The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-10-27
MARRIAGE LICENCES.
Pithy Pointers from
1.-The County Seat.

Cases of diphtheria and scarlet fever
are reported from Centerville town
ship. One death from the former
disease has occurred.
Weddings are epidemic hereabout.
Su far only children have been affect
ed by the contagion. None Of the
grown-up people seem able to catch it..
The Santa Fe pump house burned
Friday night. This was, no doubt, a
manifestation of Providence against
the greed and avarice of the railway
corporations.
Something like three months have
elapsed since anybody dug out of the
county Jail. This is an oversight on
the part of the prisoners, as strange
as it is inexplicable.
Nellie Sullivan, aged IA, residence
Chanute, went to the Industrial
School for Girls, at Beloit, Monday,
via the probate court. Miss Sullivan
is certainly the warmest article that
has appeared in Erie for some time.
Mrs. Mary Long has broken ground
for new hotel on the block east Of
that occupied by t he Arlington.
Fourth street, from the court house
to Main, will soon present an unbrok-
en- front of hotels and boarding
houses.
Rev. Scrivner, of the Christian
church, is "swatting" the devil and
his cohorts at Shaw. There have been
some thirty accessions to the church.
Latest bulletins indicate that the for
tress of John Q. Guss is beleaguered.
but there are, az yet. no indications
of surrender.
Erie preachers seem to be up against
II good and strong. One of them has
lust been fired bodily by his congrega-
tion. Another picked 'scrap" with
the old soldier members of his con"
pregation, and as a result is 'shy"
considerable portion of his tithes and
emoluments. A third drove five miles
into the country to marry couple,
and received seventy-five cents for his
trouble. Not all the stones on life's
pathway are cast in front or the
transgressor.
After a residence of sixteen years in
Erie, j. M. Allen will move his goods
and chattels, his lares ct penates. to
Chanute. Erie will miss the Hon.
Jeemes M. No man who ever lived in
tn, county town looked more persist
ently for "trouble," or found 1t often
er; no other man has so consistently
opposed every proposition which other
people favored. But he is good citi-
zen for all of that, and Chanute can
WELCOME him with the assurance that
he will "make good'' in the "good fel-
low" class.
AS an evidence Uf what firm pur-
pose and everlastingly being at it will
do for a man, the case of T. P. Leach
is hereby cited. / don't know the
date of Mr.. Leach's advent into the
county, but since that time, whenever
IL was, he has been candidate for
county office nine times. He has been
thrice elected to official positions, and
is now appealing to the voters for the
tenth time. There are many sad evil
dences OF the ravages OF the office
seeking microbe in Kansas. but the
case of Mr.. Leach, Of Shiloh. presents
chronic and incurable symptoms sell
dom, If ever, observed elsewhere.
The Demo-Pop rally Saturday was
a hummer. 1t was also James
dandy. lulu, a cracker.jack and sew
eral other things. The crowd, in It's
most populous moment. was not In
excess nf 200 people. This estimate
includes the candidates, of whom
there was legion, the school children.
and the Republicans, attracted out OF
curiosity. The affair came nearer be-
ing sway backed, bone-spavin failure
than anything ever before pulled of
by the reform" forces in Neosho
county. Senator Harris came and blew
"hot air" into the ears of the assem-
bled .smultitude" for about ninety
minutes. The only person who made
serious attempt to applaud his utter
ances was. Mrs. Digs. This latter
apostle of the new dispensation fol-
lowed the Senator and agitated things
particularly the atmosphere-per-
ceptibly incidentally, the writer de-
slres to expi ess the opinion that Dlggs
is the most effective club the Demo
Pops ever placed IN the hands OF the
Republican party. 1t comes from
good authority that her services Sat
urday cost her party $40. She dam
aged IL about $1,000 worth.