The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-10-07
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A wire fence factory at Waverly uses
a car load of wire week.
1t is out of season but the horned
rabbit story has started again.
The clothing grafters have been get
ting next to the easy marks in Lyons
county.
This week man and his wife will
leave Topeka to do missionary work
in Egypt
The Third regiment band has been
engaged to furnish music for the Mia
mi county fair.
During the past year the business OF
the Jewell postoffice has been greater
than it ever was before.
A colored mad in Lyon county has
gone crazy and insists that he owns
the Santa Fe railroad.
Waterville claims Miss Marry Norris
Berry, the young lady who won recog-
milton as a singer in New York and St.
Louis.
In Abilene the city council has stuck
such heavy fine on the fakirs and
travelling agents that it will be impos-
sible for them to do business in that
town.
A Coffey county farmer planted some
corn June 4, which he cut August 49,
One hill produced q stock twelve feet
high with six we'll developed ears of
corn.
At the coming old settlers meeting,
to be held in Beloit, no one will be al
lowed inside the ring unless their date
of arrival in that country is shown to
be prior to 1875.
The Seneca Tribune claims there is
man in Nemaha county who has new
err paid for his wedding cards nor the
keg of beer he tapped for the boys
when he was married.
The state eneampment of the Grand
Army is remarkably free from politics
this year. Politicians and candidates
abound at the camp, but restrict them
selves principally to hand shaking and
social time.
A company of farmers has been form
ed to build a cooperative Touring mill
between enterprise and Letroit. 1t
will be built by subscription and pro-
fits will be divided among the patrons
of the mill.
There is debt on the Episcopal
church at Salina of 81 200, and about
5000 is owing on the parsonage. To
raise the money the members of the
Ladies' guild have resorted to the let
ter chain system.
Dickinson is the banner COW county
of the state. The annual income per
COW in that county ranges <rom $l2 tc
S4s, which shows that there is big
difference between intelligent, and
slip-shod management.
A story is going the rounds of the
papers about man who tried the ex'
pertinent of mixing sawdust with his
chicken feed The result was so sat
isfactory that he discontinued the use
of meal altogether, and fed his chick
ems entirely on sawdust. Soon after
adopting the scheme he set hen with
fifteen eggs. She brought off thirteen
chicks. Twelve of them had wooden
legs and the thirteenth was wood
peclSer.
In years gone by, there have been
appeals from poultrymen all over the
state, both as individuals and associa-
tions, for poultry department at the
Kansas Experiment Station at Man
haitian. At present it seems as if some
of these eggs will prove fertile and
hatch into poultry division at an
early date. If the changes of 1897 in
the station staff did not add poultry
man to the number, they did add sew
eral earnest friends of the hen, who
since then have worked hard in her
interest.
A Mitchell county minister may some
day receive call to go straight up,
body, soul and breeches. His home is
lighted by means of an acetylene gas
plant of his own construction.
The Presbyterian church at Downs
is being torn down and will be sold
for old lumber. 1t was struck by
lightning some weeks ago and DANA
ged so badly that repairs were out of
the question.
There is talk of organizing COM
pany with capital stock of $4,000,
whose business it shall be to rebuild
and repair the bridge over the MINES
cab river, near Belle PLANE. This
bridge has proved to be a good thing
for tho Missouri Valley RridUe COM