The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-10-21
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

30.
In Willis home talent club is be-
ing organized to furnish amusement
for the town this winter.
Wichita churches will unite in a
grand campaign against sin. They
know what Wichita needs.
A man can start out with gun and
dog in Kansas now without being COM
PEELED to resort to the '"stubble duck"
lie.
The poultry raisers in Kansas are
making better showing every year,
and it is becoming quite profitable
industry.
At Conway Springs the city council
has passed an ordinance requiring
vandors of liquors to put up license
of 81, 2OOO
Ten car loads of Holstein cattle were
recently shipped from Sunny Slope
stock farm near Emporia to the City
of Mexico.
lingo cemetery is located in Miami
county. Isn't that just about the fun
NEST name you ever heard applied to
a cemetery?
The wheat fields in the northern part
of the state present beautiful sight,
and the ground is said to be in the
best of condition.
An insect which busies itself in cut
ting off the limbs of trees has appeared
in Butler county. 1t is an industrious
creature, and might accomplish con-
siderable good in the world if it would
direct it's energies in some other chan
nell
A few weeks ago George Parks, 1iv-
ing in Solomon, was hit on the head
by band from bursted threshing
machine cylinder, the blow splitting
open his head and causing the loss of a
portion of his brains. He is now able
to be up and around the streets of his
town.
Two Reno county ladies the other
day hired livery team and drove so
hard that one of the horses dropped
dead. They were not Intentionally
cruel, but were just simply too ignor-
ant about horses to realize when they
were being urged beyond their power
of endurance.
AS eggs are now usually sold there
is little or no inducement to secure
eggs large in size. The market price
is generally so much dozen without
regard to the SIZE Some prudent and
thoughtful housewives carefully sort
the eggs before taking them to market
and keep the largest ones at home for
use in their own kitchens. No one
can possibly blame them for doing
this, for in the market dozen is a
dozen, large or small, but at home
eight large eggs are as good or better
than dozen small ones.
While workmen were raising the
old Reeves house, at Greneda, they
unearthed some clues that may solve
mysterious disappearance that occur
ed there some years ago. Covered by
a thin layer of earth were found the
bones of a human body, also pair of
brass knuekles, dirk, several pairs of
boots and shoes that had never been
worn, and numerous other articles. A
few years ago stranger came to the
house, remained some time and then
disappeared. A relative traced him to
the house and there the trail ended.
The connection between the two Incl
dents seems very strange.
From town after town in Kansas
come complaints of the scarcity of
houses for rent. This is the time of
year when the prosperous farmer
moves into town for the purpose of
giving his children Better school facil-
tiles
Thirteen thousand tickets were sold
at Clay Center for the afternoon per-
Torrance of Ringing Brothers shows,
In Kansas this fall people are in shape
to purchase circus tickets without
stinting themselves on their regular
grub supply.
w. II. Fulweller, the well known
Kansas travelling man whose home is
at Clay Center, is an inventor of COM
bine due stop and ventilator which is
said to be mighty good thing, and
which will probably make him some
money.
In Atchison the city council fails to
hold session if theater is billed for
the regular meeting night; and yet a
great many grown people grumble be-
cause children express reluctance to
remain at home when there is circus
in town.
Inside of month telephone ex-
change will be in operation in Bur-
lington.