The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-07-23

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siderable corn will yet be grown over
the state.
The Coffeyvlle mills are running
night and day to keep work up with
the orders.
There is considerable thought as to
whether apple jack will be under the
internal revenue department.
A womnn's club at Wellington is
known as 1.-THE Silent Ten" Ana yet
people say there is nothing in name.
The IIugoton boys were defeated by
the Richtield boys ut base ball, but
they won the hearts of the johnson
City girls and don't care.
The city school enumeration Of the
Parsons school has been completed and
shows 2,465 children of school age.
This is good increase over that of
last year.
An Arkansas City merchant AYERS
that he has never seen travelling men
so thick in Kansas as they are now.
The report of the big wheat crop has
| brought them out of the east
| Harvey Horner of Caldwell is riding
new bicycle which by touching a but
ton, changes the gear, the pitch of the
saddle, the contorton of the handle
bars and makes Horners heart throb
with pride.
Dover has new postmaster Alfred
Sage is the successful man. Sage is
one of the Oldest residents of the coun-
ty and has always been a Republican.
He is said to be one of the wealthiest
men in the community.
| A stove merchant doing business
of S35, 900 year tells the Iron Age: 81
candidly believe that my success in adj
vertising is in continually advertising
few special things This stove mer-
chant keeps up the right sort Of fire.
A company of boys, 10 to l6 years of
age, from the farm school of the Chill
dren's Aid society of New York will
arrive in Council Grove, July %, to
find homes among the citizens of Nor
ris county. These children are mostly
orphans.
! The farmers over the state are now
busy threshipg their wheat. Many of
them are building new granaries and
making preparations to hold their
grain for higher market, while some
are hauling it direct to market from
the thresher.
Among the smaller concerns the most
| liberal advertisers in Southern Kansas
are the saltwater men. 1t is said
that a saltwater man can, except dry
goods, be doomed more out of sight by
thought and persistent proclamation
to the people than any other line.
While Mrs George Dunlop, near
Ottawa, was recently engaged in clean
ing fruit cans, she used for the pur-
pose solution of concentrated lye. A
small quantity remained in one can,
and unobserved her little three-year.
old child picked it up to drink from it.
Screams of agony from the child call
ed the mothers attention. The mouth
is frightfully burned and terribly
swollen, making the introduction of
III I,;n inf,,1 n,,1 oxtr nj
difficult.
Two young Stafford county lovers
were out riding recently and met with
an accident which resulted in the
death of the young lady the next day.
While the young man was recklessly
handling 3s-calibre Smith e Wesson,
the contents were accidentally dis
charged, the bullet entering the stom-
ach of his companion. The young
man is the son of Dr. Ruggles, prom
inent physician of Stafford county,
while the young lady YEAS the ls-year-
old daughter of Mr.. Ramsey, promi-
nent Stafford county farmer. 1t was
indeed sad accident and will cause
Young Ruggles life of remorse.
Croquet is not in the regular course
of study, but all the teachers in the
Grant county institute are taking it.
DIR. c. A. Milton has made the first
wheat shipment from Ford county
this season. ThresheTs are busy on
his place, aud he is loading cars at
Wright station for a shipment of 1000
bushels to Syracuse, at So cents bush
ell. He will have about $500 bushels
wheat, averaging 20 bushels or more
to the acre The wheat will grade No.
?, and weighs 60 to 6O19 pounds to the
bushel.
A Hiawatha girl on the Fourth of
July said it was all right. to praise the
men of '76, but as for her she preferred
them about 81.
On July 18th the state board of equal
ization commenced its work for this
year, equalizing the property tax over
the state. The board is composed of