The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-04-23

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anything save the green mound which
covers him.
A prominent Kansas paper notes
that this is the time of year when the
Ancient Order of Hen Shooers are call
ed to order.
Kansas has overworked the word
''plug." It means hat, stopper, a
railroad train, an old horse, blow, a
mutilated coin.
The Topeka Retail Grocers associa-
ton is discussing clearing house sys-
tenn to be used by Topeka business
men of all classes.
The drug stores Of Burlington have
quit selling whisky and the water
sprinkler has begun business sixty
days earlier than usual
The truth of the airship matter is
that some one is spending his fortune
sending up paper balloons or stars APP
! proauh the earth and float.
The Anthony branch of the Frisco
has put on one car for the renewed run
which carries passengers, mail and
baggage within the same walls.
DR.. Pitcher of Winfield, has Oh the
front porch of his residence a safe in
which he keeps his jewelry, precious
stones, silverware, and SO fourth.
A Jewell county man who had work.
ed out lecture entitled, "ln Libby
Prison" has changed it to ga Boy in
the Army" and is doing very well.
! Boys are going bare feet, men are in
their shirt sleevs, and women go down
town mornings in their Mother Hub
bards--signs of spring at Winfield.
Judge Gregory of Garden City will
go to sanitarium. A year ago he
had measles, which left a malady OF
some kind that gives him great deal
of trouble.
The members of the Newton fire de.
partment have presented Chief Foltz
with a gold-headed cane. This is a
more sensible present than helmet
that weighs a ton.
Newton claims to do so much more
business than Hutchinson that man
from the latter town on the streets of
Newton the other day was absolutely
Frustrated by the activity.
Auditor Morris is complying strictly
with the law passed by the last legis-
lature requiring him TO deduct unpaid
taxes from amounts allowed counties
for the care of destitute insane.
A Chicago professor Identifies the
air-ship as the moving star Alpha Ore
nois. II that is true, some one on Ore
nois dropped half-peeled potato, for
one fell from the sky in Atchison.
The new Masonic hall in Linn, which
takes the place of the one burned a
year ago, is completed at cost, in
Guiding the furniture, of $500. This
hall will be dedicated in May, at which
Grand Master William M. Shafer OF
Topeka and Past Grand Master j. c.
Postlethwaite of Jewell City will be
present.
The Odd Fellows of Hutchinson will
celebrate the 18th anniversary of the
orders existence on April 26. Several
hundred guests are expected. Invita-
tions have been sent out to AZ different
lodges of surrounding towns Among
the cities that will be represented are
Newton, Wichita, Sterling, Nickerson,
LYONS, Mcpherson, Canton, Inman,
Halstead, nurrton, Mt Hope, Haven,
Harper Anthony and Kingman. Reno
lodge No. 90 and Myrtle Rebellah lodge
No. 90 of Hutchinson are arranging fol-
the big event and will furnish Their
own money and do their own enter
tanning.
The people in the vicinity OF lola are
in a bad fix. The roar of the Palmer
gas we'll in that town can be heard FOL
ten miles. If cyclone should ap
proach it would drown out the roar OF
the wind and the people would be
without warning.
A drug store at Arkansas City was
robbed of twelve bottles of wine thC
other night, and the local paper limo
Gently remarked that suspicion natur
ally falls on number of small boys
who have been on drunk for severa
days.
The Rock Island has issued an order
that all employees in the passenger
train service who have not been vRcci
mated within comparatively recen
time must take the precaution at onc'
on account of the immigrant trave
and the attendant danger of catching
and spreading the smallpox.
The annual conference of the Meth
odist stewards of the Newton distric
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