Clarence Robinson, proprietor of Hart’s Cafe, received the man-of-the-year service award of the Iola Junior Chamber of Commerce at a “Bosses’ Night” dinner. Robinson’s outstanding service to Little League Baseball in Iola was noted.  *****…

Workers are remodeling a 1901 building on the corner of Bridge and 9th streets to make it into a restaurant and bed and breakfast. The building was the Bailey Hotel in its first life. It…

Allen County Sheriff Robert M. Allman had an operation which may make medical history. At Baylor University Hospital in Houston a surgeon replaced about six inches of his aorta artery with an artery from a…

Powell Insurance Agency, 111 South St., in business in Iola for more than 100 years, has been sold to Marion and Shirley Houk of Moran. Owner John Powell said he sold so he could do…

Iolans eager to save the Santa Fe depot were gathered at the depot yesterday collecting signatures on a petition urging the railway to offer the building for sale so that it could be used for…

Roger Carswell is the new director of Iola Public Library and the Southeast Kansas Library Systems. He replaces Ray Willson, who will retire in July.  *** Jean Barber soon will leave her desk in the…

Sovereign Robinwood Carmel, a Holstein cow owned by Ivan Strickler, Iola, recently set a new Kansas record for dairy cows, producing 24,589 pounds of milk, containing 1,043 pounds of butter fat, in 365 days. This…

Steve Strickler of Iola, a student at Kansas State University in Manhattan, is head of the planning committee for this year’s Little American Royal contest in which K-State students are judged on their ability to…

Kansas voters gave a rousing endorsement Tuesday to Democratic Gov. John Carlin’s oil and gas severance tax. Carlin swept to an impressive re-election victory, with a 66,000 vote margin over Republican challenger, Sam Hardage. Both…

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,…