The Iola register., 1902-06-20
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home in Colony after visit with Mrs
J. W. Ballard.
E. Peterson and wife arrived from
Pittsburg for a visit with Mr.. A. Pet
erson and family.
Nearly all the teachers OF the city
who took examinations for certificates
to teach in the city, passed the exam
ination.
T. S. Stover, member of the Repub-
lican State ce. trail committee from
Allen county, re urned home last eve-
ming from a NEE, ng of that committee
in Topeka.
Topeka Capital Wichita and lola
are welcome to this a Capital re-
porter yesterday heard man say that
outside of Wichita, lola is the bus
lest, most wde.awake city in the
state.
Rev. Mr. Culbertson OF the Presby-
terian church on Wednesday united
in marriage Mr., William +. Coldren,
who is employed at the cement works
in this city, and Miss Mary +. Simp-
son. OF Aliceville, Kansas.
The resignation of so many umpires
f IN the Missouri Valley league has
caused some talk here that Mr.. Du-
Shane, who is laid out of the game by
reason of his injured hand, is an old
head, knows the game and would
make a mighty good umpire, And it
is the truth.
Police Judge Cullison again has a
bunch of delinquent occupation tax
ers before him. w. B. Reed, W. B.
Culbertson and j. w. Fuller paid up
with a dollar extra for Cullson's
trouble and the hearing OF the cases
OF r. NJ. Swift and w. A. Barber are
to come next.
Mr. c. Z. Wendorff has opened up
a grocery store in the east room of
DR.. Clearinghouse building and solic-
its your trade through an ad. in to-
days paper. He has new clean
stock and hopes by giving the best
value possible to merit share of the
grocery trade of lola.
F. O. Wernecke, a conductor on one
of the passengers running through
here on the Pacific recently took part
in shoot at Denver winning first
prize $500 and a cup alued at $1,000.
Mr.. Wernecke brough down thirty
nine birds out of p, ,ssible forty,
The shoot was between Kansas, Mis-
souri, and Colorado.
A. E. Burtiss, connected with the
land Office at Garden City, spent last
night here. He came down from Tope-
ka on his way to Yates Center and in
tended stopping at Colony, but on 7.
S. Stover's invitation, came to lola.
When he struck the square and the
lights and crowds and the band con-
cert Burtiss stopped and thanked
Slower for bringing him to good,
live town"
Along last summer Bert Cooley was
arrested on the charge Of slashing
another young man with a razor.
Cooley was permitted his liberty on
a promise TO pay costs, which he
never did. The other day he drifted
back TO town. Justice Potter heard OF
it and sent constable after him.
Cooley was taken TO jail, where he
lay about twelve hours, at the end OF
which time he had enough and "came
through" with the deficit. 1t cost
him Sls. 90 TO liquidate.
The Independence Reporter still
talks occasionally of the proposed
cement works TO be built by Chicago
people at that place. "If built, :"
says that paper, "they will be four
times larger than any in existence. 4"
That's good. Continuing the Repor-
ter says: with the exception of one
S5-acre tract allof the land on or near
Table Mound that is desired has been
bargained for through options. The
Reporter is informed that this So acres
is owned jointly by two of our prom
inent citizens and that they want the
exorbitant price OF SlO,O for it. A
few years ago it was purchased by
them for 5000. The cement people have