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V Jyg $!J t'.w-VJjr V ? 'tn"' " W'lffw-y,Tv , VV'"" 7 f r ' . " ?( yj'1 THE IOLA. BEGISTER, FRIDAY MARCH 22 1901 r ri I RoVal Baking Powder Mokes the bread more healthful. Safeguards the food against alum. Alum baking powdets are thegrcatett menactrs to health of the present day. hoym. HAKina powpm co., mw vobk. J THE IOLA REGISTER. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY. OHA.fcJ. 2?. SOOTT II m HEWS E. p. llaugr), Derjtist. Buekeyo Churn at Coutunt'i. Mr. II. A. Mjors wusup from Savon burg this wcok. Iru Kellfj is out on tho street atain after being laid up for four days. Semi jour nntno and addioss to tills olllco if you want Government garden seeds. Tho new Methodist church has pro gressed fur enough so it looks like a plno forest. Belgian Hares for sale. Pedigreed stock. A. M. "Wood, 2 miles south of Lallarpe. The Law and Order League of Cha nuto has called a inassmectlngnnd will transact business tills spring. Rev. A. S. Treed was hero Mon day and u lot of old friends weio mighty glad to shako his hand. .T. 15. Smith and his wlfo and Mol Fronk and himsolf went to Humboldt to attend an Odd Fellow entertainment $1,000,000 to loan on farm and city property. Interest reasonable. Terms easy. S. Heller, room .1, over tho postolllee. Mr. Miller, who recently camo hero from Erie, has tho frame up for a handsome new house on south Buck eye street. M. C. Ohl, from Wall Luke, Iowa, who has been here looking at land with D. W. Bostwick left for home, but will return. Palmer & Collleld moved their mon umont stock today from tho old looa1 tion to the now one on west street near tho Santa Fe depot. Ottawa Herald: E. A. Wharton, of Lyndon, was hero today enroute to Iola. Mr. Wharton has sold his busi ncss at Lyndon and will locate in Iola. Leave your order for Flux Seed and Texas Red Seed Oats for tho coming season with S. A. Wlckard & Co., before it is too late. It. M. Travis manager. Harry Wlllcy came down from Kan sus City Tuesday where ho has just completed a year's work in a medical college. Ho will spend his vacation lero. Flax Seed will bo scarce this year and you had better leavo your order now and not get left. Also Texas Tied Seed Oats. S. A. Wickard & Co. It. M. Travis. Mrs. C. R. Eubank, lately of Nebraska, who is now living at La Harpe, was a pleasant caller at tho Registeii olllco Tuosduy und will read tho Weekly Rixiisteh. Tho father of Iko Mason, tho col ored youth sent from hero to tho peni tentiary for shooting Len Martin, is trying to secure signatures to a paper asking the governor to pax'don Ike out. Dan Bartholomew is worrying about something which the roportor cannot exactly get the straight of. Ho talk about ono of tho girls in tho storo getting married and adds some thing about marriage agency. A letter from Bob Wilhlto brings another harrowing tale of tho endless casualties which befall him. Tho other day while playing with a pet coon at his hotel in Bartelsvillo, Okla,. tho ooon bit oft tho tip of his thumb. Sullna Union: Mrs. Heck, of Hum boldt, arrived Tuesday at Salina with her string of eighteen racing horses, to mako Salina her futuro headquart ers. She has rented tho Oak Dale stablos and will uso them as her train ing quarters. Dr. Otto Von Mullor, lato of Hcidol berg, Germany, general practitioner and specialist In nervous and chronic -diseases, is now located permanently in Iola, and may bo found In his olllco Room 1, now Northrup building, from 0 to 11 und from 2 to 4. Word was received u fow days ago from Mr. Nlcliols, who llvod hero and workod at tho ccmont plant, that his wlfo died Biiddonly lust Wodnosday. Mr. and Mrs. Nichols roomed at ll. Stevenson's and tho latter had H large rlrc!o of warm frUnds here. Liccnso to marry was issued this week to M. M. Troutwino and Ger trude Soil, both of Gonova. Thirty headof cattle calves, hlcfors, steers, cows for sale. G. E. Greg ory, 4 mllos north east of Iola. C. C. Thomas, of tho Moran Herald, and Carl Reynolds, of tho Suvonburg Record, wcrolu