The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-07-22

cherryvale girl are getting up boz
social
Wellington had big Temperance
meeting recently.
Leavenworth sent twenty-seven col
orcd volunteers to Camp Leedy.
Sumner county wants rock pile fol
prisoners in the Jail to work on.
The Walnut girls like to go driving
because the roads are dusty and you
have to go slow.
A Leavenworth colored soldier wa
nearly killed by falling from trair
and being dragged
1t is estimated that 10000 people at
tended exercises at the Soldiers Home
at Fort Leavenworth on the Fourth Of
July.
One firm of implement dealers in
Smith county has just recently deliv'
cred ten separators, received in two
shipments.
The biggest steer which has been on
the Kansas City market for a long
time was recently shipped from Nor
ton county. 1t weighed 2,15O pounds.
Lieutenant Blue, who twice secuted
around Santiago in search of informa-
ton for our forces has cousin, Phillip
Blue, working at the case in the Office
of the Norton Courier.
Miltonvale recently passed such an
ironclad liquor ordinance that the
jointist who has the temerity to run
up against it will feel great deal as
though he has been dallying with .
buzz saw.
A German farmer in Wabaunsee
county tells the Alma Enterprise that
he is willing to go to war and help
whip Germany if she attempts to mix
in this affair with the United States
and Spain.
A young fellow in Beloit who assist
ed an inmate of the Girls Industrial
School to escape got fifteen days in
the county jail for his friendlincss,
and he ought to thank his stars that
he escaped so easily.
A Fort Scott woman has been de-
clared insane and sent to the asylum
because she thinks she can sing. If
that is to be test, Kansas will have
to build an insane asylum in every
county in the state.
Some idea of the crop of corn that is
getting to the front in Kansas may be
formed from the following from the
Horton Commercial: 1.-The corn crop
in this section promises to almost eX-
coed the crop of candidates. >
A Nemaha county farmer brought
stalk of corn into Seneca the other day
which measured ten feet and three
inches in its sock feet. and there was
no indication of tasseling yet. either.
Pretty good for this stage of the game.
A Miami county man says there is
but little wheat and oats in that sec
ton; that flax will be the main crop to
thresh. Kansas is big state with di-
versifed crops There are thousands
and thousands Of people in Kansas who
would not know field of fax if they
shonld meet one in the road.
For the last quarter the expenses of
the Sumner county poor farm amount
ed to $972.23. The receipts for the
same period were 81, 304.53. This eX-
cellent showing was made possible by
the sale of 81 ,O1s.O5 worth of wheat
while the price was way up, and ten
head of cattle at $27 per head.
The latest figures given in the ami
mated discussion between Lebanon
and Smith Center as to which is the
DeJUeT DuSlHcSS pOIuJ COluC lIOlu IllO
Rock Island road and show that Smith
Center is in the lead; but the Lebanon
people can have the satisfaction of
knowing that they arc giving the coun-
ty seat town good run for her mon
ey.
Ellsworth citizens who have con-
tributed literally for the soldier boys,
are now being approached by solicit
ing committees from two of the local
churches. One is raising money with
which to paint the Methodist church,
and the other is securing fund to
seat the Presbyterian church; but tho
money is being raised easily enough.
1t has been long time since it has
been so easy to work a subscription
paper through in Kansas as it is right
now.
There is wonderful falling off just
at present of accounts of swindlers
getting in their work over the state.
People are so busy now that they have