The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-11-03
Pithy Pointers from
1.-THE County Seat.


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The real ante election fight in Erie
township is over the office of con-
stable, job which pays about $50 a
year.
Now that Katie Knapp is married,
"Brer" McColey thinks that, as a mat
ter of simple justice and equity, the
bill against him for "dead horse
ought to be marked "paid."
Seven sons of Populist fathers will
vote the Republican ticket IN Erie
precinct this fall. The scramble which
the young fellows are making to get
into the Demo-Pop camp has not yet
assumed the pretentions of circus
parade.
Rev. Howard began his autumnal
series of revival meetings at the M.
e. church Sunday evening AS, prac-
tically, nobody in town escaped the
general conflagratiOn of conversion
last winter, these meetings are, pre-
sumably, for the purpose of allowing
Mrs. Banks to make her annual con-
fesslon of faith.
John Quincy Stratt0n, lawyer, schol-
ar and racOnteur, is serving an ap-
, premiership as preacher. He filled
the M. e. pulpit at Walnut Sunday,
and supplies, regularly, a circuit of
country school houses about Erie. j.
@. has Prince Albert coat and sew
eral other of the requisites and quail
fications of preacher.
A. A. George, fusion candidate for
county surveyor, has written play
which he will try on the Erie public
about November 10. Strange to say,
it deals, not with octopi the "Seven
Devils" and the "Crme of 49," but
with humdrum dukes and earls and
countesses and Gipsy maidens. Maybe
Alva has quit ''seein' things"
The Demo Pops are gradually recov-
erng from the "insult" rendered by
the Republicans to Mrs Dggs on the
day of the rally. Begging Diggs' par
don for comparing her to that kindly
ANIMAL and not insinuating that she
was gored, we are fain to observe that
the ''reform" forces are never able to
see political insult except their own
OK be horned.
Judge Henri Mills was over from
Thayer Monday. Judge Henri is still
fiery and untamed, but his horns are
shorter by several inches than they
were when he first came to Erie to
serve his country as probate judge.
If Providence, in its lnscrutable wis
dom, had permitted j. Henri to serve
another term, the Erie boys would
have had him tame enough to come
right up and eat out Of the hand.
As we understand Mr.. Lapham's
position In the matter it is that Judge
Stillwell should be defeated because
he once wrote letter commencing
Lapham's ability as lawyer. People
who are familiar with Lapham's
achievements in the legal arena con-
cur in the proposition that something
should be done to Stillweil for his in
discretion. But they are are not pre-
pared to 90 as far as Mr.. Lapham's
adherents suggest.
Mrs. Maude Albright, Of this city,
has sued her husband, Chas. Albright,
for divorce. She alleges desertion as
her reason for rending the bonds
which no man is presumed to put
asunder. Mrs. Albright first came
conspicuously into public view, a year
or two ago, when she sued a peripa-
tetic pill vender for using her pic
ture in a patent medicine testimonial.
She has been, more or less, a kaleidO-
scopic film on the public optic ever
since.
The "Godspeed aud god luck" OF
the Erie public, irrespective CT creed,
sex or color, go with Rev. C. }. Saun-
ders to his new pastorate at McPher-
son. Rev. Saunders made good" 10
Erie as a working Christian and af
fable gentleman. He. tended strictly
to the business OF preaching. and kept
his proboscIs out OF the affairs OF 9TH j