The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-11-11

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Kansas.
: The agricultural college is doing
some splendid work.
After next week there will be clca
S track for foot ball news
Sherman Gates, Wichita boy, goe
to Australia, where he has good jol
working for a New York electrical
company.
Not even the jugglers magic flower
vase is more prolific than good ole
Kansas soil. Joe Gravel of Harvey
county, is just harvesting his second
crop of potatoes off the same piece Of
ground.
Kansans are enjoying sublime aut-
umn weather just at the present time
But then as general thing, Kansans
scarcely get touch of winter until
after Christmas, and sometimes as late
as January.
Last weeks Golfers Weekly con-
tanned a picture of Johnny Outland,
the Mitchell county Quaker boy who
is captain of the Pennsylvania Univer.
sity foot ball team. 1t was rafting
good picture of him, too. A Chicago
paper of recent date printed cut la
beled Captain Outland" which looked
more like pirate would after hard
fight at sea.
Woodson county will vote on a prop
osition to issue 100000 worth of bonds
for the purpose of erecting a court
house. Mitchell county ought to fol-
low suit. 1t is probably safe to say
that Mitchell county has the poorest
apology for court house to be found
in the state. 1t is such a ram-shaclhle
old hut that the sessions of the district
court are held in another building, as
the crowd in attendance would surely
wreck the court house," and the coun'
ty officials have rooms in four or fiv'
different buildings.
Clay Park has loosed the rein of fan
cy's pen and sings a song which makes
us say amen "The wizard of autumn
has waved his wand over Kansas, and
within a fortnight a change of nature
has been wrought as marvellous us even
sprang from magirian's COMPUTATIONS,
The green of woodland and pasture
has burst into the scarlet tints of aut'
umn days, and on the heart of forest
and meadow there is flame of golden
glory such as was never born in artists
widest visions. There are no autumn
days; no autumn scenes like those Of
Kansas, anywhere else
A new source of revenue in Western
Kansas just now coming in is celery.
1t is grown moderately on the upland
by the aid of irrigation, but the most
profitable experiments have been in
the lowlands, along the creek valleys
where the water is nearer the surface.
Along the Beaver, the forks of the
Sappa, the Prairie Dog and the Solo
mon no less than fifty men have been
successful in the growth of celery-so
successful that they yearly increase
their plants and in Denver, where it is
marketed, their product is sold along
with the Michigan article.
A good many Kansas newspapers are
Dragging about the amount of job
work they are turning out just at pres
ent. There isn't any business that
gets hit any harder or any more quick
ly on account of the coming of hard
times times than the country print
shops, and it is cause for considerable
satisfaction to know that things are
coming their way again. A man will
90 without printed matter when things
get down to bed rock, although it is
bad policy to do SO, and a subscription
bill is one of the last things to be paid
when money gets tight" Matters are
looking better now, and people ought
to let go of the money they owe the
print shops
Professor Snow, in his weather re-
port for October, says that the snow
fall on the 18th is the earliest on rec.
ord. This settles the question. Prof.
Shows word on the weather is as good
as Coburn's concerning the crops.
There will have to be lot of ex-
planning done when the volunteers
who are at Leavenworth return tc
their homes. Every mother will want
to know just what share her boy had
in getting away with the thirteen bar
rels. of beer consumed at the recent
smoker given the volunteers.
There is no getting around it. Win,
ter is here. 1t is noted by the Gaylord
Herald that the price of cobs has been
doubled.
Students at Midland college in Atch
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