on. Mr.. Kirby ex.
poets to be ready for business about
the middle of this month.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. A. Tuggles left for
Colorado Springs where they:will re-
main few days and then go to Dem
yer where they expect to make their
home. Both young people have made
lola their home for a long time and
leave many friends here who have
only the best wishes for their future
welfare.
Mr.. G. +. Wendorff OF Oskalooska,
Kas., has purchased the H. =. Wicks
grocery stock on North Washington
and will move it TO the new CARING
house block on the east side of the
square occupying the east room. Mr.,
Wendorif is an experienced grocery
man and will add to the stock as soon
as he gets moved.
ID. B. Jones, representing the TT.
Scott Labor Day celebration commit
tee was here Sunday comforting with
the labor leaders. They showed him
what preparations lola had made
already and explained to him why
lola should have it this year. He
promised to pull off the Ft. Scott deal
and bring a good crowd here which is
as he should do.
The Southern Kansas Plug, the new
train on the Santa Fe, made its
initial run yesterday. 1t went north
about O'Clock in the morning and
returned here about $50 in the even
ing. The passenger traffic was light,
owing to its being the trains first
day and coming on Sunday. 1t is be-
lieved the train will prove a great ac-
commodation to business men who
can thus escape making long night
rides and losing much time away
from business.
The will of the late G. w. Good
lander has been probated at Fort
Scott. His estate is found to be larg-
er than even his friends had supposed
and it will be upward of $500, 900. He
left half of his estate absolutely to his
wife. In the other half he gave her a
life interest, providing that after her
death it should be divided between
certain female kinfolks of his own.
He left no public bequests, and only a
very few small private ones. He sets