The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-02-05

married at Independence recently.
/ There is to be a revival at EmPoria
as soon as the renearsals for the min
strel show is over.
The state school fund has IS, 900, 900
invested in county, township and
school district bonds.
Tho Salvation Army is turning its
heavy guns on one of the enemy's
strongholds, Newton.
The Marquette mills have put in a
department devoted TO the grinding OF
kaffir corn into flour.
Chanute is preparing to give the G..
A. r. and kindred good time at the
encampment in April.
A span of big mules at Garden City
sold for 500. The owner declared that
he was giving them away.
There is one place in the state hard
err to fill than the governorship of Kan
sas. That is the Chieftancy of Police
at Kansas City.
The appellate court has decided that
the register of deeds can only charge
cents for each renewal affidavit to a
chattle mortgage.
Burlington has compromised with
the holders of the waterworks bonds
and the cruel war which has been rag
ing for many years is over.
One of the most common advertise
ments in Kansas papers is for lost
lady's purse containing a "small
amount of money" 1t is always small.
Another effort towards consolidation
in western Kansas counties appears in
Garden City, where the Episcopalians
are holding services in the Presbyter-
ian church.
When the Kansas newspaper begins
- talk the cutting down of salaries the
politicians all come to see the editor
and say: "We are with you. Let us
begin on the county printing"
The school children at Leoti will de-
bate the question, Resolved, That the
climate of Kansas is the best in the
world" Since the late blizzard it is
proba BILE that the negative will come
out victorious.
Kansas has an ideal husband He
works at night and cooks the family
breakfast. After eating he goes to bed
where he stays till o'clock At s his
wife returns from the High Five club
and prepares supper
The western Kansas girl is practical
if she is anything. The other night
after Ford county youth had passion
ately kissed his companion six times in
succession he paused to catch his
breath and tenderly inquired if she
loved him. Young man" said the
girl as she rolled her gum into wad
preparatory to sticking it under the
table, "do you think Pm enduring all
this for my health?"
A Sumner county man fed for ty-four
common steers III days. He weighed
them in at an average of OIL pounds.
He sold them the other day when they
weighed l ,456 per head. That makes
gain of five pounds a day for the en-
tire time they were fed, which is an
unusually large gain. His plan of feed
ing is as follows: He first turned them
into a corn field when the corn was in
hard roasting ear. After the corn be-
gan to get too hard for easy eating he
put the cattle in the corral and fed
them on soft corn grown on stubble
land after the wheat was harvested.
After this they were fed on hard corn.
They were fed alfalfa with corn after
they were taken out of the corn field.
They were in fine order when sold and
deceived all who guessed on their
weight.
An Atchison man who makes his
home at boarding house is liable to
lose his job. He is always late to work
because the women boarders ask him
to poke their sleeves in their coats
every morning.
A blind piano tuner named Metcalf
often visits southern Kansas. When
Metcalf was boy some one brought a
shikepoll1 into the school room in a
box with Stats across the top. Metcalf
stopped to look at the bird and it peck
ed one eye out. The sight of the other
soon followed.
The Burlington company is arrang-
ing to conduct a number of model
farms at different points on its line
this summer. The railroads are be-
coming better. The Santa Fe is lately
taking an interest in the towns
reaches, and its officers are calling
meetings with the business men, to
discuss their needs. The idea is an
excellent one; we have often wondered
that the railroad officials did not be-