The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-04-09

Topeka, Leavenworth and Wichita
want the next state soldiers reunion.
The per capita of chicken in chicken
pie is said to be greater in Methodist
/ suppers in Lyons than anywhere else.
| Alfred Anderson of Kiowa with two
grey hounds caught seventy-eight rab-
bits in December, January and Febru-
airy.
The only real plutocrat in Great
Bend is a girl who has eleven propo-
sails of marriage since the first of the
year.
No nominations for city officers were
| fled at Coolidge and the old ones will
hold over. And remember this is IN
Kansas.
There is one Thought that every Kan
sas editor shoots at his readers annu-
ally at the top of the column-"Spring
is here"
| The Newton Kansan has come out in
| favor of few divorce marches as the
wedding march business has been over
done slightly.
The depths of human misery are
reached at Effingham where there is
young man so bowlegged that his girl
can't sit in his lap
To read the weekly newspapers it
would seem that about every other
man in Southern Kansas was thrown
from his buggy last week.
Things have changed about some in
recent years. The other day western
Kansas man received from Kansas City
friends present of live deer.
Tom Anderson of Topeka studied the
nocturnal flying-machine the other
night and declared it was merely Ven
us which is now an evening star
A st. Louis man offered to put in an
electric light system at Wellington for
a franchise of twenty years and con-
tract to light the streets for five years.
The city council knocked out the fran
chise.
A paper in Central Kansas apologies
for saying that Mr.. Bings, a prominent
citizen was slightly intoxicated when
he fell off train. The paper says it
was in error-that Mr.. Bings was
plumb full
People living in the towns on the
Rock Island have already commenced
calling that road the butter egg and
poultry route. The Kansas Creamery
company, with headquarters at Tope-
ka, having established a creamery Mt
Belleville, are now erecting sllmming
or separating stations at several points
both east and west of Bellcville. One
has recently been completed in Sean
dia, and another at Lebanon, with
good prospects that the farmers and
business men of Smith Center, Ken
sington, Agra, Phillipsburg, Norton,
Almena, Dresden, CORTLAND, Formosa
and other places will subscribe enough
to erect separating stations at all of
them. The milk is to be received at
these stations and the farmers to be
paid the same they would if they had
a churning station. The cream will be
shipped to Belleville and churned, 1t
is understood the Rock Island people
are urging the movement. which is al
ready opening up a great industry
along that system of road through
northern and northwestern Kansas in
the raising of mich cows. With all
these sklmming stations in operation
there can be no question that the Rock
Island will become familiar as the
great produce route. Besides, this
company picks up from one to three
cars of poultry and eggs a week. for
most of the business men in the towns
are engaged in the business industry.
The Rock Island extension through
that section of Kansas has been great
benefit to the whole people.
Tom Ryan, now first assistant secre-
tary of the interior, has held the Office
of county attorney of Shawnee, assist
ant United States attorney of Kansas;
has served in six congresses and has
been ambassador to Mexico.
The new board of managers of the
Hutchinson reformatory are in session
and will probably be for several days
The new board retains L. J. ONcil as
treasurer and w. j. Lingenfelter was
chasen as president. The new member
of the board, b. f. Wallack, is secre-
tary.
An Atchison woman who is shy n
husband assumes all the blame. She
says trinity of evils beset her; Her
husbands bosom friend Ia man who
taught her to like champaign cocktails,
the two-step and n railroad pass.
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