The Register is 90 years old today, having been continuously published, either as a weekly or daily, since Jan. 1, 1867. During those years it has outlived 11 competitors.
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Miss Inez McKibben, who has been keeping Iola women in Easter bonnets for 38 years, sold her last hat yesterday, closing out her shop in the Ramsay Dry Goods Company store where she had worked for 25 years. In 1918, she came to Iola to work as a milliner for James Richardson, owner of the Richardson Department store. She worked there for seven years and at the Seneker Dry Goods Company for six years.
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The annual meeting of the Allen County Soil Conservation District was held in the Humboldt Presbyterian Church yesterday afternoon. A highlight of the meeting was the presentation of the Kansas Bankers Association Awards by Robert Leimenstoll, president of the Humboldt National Bank, to Mrs. and Mrs. Don D. McDonald, Iola, Mr. and Mrs. Earl R. Nelson, LaHarpe, Jack R. Centlivre, Kansas City, Mr. and Mrs. Ross Graham, Savonburg, and Mr. and Mrs. Alvis Churchill, Humboldt.
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A plan to underwrite harness racing at the 1957 Allen County Fair to the extent of $4,500 was approved at noon today at a joint meeting of the directors of the Iola Chamber of Commerce and the Fair Association.
