Sam M. Sifers is 90 today. He is at the Sifers candy factory every day when he is in Iola. When he came here the Brownfield and Davis Candy factory was a prosperous Iola industry and he joined as a third partner in 1906. Davis withdrew and the company became the Brownfield-Sifers Candy Co. Finally, Sifers became the sole owner of the three-story establishment on East Madison. Since the East Madison factory burned a number of years ago, the Sifers Company of Iola, headed by Earl Sifers, has operated from a building on West Jackson, being rebuilt now after a devastating fire last January.
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The ladies of the Friends Home Lutheran Church three miles west of Savonburg will serve their annual lute fish dinner Friday night and are planning to feed between 500 and 600. As in the past, barrels of the fish have been imported from Sweden and it will be served with the fiery mustard sauce made by expert Swedish cooks.
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Fresh from a triumph in a talent contest in Kansas City, Charley Chilcote, Iola’s likable fireman, is now headed for New York City, television and the Ted Mack Amateur Hour. His friends have given up. They don’t expect to see Charley again. Either gold, the evil temptations of the city or, worse yet, Hollywood, is sure to get him.
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A copy of the hearings on the 1951 floods in Kansas and Missouri before the committee on public works in the House of Representatives is now on file at the Iola Chamber of Commerce. The document contains 184 pages, including 15 in which flood losses in Allen County are described. The local report includes a dozen or more photographs and maps of Allen County showing areas under water on July 13.
