Miss Amy Jones has moved her business, Jones Typewriter and Book Store, from an upstairs room over Iola State Bank to 113½ E. Madison over Anderson Plumbing Service. Miss Jones has been selling books, typewriters, supplies, and mimeographing letters and similar items for the past 14 years.
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A proposed county-wide levy, of not more than 1.5 mills, to support the Iola Junior College will be submitted to Allen County’s citizens at the general election, Nov. 6. The Board of County Commissioners, after conferring with Ennor Horine, superintendent of schools, and Klein Boyd, president of the board of education, agreed to submit the proposition to the voters. If the levy is approved, the county will appoint a six-member advisory board of regents to confer with the board of education on college policies. The law authorizing county-wide support of junior colleges was enacted in 1957. Horine points out that many of the 253 young men and women enrolled in the Iola Junior College do not live in school district 10.
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Plans for a science and home economics building for Iola Senior High and a new wing for the Lincoln Elementary School were approved by the Board of Education. The structures are being designed by Brink and Dunwoody, architects and engineers. Last spring voters approved a $325,000 bond issue to finance the science unit and $120,000 to finance the wing at Lincoln.
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Humboldt opened a new post office at 811 New York St. Helen Lacy, postmaster, and her crew completed the move from the old building at Seventh and Bridge. The first post office opened in Humboldt in 1858.
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The Friends Home Lutheran Church, west of Savonburg, will observe its 90th anniversary Sunday with special services under the direction of the Rev. D. Bertil Gustafson, pastor.
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Ray Hale, who has been an active Scouter in Iola since 1942, received a Silver Beaver award last night in recognition of that service.
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Iola’s has a new municipal lagoon type sewage disposal plant. Construction began early last spring. J. A. Wilson, utilities superintendent, said the lift stations and pumping plant are functioning properly.
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First Methodist Church will present Miss Florence Hobart, well-known local organist, in recital. A number of organ and piano pupils from this area who have gone into music professionally, had their early training with Miss Hobart. She has appeared as organist in many Iola Music Club programs since 1925 and has served as organist for several Iola churches.
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The Register is observing its 65th anniversary as a daily newspaper. The paper was first published as a weekly in 1867, but was not a daily until Oct. 25, 1897 when Iola was in the gas boom era. Cuba was in the world’s spotlight then as it is today.
