The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-11-30


moved from Strong City to Concordia.
n. w. Henry, of Chanute sold his
driving team for $500 to Mr.. Jarvis, OF
Holton.
The Manhattan Live Stock and Sales
company will hold its next sale on De-
cember l.
Pawnee county employs sixty-three
teachers of whom forty-six are young
ladies.
The promoter of new telephone
system at Hutchinson has forfeited his
cash deposit.
The explosion of lamp in saloon
caused the destruction of twelve bust
ness houses in McCune.
Miss Marie c. Chamberlain, of Of
tawa, has published book with the
title in the Cleaning
Long distance telephone lines are
completed from Salina to Plainville
and Stockton via Delphos.
Robert Stone, of Kansas, is chairman
of the permanent legislative commit
tee of the National Good Roads asso-
citation.
Manhattan, with its 325 phones,
claims that it has more of them than
any other Kansas town according to
population.
The average age of Kansas teachers
is %. 3 years. In Morton county it is
30 years; in Marshall and Neosho coun-
ty it is Is years.
The third premium on apples at the
Paris exposition was given to j. o.
Parker, of Lallin, "Way out there in
Kansas and Western Kansas, too.
George Merrill, of Franklin county,
has made and sold this year G,O00 gal
Ions of sorgham molasses, averaging
% cents gallon. He raised all the
cane.
Work is being pushed on Mitchell
county's new $40, 900 court house. The
old shack which has served that pur-
pose has been sold to a wrecker for
S176.
Alfalfa is becoming most popular
crop in the district where it is raised,
the seed alone bringing from SIS to $50
FER acre. Dry seasons are the best for
a good seed crop.
Rev. John f. Won Herrlich, of Kan
sas City. Kas., will invest $40, 900 in in
structions in vocal music for his wife,
to fit her for grand opera. She was
raised in Wichita.
The average attendance upon the
farmers institutes held this year and
numbering 100, was $50 per institute.
They were all the work of the state |
agricultural college.
Thanksgiving day there are to be
1850 pounds of turkey served up to the
members of the Leavenworth Soldiers
home for dinner besides the usual ac-
cessories on holiday occasions
The Beloit Catholics will build
church to cost $40, 600 or more. 1t will
be built of native stone furnished free
by members. Many of them have quar-
ries on their farms and are getting out
the rock.
August Rolling has lived in Clay
county 20 years during which time he
he has accumulated nearly 1000 acres
of the best of farm land. Last week
he paid $l1, 900 for $50 acres more. He
now has on hand $500 bushels of wheat
and the same quantity of old corn.
Mckinley and Breidenthal carried
together the following counties: Clark,
Ford, Mitchell, Pratt, Rocks, Saline
and Grant. Governor Stanley and Mr..
Bryan carried Pawnee county together;
Stanley by 112, Bryan by AZ. Mr.. Bry-
an carried 90 of the 1O5 Kansas coun-
ties, Mr.. Breidenthal twenty-eight.
One of the fire department stations
in Wichita caught fire in the hay loft,
probably from spark from timers
furnace in use in repairing the roof
The damage was about $500 to tho
building.
A national bank in Wichita received
in a shipment of silver several hundred
bright and unused Columbian half dol
lars. As these coins were sold at
dollar each by the government, some
parties must have taken a whole lot of
them on speculation who have now let
go.
What purport to be official figures
of the result of the election as pub
lished in the morning dailies of No
81, do not agree with each
other; nor do the results given in any
one of them agree with the figures
from which they are deduced.
The State Bankers association sug-
gests that the state place its idle funds