Mayor Mack Colt reported the Iola sewage disposal system is considered one of the worst on the Neosho River. If the plant isn’t replaced, he warned, the state could forbid any additional connections to it…

COLONY — The Koons Feed and Produce store here was completely destroyed last night in the second disastrous fire which has struck Colony during the last 10 days. For a time the entire business district…

Virgil Ingroum was presented a Certificate of Merit by the American Red Cross in recognition of applying first aid to Dave Hansen of Moran when Hansen suffered a severed artery in his neck in a…

Iola’s volunteer firefighters, who go where city trucks cannot go under city law and also back up the city department when needed, is still going strong.  John Womack is chief of the group, which consists…

Phyllis Meredith recently returned from the Death Valley 49ers’ Art Show and Encampment. She was one of 100 artists chosen to display their work at the show which depicted Old West life in the desert.…

November 1980 Dr. John Norton, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Norton of Iola, who is a physicist at the national laboratories at Los Alamos, N.M., spoke to Iola Rotarians. Norton predicted the nuclear electric…

Construction of a new parsonage on the lots at the corner of Madison and Cottonwood streets has been approved by the congregation of First Methodist Church, the Rev. E.E. Tillotson said. It will be constructed…

Allen County had fewer farms in 1959 than in 1954 but they were larger in size and represented a substantially larger investment. This is revealed in the preliminary report of the 1959 agricultural census which…

The members of Boy Scout troops number 53, 55 and 56 are circulating Crusade for Freedom petitions throughout Iola today and will continue to do so throughout the week. Crusade for Freedom is a nationwide…

Jean Barber was nominated to fill a vacancy on the Allen County Commission created by the resignation of Bob Huskey. ***** Workers from SeKan Asphalt of Gas have begun construction on what will be a…