The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-08-11

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up street fair. The state of Kansas
will be speckled with street fairs this
fall.
The chinch bugs are having hard
time this year. They failed to get in
their work on the wheat, and the
farmers are laying for them with
Chancellor Shows infected bugs
While the young men in Hutchinson
are neglecting their privileges and
frittering away their chances, some Of
finest young women in the town are
going off to act as missionaries to
China and India.
Finney county expects to have a
particularly good fair in September
When county as far west AS Finney
is able to do this, it means that it is
possible for any other county in the
state to do the same, if the effort is
made.
A Harvey county man has al apple
tree which Away yields big crop.
He offers to deed his stock farm to
anyone who will give him fifty cents
for each apple on the tree, and the
| farm is worth more than five thousand
dollars, too.
There are now over 700 men in the
Thirtv-second, which is being recruit
ed at Fort Leavenworth, and it is be-
lieved that by the 18th the regiment
will have it's full quota Of men, The
young men enlisting are the soundest
that can be found.
Hereafter the business men of Del
phos will close promptly at o'clock
each evening with the exception OF
Saturday. The stores will make just
as many sales as under the old ar
rangement, and the employees will
have better time.
The Kansas boy who went to war
and gets back alive will be ahead of
every college graduate who stayed at
home. The wanderer has broader
views, world of self-reliance and
recognition of an essential discipline
in life, without which success is not
possible
At Coffeyville the marshal and his
assistants have been ordered to visit
every place suspected of being joint
twice in the forenoon, twice in the
afternoon and twice in the evening.
The people in southern Kansas are
doing all they can to rid their towns of
the joints, and they are determined to
succeed.
Thus far fifty-seven heirs have been
found for the estate of Nathaniel
Head, an old farmer who died recent
ly in Dickinson county. He was
bachelor and left no will. When his
property was all collected it was
found that it amounted to $4,000. 1t
is said that in the days of his youth
Mr.. Head was sutton to Lucy B.
Hayes, but that Mrs. Hayes refused
him for the future President
Some Twentieth Kansas boy, writ
ing home, says the army mule is the
most effective weapon Uncle Sam has
sent against the Filipinos. The only
thing of the mule kind the Filipinos
had ever seen before the advent of the
American was the diminutive island
pony, and when they saw these i'm
mense long-eared brutes, and saw
what heavy loads they pulled, they
were filled with fear and awe.
Probably no message that ever came
from the soldier boys of the Twentieth
touched the mother hearts in Kansas
more quickly than that from George
Ferrel, the Montgomery county boy
who, in a letter to his folks, said that
he wanted his first meal ON arriving
home to consist of big lot of batter
cakes: good butter, and some ice cold
milk. 1t is simply fearful to think of
the course of feeding the good
mothers will expect their soldier boys
to go through on their return home.
Irving's merchants have put up for
band concerts which will be held every
Saturday night.
The attractions that are counted on
to keep the trolley line between Kan
sas City and Leavenworth busy are the
Soldiers home, the post and the peni-
Tertiary.
There have been other wet summers
in Kansas, other growing summers,
but this is the states first summer
where it hasn't got hot enough to
draw the nails up out of board side
walk.
The ways of an assessor is beyond
the ken of man. In Doniphan county
mules are valued at S1s.27, while in
Cove county they value them at So. 70.
Thirty years ago Fort Scott had
1000 population and was reached by
stage line running from Paola. The