The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-07-09
Local News.

Get ready for the Neosho count,
fair.
A number Of picnics were reported
Monday.
Miss Pearl Griffin spent the fourth
at Pittsburg.
Patronize Chanutes merchants, il
will pay you.
Mrs Boner is visiting relatives neal
Galesburg this week
Mrs. Murray OF Ottawa is in town
visiting Mrs. w. X. Miller.
Mrs. B. D. Biownell is visiting rela-
Wives in Commanche, Iowa
)~Judge Stillwell Grated at the Ere
4 donia celebration last Saturday.
S. c. Hutchinson caught 2Olb cat
fish at the Austin dam Monday.
Mrs Joe McCrary and daughter
are visiting relatives in Emporia.
Mrs. E. j. Mcclure returned Satur-
4 day from her visit with friends at
Rest.
Miss Mabel Bisby of White City,
Kan, is here visiting Miss Lora
Frantz.
Mr.. A. j. Williams, of LaHarpe is
visiting his sister, Mrs. Geo. Carroll
of this city.
George Lindsay will have .his bust
ness rooms on west fouth street COM
pleted soon.
Mrs. r, G. Rawlings is entertaining
Mrs. Crosby, son and daughter from
Kansas City.
Robt Barley returned Monday from
New York, Bob says Kansas is good
enough for him.
Fred Nash is laying off this week
and Fl. T. Ashford is filling his place
in the TINES office.
Mrs. Stoddard and children are here
from Ohio visiting her brother Mr..
N, w. Henry and family
Mrs. Arthur Doyle and son, return
ed, last Friday from an extended visit
TO Indianapolis and Chicago.
Mrs Lydia Toms and son Emil, re-
turned Monday, from an extended
. visit with relatives in Missouri.
Miss Olive Lowe visited Mrs. r. J.
Barley the first of the week She
was on her way to Ottawa from Par
sons.
Mr.. Hammond and Miss Hammond
Of Columbus, Ohio, are visiting Mr.
Geo. H. Hammond and family on Main
Street,
Miss Birdie Young left last Satur-
day for Colorado Springs, Col, Her
many friends here regret to loose her
from their midst.
Messages from Misses Anna Wilder
and Myrtle McCune, state that they
reached their destination in Califor-
MIA without any mlShaps
This would be good weather for
special session of the legislature
Wonder why the reform popers keep
so mum about the extra session mat.
ter.
John Wolever of Fredonia, who is
playing ball in the Texas League this
year is at home to spend the fourth
He passed through town Tuesday en-
route for Junction City where he will
help the ]. c. boys with few games.
When the gas pipes were laid, the
dirt was scraped in the bitches just
in "any old way" consequently the
drainage of the city has been consid-
erably impaired; the water has wash
ed the loose dirt up in piles making |
a dam and consequently in some
places the water has been forced to
run across the road and in this way
some ravines have been made in the
streets. The parties who laid the pipes |
should be compelled to go over their
workwith road grader and put
these streets in shape.
There was a great deal Of drunken
ness on our streets Monday evening
and the shooting of fire crackers and !
revolvers lasted far into the night. !
If Chanute has no officers whose du-
ties are to preserve the peace and put
bullies and drunken sots of the streets,
tits high time she should procure some.
If the city is to be turned over to
tin horn thugs who gather in knots
and prevent respectable people from
enjoying the freedom of the side
walks, it is high time to let them
know it so that they may stay off the
streets.
DR.. Johannes Rudbeck has conclud-
ed to remove to Shaw to locate for
the purpose of continuing the practice
of medicine. Mr.. Rudbeck will put
in nice clean, new stock Of drugs,