The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-01-06

at Norton.
The stock in all parts Of che state il
looming we'll.
The Great Bend council will quiz
licensing joints
A two days Catholic fair at Clay
Center netted $780,
A Kansas barber is advertising baths
at seven for dollar as matter of in
Producing them.
Wellsville Baptists raised $3.50 at the
recent dedication of their church and
are out of debt.
The Kansas papers had better run
of Christmas advertising this year
than ever before.
Wichita is having trouble with its
electric light company and may find
itself in darkness
Members of the Gaylord band last
week blew themselves for complete
lot of new instruments.
A vast amount of money has been
spent for Christmas presents this year.
in fact much more than is usually en-
pended.
Many of the Kansas farmers are
still holding on to the wheat crop
with the expectation of getting bet
ter price.
Clay Center wants an insane asylum.
Concordia wants normal school and
Stockton may put in bid for nor
NAL school, too.
4Thosc people at Woodbine who blew
up a joint with dynamite certainly
have most emphatic way of mani
Testing their displeasure.
The people of Humboldt have
grievance The claim is made that the
town is persistently misrcpresentcd by
every other town within the limits OF
the gas district.
There ought to be big attendance
at the meeting of the state editorial
association in Topeka in January
From the appearance of the Kansas
papers things have been coming their
way of late.
1t is all right, of course, to class
Kansas as prairie state, but in the
vicinity of Cummings, a small town in
Atchison county, three saw mills are
in operation, and they are not working
on sunfowers either.
j. c. Lewis, of Santa Fe, is another
man who will agree that there are too
many worthless dogs in Kansas. He
had a valuable brood sow that was
chased, worried and bitten by dogs uE-
til she died from the effects of it.
A lot of "hard- working men, bar
tenders, etc. have been thrown out of |
in Allen county recently |
by their employers being placed in
Jail. Thus the cruel arm of the law
axes bread out of the mouth of the
poor but honest man.
The able old sport of the Ellsworth
Reporter notes as another evidence of
prosperity that the ante in Kansas
poker games is higher this year than
or long time This, however, will
lot appeal with any great degree of
orce to the man who has the wrong
Kind of spots on his cards.
Harry Allen advises the young man
Who is tempted to become an Office
ecker to take a trip to Topeka and
watch the surging crowd who are
after something 1t is fact that
he sight of this push has tendency
o cause the man who has a job he can
Iold to feel contented with his lot.
Thanks to the generosity of the peo-
lie of Atchison, says the Globe, the
inmates of the Orphans Home had the
1ost successful Christmas treat this
ear in the history of the institution.
here are 22S children in the home
nd each one received at least three
resents aside from almost unlimited
mounts of nuts, candy AMI pop corn.
Out in western Kansas it is not an
ncommon thing for residents of the
ountry to put their horses up at a
very stable. and then take their own I
lights rest in a burrow in the hay {
low. A liveryman at Hoxie says that ,
e has no objections to this plan, but {
c does think it is a shanty trick for a
ian to put up his team at rival barn {
nd then come to his place for hay {
low lodging.
Milking cows properly requires ex-
skill and tact, and is both a ,
,ience and an art. 1t requires patience s
nd yet it must be done quickly and :
emily. A man who can milk eight or I
N good cows in an hour and do it I
ell is valuable man for dairyman =
, have. A kicking COW can nearly &