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The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-03-26
Stark.

Monday, March %. The little girls
gave a surprise party on frankie Coo1s
Monday evening after school. They
bought her a nice ring, by which to
remember the Stark girls.
John McCray is workingin lola.
j. f. Cooper is still in Kansas City.
w. o. Harper was at Kimball Tues
day,
Mr.. Paulstring was in town Satur-
day.
Grant Murray is the father of anoth-
er girl.
j. H. Bundy will soon have his store
up on the corner.
Fred Mills, from Porterville, was in
town Monday night.
Leila Garrett has returned home to
keep house for her father
Henry Masters will move TO Kimball
soon, as he has work there.
Seventeen scholars took the town
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-03-26
Rest.

Wednesday March %, 1o97.-Miss
Alice Maxwell of Kansas City was viSi-
ting in Rest Friday.
Tom Green lost horse last week.
Lots of news about the prize fight.
Lutte Rails is trading in Rest now.
Mr.. Venard is going to have sale
the 9th,
John Losey is cutting hedge for Mr..
McFadden.
Our hardware merchant sold har-
row Friday.
Miss Emma Matagan was in Rest
Friday calling.
+ ,Stafford's store at Altoona burnt up
Monday night.
Clarence and Roy Maxwell are break
ing mules at present.
l.. l.. Hughes is running the hard
ware store. A. A. Rowan is out.
Mr.. Frank Coaw and wife went tC
Chanute Saturday. He reports agood
time.
Ed Blackwood of Buffalo came over
to Rest Wednesday and stalled his
team when coming into town.
Mr.. Chas. Shafer of Fredonia, travel
ling salesman for LYnn's Grocery Co.,
was in Rest selling goods Saturday.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-03-26
Rural,

Monday March %, 1S97.-Wily
Byers has rented and moved on the
Hatchway farm this last week We
welcome Mr.. Byers to this vicinity.
Ed Neighart was visiting friends at
Rural Sunday last.
Some farmers are now beginning tC
pillow, although the ground is yet very
wet.
j. f. Pullen who has been sick for
several weeks we learn is slowly re-
covering.
Mr.. Golf led the neighborhood 10y
planting potatoes and making garden
last week.
Several parties have already been
fishing. The bites were plentiful bat
the catch very small.
Manuel and Pet Bell have been Trim
ming hedge and grove on the farm of
II. B. Bell, making it look fully fifty
times better.
Mrs. George Ray, Mrs, Frank Clark
and Mrs. Matte Popping attended a
quilting bee at j. II. Mahaffey's last
Friday, reportinga joyial time, We
would have relished the dinner you
bet.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-03-26
ThaVAr.


wednesday March "a, 1S91.-Chas.
Sexton came ND from Neodesha last
Sunday and paid Thayer his semi
monthly visit.
Chas. Evans shocking after business
interests in Kansas City thi S week.
Jabob Evans and wife of Seyery are
visiting their son Chas. here this week.
Major e. l.. Barns has been on the
81 ok list for several days this week ana
last.
j. NJ. Dunsmore came in from Tope-
ka SUNDAY morning having completed
his labors there;he will now remain at
home.
Geo. GelwiX went to Kansas Oh ty
Monday night, while there he expects
to purchase car load of seed and eat
ing potatoes.
We noticed Bert Lyle of Galesburg
on our streets several days last week.
He has been visiting his sister Mrs
Chas. Ferguson.
The donation surprise party which
the members of the Thaysr Nj: H.
church gave their pastor and wife Rev
and Mrs. j. b. McNary last Tuesday
night, proved to be success in every
respect.
Fred Thomas and Miss Lucy BurriS
of Chanute were calling on friends IN
Thayer last Sunday afternoon ano
evening. They were down on some
business connected with the Epwortt
League.
1t has been reported that one o.
Thayer's young men enjoyed a pleas
ant walk from carlton one night this
week. We were unable learn who II
was, or even what his business was NJ
there. The horse and cart was all right
when found.
A non-partisan "citizens" ticket wa:
nominated at the opera house last
Monday night to be voted upon at the
city election April 5th as follows: May
or. Geo. w. Gelwix; Clerk, j. M. Duns-
more; Marshal, NJ. l.. Ogg; Police
Judge ]. f. Long; Councilman, d. &.
Mckay, l.. X. Crandall, d. NJ. Com
mons. A. Stapleton and Chas. Eagles.
This is an excellent ticket and we nave
no doubt it will be elected.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-03-26
Villas.