town Wednesday. Another maA who wunts to Btart a smollcr was in town today. Ho has Iho monoy and Is willing to do business. Fanners bring your butter and eggs ot us. Wo will pay hlghcstcashprlco. Stanloy & Corbin, corner Madison and Kentucky street. Flax Seed will bo scarce this year and you had better leave your order now and not get left. Also Toxus Red Seed Oats. S. A. Wickurd & Co. R. M. Travis. Ono of the commonest greetings these days on the street is: Did you hear about Mrs. Nution having cut her arm oft? No I Why? Because thero was a joint in it. Leavo your order for Flax Seed and Toxas Red Seed Oats for tho coming season with S. A. Wickard & Co., bc foro it is too lato. R. M. Travis, manager. Corn, kalllr corn and oats will bo taken at Clulborno's mill in oxoliange for Hour, shorts, brim, corn meal, chop corn, oats, buckwheat Hour graham Hour, sorghum syrup, cider vinegar and upplo butter. To Rr.NT: (100 acies of farm land for cash, a sharo of crops, cast half of Sec. 23-25-18, southeast quarter Sec. 24-2,")-18 and northwest quarter Sec. 10-25-11). Call on S. M. Knox at his ranch in Sulcm township, Allen coun ty, Kansas. Tho armless cowboy who does moro stunts with Ills toes than muny huvo over been abioto accomplish with two hands seems to bo rather neglected in Iola. Pcoplo hero aro busy and the wind is busy and a man must do moro than wlgglo his toes to attract at tention. On Wednesday, March 13, Mr. Harry B. Ballard of Lallarpe, and Miss Minnie II. Nadler, of near AVlso postolllee, wcro married at tho homo of tho bride's mother, Rev. D. B. Shuey, of tho Reformed church of Iola oflici ating. Tho young peoplo wont to housekeeping at onco in Lanyonvillo. Dr. A. O. Sears, tho dentist who di vides his time between Colony and Neosho Falls, was in Iola yesterday visiting Mr. Holmick, an old college friend. Ho reports that Neosho Falls has begun another gas well in tho park north of tho river, and every body hopes that this ono will bo a gusher. John Doo and Richard Roc, the in corrigible law breakers, were arrest ed Saturday night for "being drunk and fined $2 each and costs. They are now in the horse-trading business and drove into town from LaHarpo pretty well tangled up. After thoy became moisy tho police hushed their racket. If the two railroads which livo on Iola would toll tho Reoistek tho ox act llgures of tho business thoy havo dono for tho past twelve months and let this paper print it there would bo a buzz in railroad circles. Tho busi ness has beon simply enormous, and the roads won't let tho figures bo given out. Harry Bragg bus obtained a. permit to erect a building in Iola and ox pects to go right to woik on it and havo it ready for occupation not later than May 1st. In tho mean time will bo found a good lino of implements for sale at tho blacksmith shop of Milton Simpson. Call around and look them over. Gas City Headlight: Tho Clicrokeo Lanyon Sinolter Company stopped tho work on tho Mo. Pao. switch, last week. The exact teason has not leaked out yet but tho general suppo sition is that the Smelter Company intends to use tho ground that was to bo used for a sn itch to enlargo thoir plant at this place Ed Stanfleld who learned telegraphy hero under II. II. Funk, and who was given charge of tho Western Union olllco but was let out because ho was thought to bo unablo to handle the business, was sont for and has come back. Tho man put in charge was not nearly so good and Ed is now buck to stay and costs moro than ever. J. W. Woten of Iola and Miss Lydla Allen of Harrlsonvlllo Missouri wero married last Friday at tho Christian parsonage by Rev. G. M. Welmor pastor of tho Church of Christ A number of thoir friends precetded them to the parsonago and surprised them by appouring just as thoy woro boing married. Thoy will mako Iola their futuro homo. A letter has been rccolved In town from "two loyal Iollans" who seem, according to postmark, to llvo In St. Louis. Thoso two cnoloo a clipping from tho Recu&teu about a little din ner Mr. Brukemau gave hero to tho Brandon