City commissioners accepted a bid of $25,575 for the Memorial Hall site from H. A. Joiner and Associates of Wichita, completing the formalities required to permit the building to be razed and construction of an…

Russell Yarton who recently purchased the American Service Co. building and equipment on West Street, will continue the business at the Iola Ice and Coal Co., Inc. He is also taking orders for fireplace and…

October 1980 Image Plus, a new jewelry store at 1 N. Jefferson, will open Tuesday. The store will be operated by Betsy Varner. Ed and Betsy Varner moved to Iola from Tulsa about a year…

Iola’s 54 Drive-in Theater will debut Sept. 28 to the public with the film “Two Guys From Texas,” a musical in Technicolor. The theater is owned by John Krupp, Dr. Gerald G. Pees and Jack…

Bill Burcham, owner of Self Service Grocery Store, as he locks the door on the store tonight will be ending 50 years in the food industry. He looks forward to spending time on other interests…

August 1975 The Meals-on-Wheels program, now in its third year in Allen County, will be expanded to serve daily meals to more local senior citizens, thanks to a 1-mill levy passed by county voters on…

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…

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…

August 2000 Robbie Atkins and Walt Regehr, Jr. won their races in the Aug. 1 primary. Atkins was nominated for sheriff and Regehr for the third district county commission seat by county Republicans.   *****…

A wind and rain storm hit Iola Aug. 1, ripping the steeple from St. John’s Catholic Church, and causing widespread damage to show windows in downtown stores, roofs, electric lines, trees and farm buildings over…