The Iola register., 1902-01-10
LOCAL NEWS

of present pork prices she would be
considered an heiress If her name was
Iva Pigg.
The REGISTER is informed that [. r.
Grisham, formerly head of the Dunk
ard Hospital in East lola, and still |
living in the building, took down with |
the smallpox Thursday.
Ed Long is home from his tour of
his inspe ction to seek new farm else |
where. He has found nothing that |
suits him, however, as he want to en-
gage in the cattle business.
The land has been surveyed and |
work begun on the shale shaft of the |
new lola brick company just east of
town. Mr.. Covert, the Illinois man
who will put in the plant, is here and
experimenting the work.
CoTeyville Democrat: There is q
rumor ahoat that Mr.. Noble of lola,
who took the leases for gas around
Tyro, has sold the same to the Coffey-
vile Gas company. Will that give
us gas to burn should it be true?
L. A. Lowell clerk at the lola Cash
Grocery, is i'll at his home with an old
trouble. About once year he has
trouble with one of his limbs and it
takeG weeks for the trouble to run its
course. He was taken i'll New Years
day.
Mr.. John r. Holmes, OF the cement
company came in last week from
Detroit for visit of several days.
Two experts from the Westinghouse
| Engine Company are also here to see
how the big engines are doing their
work.
Ten more men got into the Arkansas
| zinc fields the past two days. They
bought l60 acres of good land in IA
promising neighborhood for 50, 200.
| All are lola men and bought on the
recommendation Of Mr.. Watkins, the
expert.
A new gong has been rugged up in
the fire department. 1t is so arrang-
ed that when the department telephone
rings this gong is set going ana keeps
up the alarm until some one stops it.
This will insure telephone announce
ment Of fire not being missed.
Mr.. Wood, the LaHarpe real estate
man, says that work is being pushed
on the shaft of the new LaHarpe brick
company northeast of town. The
shale is to be secured from beneath
the heavy rock which lies close to the
surface and will be mined from the
hole.
A western Kansas paper advertised
that ian elastic band, too big for u
sleeve band and too small for u belt,
had been found and left at the office. "
A few days later demure young lady
] %; Al
band from a nail on the wall aud
handed il TO her. She thanked him,
slipped it around her Bible and de-
parted.
John w. Fairman, who built several
miles OF grade for the new railroad,
left his sick bed Tuesday night and
has not been seen since. He had re-
turned TO his home west of FIT. Scott
aud taken down with pneumonia, be-
ing very i'll. One night he disappear
ed and his family fear he has COM
mitted suicide.
Lawrence Journal: Funny things
happen in this world. If man had
said ten years ago that lola would
have an electric street car line before
Lawrence got one, he would have been
jeered for fool And yet, lola has
one in operation, while Lawrence
doesn't even have one in pickle.
Ft Scott Tribune The best loco
motive run through Fort Scott is thai
one on the new Missouri Pacific pas
senger train from Yates Center to
Rich Hill. Joe Tack the engineer or
that run, makes $206 every month and
is home from o'clock every evening
A. 81. al 81 h.
: conductor makes Sl25 per month, and
is home every night.
= The REGISTER heard last Friday
: noon that on January, l. Mr.. Lanyor
, and Mr.. Lee LanyOn severed theil
connection with the Lanyon Zinc Com
pany. They will go 10 Neodesha anC
: suprintend the erection of zinc smell
| ter. 1t was also reI tied that Mr.
Jim Rodgers, son of the president o.
the Lanyon Zinc Company, will take
Mr.. h. V. Lanyon's place.
One of Iola's Mean Men took two
packages of butter home recently
One was oleomargerine; the Other
creamery butter He told his womer
folks that the oleo was country butter
, They tesled and argued and finally
> decided Il ey knew which was the coun
try butter and that it was far superior
Then he informed them that it wal
|, packing house butter, He will neve
be forgiven.
Alice f. Peak has filed suit for di
} vorce from John Peak, Sh7 says the!
S were married in Neosho county in lS9.
, and lived at Erie where she ran &
boarding house. Her husband prov
ed to have a violent temper, abused
4 and swOre at her. threatened to strik
S and did strike her once with a whil
q and threatened to kill her If ever sh
left him as she told him she must do i
he didn't brace up
The REGISTER Saturday smashe
all records for lola newspapers. Tha
h days issue contains twelve pages an
/ In those pages are over fifty-tw
! columns of advertisements of ISl
= merchants. 1t speaks mighty we'll fs