The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-11-05
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Ottawa is making initial efforts u
secure packing house.
The Santa Fe has put in bath room
'or it's employees at Newton.
Neodesha will issue $40, 900 in bond:
md build city water works.
The machinery for big vitrifed
brick yard is being laid down in Cher
ryvale.
The Harvey county poultry show
will be held in SedgwicI City Decem'
Der to II.
The onion crop of Meade county is
threshing out three hundred bushels
to the acre.
On the Kansas prairie at night it is
possible to hear the clatter of farm
wagon four miles.
The registration at Newton is 1899,
being ninety more than year ago.
Newton is growing.
A farmer living near Centralia has
on exhibition a stock Of corn on which
are six well developed ears.
When the registration books closed
in Topeka the records indicated that
1851 certificates had been issued.
The Nemaha county attorney re-
quires all merchants to keep their
places of business closed on Sundays
The dancing element of Galena are
kicking because there is not a decent
place in the city TO have their dances.
The warmest thing in Kansas is the
fight between two creameries at Be-
lott. Each wants the cream of the
business
A Blue Rapids woman has hen with
double joints in her knees and toes
pointed both ways, so that she can
walk forward or ba ckward with equal
case.
Kansas prosperity is signalized in a
remarkable manner by the rush of far
mers to buy bicycles and the fact that
few of them are compelled to purchase
on the installment plan.
The regents of the University of
Kansas have appointed Prof E. Miller
to represent that institution at the
formal opening of the new observa-
tory of the University of Chicago.
Ole Olson is one of the early bookings
at the Crawford Grand, Wichita. Of
the company the Chicago Inter-Ocean
of Sept. 21st says: Entirely changed as
to it's story and cast, "Ole Olson, the
comedy which has withstood the storms
of eleven theatrical seasons, was pre-
scented at the Lincoln theater yester-
day to two audiences that overfowed
the house. The changes in the piece
make 1t more acceptable than it ever
was. Ben Hendricks has assumed the
title role formerly in the hands of Gus
Heege, and those who have seen his
rendition of it claim it suffers none in
comparison. Miss st. George Hussey
is the only one of the old cast left. 1t
would be hard to imagine any one else
in the role of Bridget O'Flannigan.
Pretty jeanette Lewis is the soubrette
of the company. One of the features
shown is striking one. John Lawson,
known as 'the Terrible Swede," the
worlds record breaking bicyclist, is
shown in competitive race with c.
A. Anderson, the winner of this years
Pullman road race, and Ivor Gustave-
son, considered the fastest amateur in
Chicago. The scene is very realistic
and calls forth much applause from
the audience.
The general fund of the city of Atch-
ison is $24, 900 worse than nothing.
Atchison is town run on the "busi-
ness plan"
Another car of fine Butler county
horses among them four Norman Per-
cherons weighing LOO pounds each,
were shipped from Ell Dorado to New
York.
Dodge City is in Egyptian darkness,
the electric light company having shut
off the lights few days ago. The city
cannot afford to light up the main
thoroughfares.
A Wier City man is champion one
armed coal digger of the world.
II. w. Hanna, a shoe manufacturer
of Chicago, is figuring on starting a
shoe factory at Garden City. His idea
is to form company with capital
stock of SOS, 1000, $4,000 of which is to
be paid up.
The engagement of Miss Martha
Snow, daughter of Chancellor Snow of
Kansas university, to VIM. Harvey
Brown, the African explorer, has been
announced. The date of the wedding
has not been decided upon.
The football team Of the Kansas uni
versity is practicing hard for the COM
ing game with the Iowa university.