The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-08-19
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The broom corn crop around Nc
Pherson will be short this year.
Miss Bette Weber, aged II, has dis
appeared from her home at Topeka.
1t is thought at Fort Leavenworth
that the soldiers will soon return from
Cuba.
Az Abilene boy at ChiclSamarga
writes home that he still SHES at hair
brushes.
A letter has come TO the Leaven-
worth postoffice stained by Spanish
blood.
Most of the papers of Kansas point
with pride to the statement of the To-
cal bank in their last issue.
Kansans are in such a prosperous
condition that even the extremely hot
weather does not keep the lodges from
having ''work" every meeting night.
Great CONSERVATION reigns among
the girls of Kansas over the announce
mcnt that 90 per cent of Kansas boys
at Frisco are engaged to California
girls.
Frank Lewis, an Osborne county
farmer, says that for five years he has
raised an average of thirty-eight bush
els of corn to the acre, and he will have
twenty this year.
The proposition to vote $4,000 in
bonds for the construction of the Kan
sas, Oklahoma Central and Southwest
crn railroad carried at the election at
Independence, Tuesday.
War is brewing at Topeka between
the town negroes and the soldier ne
rroes. Topeka negro girls are inclined
TO love the soldiers the best. A gen
eral onslaught with razors is expected
Ut any time.
The railway agent at Marysville has
named his infant daughter Philippine
Manila Schleyetta Dewetta Grimes. In
the exciting joys of first daddyhood
those were all the heroic names he
could remember.
So many switches and smelter tracks
have been put down in and around
lola that it is thought a switch engine
will be needed there pretty soon
There is nothing that looks more bust
ness-like than the sight of switch
goat bunting around in the yards
There was circus in Ellsworth this
week, and the ladies of the Presbyter-
ian church took advantage of the occa-
sion and set up an ice cream stand, the
proceeds of the enterprise going into
the church fund. The circus does the
advertising, and the church gets the
benefit.
1t was saying of one of Phillips
county's local weather prophets years
ago that if rain fell between the 27th
of July and the 9Th of August the corn
crop was assured, and John Royce says
that the prophet knew what he was
ers to prepare for great crop.
There was wedding in Cloud coun-
t. the other day; nothing very unusual
in that highly prosperous locality just
at this time, it is true, but the odd fea-
ture of this particular triumph of
Cupid is that the bride came from
Iowa to meet the groom, and the we'd
ding day was the first time that she
had seen him for 80 years.
Horton has just found out that it
had representative in the fight at
Manila; Tom Duncan, whose folks
live in Horton. A couple of years ago
Tom drifted away, and it was but
few days ago that his folks located
him. He was on board the Olympia,
Dewey's flagship, during the famous
engagement. Tom is fireman; one of
the brave fellows who works away
down in the bowels of the ship and
makes it possible for the boys above to
win battles.
Indications are that there will be
deficiency of teachers for the common
schools of Kansas this year instead of
surplus, as there has always been here
tofore. State Superintendent Stryker,
who has just returned from an extend
ed official trip through Kansas, says
that all the county institutes have a
small attendance this year, indicating
large falling off in the number of
teachers. Mr.. Stryker assigns the
cause to the large crops, and subse-
quent opening up of all avenues of
business, creating lucrative positions
which draw teachers from the profess
sion. He says the teachers who have
remained in the profession are ADLER
ones, and hence he expects the schools
of Kansas this year to be in the best
condition.
Just now Harvey county has SIG, 521.-
sin the general fund, and all out
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