Theatre Company on his birthday when ho was given a couple of military brushes. Inadvortently tho reporter said "cavalry brushes'' and those loyal joshors want to know- why a curry comb and a horso blanket were not thrown in. mwwnmmmmmmnwmmmmmmmmmmmmmt -- , , . miM , .1 MmWmk Every Lady Who intends buying a Tailor-Made Suit, will do herself an injustice unless she calls and looks over our line. We have absolutely the prettiest and best made suits ever brought to Iola. Our skirts are here, and are equally as pretty. The New Spring Dress Goods Are now on display, and we shall take great pleasure in showing them. Spring novelties of every description. You are invited to call. The New York Store. iiAiiaii.aiUUiUiau.iiiuUiiiiiiauaAiiUaUiiuuUiUUiuaiu Theie woie good congregations and interesting services at tho Episcopal church Sunday, also a fair Sunday school for a beginning. The Sunday school will bo continued next Sunday morning at 0:40 o'clock with a good superintendent and to'ichors. Arch deacon Crawford expects to bo witli us tho week before Easter and Easter Sunday. Rev. John Maclean left Monday for Eureka whero ho will attend tho annual conference of the M. V.. church, which will assign tho minis ters to their charges for tho coming year. A strong letter went witli him from tho entiro Iola congiegation ask ing tho conference to send him back hero, and tho RixitSTEit hopes that such will bo tho result. The K. C. Star picked a fow lines out of an artielo in the RixiiSTr.it about J. V. Crouch somo weeks ago, referred to him as "Iola'sgold brick" and printed it. Of courso it reached him und hulf tho pcoplo of his homo town woro joshing him on tho street that day, ho says, and asking him what kind of a graft ho was working on the peoplo of Kansas. Ono reason why you ought to regis ters In order to permit an Idea to bo gotten of tho town's population. To date 1350 peoplo havo registered but thero aro us many moro eligible to voto at tho spring election who havo not. registered. Let everybody regis ter this week, before Friday, when tho books closo, and show tho big, unfeel ing, unbelieving world that there are 7,500 peoplo hero. George A. Bowlus and L. C. Beatty returned Sunday morning from their trip back to tho oil Holds to look at tho gushing young thing in which they aro Interested. Thoir lease covers a tract of land largo enough to support somo eight or ten wells and tho gentle men havo an Idea that thoy can stand tho strain of receiving dully 'dividends from severul moro oil wells. Gus City Headlight Three car loads of lumber arrived tho latter part of last week for tho Cherkee-Lunyon smelter Company. Nearly a score of carpenters and assistants aro now re placing tho frame of tho block that burned down a fow weeks ago. As soon as this building is done nnd tiio block gots going tho building of another block will bo commenced. Thollro horses arobeing putthrough thoir puces dully now, in prepurution for tho coming of tho big engine. Hitched to u dray they aro given a spin olT on u country road and eomo back with thoir coats covered with foam. It will tako a good man to handlo the team und tho position of chlof ilreman will bo onoof thodilllcult ones to fill under tho now regime. Finding gas looks so easy to peoplo who haven't tried, it, but oven Iola spent several years In fruitless search und had all but given up hope. So thero is a llttlocemedy mixed with the" pathos of items llko this from tho Con cordia Empire: rjt'wo8lroni;!Ktts wells have recentlvbecnmlt nn at Iola which ineanHmoromunufactoiics (or the place. It Concordia had u few gas wens we Hiigni nave some manuiaciones too. Work on tho now ucld plunt and smelter has been greatly delayed by tho high winds, which sweep across tho prairie at such a rato as to render Impossible an attempt to ruiso frame buildings. Steady' work has been dono on tho excavating and founda tion work and materiul has been un loaded and piled up, so that hon tho weather doos permit tho work can bo rushed. Tun Reciisteii notes with pleasure) that