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or a business whose livelihood depends on current events, we at The Register realize it is our history that helps put today’s news in its proper context. The recent development of bike paths crisscrossing the county, for example, takes on added significance when one realizes it was the dissolution of local train service that paved their way. At one time, Iola served as a bustling depot for the Santa Fe and the Missouri Pacific Railroad. The Santa Fe’s overnight Oil Flyer streaked through Iola on its route from Tulsa to Kansas City. The passenger train made the 256-mile trip at an average 51 mph in about five hours. The Oil Flyer was taken to its celestial roundhouse in 1968. Passenger service in these parts ended in 1971. It wasn’t until 1983 that the Sante Fe depot was torn down. Local tracks for the MoPac were taken up in 1988 and for the Santa Fe in 1990.
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Names needed This photo of the train depot in Iola, apparently taken some time in the 1950s, serves as the cover photo for the Iola Register’s upcoming “The Chronicles of Allen County, Volume III.” We’re hoping, with the public’s help, to identify some of the folks scurrying to board this train. We also are eager to find other photos depicting the county’s history from 1946 to 2000. Anybody with information can call us at 365-2111 or via email at news@iolaregister. com or susan@iolaregister.com.
Coalition receives $600,000 grant By RICK DANLEY The Iola Register
IT’S THE desire to keep news items like these preserved, and yet at the forefront, that has led, eventually, to a third volume chronicling the events of Allen County. The first two volumes,
Late last week, the Allen County Multi-Agency Team received an important email from the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, the contents of which did two important things. First, it affirmed the good work the coalition has done in recent years when it comes to combating substance abuse, particularly among the young, in this afflicted section of southeast Kansas. Second, it put its money where its mouth is. Just over a year ago, ACMAT was awarded a $125,000 Drug-Free Communities (DFC) grant, which stipulated that the coalition would need to reapply for the grant the following year. This would allow funders time to evaluate how successful ACMAT had been in its efforts to curb drug, alcohol and tobacco use in its home county. The verdict arrived last Friday when ACMAT’s grant coordinator Jaime Westervelt and its chairman,
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Iola mortuary moving to U.S. 54 site By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register
Rummage sales benefit groups By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register
Benevolence and volunteerism continue to benefit a number of area organizations through Iola Senior Citizens, Inc. Through August, the non-profit organization has donated $14,900 this year to groups in Iola and Allen County. The proceeds come from the sale of used clothing and household items at the Senior Citizens site at 223 N. State St. There, more than a dozen volunteers reSee HELPERS | Page A2
Provided a zoning change is permitted, Feuerborn Family Funeral Services will move its operations from 14 N. Buckeye St. to the south side of U.S. 54 between Iola and Gas, Iola Rotarians were told Thursday. After refitting, the funeral home will occupy what is now the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints, which has 9,000 square feet of floor space. The church has been for sale for several years, the result of a declining congregation. Reuben Feuerborn purchased Waugh-Yokum & Friskel Memorial Chapels in May from David Yokum, giving the Feuerborn brand a greater presence in this area. It also has funeral homes in Colony and Moran, as well as its flagship facility in Garnett. Feuerborn said that leaving the Buckeye Street location, where the funeral home has been since the early 1900s, would make it possible to do more of what a modern funeral home does. The one in use today has been kept apace
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Feuerborn Family Funeral Services staffers in Iola are, from left, Lloyd Houk, Bryce Gorrell, Moria Feuerborn, Steve Stanley and Reuben Feuerborn. with improvements, but it does not lend itself well to services Feuerborn wants to offer, he said. Yokum sold the funeral home to Feuerborn in May. The new quarters will permit several advantages, Feuerborn said, including all being on ground floor. It will have room for funeral dinners and gatherings on site and accommodate many more people for services. He pointed out some families are caught
in the lurch of not being affiliated with a church, which leads to concerns when planning services and associated events for friends and family. The present funeral home will be put up for sale. At 42, Feuerborn has been involved with the Feuerborn family mortuary business since his public school years, “and never considered anything else” for an occupation, he said. He gave Rotarians oppor-
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tunity to ask questions, and they did, including how embalming is done, whether a crematory would be a part of the new quarters and about rules and regulations affecting mortuaries. A crematory will not be a part of the new funeral home. Feuerborn has an arrangement with Dingle & Son Mortuary, Ottawa, for cremation services. See MORTUARY | Page A2
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