The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-08-26

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creamery
Leavenworth boasts of a Gvc-year-
old newsboy.
Winfield society people have water
melon parties.
Marysville accommodated 5000 peo-
pie at the Modern Woodmen log roll
ing.
Bonner Springs gas drillers have al
ready got down 1000 feet, and still no
gas
Ground has been broken for new
depot for the Memphis route at Pitts
burg.
The Santa Fe has put in new sys-
tenn of block signals at Fort Leaven-
worth.
In Atchison the city council has
made fiat rate of $50 per month for
saloons.
Green Kaffir is getting in its work
on stock; the usual thing at this season
of the year.
A Kansas farmer says there will be
more wheat in Kansas this year than
Secretary Coburn figures on.
A southern Kansas man does not
drink water because he says that he
has cast-iron constitution and he is
afraid it would rust it,
A girl living at Hutchinson in an
swering note from her sweetheart to
call, closes it with the timely advice to
come early and avoid the rush"
In Ottawa when one merchant gets
it in for another he circulates story
that he is Spanish sympathizer. The
unluclSv merchant at once loses all of
his trade.
If girls are made conductors of Law
renee street cars, their sweet voice OF
fare please, will always startle man
in the midst of an interesting newspa-
per story.
Have you ever thought about this?
In reading letters from the Kansas
boys in the front every one expresses
an opinion that is different in regard
to the conduct of the war. Kansans
are free thinkers if nothing else.
Westmoreland has new public
school building, and it is said that ow-
ing to bad weather while it was in
course of construction the contractors
will not make cent out of the job.
This is something new under the sun.
1t is said that Wichita county will
have more good corn this year than at
any time in its history. Do you know
where Wichita county is? 1t is so far
west that if it was very much farther
it would be over in the state of Colo
RADIO.
Mcpherson county teachers will be
better paid this year than they were
last year. Judging from what Supt.
Strykcr says of the poor pay received
by Kansas teachers this ought to be
the case in good many other Kansas
counties.
DR.. Quayle, the well-known Kansas
City Methodist divine, is Kansas
man. He was raised on farm in
Shawnee county, where his father still
resides. When he was boy he gave
no promise of being the vineyard
worker that he is.
A Kansas man predicts that Dewey
will be the nominee for president in
1904. Quite probable in 1904 Dewey
will not be able to converse fluently
in the English language, having been
SO long accustomed to living on a
snake farm in the Philippines.
In the midst Of tales Of suffering
which come from the troops in Cuba,
what do you think of this from Cor
poral William Schaeder, a Kansas boy,
with the regulars at Santiago: This
is very rich country and has very
healthy climate. All kinds of fruits
grow wild. We have been having
little rain, but not enough to amount
to anything.
A letter addressed TO James Kindig,
q Scranton boy who is with the regu-
lars in Cuba was returned to Scranton
the other day with the information
that the young man is dead. His COM
pany took part in the battle of Santa
go, but Kindig did not participate in it
himself, as he was one of detail
which was doing guard duty over sup
plies. This is the first intimation that
he had suffered harm, and the suppo-
sition is that in yellow fever he met
his fate.
This is the way northern Kansas
exchange looks at it: Whether John
Collins is proven guilty of numbering
his father or not, he has already suf-
fered punishment worse than death,
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