The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-01-07
EANsAs ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Many more Kansas farmers had q
merry Christmas this year than las,
year.
Wheat keeps going up and bicycles
keep coming down." said the Kansas
farmer. Things are coming my way
from both directions.
On December 23rd business firm at
Blue Rapids, shipped four thousand
pounds of turkeys to the eastern mar
ket.
In the last two months deposits in
Kansas banks have increased only
slightly. People are investing their
money. Kansas is just now in home
buying era.
The large increase in business on the
katy" has necessitated the putting on
of an extra pickup train which will be
started about the first of the year. 1t
will be worked between Parsons and
Sedalia.
Andy Platner, of Ellsworth county,
sold forty-four head of fat cattle, aver
aging 1891 pounds, for 81. 10 hundred
and drove home singing the old hymn,
Nov l can read my titles clear to
Klondihes of my own"
The unprecedented reticence of Pro-
lessor Dyche is due to the fact that he
is making a four-pointed weather
vane. On each point is the letter rs.
He will stick this vane on the North
Pole when he gets there.
The Lawrence Journal remarks:
THE Journal is the only paper in Kan
sas, the only one, if we are not mis-
taken, in the whole country, that got
through the Christmas holidays with
out the ideotic Xmas" appearing once
in its columns, either in editorial, To-
cal, telegraph or news column" This
entities the Journal to considerable
respect, especially as it further an
nounces that next year it endeavor to
make plain to advertisers the error |
OF their ways in using This expression,
which really is about the most sense
less one yet devised.
At the last meeting of the county
board of Ellis county the matter of let
ting the contract for the new court
house came up. A number of contrac-
tors were present to bid on the job,
but it did not take them long to ascer-
tain that the building could not be
erected for the sum proposed. 1t is
estimated that it would cost at least
S., 600 more than the architects esti-
mate. 1t was finally decided to have
the building built of hard rock below
the water table and soft rock above,
and other changes were made in the
plans. The board adjourned to meet
January Sd, when new bids will be re-
ceived.
hC Ulllo duAudl GALLUP VI bhC
Glasco Poultry and Pet Stock associa-
ton is unusually large, there being
362 birds on exhibition. Each individ-
ual class was well represented, the
American class leading in numbers.
The Plymoth Rock and Wyandote fam ;
lily would be credit to any poultry
show in the eastern states. The Ash
atics are exceptionally good, the light {
brahmas and landshans taking the
cad. In the Mediterraneans the leg
horns, minorcas and hamburgs are per-
tect beauties. The score cards were {
made by G. H. Rhodes, of Topeka, who
lcted as judge. All the birds will be
shipped to Beloit where the Mitchell {
county poultry and pet stock associa- t
ion opens early in January and con- /
inues short session. {
4The Salvation army did some good
work in Dickinson county on Christ '
mas day among the poor c
Rocks county is about to purchase a I
,oor farm. The board of county com
nissioners have been inspecting the i
ZONES of adjoining counties for point '
RS. [
The Wichita Eagle says there are no
-oung men in Kansas who can play '
,oker 1t is evident that the Eagle C
makes distinction between those who g
play" the game and those who lose i
money at it. y
A thrifty serf in Ellsworth county
Who represented himself as dairy '
nan milching 300 cows, sold big lot i
f butter to Wilson merchants, receiv- a
ng Is cents pound, in trade. The
OF was shipped to Denver commits /
ion firm, and in few days came T
etter stating that they would allow I
he shippers 3 cents a pound for it as
hey had found the rolls were of tallow 8
Nth but thin coating of butter. As h
'ret Harte might put it, For ways t
hat are dark and tricks that are vain, Y
he bad Kansas man is peculiar" ~