Wednesday March %, 1S97.-The
cold wave came Sunday night unex-
| pected.
Candidates are springing up with
the grass.
Mayor Chatlin is among our sick list
this week.
Some fax is being marketed at Villas
this week,
j. Rustdnier is bailing hay for Lou
Brichler this week.
Jap Coats mother visited him over
Sunday and Monday.
p. Ware is suffering very much
from a cancer on his face.
Bert Cornell will teach spring term
of school in the Shirley district.
f. j. Cooper of Dildine, Kans. is visi-
ting friends at Seyery this week.
Chas. Smith is now engaged in as
sessing the property of this township.
Bill Weeks, the tinner,is putting tin
spouting on L. Mathews house today.
Sc 5eral of our farmers are cleaning
their flax seed this week preparatory
for sowing.
Rev. A. O. Young will preach at the
Peach Grove school house next Sunday
at O'Clock.
Miss Emma Torsell died the 10Th
inst, after an illness lasting many
years. She was about 26 yeras old.
N. w. Baker, agent for the Baker
Medicine Co., is making his semi-an-
nual trip through this section this
week.
Lon Postlethwaite is in our locality
this week, returning the leases to the
farmers who leased their land to the
Geiser Oil Company.
The Sunday school of this township
will assemble in convention at the
Con gregation church next Sunday at
10 O'clock a good program has been
arranged.
Alfred and Charley Carlberg have
sent their father a ticket of transpor-
tation from Sweden to Chanute. They
expect their father to arrive here
about the Goth Of April.
DR.. Theilen of Iowa was in our city
Yesterday. The Doctor has decided to
locate here in a few weeks. DR.. Thel-
len comes here highly recommended, and
we earnestly hope lie will prove mas
ter of his profession. Thus another en-
terprise is added to our city.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-03-26
Urhana.

Tuesday, March %, DIR. Neeley was
at Parsons last Saturday attending
the funeral of his uncle, James Neeley
who died at the residence of his
daughter in Pratt Center, Kansas, on
the 18th inst. The remains were tax
en- to Parsons for burial. Deceased
was 70 years old, and was well known
here, having been in the grain bust
ness at this point fourteen years ago,
and made many friends while here.
Cool with snow tlurrieS today.
DR.. Medley was at Parsons Sunday.
Will Finn went duck hunting to-
day.
Uncle Dave Yockey was in town Sat
urday.
w. O. Howke has a new arrival at
his house. 1t is girl.
Mr.. Bates, who traded for the Tom
Morrison farm, moved in last week,
The Hes boys planted potatoes yes
terday. Frank Carson also planted
potatoes yesterday.
Rev. Coleburt, Of Indian Territory,
was visiting at Mr.. Wright's last week
week, and preached at the U.B.church
on the 18th in the evening.
1t is surprising what a ''wee bit of
a thing" can accomplish. Sick head
ache, constipation, dyspepsia, sour
stomach, dizziness, are quickly ban
ished by DeWitt's Little EARLY Risers
Small pill. Safe pill, Best pill
Boschert & Williams.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-03-26
shin examination SaturdaY

ship examination Saturday.
Rev. III. III. Ashbaugh will be the
preacher for the coming year.
Mr.. Barnett is thinking OF moving
to Leanna If the mail route changes.
Mrs. Anna II. Sailors, of Chanute,
was in town Saturday visiting rela-
tiyes.
A. r. Coverdale who has been rail
reading in Parsons, has returned home
to farm.
We will have new minister for the
coming year We were sorry to make
the change.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-03-26

They are so small that the most sem
sitive persons take them, they are 50 eff
feCtive that the most obstinate cases of
constipation, headache and torpidllve
yield to them. That is the way De-
Wits Little Early Riscrs are known
as the famous ii,jle pills. -Boschert y
Williams.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-03-26

e. e. Turner of Compton, Mo-,
writes us that after suffering from
piles for seventeen years, he complete
ly cured them by using three boxes OF
DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salye. 1t cures
eczema and severe skin diseases. -
BoSchert & Williams.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-03-26

Many cases Of "Grlppe" have lately
been cured by One Minute Cough Cure,
This prepared seems especially adap-
ted to the cure Of this disease. 1t acts
quickly, thus preventing serious com
plications and bad effects in which
this disease often leaves the patient.
--Doschert 81 Williams.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1897-01-06
OFFERED A souhRE GAME.
How a Young Lawyer Collected Bills From
Chicago Gamblers.

