The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-09-24
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.


lacking people in Kansas.
Fort Scott ladies take great interest
in the cooking school at that place.
1t is said that both quail and prairie
chichen are quite plentiful in western
Kansas
The First Presbyterian church Of
Hutchinson has celebrated its twenty
fifth anniversary.
Cherry trees at Goodland which were
stripped by the big hail storm some
weeks ago, are in bloom again.
The late rains have put the ground
in splendid condition for seeding and
vast amount of wheat will be sown
this fall.
From four to six car loads of water
melons are shipped from Turon, in
Pratt county, daily. Two cars were
shipped to Deadwood, Dakota. Each
car contains about l, 200 melons.
The election in Kansas this fall will
be of more Importance than perhaps is
generally known. There are twenty
nine judicial districts in the state, and
thirteen of them must elect judges this
year.
Port Arthur has just been knocked
galley-west by cyclone Last spring
Kansas was flooded with advertising
circulars for Port Arthur reading: mo
more cyclones, no more droughts, no
more crop failures"
Leavenworth will be as dry as a
powder horn during the veterans re-
nnion. The board of commissioners
instead of raising funds from the joint
keepers, will close them up and raise
$1,000 by soliciting contributions,
Now that Kansas is the most pros
porous state in the union, the eastern
dude spectators who have been de-
denounclng the state are headed this
way with their schemes to weedle
Kansans out of their money. They
should be given Klondike reception.
A church in Kansas City, Kans., has
arranged nursery for babies during
service. Last Sunday the nurse was
there wearing her sweetest baby smile,
with bottles of milk and jumping jacks
for food and amusements for the dear
little things, and not single baby
came TO church. Hence the thunder of
the big organ soured all the milk Of
human kindness in the bottles.
For several reasons the chinch bug
has done but little damage in the
State this season although parts of
some fields have been destroyed This
is no indication that there will be but
few next season. There are plenty in
the fields now to do great deal of
damage next season if but few of
them pass the winter. AS measure
for preventing the bugs wintering
over, it would be well to gather up
and destroy all the old rubbish on the
farm in which the bugs may find lodg-
mcnt.
Two brothers named Bunker are sue
cessful farmers in Sumner county,
Kansas. They are the sons of the
Siamese twins, who married two white
sisters near Mt. Airy, n, c., at the foot
of the Blue Ridge seven miles south of
the Virginia line, and reared two large
families OF bright and enterprising
children. When they were first mar
ried the twins and their wives occupied
the same house, but after period of
daul felicity the wives got jealous OF
each other and the twins separated
them into different domiciles.
Six hundred and forty-two persons
in Wellington have signed a petition to
the council to repeal the malt ordi-
nance, which permits the sale of malt
extract. BY some strange oversight
cider, coffee and tea were not men
toned in the petition.
hundreds of agents representing
Chicago grocery stores are soliciting
orders from farmers of Kansas. Now
that the farmers are prosperous, they
should, and no doubt will, stand by
the local home stores that stood by
them when they needed friends.
The New York Evening Post, which
has spent a good two years in bump
ing Kansas heads against the editor
ial columns, had an article last weel
headed: TOO much money in Kansas.
There is no use walking the flool
with felon says one who had hat
some experience. Just wrap clotl
around the felon, leaving the end open
Pour gunpowder in the end and shake
it down until the feion is covered, Their
keep it wet with camphor. In tive
hours the pain will be relieved and {
perfect cure win quickly follow.
The hunt for pearls which has crazeC
half the ponulatiOn of Arkansas hal