The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-04-30

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editors the other day and is getting it
back in advertising.
Henry Weaver of Greeley tried an
incubator the other day. He got 100
chickens from 200 eggs.
Oklahoma has the cyclone cave fever
bad. Kansas used to have it but found
that the caves do not pay.
The railroad conductors of the coun-
try pass through Kansas on May on
an excursion to California.
The Garden City papers deny that
Bible was given away as prize at
card party there recently.
The young ladies of Garden City are
going to put on an amateur show in
interest of the local cemetery.
Kiowa also saw the airship the other
night, but saw so much of it that no
one believes they saw any of it.
People in covered wagons meet at
Garden City daily going east and west.
Those going west cuss the east and
those going east cuss the west.
A Greeley county man says he woulc
like quarter of section of land on
wheels so he could follow up the rain
clouds and catch the moisture.
Frank Brown of Garnett is down on
one of the states for secretary of the
state. 1t is not probable that Brown
has the time 10 spend on the job.
A Kansas man who saw the late Mrs
Tilton at the time of the Beecher trou-
BILE says that she was the prettiest
woman he ever saw. before or since.
The continual communication Texas
has kept up with Kansas has improved
that state. The term of imprisonment
for horse stealing has been decreased
there.
The butter. poultry and egg business
Of the firm of Vance e. White at Man
kato, is enormous. The firm paid out
in 1896 alone, in round figures $4,000
for live poultry, while not less than
81, 900 month was paid out for dress
ed poultry. In the last month from
the middle of March to April 18th,
they have shipped car load of eggs
day, paying an average OF 1925 a
case There are about 10000 dozen
eggs in car and amounts in found
mum bers to about $3.50 q day.
The old settlers of Jewell county are
already talking up the old settlers re-
union to be held at Jewell City some
time during the summer. Among the
many who will come under the head
of the old Jewell county settlers are
George and Henry Sorick, living near
there. They located on their farms
in the spring of 1870, and have contin-
uously resided there ever since. They
helped to build the old historic Jewell
City fort, which in large measure
protected the early settlers in that Vi
entity from the then frequent Indian
raids. Through all these years they
have never mortgaged their farms.
4At the next meeting of the board of
education of Belleville the question
will come up whether the board will
continue the practice of employing
married women for teachers in the city
schools of Belleyille. This school en-
ploys nine teachers, two male and sew
en- female. Three of the women taach-
ers are married. The vigorous kick OF
employing married women for teach.
ers, and more especially those who
have able bodied husbands who can
make them living, comes from the
unmarried lady teachers, who claim
that as they have prepared themselves
to teach the higher branches of learn
ing in our state colleges they, too, are
more entitled to teach than are those
who are married The next meeting
of the board will be held in May
Cows are worth more than gold
mines.
Ellinwood people are having good
time. Rats are caught in traps and
every evening several are turned loose
for the dogs to chase.
The only department store in West
ern Kansas is at Meade where grocer
les, meat, billiards, pool and soft
drinks are sold at one place.
In some of the Kansas towns accord
ing to papers 1.-THE handsomest millin-
cry display in the city" took place in
four or five different stores.
There is a woman in Florence who
says she likes to wash dishes. Do you
believe it?
c. f. Faulkner, superintendent of
the of the soldiers orphans home at
Atchison, has gone to Minneapolis,
Mimi, to take charge of an orphans
home there.
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