The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-02-02
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goods there that the merchants don't
consider it necessary to advertise. 80.
Erie society girls have 'gone IN" for
the more refined feminine sports.
They play football. ..... John Sweeney
is taking a vacation this week from
the enervating tumult Of the Daily
Tribune go. Miss Frazier is "editor
and publisher" of the Erie Sentinel,
instead of "editress." -. The East
End is keeping up its reputation as a
warm spot. ..... When Erie society
reaches the uttermost ennui outpost
and hungers for something breezy on
the side, it puts on its newest and
best raiment and hikes down to Par
sons to drown its miseries in the cheap
vaudeville maelstrom. .....A Mary
vile, Mo-, woman has sued her hus-
band for divorce because he belonged
to the Twentieth Kansas. 80. Your
boil is always In the place where it
hurts the worst. e. Erie is again
drilling for any old thing in the
ground. Perseverance, thou art a
Jewel. .... The Wilson County Sun is
running a serial story in seven chap
ters by seven high school pupils of
that city, under the title of "Miss
Rogers Adventures. Wonder if
"Tattling Tom" and "Meddlesome
Matte" and "Dame Gossip and IRE
porter" couldn't muster up a few
more literary lights from our high
school and show NeOdesha trick or
two? The columns of THE TIMES are
open. Another woman has invad-
ed the journalistic field in this part
of the state. The LaHarpe Argus,
under the editorial control of Miss M.
l.. Doran, is newsy sheet and one Of
our late exchanges. Verify, mans
realm is getting narrower every day.
Some Of the Kansas editors are
irving to persuade the young women
that wearing c)rsets is very injurious,
and If they must be squeezed it is bet
ter to get the men TO do 1T for them.
Several of the boys have declared their
willingness to take the job, and have
announced Office hours at "any old
time.". The republican rural press
will suffer SO long as that Topeka jam
borie continues. Most all the young
and good-looking editors attended.
-. One of the happlest mortals in
town is Third ward teacher. But
then we fear it will be short-lived,
Most women are happiest just before
marriage. :. Since going back to his
old run, Conductor Ramsey is chang
ed man-so he looks without the mus
tache. E. Bro. Turner spent the best
part Of this week IN Topeka mingling
with the young Republicans Of the
Kansas Day Club, one of whom he is
which. Matter for this issue has been
put together in rather haphazard
and irregular manner, but the office
boys have rigidly observed the rule
that all items shall conform to the alb
sent sachem's well-known serse of
proIrlety and decorum, and no article
was committed to cold type before
first having appeared satisfactory to
the censors self-questionlng soliloquy,
what Would the Editor Do?". ....
High social functions at Chetopa have
taken the shape of carpet rag sew
ings." The Neodesha high school
has "Tattling Tommy" also. .....
Miss Ellis cleverness as story teller
deserves more than a passing notice.
One day last week while acting as
substitute in one of the lower grades,
the youngsters we're regaled with a
thrilling narrative about little boy
who was chased up very tall syca-
more tree by naughty bear, and
there forced to remain for about two
days with nothing to eat but the ap-
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little tads listened in breathless awe
to the Superintendent's words, hardly
daring to move in their little seats;
and now they expect a new story every
time she visits their room. -. We
commend the suggestions of f. NJ.
Abbott in the Tribune last Tuesday
on the gas question. Needless waste
of anything is sin. We have abun-
dance Of gas now and apparently for
all time, but il any one happened in
to our Office Wednesday and saw US
around the stove with our
overcoat on he would naturally think
there was something wrong with the
We were much sur
prised to learn from the Tribune of
last Monday that Mrs. Block (former-
ly Miss Nichols, of this city, had
taken up her residence in New York
We are sorry 70 lose the brilliant and
versatile Mae. We expected better
things of her. We thought she was
so thoroughly imbued with love of
Kansas that she could not be induced