A.B. Cockerill secures 2,000 acres of gas land

A.B. Cockerill, who owns smelters at Gas City and LaHarpe, Kan., yesterday completed a deal for the lease of 2,000 acres of gas land north of LaHarpe in the neighborhood of the Wise post office, says the Iola Register. This is one of the largest deals in gas land for some time. The paper's are being closed today. Mr. Cockerill it is presumed has leased this land with the idea of supplying his smelters at Gas and LaHarpe, if the time comes when they need more gas.

The immediate field where the land is leased has not been tested, but there is good gas land around it and it is believed the fuel will be found there. It is not known whether drilling operations will commence at once.

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Prince welcomes bride-to-be

MONTE CARLO -- American film star Grace Kelly greeted Monaco's Prince Rainier III with a big smile and "darling" today as they staged a romantic reunion on the blue Mediterranean.

Grace and the man she will marry next week were reunited on Rainier's Yacht Deo Juvante II just offshore from his tiny Riviera principality. The 32-year-old bridegroom-to-be sailed his gleaming white, 138-foot craft out to tie up beside the liner Constitution, which had brought his bride and a shipload of relatives, friends and reporters from America.