How a Young Lawyer Collected Bills From
Chicago Gamblers.
A young attorney iast starting out in
his profession in Chicago WAS mis-
stoned to collect Il number Of bills by q
prominent tailor of the town. All these
accounts were against gamblers Some
of them had been sued on and judg-
ment had been obtained. These judg-
ments, however, had not been collected.
A liberal percentage was offered tho
lawyer if he could succeed in collecting
any Of them. The attorney had his own
notion RS TO how to 20 to wo k On these
accounts and listened to the %tailor's adj
vice about "going for them hot" with a
duhions smile.
He selected a bill Of SIS for one suit
Of clothes against a quite noted knight
ct the green cloth and proceeded to try
his plan. Calling on this man, he told
him that he had Lot come to threaten
him with a lawsuit or to bluff him; that
if the bill was correct he would call at
any time the debtor would designate
for Il part or the whole of the bill; that
if the debtor would say he would not
pay the bill the lawyer would not call
again; that all he asked was Il square
deal; that be would call only when the
debtor made an appointment to pay
money, as he did not propose to inaugu-
rate a system of Cumming"
The gambler heard him through with
a perfectly impressive face and then said:
"That's fair. The other collectors didn't
know their business. They tried to bluff
me, and they 'dunned' me. Your game
is a square one, and I'll give it a whirl.
Here is my card Call Tuesday, and l
will pay you half. Have you got any
more bills against the boys?'
On being told of the other accounts
he sat down, took a dozen of his cards,
wrote across them 20. K.," and said to
the attorney, bland one of these to each
man you go to, tell him your game and
you will get your money"
The lawyer did SO. In not one single
instance was a bill repudiated, and in
every case all appointments ana agree
ment to pay were kept with scrupulous
fidelity. Every account was finally paid
to the last penny, and the tailor won
dered at the collection of these. to him,
desperate accounts. - San Francisco
Chronicle,
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1897-01-06
Not What He Needed.

Sho had undertaken to help him in
his literary labors.
''Here is something that you really
ought to read, she said, looking up
from the magazine she had hastily been
looking through.
What is it?' no asked.
IA long article about how to write
short Stories, she answered.
"Throw it awayl' he cried, and She
thought she detected a trace of some
thing like agony III his voice. 1--WE
written that kind of stuff myself. An!
II can do it. Just keep your eye opel
for something that tells how TO get short
stories accented and you may be able
to help me. "-Chicago Post.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1897-01-06
He Wnntcd II Cheaper.

1t was one OF those restaurants where
they charge according to he service, and
you can get anything III the line of scrv-
ice that you want from IA private dining
room to a cafeteria help yourself coun.
ter. And the men in search Of some
thing to eat had wandered in among the
private dining ROOMS on the second floor.
After be had settled himself comfort
ably in his chair and had secured the
attention of a walter he glanced at tho
bill of fare, and the next minute he
Strengthened up as if he had received an
electric shock.
Roast beef, As centsl" he exclaimed.
do you serve q whole COW for an order
here?"
The waiter said that was the regular
price.
well, when I want to be robbed"
returned the man, 'Ill go on and hire
q thug to do it. Just now I'm only aft
er lunch, and didn't think TO bring my
checkbook along"
The waiter politely suggested that the
prices were not quite SO high Gil the first
floor, where the service was u little less
perfect,
The patron declared that he didn't care
whether the service was good or bad, as
he never ate it. and then he started for
the first floor.
"Roast beef. 80 cents" he said. look
ing at "a bill of fare before taking his
seat. "That s better. I've come down
10 cents worth of stairs"
Then it was that a brilliant idea &C.
CURED to him, and he beckoned 10 the
head waited.
Whats in the basement?" he asked.
"Our cafeteria" was the reply.
"I1ow much is roast beef down there?'
Twenty cents"
He started for the basement, but stop
ped.
Say" he said, "if you've got a sub
cellar I'd like to eat there. '-Chicago
Post.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1897-01-06
Notice 10 Creditors.

