The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-12-02
The recent rain and snow is just
what Kansas needed to help the wheat

Winter has arrived earlier In Kansas
this year than usual. But we are pre-
pared.
It is reported that the two telephone
companies at Leavenworth will be con-
solidated
A good way to get in shape to give
thanks is to give some other person
cause for feeling thankful.
Most all the weekly papers now are
Dragging about the great trade enjoy
ed in their respective towns.
Two cases of diphtheria at the SOL
diers' Orphan Home at Atchison, the
only cases there, have recovered.
The past months pay roll on the
Rock Island is the largest since the
road built west of the Missouri river.
The first thing the next legislature
should do is to learn something about
the State Historical society and treat
it half way decent.
1t is not practicable to use stools at
the Kansas pie counter. The seekers
would crawl up the rounds and try to
wait on themselves.
At Topeka they say of man who
will not do anything until he is
bodied, that he will not whistle until
you furnish the quicker.
Wichita people figure it out that for
several reasons, all of them good,
railroad commissioner should be
named from that town.
Experiments in making vitritied
brick from the shale found at Cherry
vale have proven it to be exceptionally
good stuff; better even for the manu-
facture of brick than that found at
Coffeyville, from which such excellent
results are obtained.
A Kansan who is "after something"
said the other day that he would be
satisfied with place carrying salary
of $50 to SIS month. In Kansas it is
only hundred dollar job or over that
pays salary" Anything less than
that is wages"
A Wichita man who is seeking po-
sition within the gift of the state adj
ministration points with pride to the
fact that there are twenty-three repub-
lican voters in his family. Now there,
men and brethren, is claim that is
worthy of some consideration.
A Smith county man, after trying
mining in Arizona, has returned home
and will take up farming and stock
raising. Eight years or so ago Beloit
business man left there and tried his
hand in Illinois He came back to Be
lott few weeks since, kneeled down
at the penitent form, bought out big
business and announced that he had
come to stay.
The Andrews Opera Company.
ga splendid audience greeted the
Andrews Opera Company at their last
performance in the opera house last
evening. The opera was Beliefs popu-
lar Bohemian Girl" replete with
beautiful music, and so well sung by
both principals and chorus that num-
Der after number was encored. Miss
Nellie Andrews as Airline, could not
have been better She has pure true
soprano of high range. She was com
PEELED to respond to most deserved
encore after singing II Dreamt l
Dwelt in Marble Halls" Florence
Clayton has a rich, deep, contralto
voice, and made naughty, imperious
Queen. The principal tenor role was
given to Jay c. Taylor, whose singing
was superb. The choruses were mag
nificently sung and the entire perform
ance was one long to be remembered.
Come again. York pa Times. The
Andrews Opera Company will make a
brief tour of the West before returning
to the scene of their Eastern triumphs
and will appear at the Crawford
Grand, Wichita, Nov. 2s and 30.
Cross of Emporia, must have been of
giant mentality. He contemplated
suicide for six months and then com
mitted suicide. Very few men have
the strength of mind to make an eX-
haustive study of suicide and then en-
brace it.
That Leavenworth is to have dis
tillery in the near future is now al
most an established fact. The plans
for the new enterprise are under the
direction of Frank Mccormick, the dis
tillery man who formerly owned the
plant at Waldron, Mo.
The county attorney of Shawnee
county announces that he expects to
get a verdict of guilty of murder in the
first degree ON young Collins. The
county attorn ey mistakes.
The twelfth annual convention of
the Kansas State Dairy association was