The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-09-16


of her Hawaiian queen.
This is bully good year in Kansas.
EVEN the clocutionists are getting good
houses.
Preparations are being made in Nit
chell county for holding an Old Set
tiers meeting.
Leavenworth is preparing to give
the soldiers the glad hand on their
return there.
In Hodgeman county during the past
week two year old steers have sold as
high as $40 head.
A panther has been discovered In
Cowley county. 1t was discovered by
man while fishing.
Two shifts of men are working night
and day at Spring Hill in sinking q
we'll it is hoped will strike gas.
Judging from the reports that are
now coming in, there will be whoop-
ing big acreage of fall wheat put in
this year.
A Hodgeman county man has some
hogs which no says are so fat that I'M
less he can manage to graft some rub
Der in their hides he is afraid their
covers will break.
There is usually cider carnival In
the Oak Mills neighborhood, over in
Atchison county, but it has been de-
clared off this fall on account OF the
failure of the apple crop.
Kansas was visited by good rain
last week which is highly appreciated
by the farmers and other residents
Flowing and preparations for wheat
sowing will now continue with renew
ed interest.
A man is travelling over the state
with an illustrated temperance lee
ture. There ore great many towns
where he could easily find plenty of
local illustrations, but it is safer to
use pictures
A Bourbon county man who offered
o reward for the names of the boys
who had raided his watermelon patch,
found out that his youngest son was
one of the crowd. At certain age it
is almost impossible to press upon the
mind of any boy, of high or low de-
gree, that it is wrong to raid melon
patch.
This is good year for log rollings,
reunions, picnics, harvest home jubi-
lees, circuses and any old thing which
will give the people chance to enjoy
themselves. The toll of the people
has this year been rewarded with good
hard money, and lot of it, and they
are perfectly willing to spend a portion
of it in having good time.
Evidently some oily-tongued indi-
vidual has been getting in his graft in
Pottawatomie county. The Ravens
vile Torchlight says: "An agent who
will induce girl or young woman to
sign contract for the purchase of an
instrument by over-persuasion and
Misrepresentation, is an INSCRIPTIONS
man, and ought to be prosecuted; and
the firm or company that will retain
such an agent in its employ should
be branded as unworthy of patronage"
d. NJ Boyd, assistant adjutant gen.
eral, expects to take his company of
girl cadets to the Omaha exposition
the last of this month and camp out on
the exposition grounds like United
States regulars Major Boyd has the
promise of the exposition authorities
that a camping ground will be furnish
ed. Equipment will be taken from
Topeka. II expect to have fully fifty
cadets drilled to go" said Major Boyd.
II have more than that number enroll
ed now, but some of them are away
spending the summer. We may give
drills in towns between Topeka and
Omaha to assist in paying expenses.
The girls are working girls and can
not afford to spend much money, but
we expect to get low railroad rate.
OF course chaperons will accompany
the cadets"
Governor G. NJ. Barnes, of Oklahoma,
who visited Omaha early in August,
says: "The exposition is grand beyond
all conception and will go down into
history as the greatest exhibition of
the resources of the great west that
has ever been seen. The industrial
and agricultural exhibits are as fine as
the world has ever seen and they are
diversified. There is apparently just
enough of everything and not too
much of anything. knew all along
that it was great show, but never
had any clear conception of its magni-
tude until stepped inside the gate
and gazed over the grand court, which
is magnificent beyond description. 1t
is picture for an artist. 1t is more
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