The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-07-02
KANSAS ITEMS OFINTEREsT

the state treasury last week.
Oberlin people gave up 500 to a mu-
steal director for weeks drill.
The usual number of engagements
will follow the Winfield Chautauqua.
1t is a legal holiday and all the stores
close at Stafford when the base ball
club plays.
There will be five Fourth of July
celebrations IN Mcpherson county all
ON the Sd.
The report sent out from Finney
county regarding the big cherry crop
is a bouncer.
Wanted Agents Best work Good
commissions. Kansas Steam Laundry,
Wichita, Kansas.
The date fixed upon for the Parsons
old soldiers reunion is from the Goth
to the 95th of September.
The Crescent Produce company,
which has hitherto been located at
Peabody, has moved to Newton.
The city council of Phillipsburg has
decided to quit licensing hop tea
places and the boys are going dry.
The Wichita girls who attended the
Chautauqua Assembly, say chiggers
and shirt waists are mean combina-
ton.
AT Atchison John J. Ingalls, has APP
peared in new linen suit and when
he gets between you and the sun he
looks like an X ray exhibition.
Ellsworth will celebrate the 12lst
anniversary of American independence
In style that will make the continen-
tai fathers feel proud if they knew it.
In his lecture at Topeka entitled
"From the Ball Room to He'll" Pastor
Sims of Wichita said: ''Why, if a hair
Drained, silly mimicliing, foolish,
sleek. well-groomed, dancing master
or any other dancing man, should
waltz around the ball room with my
wife, | would hunt him up the next
morning and kick him around the pub
lie square if | could do it. If | couldn't
do it, would hire the biggest darlley
in town to do it for ne. 1t would be
done"
The Mcpherson Republican says: "a
story is told of Russian in this coun-
try who was engaged to marry his
cousin. He counseled with friend
about the probable expense and was
told that he could nor marry her in
this state. He then asked how much
would be the expense of a trip to Ne
cost him over $40. "Och," exclaimed
the disappointed would-be bridegroom,
that is too much cost. There is anoth-
err girl down there can get, and
will 1t don't make much difference,
nohow.'"
The Judge of the district court and
county attorney inspected the Sumner
county jail and have made their report
to the commissioners. Among other
things they give list of the fare fur
nished 1t is as follows: For break
fast, fried salt meat of some kind, po-
tatoes and frequently eggs, good bread.
molasses, good coffee, oatmeal almost
every morning, and gravy when want
ed. For dinner, boiled beef, potatoes,
or if not potatoes, beans gravy, coffee,
sometimes cabbage, molasses and
bread. The only thing they desired
particularly that they did not have
was fruit Of some sort.
A Marion citizen has invented nov
el windmill. 1t consists of a lot OF
gal vanized iron Stats arranged in up
right cylinder form, working on ball
bearings, with weights suspended to
maintain the mills equilibrium. Be
meath the mill is circular platform
with numerous tin horses and jockeys
astride, all Enthusiastically painted
When the mill is in motion these fig
ures chase each other around the trace
course" while above them in q judge
stand lot of tin judges watch the con
test.
A wife recently returned home Il
Brown county after a long absence
and found installed as mistress of he
home a negro woman who had VOL
the affections of her husband by taking
care of her children. The husband ad
vised her to apply for bill of divorce
saving that she had sufficient reason
for doing so. He then left the count.
with the colored woman. A few day
afterwards she drove to town, an
when she came back her children wer
rone She can find no trace of colore,
woman, husband or children.
The same muchly-married man stor
that has just gone the rounds of tn
press made the circuit four years age
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