the Sunta Fo rail roud is making plans to olovuto somo four milos of trucks und erect u fino now depot in Chicago, all ut a cost of between four and Hvo million dollars, This im provement will call for hundreds of cars of cement ood cement, tho "best what Is" anj that ought to moan n, nleo ordor for tho Iola Portland Cem ent Company, tho only company oper ating n plunt und paying heavy freight rates over tho lino. A telegram from tho Hro engine manufacturers snys that the engine is Huished and is ready to lie lettered and numbered and word was sent to label It "Iola Combination No. 2." It will be shipped and Installed in the new engine liouso as soon us thut building is completed, which is being dono us fast us carpenters can nail on the boards, it is understood that tho old chemical ongino will bo put In East Iola whero It may save Us cost several times a year. Tho Iola Baptist Church will havo an all day session und roll call Wed nesday Murcli 27th und request every member of tho church to bo present if possible. All Baptists not members of tho church hero aro especially in vited to be pi cent. Como and get acquainted. Devotional services 10 u. in., dinner in tho chuicli at noon, devotional services andjroll call 3 p. m. preaching services 7;30 p. m. B. Y. P. U. Rally will bo held Friday and Saturday following. A representative of an custom ad vertising house dropped into tho Rna istku olllco tho other day and remark ed that it was his first visit to Iola. He said his house never sent tho men to places smaller than 10,000 and that Iola was rated on their books at 3,000. Ho happened to bo in tho Pittsburg Headlight olllce und saw a Register on the exchange table, picked it up and decided to como to Iola. "A town that supports a paper llko that Is worth visiting," ho said. Mr. Botts, tho gentleman has been chosen us assistant city engineer and electrician by tho council, Is ono of Mr. E. M. Reed's men hero from Kan sas City. He is the man who is put ting in tho plant and is a 'thoroughly competent und skilled electrician, as tho manner in which Jtho plant will work when ho gets .through will bear witness. Mr. Howard w us Jsomo time ago elected first engineer, to hnVo charge of tho engine and machinery at tho power house and run tho river end of tho business. Mr. Botts will mako all e.xtcntions und keep tho light lino in working order. Tho Registeu noted tho other day tho bright prospects of a new fuctory which vill employ 100 men und boys-, Tho promoters were" perfectly satislled with what they found hero nnd tho promises gi en und lull to intervlow tho railroad men. Vesteiday a letter camo from Mr. Jas. A. Davis, indus trial commissioner of tho Santa Fe, stating that ho had received a letter from Iola and would bo more than pleased to meet 'tho gentlemen and do everything in his power to tnducothem to locuto in Iolu. Which shows thut no gruss is growing about tho founda tions of the new factory. Mr. Wilkins und Mr. Convorso, of Now York, represeututlvcs of the New Jersey Zinc Compuny, wero in Iola the first of tho week "looking around." Tho New Jersey Zinc Com pany is capitalized at $04,000,000 and Is the largest zinc producing concern in tho world, having extensive plants in New Jersey, Missouri and Wiscon sin. Tho company owns tho Dr. Fulton quarter section southeast of Iola, and they say it is not for sale, which would indicato thnt tho present owners expect to muko use of it. Whut thut use will be, und when it will be gin, tho representutlves of the com pany decline at present to stale. , Mr. James Stotts, an old man living nbout two miles north of Iolu, died suddenly last Monday of upo ploxy. Mr. Stotts cumo to Kansas from Ohio in 1885. Ho aftorwurds went to California and necumuluted; a fortune but lost It ull when tho south ern Culifornla boom collapsed. Ho rotuhied to Allen county and bought a small fruit farm of somo twelve acros which ho continued to muko his homo until his (loath. For somo time past Mr. Rluhnrd Wright lias been living with him, us ho hud no family except