The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-02-24
CHIT CHAT.

5 CHIT SHAT. 5
X. N. Allen is at Topeka this week.
Wonder If he and Mort Albaugh Will
rub noses and make up.
The conquest Of Iloilo was very
tame affair. 1t went off something
like the campaign ia Porto Rico.
f. M. Dawdy seems to be the COM
ing man in Chanute. The ladies nave
taken him mp and are urging him for
mayor. That do about settle it.
Professor O'Connor was visiting our
schools the first of the week. The
professor seems to take a great inter
est In the second primary work.
=
Now that Kansas is going to make
her own Irvine by convict LABOR, an
other prop is knocked from under the
Populist party, One more trust done
for.
If you want to see the pretticst cell
ing in town just drop into Boschert u
Williams and see that artistic job OF
painting done by the Carey boys on
their ceiling.
RoSenthal, for the last two weeks,
has been doing business on the sloe-
walk, but from this on he will have
one of the neatest rooms in the city in
which to do business.
G.. e. Benedict carefully measured
himself at the close OF the cold snap
and found he only measured six feet
two, contraction of just four inches
from the effects Of the cold.
, Kansas seems to have moved down
from the Arctic regions and taken her
old place in the Temperate zone again.
We can stand such winter as we have
: been having the past week right well.
81
This spring G. A. Cox will yolun-
tarily retire from the office Of city at
. torney, which place he has filled tol
;, so long with great credit to himself
and profits to the city. Charley vii
seek the repose of non-otlicial life
d
Shell Brown is a candidate for cit.
+ attorney. but he has not determined
vet whether he will go before TIT
y people for an election or before thu
C council and mayor for un appoint
81 ment. We are for Shell either way.
4 D. S. Tweed, the new manager o
y the creamery at this place, takes mol
= of the work like an old hand at tn
business. He is introducing som
n changes in the management IF affair
ID that promise to be an improvement,
TX =sE
re The foreman of THE TINES offic
m must be accorded tile credit for a
the good things (if there are any l
n this issue. The editor has gone
81 Topeka to attend the meeting of til
ut Kansas editors, and the office devil
er visiting his parents in Oklahoma.
it There seems to be one striking oil
to ference between the French an
st American people. The American
er will abuse public man and say a
ee manner of evil of him while he live
but as soon as he is dead we hear onl
ab of his good deeds. The French flattt
f. the living and malign and SANDER I'll
l. dead.
- We notice already the Democrat
papers are claiming the advance mac
-, by the steel trust in the wages of i
- employees is made for political effec
IL, The So, 100000 extra that will be pa
- to the employees in two years und
- the new schedule would be rather
81 stiff contribution to the campait
e fund for one finn. That beats Co
Harvey's dolar-a-month propositit
ne all boiler.
te,
ell Geo. Abbott has about complete
nd his elegant cottage on Kansas avenu
Il. C. w. Hartman. of Ridge, wi
ar raises fine Poland-China hogs, was
pleasant caller Tuesday. Mr.. Ha
man has few shoats he is offering
=" greatly reduced prices, See his loo
IN another column.
ng
cd The Pilgrim brothers will start
to farm on their own hook this sprin
They have moved onto the old JackSC