The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-01-21


large deposits of money on hand and
there is 40 call to borrow money this
year, and the speculator has little
business at present
The next improvement lola is to get
is glass factory. The Commercial
club has been assured that the plant
that will be established will pay out
not less that SIS, 900 year in wages to
employees.
A minister mp in Dickinson county
last week is said to have electrified his
congregation by saying that some peo-
pie think they have religion when they
have only the dyspepsia. Was the
congregation surprised at his rank
plagiarism?
The Kansas teachers can't be so Sc
we're on the children hereafter when
they fail at examinations. The teach
ers are not the whole thing, them
selves. Over one half of the applicants
for certificates TO teach in county nor
NAL schools failed at the teachers
state convention in Topeka last week.
Out of l25 who tried to get certificates
as instructors of institutes, rs failed
entirely.
The electro car system in Ft. Scott,
which for number OF years had been
operated by the Fort Scott Railway
company, has been transferred to the
Citizens Railway company, and they
have assumed control. The new com
pany is composed Of local people. New
steam and electric machinery will be
put in, and large electric generator
will be purchased in order TO take adj
vantage of the light and power fran
chise recently granted the old COM
pany.
A bitter fight between the school
board of Caploma, small village south
of Sabetha, and he teacher, Miss Irene
Fenton, has been carried on for the
past three weeks, ending in vic
tory for Miss Fenton. The trouble
arose over the refusal of the teacher to
clean out the room after magic Ian
ttrn show had left it in dilapidated
condition. The show was allowed to
enter the school room against the
wishes of Miss Fenton, at the request
of the board. Upon refusal of the
teacher to clean the building, the
board arbitrarily discharged her. Miss
Fenton hired an attorney and the fight
has been raging bitterly in the COM
munity and press. Last week Miss
Fenton defended herself in two col
umu article in local paper and the
board reinstated her. Miss Fenton is
a handsome orphan girl, 90 years old.
A disappointed lover was the origin OF
the trouble it is said.
A school war is in progress in dis
trict No. Q, in Kearney county, on ac-
count of threatened change OF the
school. There are four families living
in the district The families living on
the south side of the district have the
most votes, while those on the north
side have the most children. The
school house is located in the center OF
the district. The south side, having
the most votes, also has the district Of
&C.,. A. N ,ooao+ ,,,aat;por f11av de-
cded 10 abandon the school house and
hold school at one of the directors
James Cowler-on the south side. The
families living on the north side OBJ
iect, holding that as they are not only
the heaviest tax payers, but have the
most children, the school should come
their way if changed at all. The coun-
ty superintendent refuses to take any
hand in the matter G. c. Dulebohn,
one of the north siders, claims that the
proposed removal of the school is
scheme of Cowler's to get rent for the
front room of his house, and also to
get money from the teacher for board
He has written to the state superin-
tendent for an opinion concerning the
matter.
A barefoot tramp struck southern
Kansas town the other day. Old shoes
are not scarce in Southern Kanses and
the only explanation is that the tramp
1;J,,,t lilo m ,uaarS shoes
The Jewell Republican says: Jim
Mallory says there are about on hun
bred wild geese that seem to have TAX
en- up their abode for the winter on the
marsh. In the day time they sit out in
the open plain away from all shelter
and will not allow any one, to come
near them. And at night they go to
the river.
1t is good thing for most of the life
insurance companies that they carry
no policies on themselves and their
lives do not depend on doing business
in Kansas
Jarvis Thrifty, of Atchison, has fig
ured it out that his stomach even when