The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-12-10
KAN las ITEMS OF INTEREST.

One of the plutcs of Greenwood coun
~ is soil tiller who this year raise'
1000 bushels OF potatoes and leo
bushels of onions.
An exchange sounds note OF 10.
over what it terms the waning of The
card of thanks custom. But as We
The "wane" is not perceptible to tn
naked eye.
There was a slight hitch in a recen
wedding supper at Holton caused by
two town hoodlums who raided the
nantry and walked off with all the
wedding cakes.
The Santa Claus ads have appeared
in the weekly papers trifle earlier
this season than usual, but the dealers
realize that this is the year for then
to get in their work.
A Kansas man feels like he is get
ting unsteady educated when he can
detect by the music two seconds be-
for it stops that the band is about to
concluds the tune.
Thousands of head of cattle viii! be
fattencd for the market in the Sun
flower state this winter. They are
coming in daily and will be located
in districts where the feed is the most
plentiful and where they can be kept
the cheapest. In some counties 10000
and so, 900 head will be fed.
The secretary of the Arkansas Val
ley Poultry Fanciers' association looks
for the seventh annual show which
will be held in Wichita during the
week beginning December 10, to prove
an unusually large one. An extra
supply of premium lists has had to be
printed to meet the demands for it.
D. A. Garst, well known to the peo-
pie of southern Kansas as one of the
proprietors OF the Kansas Steam laun'
dry at Wichita, has sold his interest in
that concern and has entered into a
partnership with j. c. Casey in the
wholesale fancy grocery business.
This business had been well establish
ed by Mr.. Casey and with the added
capital and push of Mr.. Garst will be-
come one of the most important insti-
tutions in the city.
Since the Public Library association
has taken hold of the dog tax matter
at Wyandotte, there has been great
increase in the number of dog tax Ii
censes. The number has reached q
O79, which is nearly 500 more than
have ever been issue1 in a single year
before. Sarah Richardson the library
association has the matter of dog taxes
on her hands, and she is Acquiring her
self in admirable style. Mrs. Richards
has had warrants issued for over 200
delinquent dog owners. This has
served to scare the rest into action in
time.
The plan Of the Kansas State Real
Estate association to place on exhibit
ton in Kansas City representative
display of Kansas agricultural pro-
ducts is a shrewd piece of enterprise,
and is likely to bring valuable results.
Along with this exhibit there will be
all the general information necessary
to post those who are seeking homes
or investments in Kansas. Such an
exhibition and bureau in the metropo-
lis Of the west should attract and in
struct many who would not he inclined
to make a more extended investiga-
ton of the wonderful resources of the
Sunfower state.
A Pennsylvania man has at last
found an ear of corn with an uneven
number of rows of kernels. Kansas
has been looking for this kind for
years.
In the settlement of the affairs of
the Kansas Trust e Banking company,
which failed few years ago at Atch-
ison, it develops that the holders of
debenture bonds, have received only
$4,000, or 10 per cent on the bonds,
while the expenses incurred in col
lecting this amount have reached SILL
500
A new $4,000 elevator is being
erected in Newton by the Newton
Milling company. The company has
already a storage capacity of 100000
bushels, but the rush of grain has
compelled them to increase their ele-
vdtor capacity.
The leader of the boomers who are
preparing to invade the Wichita noun
tains warns the government not to in
terfere with "hungry and desperate
men," The suggestion of hungry men
in Kansas and Oklahoma in such q
year as this is decidedly amusing.
The Second District Editorial Asso
ciation Will meet at 0ssawatomie in
the spring. That is getting rather toe
close to the asylum for comfort.
All his life Farmer Ben Grips, who