The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-07-02


tauqua.
A new fraternal insurance order has
been organized with squeeges at How
ard.
There has not been divorce suit in
Stanton county for five years. No
cause.
A lawn tennis set has been purchas-
ed at Turon and the march of progress
is onward.
This hot weather has driven Gov
ernor Eslridge to favor licensing beer
joints at Emporia.
When johnson county girl thought
she saw cyclone coming she put on
her Sunday stockings.
A Medicine Lodge man was fined $40
and costs for pulling teeth without
having state diploma.
Society in Emporia is so dull that
the usual reception to the "Spooners'
was omitted when they played there
| last week.
A young lady in Minneapolis put on
her brothers trousers and rode mans
! bicycle down street The people there
will not get over it for long time.
Hodgeman county has $4,000 more
cash than it needs and has put it out
at interest. Hodgeman is one of those
wild cat western counties, we don't
think.
The Wichita girl who went into a
general store and inquired for gar
den hose" was surprised when the
clerk brought a black pair with yellow
stripes, assuring her they were tie
latest for garden parties.
Several months ago Bradley Gordon,
young Cowley county man, was ac-
cidcntally shot in the ueclS with %
caliber revolver, the bullet entering
the neck at the front of the right side.
1t did not go through and its exact 10
cation was never discovered, although
every effort to locate it was made. DIR.
Pugh the attending physician, decided
to try the efficacy of the N-rays. "A
skyograph was taken from the side OF
the neck at which the bullet entered,
and although the test was very unsat-
isfactory, the bullet was located not
far from the surface on the opposite
side.
Topeka is to have another new
crea merry and butter factory Work
men are busy remodeling the old build
ing and it is to be equipped with
separator and churns. The building
has been used by the Topeka cash meat
market which went out of business
several months ago and the refrigera-
tors are already there so that the work
of preparing the building for the new
business is not great task. New
floors arc being put in the front room
which will be used for an Office and
double floors will be built in the rear
room where the separator and churns
will be placed The KniclIerbocker
Creamery company is putting i'll the
plant. The company has had its head
quarters in Topeka but no attempt has
been made to receive milk or cream
there. The principal plant has been
at Esl1ridge and there are several
Swimming stations in other places.
The cream from the ESiiridge plants
and the skmming stations will be re-
ceived at Topeka and made into butter
as soon as the work of remodcling the
building is completed This gives To-
peka the second creamery this year.
The Kansas creamery company is in
full blast and doing well and Topeka
is the headquarters for dozens OF
creameries owned by that company
The new creamery will not be so large
rs the other, but the projectors hope
to build up big business in Kansas
ana make Topeka headquarter. II. T.
Talcott will be in charge of the Topeka
plant of the Kniclicrbocller Creamery
company.
The present record is that that me-
teor fell in forty-nine different places
Newton girls have such warm times
at home that they have to visit neigh
boring towns to catch up with their
sleep.
VIII White has gone to Washington
and it is thought he will be named
postmaster at Emporia and end the
fight
Harper people are demanding new
time card on the Hutchinson & South
ern and threaten to walk if the don't
get it.
The normal institute at Ness City
has more pretty school teachers in
attendance than ever before.
An. Atchison women is going to the
women with n subscription paper ask
ing for money to enable her husband