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

the postotiice building at Bcloit.
Secretary Coburn's christmas card
got n hurrah greeting from the pres
of the state.
A Beloit man recently fell heir t,
$4,000. And the best part of it is tina
he got the money
1t has been found necessary to in
crease the capacity of the electric
light plant at Beloit.
For the third time the residents o.
lola have voted down the question OF
city ownership of gas.
The up-to-date Presbyterians of Bur
lingame had Ferris wheel in place Of
the old fashioned Christmas tree.
A booze fighter who got too gay in O
Beloit hotel was thrown out by the
fifteen year old daughter of the land
lady.
The saloons have been abolished in
SOihS VI tuC NcoIClll hduSiS CoNho uhu
yet they are not as dry as they might
be.
Judge Nelson Cases handsome gift
to the Baldwin University was one of
the brightest features of the Christmas
season.
The Sentinel boasts that Glen Elder
is one of the few towns that has no
citizen who is badgering Stanley for n
position.
The IIiawatha World office, which is
hard to beat in its present condition,
will soon be in better shape than ever
with new and improved machinery.
An Ellsworth county stock man was
with considerable pride displaying on
the streets of the county seat the other
day an eighteen months old bull that
weighed 1855 pounds.
State Superintendent Stryker has q
bill ready for the cons liberation of the
extra session of the Legislature, pro.
viding for the extension of the text
book law so as to include High school
books and apparatus.
The Baptists of Peabody will feel
better after the dawning of the New
Year. On the last day of 1898 special
services will be held and at that time
the mortgage which has been on the
church will be burned
AS further evidence that the people
in the western portion of Kansas are
doing well it is noted in the Stockton
Record that within the past year five
insurance orders have been
established in that town.
One couldn't pick up western Kan
sas paper last week that didn't tell
about two or three carloads of dressed
turkeys being shipped out. 1t is not
our fault if there were not happy
Christmas dinners in the eastern cit
les.
A McPerson county man who was
out driving, wishing his horse to get
over the ground a little more swiftly, |
rave the animal punch with his shot
run. The weapon was discharged and |
he horse killed The local paper
classes this as peculiar and sad oc
urrence.
The hog has received great many
,icks and curses in his day but he has
zone right along peacefully grunting
nd converting almost any kind of old
asst off and refuse food into pork and
he pork into money to pay mortgages,
'uild houses and barns and buy pianos
nd other luxuries for his numerous
riends.
At Fort Scott there is pending be.
ore the city council an ordinance pro-
lifting the doing of any sort of work.
n Sunday for pay, and including even
reachers. Fort Scott must be greatly
from most places or it would
c very difficult to prove that preach
r got pay for preaching on Sunday
IS rule they don't get pay sufficient
D cover more than a small part of
heir week day work, to say nothing
f Sunday.
The following notice is posted on
he door of the office of the Rock Is
md agent at Phillipsburg: Halt
bout, Face March! Personally we
ave no objection to your presence in
ne Office, but we need our time TO do
ur work. Your presence is hiud-
ance If you have business to trans.
ct. call at the window where we will
G pleased to meet you. Please do not
ome inside the office" The company
nght to put that agent on the retired
st.
All agricultural colleges should pro
de winter courses of study and in.
ruction for farmers boys and girls
he work on the farm demands theil