ESTATE or EN'uT LYTLE DECREASED
Y No,ico j. hrr, ii given by toe uud :rslgu,,
rNyncutor, Of the last will and tcsiafn NJ OF
.r1n,mit Iytte. dec rs Il. 10 the creditors uf ana
ali t,rrSo,s naviug cluims against the said de
ceDScd, TO exhibit then. With TIE necessary
vouchers. Within four months after the hlst
nnblication Of this notice to the said Executor
at In resid nee OF Charles KaiS nr, In Clurei ii
County. Nevada. the sam being the plac" Tor
me transaction of the business OF salc estate
III CHARLES KAISER,
rv,cutor Of the last viii and AMI testament
Of eai1 deceased.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1897-01-06

San Francisco Weekly
Papers, and the DISPATCH,
by mail, at CLUB RATES
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1897-01-06
MILLIONS OF
A Man of Figures Makes Some Calcula-
tiOns on the Subject.

A Man of Figures Makes Some Calcula-
lions on the Subject.
We live i'll al ago of buttons. The
people CT the British isles unbutton
400, GOA, 900 buttons every night when
they prepare fer led, and next morning
rebutton the same number, unless a few
millions have been lost in the strug-
gle, says an English writer.
The world has become so accustomed
to bdttons that it has forgotten that
there was ever a time when buttons
were unknown. 1t is safe TO say that 90
out Of 100, if asked to name the date of
the first bnttcn, would anticipate the
actual date ny several centuries. In tho
fourteenth century there were buttons,
but no buttnnboles. They were purely
ornamental, lacking bu,tonholes, and
the quesi,on Voluntarily arises how Cur
ancestors managed to keep respectfully
covered.
Two hundred years ago there were
not as many buttons in the word as
could be found III Il small old clothes
shop today, and even those were made
BY hand. 1t Was not until l745 that
any consid rablo marufactory was es-
tablished. Ia that year the famous soho
works were opened at Birmingham,
where steel buttons were made of such
beauty and finish as to command price
of e140 a gross, or 81 apiece.
In these modern days we are apt to
boast that this is an age Of paper, point
ing ut the same time to paper wheels,
paper boots, paper carpets aud the
thousand and one novel uses made OF
this material us proof of our assertion.
1t is IL curious fact that as far back as
1884 we iiLd mo:4tion OF paper buttons.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1897-01-06

Bny your fencing, pine or redwood
shingles, clear and common lumberio Of
all sizes of Foulks and lowning, Verdi
ar Reno. The best mountain pine and
low prices. Common ll.nlher OH the cars
al Verdi at $40 pei thousand.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1897-01-06
EUaTlNS notice.

Hunters will please not go into the
ieid- on the Italian ranch nea Jah'
ilalnillon's old place. or on the HI
ranch, to shoot, AS il,e Wild cattle hrra,
out and eau e me much trouble and eA.
ptTlSe.
j.. OLINGHousF.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1897-01-06
NEWSY and BUSINESS ITEMS.
GOOD

Frank Hammond has 300 acres Of fine
pasture az the Felinagle ranch and will
pas TIRE cattle and horses ior 81 u head
per month.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1897-01-06
Notice to Hunters.

| hereby notify all hunters not to
irerpass upon my premises. lh"s'
who do not heed this notice will be
prosecuted. 7. q. HERMAN
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1897-01-06
70 Rent.

A dwelling house OF live rooms. Sit
ON River street. Rent, ten dol
lars per month. Inquire Mt Postol1ice.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-12-28
FACTORIES NEAR THE COTTON
FIELD.

In the recent convention OF cotton grow
ers 40 Memphis 1t was declared to be an
object of the organization Of the cotton
growers into National association to pro-
mote the building OF cotton factories near
the cotton fields, so that the farmer may
receive the largest returns from each an
nual crop and that the home market may
be built up for all other farm products"
II the organization could accomplish
only this object 10 would be we'll repaid for
all the time and money expended One
Southern paper, the New Orleans States.
thinks that the scheme IS somewhat I'M
practical because 10 would require the co.
operation OF large outside capital, which
could not be easily secured. As a matter
OF fact, In every rich cotton producing sec
lion III the South there Is sufficient home
capital practically Idle that could and
ought TO be profijably employed In the
erection of cotton factorles-not great mills.
possibly, at first. but establishments OF
capacity TO cons ne the Immediately sur
rounding product. This policy has been
pursued in the Carolinas with admirable
success. IL is easier to get home money
into such enterprises than TO secure outside
capital. II only the proper effort is made
and cooperation promised by the planters.
The states says he main trouble 10 the
cotton situation 10 the farmer, from year
TO year. consists in the great cost OF hand
ling for foreign export. The States says
too many people have been making big
wages and growing rich on the products
OF cotton and the farmoS and planter have
been supporting them ali" The solution
OF the problem of the cost OF handling is to
create local factory demand and IL the
farmer and planter must support any great
nnmber of people let the hitter be home
psopie, who in turn viii spend their big
wages In purchasing he other products
OF the farms In their vicinity
In word. Southern communities ought
to get all the profits out OF cotton from the
planning to The sale OF the manufactured
goods, and thus keep tho immense sums
that arc annually devoted to handling cot =
4 ton IN ita various stages. at homo. The
scheme Is one that should meet with
hearty approval and practical promotion by
the Southern planters and business men,
/ for there are millions IA It,"
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-12-28
SOME rosTsCRIrrs.

