The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-06-03

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In Mitchell county the other day
69-year-old gentleman led lady of u
to the altar.
In all the Kansas "opera houses" the
villains in the plays have already TAX
EN- on a decided Spanish aspect.
Wheat, oats and barley are looking
well in Thomas county. Corn is com
ing up and shows good stand.
1t has rained so much in western
Kansas that the bottom of the farmers
trouser legs bulge marinely over night.
The women of the Red Cross at San
Francisco presented each Kansas vol
unteer with California rose when the
regiment arrived there.
Twenty townships in Butler county
have planted corn without much delay.
Half the corn planted in this county
before April 16 will be replanted.
Oil Inspector Wharton's report for
hplll ohOWS GudU Hc COllcCOOo UI.ooo
and paid out $347, the balance, amount
ing to $735, being turned into the
treasury.
A bank in Mcpherson county offers
home money for investment, and an
Atchison real estate dealer advertises
that he has $50, 900 which he is anxious
to invest
Adam Treat of Hays City celebrated
his 1O1st birthday recently. He was
one of the committee of Masons that
received Lafayette when he made his
second visit to America.
Peter Holler of Rome, Italy, came all
the way from the head and center Of
the Catholic church to be ordained a
priest in Kansas. The ceremony took
place in Wichita last week.
If the old saying that plague of
rats is sign of bountiful crops counts
for anything, Smith county will be in
it by large majority this year, as
never before has that country been so
pestered by rats.
Assistant Attorney General Smelling
has written an opinion in which he
holds that the law providing that COM
missioner districts shall be the same
in counties having three representa-
tives as the legislative districts is I'M
constitutional.
Every Monday morning 1000 pounds
of butter are loaded into a car from
the Jensen branch house at Osborne.
At Deloit, which is the company's
headquarters, the car is filed and
sent east to people who know good
butter when they see it.
Ninety-fve per cent of the officer
and over thirty-fve per cent of the
non-commissioned officers and privates
of the Kansas volunteers have bank
accounts in their home town. 1t is a
safe ten to one shot that no other state
in the union has sent volunteers to the
war with such good average financial
record.
Wheat is heading in fine condition
in Reno county but the oats is poor.
Corn is growing slowly and there is
said to be poor stand, and much has
been replanted Millet, cane and KAT
fir sowing is now in progress. Straw
berries are beginning to ripen. Slight
damage by hail to wheat and fruit is
reported.
The members of the graduating class
of the Atchison high school did very
sensible thing in making up the pro-
gram for the exercises. In place of
holding forth on a lot of highfalutin'
subjects that no one cared to listen to
they presented series of papers on the
history of the town, its development
and business which it was really a
pleasure for the audience to listen to
In these days a man would rather
miss a meal than his daily paper, es-
pecially if living in small town with
train once day, with no news OBJ
tainable aside from that brought by
the dailies On a western Kansas road
the other day the postal clerk carried
by sack of papers, and to prevent a
riot the section boss pumped his hand
car up to the next town, got the sack
and brought it back.
The state is short lot Of militia I'M
forms. Several captains paid no at
tention to the order to send them in,
and now their bonds will be sued on
for their value if they are not prompt
ly paid for. Those that have been lost
are largely those worn to Topeka by
recruits who failed to pass the exam
ination. They brought no other
clothes and had to wear them to their
homes, but neglected to send them in
again.
Lawrence sent some men to the war
whose names are mighty good things