The Chanute times., 1897-07-16
KANSAS ITEMS oFaNrEREsT.

The ready-made clothing men anc
the merchant tailors are bucking one
another in Harper.
The Attica Exchange bank has
&,l3Q51 in individual deposits, with
total resources of $40, ,77477a A VA
Kansas hasn't had a single tornado
yet this year, but we are fearfully long
on hail storms and meteors.
IN return for early closing the clerks
of the grocery stores of Wellington re-
Gently entertained their employees
Fifty cars of cattle. and hogs were
shipped from CawlefGity in the moneh
of June, beating the record formany
years.
The Harper State bank has S43,046,
ca in individual deposits, Sl4, ,936.6s in
time certificates and total resources of
$s6, 335.2S.
A Newton merchant has'organi7ed
baseball club ON the side and is now
looking for some one to come up and
be slaughtered.
A Harvey county man started in in
Kansas by losing So, 600 in cattlex Now
he won't look at SO mueh as avery
small Jersey cali. .,..-,, %A
In advertisements there is really d
crying need for phrase synonymous
and less monotonous than Look over
the following prices"
The last note has been sounded in
the Eiy-WalIIer fire sale in Southern
Kansas, but it did not become entirely
inaudable until last week.
The shoe men at Wellington are
Dragging over the fact that TIE best:
dressed girl in the Fourth of 1uiy par
ade there wore green SlIOess--s-----
A barber at Attica has this humQreue'
advertisement. "Since there is no pro-
lection on WOOL have. a right to cut
mems and boys hair fer-l5 tents.' -
NJ, Well and. Horpes Ross, enterpris-
ing business men of Burr Oak, Fare
about to commence the erection of two
substantial stone and brick business
buildings. ;lj5. 0'.'@ } 81.
The j. V. Brinkman Companyis bank
at Great Bend has $62- 2G9, Q5r in ,ipdii7,
vidual Sdeposfts,s se5, ga. So III tithe cers
tifcates ard its total resources stands
at $1s7. 7S5. ID
The implement men of Southern
Kansas haze been doing. an immense
businessstilis spring, but have, received
little notice from tue newspapers AS
a rule thEYao not advertise,
The ftfilage of Btirdstte, twenty
miles west of Larned,s sfsSiR state of
intense excitement over the finding Of
the dead body of Mrs. Phillips on the
the prairie ten miles from home
sLtE:u.] . . y; q. g. =; ..
State Architect Leschcr says an ex
peztditure OF $pO will be necessary to
repair the damage at the state normal
school, art Hrnpet.ia; -oeeasioned by the
settling of the foundation under the
west 'wing'of the main building. Al
though Mr.. Lescher does not discuss
the proposition it is clearly another
case In which the contractors have
taken advantage OF the state in the
construction of buildings. The foun-
dation is ,crpm bling permitting the
entire wall to settle and placing the
building in great danger, were. the diff,
fculty not promptly !ovetcohe: :. Mr.
Lescher will put iron rods through the
wall and make. other necessary repairs;
for thecsafety of the building. Work.
will beicommencedl soon. E's . . " y
Cnly few years ago The people of
Logan expended several hundred dol
lars in extermina ting the Russian this
tie, which thre4tened to,take the coqn;
try. The pest is again making great
headway. In several places within the
city limits can be seen patches, which
should be destroyed. without delay. ,,.-...
( Silsbee & SCOTS advertisement, y for
the Fourth at Hutchinson consisted of
this chunk of wisdom: Don't let 'al6
your patriotism go off in smoke. The
spread eagle is all right, bpta good
spread on the table is betteR1 "a g
Farmers in the western part of Bar
ton county, especially abonf ,Phwhee
Rock, are complaining of grasshoppers,
which have appeared in large numbers
in the last ten, days 1t is sai6bJ that
considerable. corn damage has been
done, several whole fields having been
ruined.
! An Ellsworth man has purchased
the gasoline engine used at the state
irrigation plant at Goodland the past
year. the price being $3.50. Itis'a'10--
horse power engine, and, although a
second hand one, is very cheap.
The town of Chanate. was named
after Octave Chanute,-tfie -enain ineer IN
charge of construction onstlre old ~ L.