The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-02-19
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.


their officers for 1897.
Bottled goods are advertised by
Garden City merchant.
The Normal college at Salina has
closed its first winter term.
The central Kansas Farmers 1nsti-
tute met at Hutchinson Feb. 5th aud
9th.
Salina is little late, but it is getting
the creamery, disease as bad as any
body.
In 1875 the total receipts for freight
BY the Santa Fe at Wichita were only
$4,000.
In her collection of plants Mrs. ID.
w. DUNCAN of Sedan has an orange
tree bearing fruit.
Two ex-jointists and saloon-keeper
haye been put upon the police force at
Kansas City, Kansas.
A man at Newton claims to have
found something which looks like gold
in lump of Usage coal.
The January blizzard filed every ice
house in Kansas. In the northwest
even churches are used.
There is pending in Atchison suit
against the city by former policemen
for $40, 900 alleged to be owing from the
city for time served over eight honrs
day.
An exchange says: "What do you
think of an artist who painted cobwebs
on the ceiling so truthfully that the
hired girl wore herself into an attack
of nervous prostration trying to sweep
them DOWN." There mighthave been
such an artist, but there never was
such hired girl.
A western Kansas young man who
studied church affairs pretty carefully
thus defines them: "a church fair is
a place where we can spend more mon
ey than we can afford for things we do
not want in order to please whom we
do not like and to help the heather
who are happier than we are"
When it comes to love and ambition,
there are cases where ambition knocks
love out even in woman's heart. An
Atchison woman has had two pet chick
ems for nine years that followed her
around and ate from her hand. Her
husband recently objected because she
wanted to give dinner party, and to
overcome his objections by reducing
the expenses, she killed her two pet
hens and made them into chicken sal
ad, and ate her share without ire
NOR.
A school district in Kansas not hav-
ing been able to make satisfactory ar
rangements with local booksellers, has
made contract with the publishers
direct, by means of which the children
are supplied at wholesale prices, the
board furnishing the books at cost
While the plan by no means settles
the vexed school book question, it
meets the approval of all the patrons
of the school, except, of course, those
who might make profit out of the
business.
A Paola patriot has figured it out
that the cause of the hare times is
neither the tariff nor the money king.
He says: "There are many little things
that help to make times hard and pro-
ducts low. The Worlds Fair people in
this vicinity mortgaged their homes to
20 to Chicago. The bicycle craze, in
temperance and the strikes are impor-
tant factors Laboring men in cities
spend money for beer that should go
for bread, and strike for higher wages
than the times will warrant"
The charge is made against the New
ton dairymen that the people there got
their first pure milk of years during
the cold snap. Every pump in town
was frozen up.
The Lawrence Journal says: 1t is not
probable that another state normal
school will be established by the pres
ent legislature, but is there is. Wichita
should have it by all rules of fairness
and decency. The fact that there are
already several schemes and jobs put
up by which individuals are to profit,
should cut no figure"
Although young people do not believe
it, there are as many opportunities as
ever to get rich. There never was a
time before when talent was so quickly
recognized, or commanded as high
price.
A new fake is being worked in But
Ter county. A woman book agent
comes along and leaves book for ex-
animation. The next day mau comes
along and collects the books. Next
day the woman comes back, declares
that the mon was thief and demands