The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-12-22

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Miss Ellis has worked herself into
a shadow this winter, and is now
chasing the shadow around.
Aug Barrels three weeks at the
books of Bloomheart & Wright seem
to be frightening out into perma-
neDt job.
The big snow went as silently and
rapidly as it came. Sunday night we
went to bed and left the ground COW
cred with its mantle of white, Mon
day morning we found Mother Earth
covered with a wet blanket only.
1t is currently reported that Miss
Mabel Cary has company from abroad.
We have been expecting some gen.
tleman of good judgment with taste
for the beautiful TO slip in here and
walk away with prize while our own
young men are dreaming.
The Christmas trade this year bids
fair to be the largest in many years.
There seem to be more nice things
this year to tempt the dollar to slip
from the grip of the horny hand than
ever before and there seem to be an
unusual number of dollars to slip.
Ernest Daniels has been transfer
red from the grocery department at
Bloomheart g. Wright's to the shoe
department. This change seems
quite appropriate as a young lady
just can't help trying on pair of
shoes when Ernest is waiting on her.
Schulze g. McChesney have dis
solved. McChesney returning to Chi
cago and Mr.. Schulze retaining the
business. Several of the girls are
sad and refusing to be COM
forted, even by generous Christmas
gifts, since Mr.. McChesney took his
Talk about your winter in Sunny
Kansas. Better 60 to farming and
quit shivering around the stove. Last
Wednesday Homer Hunt brought in
to our Office a potato with great long
sprouts on it, which he had just dug.
Said he dug a bushel or so and they
were all right, not frozen bit.
We are glad to note the great sue
cess Mr.. Ed Register has made as prin.
cipal of the High School. He seems
to discipline without friction, and
draw out what there is in pupil in
stead of trying to cram the mind with
facts. If Ed stays with the
work, in few years he will be one
of the leading teachers Of the state.
The poor editor derives great deal
of solid comfort these Christmas
times in gazing into the beautifully
bedecked windows and thinking Of
the many nice little presents he could
buy for his poor little orphan child
dren if only his delinquent subscrib-
ers, that could just as we'll as not,
would drop in and leave the dollar
Aud now Opal is going to leave the
paternal roof. That's the penalty,
Col. Dora, for raising family of such
good looking girls, they all leave you
while quite young and you will be left
a childless sire in the very prime of
life, except for Blue who will now
have to shoulder all the responsible
ties of dishwashing and scrubbing
while you yourself look after the de
mands of Jersey.
1t is now Grandpa Aft Gibson. The
old man will now put on more airs
than ever. He may, however. be ex-
pected soon to quit passing as zone
of the boys" and drop into the quiet,
dignified ways of mature years,
Grandpa ALI! Don't that sound
little strange? 1t seems but few
years sinceOAlf was young married
man just starting in the west, and
goading the patient OK at the prairie
plow in his earnest efforts to build
him home on the prairie, and now
see what Kansas has done for him.
WANTED.
One hundred bushels OF white corn.