The highest recorded price for an orchid
In London is 300 gulneas.
The Austrian federation convention has
rejected proviso favoring female suffrage
The Chicago Tammany society which
WAS Incorporated on January u, 1896, now
numbers 5000 braves.
At Tangent, One, steam plow has been
devised which the inventor thinks will
pillow fifteen acres a day.
British landlords are said to own 20
100000 acres OF land in this country, an
area larger than that OF Ireland.
After letting a cut finger so uncared for
for a couple of days, a Calais, VT, man had
TO have 1t amputaJed. and then fell Vic
tim to tetanus.
Mrs j. +. Hostetter of suffolk Va. IVES
surprised recently 10 find night blooming
cereus flower wide open Ut l0:30 O'Clock
in the morning.
The annual expenditures of the SWISS
for wine, beer elder and brandy are IT'S
100000 francs, or about six times as much
as Is spent on the army.
Skinned milk Is now turned into cham
payne by an electric process, aud the
beveraSe Is clear. beady and delicious In
laNor, though non alcoholic.
An Iowa husband and wife were admitted
10 an insane asylum at Mt, Pleasant at the
same time. II was the FIRST case of the
Kind In the history of the asylum.
Tho London Standard saws the Scottish
race is the most ciannish, the most uhiqui-
tous. the most pertinacious and the most
instinctiveiy coherent In the world.
The Japanese are kind to animals and
hold them in honor. Among the monu-
ments erected to commemorate the war in
China Is one TO the horses that fell during
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-12-28
HOUSTON, TUESDAY, DEC. ~, 1907
i. TEN PAGES TODAY.
CHINESE sEEkING NATuRALIzA-
TION.

It will surprise many people in this
ment is on foot to secure from congress
law authorizing the naturalization OF
"Americanizod Chinese" It will DO no
less surprise to learn that there are large
numbers OF these "Celestials' that have
actually become "Amerlcanlzed.
The great objection TO these Chinese
residents in America has been the assumed
fact that they never became other than
orleutals in the midst of our civilization
that they never became amagnmated with
the surrounding population. but rather in
troduceG their own peculiar aud object
ionable customs md manners into The
heart OF our cities and we're here only to
under-bid native labor until such time
as they were able financially to return 10
China without fear of the future. All other
nationalitics can be thrown MO the great
American hopper and be worked over. II
is possible 10 "Americanlze' the children.
OF least Of any other race In the United
States, with the single exception Of the
Chinese.
II now appears, however that even
portion OF the Chinese population is sus-
ceptble 10 the influences OF American
civilization, Tho Chinese equal league"
OF 10000 members out Of the 100000 CHINA
men In the United States, has formulated
memorial to congress stating that there
are In this country at the present time
about 5000 Chinese who have wives and
ch'lden with them, whose children attend
the public schools and whose families
"assmilate with tho reputable society az
the locality Of their residence The wive,
are mostly Chinese. hut some ara American
Irish. German, Italian and Scandinavian.
These Chinese have all discarded the
queue, thus Terminating their allegiance In
tha emperor OF China The memorial saws
mat the people for whom naturalization is
asked are In every sense American bus
mess men, with no wage-cutters, nor Grim,
irals. nor drones among them.
So long as we are admitting the iiiternte
and most vicious classes Of Europeans. VIII,
never learn word of English. who know
nothing of our laws and who do not "as.
simulate with our society'' any more thar
the ordinary Celestial, to the rights ant
privileges Of full Iledged citizenship. /,
VIII be rather difficult to find good cx.
cusc for disrcgarding this appeal of tn,
Americanized Chinese" OF course tba
applicant ought to he able to show that he
has become an American citizen In fact
by cutting loose from the queue and hi,
Oriental practices and dissertations III,
memorial in question opens up an interest
ing Issue once more. as well as arordu.
us new light on the Chinese in America