The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-03-09
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
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More houses are needed in Chanute.
We hear no complaint OF lack of
stock water lately.
Keep your chicken coops locked; the
Methodist preachers are here.
| j. p. Baden, the big produce and
mill man of Winfield, is dead.
The carleton schools have opened
up again after their smallpox scare.
The school children are fighting
with the mud and the measles in the
Fourth ward.
One of our pretty schoolmarms is
enjoying the warm embia ace of the
measles this week.
The Methodist church Will now let
it's light shine, from the fine new
chandelier just put in.
The past two weeks have not been
very favorable for putting IN brick
plants or drilling gas wells.
c. V. Dennis is reported as meeting
mad dog on the street. Probably the
poor dog had just cause for being mad
Those kids in the Erie Record Office
are getting out first-class paper in
the absence of the editor, Mrs. Har-
baugh.
1t seems Chanute and Erie are 60
ing to have a contest as to which shall
furnish Pop candidate for county
attorney.
The regular annual talk of high
school for Chanute has again started.
We presume it will be about as pro-
ductive of results as have been previ-
GUS efforts.
! When you meet an intelligent good
looking stranger on the street now,
step up and shake hands and call him
brother. He is one of the Methodist
preachers attending conference.
Miss Mitchell, superintendent of the
:. lola schools, spent last Sunday with
Miss Ellis. Miss Mitchell is not much
bigger than pound of soap, but she
is said to be blue lightning in the
school room.
= Miss Frazier, Of the Erie Sentinel,
was circulating in Chanute last Mon
day. THE TIMES Office acknowledges
a pleasant call. We wonder if her
;. presence had anything to do with the
big rain on that day.
/, We oversight ourselves two morn
. ings this week because our old rooster
. failed to crow at O'Clock, his usual
hour, We we're somewhat surprised
. about the matter till we thought OF
;, the Methodist preachers in town.
Y The Tribune on Wednesday gave us
II a first-class picture of our quarantined
e smallpox patient, The foreman as
= sured US that we need not be afraid
to handle the paper, as they were al
fumigated before they left the office
Geo. Pendarvis, of Parsons, was fig
t uring over the political possibilities
o in Chanute last Tuesday. George
; says Wheatley is the coming mar
for congressman in this district with
/, out any doubt and he has the figures
r to show it.
Il Quite little sensation was created
n in the high school Monday morning
d by the appearance of Hortense More.
u heart, who has just been released from
g Quarantine after having the chicken
Y pox. Several pupils took their books
y and left school, We presume there is
u no danger whatever, yet the patrons
!. of the high school would have felt
safer if Hortense had stayed out few
weeks longer.
A calaboose and some coal cars
were run off the track last night up
by the Santa Fe station. The switch
was not thrown and they were pushed
off the short track.-TribUne, Mar. 6.
We wonder if that was our own valu-
able city calabOoSe, or was the rail-
: road company switching in. one from
2 some of the neighboring towns for
l use during conference week.