INDIANOLA  , a

city and the county-seat of Warren county, Iowa, U.S.A., about 18 m . S. by E. of Des Moines . Pop . (189o) 2254; (1900) 3261; (1905) 3396; (1910) 3283 . It is served by the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy and the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railways . Indianola is the seat of Simpson College (coeducational, Methodist Episcopal, 1867), with a college of liberal arts, an academy, a school of education, a school of business, a school of shorthand and typewriting, a conservatory of music, a school of oratory, a school of art and a military academy . In 1908 the college had 32 instructors and 905 students . The city lies in a rich farming region, and has a considerable trade in butter and eggs, vegetables and fruits, and in coal, lumber and live stock from the surrounding country . Indianola was laid out and was selected as the county-seat in 1849, and building began in the following year; it was incorporated as a town in 1864, and was chartered as a city of the second class in 1884 .