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THE IOLA REGISTER Thursday, April 20, 2017
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Carriage house tours Saturday
EARTH DAY TRIBUTE
Humboldt High School students spent Wednesday honoring Earth Day. After gathering trash around Humboldt and planting flowers at Neosho River Park, the students stopped at Cannon Park for a cookout and a game of kickball. REGISTER/SHELLIE SMITLEY
Music family to perform at Bowlus Sunday Afficianados will be treated to a wide genre of music Sunday, when the Annie Moses Band comes to the Bowlus Fine Arts Center. A captivating blend of folk and classical, the Annie Moses Band is a talented ensemble of songwriters, singers and musicians combining technical skill with exhilarating showmanship.
The band has performed multiple times on PBS, and been on stage at Carnegie Hall and the Grand Ole Opry. Siblings Annie Wolaver Dupre and Alex and Ben began as the rhythm section under their father, Bill Wolaver, an accomplished composer in See BAND | Page A5
HUMBOLDT — Back in the day, before automobiles became the transportation mode of choice, Lander Carriage folks rode in House, Humboldt horse-drawn carriages. And those carriages broke down. Charles Lander of Humboldt found his niche to serve the community by fixing wagons, carriages, buggies, phaetons, etc. He set up shop in the 400 block of Bridge Street. In the 150 years since then Lander’s shop has remained. On Sunday, the Allen County Historical Society will take a closer look at the Lander Carriage House, 403 Bridge St., for its 2017 spring meeting. Tours of the carriage house will be offered at 2 o’clock. The tours are free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. The carriage house is on the National Register of Historic Places.
LaTurner, 29, tapped as Kansas treasurer By JOHN HANNA The Associated Press
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback appointed a legislator Tuesday as the next state treasurer to replace Republican Ron Estes after Estes won a special congressional election. The new treasurer is GOP state Sen. Jake LaTurner, of Pittsburg. He will serve the rest of Estes’ four-year term and said he will seek a full, four-year term in 2018. Brownback touted LaTurner’s work as a legislator during a Statehouse news conference, pointing to his authorship in 2015 of a state law limiting the authority of cities and counties to spend additional property tax revenues without a public vote. The treasurer manages deposits of state funds and oversees a college savings program, though the office’s most visible program is one that returns unclaimed property to its owners. The position also has in recent decades given treasurers a platform to run for governor or Congress. “Having young people involved, young adults involved, in government is something I’ve advocated for,” said LaTurner, who is 29. “I’m going to surround myself with wonderful people, and we’re going to work
State Sen. Jake LaTurner was announced Tuesday as Gov. Sam Brownback’s pick to succeed Ron Estes as state treasurer. LaTurner, of Pittsburg, has served in the Kansas Senate since 2013. KANSAS NEWS SERVICE/JIM MCLEAN
very hard.” Estes, 60, is stepping down as treasurer next week after being sworn in as the new congressman for the 4th District of south-central Kansas. The seat became vacant after Republican Mike Pompeo’s appointment by President Donald Trump as CIA director. LaTurner has been acSee LATURNER | Page A5
Quote of the day Vol. 119, No. 123
Orville Kroenke was inspired by the needs of his two horses Cricket, left, and Jake to become a distributor of Total Feed. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN
Horsing around leads to business By SHELLIE SMITLEY The Iola Register
KV Feed Shed, 1810 Missouri Rd., Iola, is a growing business for a couple who has called Allen County home for more than 31 years. What began as Orville Kroenke’s post-retirement hobby has turned into a family-owned business for him and wife Susan Kroenke. Orville’s interest in horses began when he was a child growing up on a farm just east of Walnut. “Back on the farm we rode all of the time and then I got
busy with life and got out of them. After retirement I decided to go back,” he said. Orville retired from MidContinental Restoration, Fort Scott, in 2014. Susan worked at Herff Jones until 2015 when the company shut down its Iola plant. Both of the couple’s children graduated from Iola High School. Their son, Scott, joined the U.S. Army and is currently stationed in Portland, Ore., and their daughter, Amy Grizzard, a stay-at-home mom, lives in Valentines,Va. Finding himself with much
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more time on his hands, Orville decided to live out childhood memories. He bought two horses; first a bay-colored gelding named Jake and then a palomino mare named Cricket. Orville was searching the equine food market for a product he felt would meet his horses’ needs when he was introduced to Total Feed, from the line of feeds created by Dr. R. Harry Anderson, Weatherford, Texas. The feed suited Orville, but it was a 30-40 mile trek from Iola See KF FEED | Page A5
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