The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-03-25

A Kansas newspaper is running a de
partment printed in the French Ian
guage.
Wichita sent fourteen tons of sup
plies to the starving poor of Cuba las
week.
5A Jewell county young man eighteel
years of age took his first steam trai1
ride last week
The Quaker Dairy company is the
name OF a creamery company organ
lied at Edwardsville, in Wyandott,
county.
The Independence ice factory started
up last week working day and night.
Five men are employed and the capac'
ity is eleven tons day.
A Phillipsburg merchant compro-
missed with thief who made off with
pair of shoes and hat by making
him pay double price for the goods.
There is terrible lot of wild-eyed
belligerency in some Kansas papers
which might be accounted for from the
fact that the state is so short on coast
line.
A White Cloud man is chewing a
dimes worth of tobacco day in order
to get hundred tin tobacco tags and
get an extra pound Some people are
great schemers.
The body of an unknown man was
found in Bucyrus, Miami county March
IS. The body was well dressed. No
thing definite is known as yet, but foul
play is suspected.
Prosperity has struck the Atchison
postoffice The receipts have increased
enough to insure the raise of one hun
dred dollars in the salary of the post
master next year.
The Grain Dealers association will
hold its next annual meeting at Salina
early in April. The meeting will
last one day and one night, and it is
that 25O grain men will be
in attendance. Considerable impor-
tant business, in the form of new meas
lres to benefit the grain trade, will be
brought before the meeting.
Recently a Smith Center merchant
sent to a Kansas city wholesale house
lis check for $50. 1t was presented at
me of the large banks there, went
hough the clearing house, and was
to one of the national banks
If Smith Center, at the end of the
month, along with other checks. Yet
t was absolutely worthless, as it was
Unsigned 1t bore the merchants
ard in one corner.
J. II. Glathart, one of the best
,nown business men of Lawrence, who
S widely known Throughout the county
S an auctioneer, was thrown from his
orse while out riding on March 10th,
nd had six ribs broken and sustained
UGH other severe injuries that his con-
ition is quite serious. Mr.. Glathart is
bout so years of age, and tolerably
irge man, so that it is impossible to
ell just how serious his injuries may
e.
The prospects for an enormous crop
wheat in Dickinson county are ex-
client. The recent rains and warm
leather having brought it out in such
fine condition that the green fields
an be seen for miles in extent, there
aving been an extra large acreage S
lanted last fall. Should the present t
Ugh price of grain continue until next '
Ill, as undoubtedly it will, the Kan ]
IS farmers will be placed in one of t
lie most prosperous conditions ever \
nown in the history of the state. The c
ats seeding, which was in full blast f
ill be stopped for few days on ac- t
,unt of the recent rain. The farmers I
Dickinson county are beginning to h
,alize their dream of true prosperity b
ice more. They will once more be a
ole to send their children to college, a
nd free the old farm of the detesti- K
-e mortgage. h
Saturday afternoon is 'sale day" in
arysville, when everyone with any e
ling to sell brings it to town, and a n
an is employed to auction off the lot. b
his has been regular custom for the S
lst three years, and gives great salts C
ction to buyer and seller who are en- Il
,led in this manner to easily get to-
,ther.
Most of the newspaper men in Kan k
S are just now, with terrible effort, t
ppressing an inclination to remark h
,out the United States marshal for e
ansas striking the ceiling. h
The register of deeds of Montgomery
'unty reports that land sales for the O
onths of January and February t
mounted to S132,OO the average price e
r acre paid being about S13. V
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