The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-05-07

der an oratorio unless action is taken
promptly.
There are twenty society weddings
on the program in A.chison which will
occur in May.
Garden City is going to have first
class fair this fall. The Garden City
fairs are the best in the state.
An Arkansas City man refuses to be-
lieve the airship stories on the ground
that the sky is so full of air.
A Kansas paper Gays that Greece is
looking wildly around for the referee
so that she can blame il on him.
A Topeka jury has decided that it
does not hurt mans reputation to
publish the fact on him that he has
been suspended from the O. NJ. b.
A Rock Island man says the Santa
Fe trains go so slow that they are talk
ing of putting the cow-catchers on the
hand-cars where they are needed.
The creamery at Solomon City has
eighty-five patrons who deliver on an
average 1000 pounds of milk daily.
About 300 pounds Of butter is made .
day.
Professor Dyche still maintains his
artistic posture of appearing perfectly
certain that the North Pole will not be
discovered before he himself gets
around to it.
Several fellows in the Greek army
were getting ready to spring that they
were formerly of Kansas" when the
Greeks were licked to a fragile and
they are now keeping it quiet.
Some of the calabooses in small
Kansas towns are worse than any Eu-
ropean dungeon ever built They are
stuffy, dark and filthy. 1t is terrible
thing to get drunk, dog drunk" in
some Kansas towns.
1t is said that President Hewitt of
the Emporia college got $1,000 over
and above expenses for the college on
his recent eastern trip. The college
of Emporia is the most worthy insti-
tuition in Kansas for generus endow-
ment. Sooner or later it will get the
and will be one of the
great western institutions of educa-
ton.
Edward Newton the eccentric old
gentleman who lives southwest of
Mulvane, has erected an elegant mon
ument for himself and wife in the Lit
Teton cemetery. Self-reliance has al
ways been one of his characteristics
and he don't propose to trouble any
one about the erection of monument
after he is dead. Mr. Newton is a Pc
culiar man IN many ways and this is
one of his peculiarities.
Misfortune has overtaken William
Byers, who owns 600-acre crab apple
farm of so, 600 trees near Leavenworth,
and his place has been seized by credi-
tors. 1t was supposed to be the largest
crab apple orchard in the world. In
the early prohibition times Byers
planted all the trees he could get ard
coined money out of the cider which
he sold all over the state. The free
sale of liquor during the last two yea%s
ruined his market
The Kansas river has always been
called muddy stream, but muddy
doesn't half express its present condi-
ton. The high water of the past few
days has rendered 1T simply earthly.
The railroads are experiencing con-
difficulty from the muddy
of the river water. The mud
cakes in the bottom of the boilers, stop
up the fues and make proper steam
ing in some cases almost impossible.
Consequently engines are unable to
make their usual time, and trains are
delayed.
A man who has mixed with Kansas
politics all his life says that nine out
Of ten men in state politics believe
that an omnipotent fate is guiding
them slowly and surely to a seat in
the United States senate.
The most sensible young man in
Kansas is young Mr.. PaUtison of Dick
vson county. Young Pattison is a
brainy boy who quit the
newspaper business to make some
money. He went into the creamery
business and has become rich in three
years.
The Elson Telephone company of ST.
Louis are stretching their wires be-
tween Centrallia and Senica, the coun-
y seat of Nemaha county. The COM
oany will open central station at
Jentralia if enough private wires are
put in.
The Abilene creamery has received
complete cheese making plant and is
putting it in place. Cheese will be