two married daughters who live in Oho. His friends hero took chargo of tio remains and tho funeral services wero hold Tuesday. Dressy Young Men All tho latest ef lects of the merchant tailor aro obtained in the Cahn-Wampold warranted clothing. Same cloths, game fash ions, same fit half tho cost. Better made than the average tailor can do, and ready to wear out of the store. Let us show you. BARCLAY'SHIELDS CLOTHING CO., One Price Cash Clothiers. Foil Sale: Barn 14 by 20, Canopy Top Buggy, Slnglo Harness. Evans Bros. Eggs Wanted; "Will givo 10 cents a do.en in trade for fresh country eggs. Pure Food Co. Parties desiring soy bean seed plcuso cull on or address Geo. H. Burth llvo miles south-east of Iola Kansas. Tho Iola Horso und Mule- market has just received u frosli supply of good farm liorsos, und extra drivers. Como and seelthom at the Old Stono barn. Tho furmers thnt come llrst aro served llrst to get their supply of horses and mules for tho coming sea son. Como early and got your choico ut tho Old Stono burn. But ono more cur loud of water pipe Is required to finish tho work und it is expected dully nnd will not tuko long to luy. And tho llflit plunt doos not havo to wuit on it, us tho current can bo turned on as soon us steam is up nnd tho dynamo running. A report In tho papor stating that J. T. Wood hud sold out bus seemingly given thopooplothroughouttliocountry a wrong impression. Mr. Wood is still in business at tho Old Stono barn, which ho Is enlurging ushistrudo intho horso and mule market hits so in creased as to demand moro room. Tho attention of tho RiX3Ister has been called to tho fact that It men tioned that Percy Gruhun's name wus referred to by somo of thowitnessos for tho dofenso In tho Worloy trial, in a manner to insinuute thut ho was tho guilty party. In justice It should bo stated that whllo this was dono the rebuttal contradicted this und tho very fact that no subpoena wus gotten out for him is proof in it self thut no caso wus inudo against him. ' City Clerk Knapp Is earning ills sulniy us clerk in tho matterofpedlers nnd fakirs. Tho other day an alleged doctor was arrested on complaint of not having a license. Tho doctor argued the law and made tho regular light und llnnlly seemed to huvo tl o best of it by declaring that ho did his work frcu as ho had monoy enough to I've on and simply loved humanity. Me. Knuiin wanted to bo shown. A Mr. Reno whom tho doctor wus trout lug wus sent for nndsworo thnt ho hud ngreed to pay $.10 for nemo of the rheumatism and had puld $20 down. The doctor collupsed nnd tho authorl ties took his medlcLno ease ns security for his upponrance todny to pny his license. WALL PAPER i LOTS OF IT f A I uuupvcii ft RiaIFc. f W 1HU1&112 t West Side Drug Store. t f .? Iola's Ico llllSilR'SH. Thoextensions which huvo beon rank ing ut tho Ico Plant since tho first of tho year nre pructlcally complete. Connection with tho now engino was I made today and within a short time all tho now machinery will bo in full working order, giving tho Company a capacity of fifty tons of ico daily. Iola has grown to such a size now that to supply tho retail ice trnde through thoHUmmer is a ery consid erable industry, und in order thut it may bo dono .satisfactorily tho lee Company has decided to put on two of its own wagons, which will bo in addition to thoso which will bo run us usual by Mr. Dlngman. Tho two wugons for tho Ico Compuny aro now boing built ut McCarty's wagon shop and when completed will show up handsomely, boing large, and avtis tleully painted and lettered. Tho prices of ico dollvorcd anywhere within tho city, will vary from thirty 1 cents to fifty cents u hundred; uccord Ing to tho quantity taken, n verj reasonable ruto considering that thu Company lias no competition. So loin will huvo an oxcollont chance to keep cool this summer, and will havo a good deal of surplus coolness to sell to her nolghbors. j-AfciWMfc- A4 A.iumtfJ-.a.M.&ikkU Wft m fcfcfajttui ..h ...r J "i'"i.t - - - A, jA Ifv !MtMi-.Ui - VUtbs , jaival-NitttJjC- .. sA . UMA