August 1965 Antique dealers and collectors thronged to Iola yesterday for the auctioning of personal and household items to settle the Dr. F. L. B. Leavell estate.  Buyers by the hundreds crowded onto the lawn…

Susan Hoffmeier of Iola will present the program at Monday’s meeting of the Sunflower Quilter’s Guild. Hoffmeier will discuss free-motion quilting on a domestic machine.  The guild gathers at Humboldt United Methodist Church, 806 N.…

The new “S” curve on U.S. 54 is open to traffic. ***** Gov. Frank Carlson called the Register from Topeka to announce that he has appointed Walter Fees, Iola oil and gas operator and prominent…

August 1990 Aug. 10 — A fire destroyed three Iola business buildings on the west side of the square early today and damaged several others. The fire, which firefighters think started in the kitchen area…

Pastor Chase Riebel gave the Communion Meditation this week over 1 Corinthians 11:23-29. This is the story of the last supper.  By taking communion, we are proclaiming that the body and blood of Jesus are…

Saturday’s Allen County Farmers Market session will be the last one of the year in Humboldt.  Sales run from 8 to 11 a.m. in downtown Humboldt. The Tuesday sales in Iola have new hours for…

President Zoi Yoho called the Aug. 9 meeting of the Prairie Rose 4-H Club to order.  Doug Dix, songleader, led the club in the Pledge of Allegiance and the 4-H Pledge.  Roll call was answered…

An ordinance banning the old-fashioned privy within Iola city limits was passed yesterday afternoon by the governing body. In effect it grants one year in which such toilets may be connected with sewer lines and…

August 1950 The 50-year-old McKinley elementary school is being razed by a Topeka firm. It has been a landmark on South Kentucky for the past 48 years but is now making way for the new…

DISTRICT COURT Judge Daniel Creitz Civil cases filed: Rory M. Foster vs. State of Kansas, other civil Amanda M. Ysusi vs. Charles A. Ysusi, protection from abuse Jennifer S. Rousello-Vail vs. Jesse J. Vail, divorce…