August 1950
The 50-year-old McKinley elementary school is being razed by a Topeka firm. It has been a landmark on South Kentucky for the past 48 years but is now making way for the new school which is being completed a few yards to the north. The site of the old structure will soon be part of the new school’s playground. The old building was purchased for $300 from the board of education with the understanding that it will be removed down to the foundation within 30 days.
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The first 15 men to be called by the Allen County selective service board since the start of the Korean conflict left by bus yesterday afternoon for Kansas City for physical examinations. Those who are selected for duty with the armed services will be given at least 21 days in which to wind up their current civilian affairs. The bus was escorted out of town by a truckload of musicians, including Louis Kinman, David Peck, Phil Smith and Richard Funk.
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The city commission this morning annexed four more blocks of the Sunnyside Addition, taking in the blocks east of Kentucky between Lincoln and the M-K-T railroad right of way. A sanitary sewer line will be laid this fall to serve both additions.
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D.E. Hoover, who has been manager of the Crown Drug store in Chanute for the past seven years has purchased the Iola Drug Co. from Dr. and Mrs. Frank Lenski. It was operated on the south side of the square for many years as Scarborough Brothers by the late Bryan and Howard Scarborough.
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The tennis courts at Riverside Park were the brightest spots in Allen County as a gaily costumed crowd estimated at about 1,000 participated in Iola’s first open air square dances. Herb Smith was the caller.
