The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-06-08

Will GinriCn, young iHdu doout
10 years of age, son of Fireman Gin
rich of this city, was drowned near
Bacon's ford Wednesday afternoon
while swimming with a number of
boys who had gone out to attend a
Sunday school picnic. From the
best information we can get, the boy
got into deep water quite a distance
from the rest of the crowd and was
drowned before anyone could come to
his assistance. Search for his body
was instituted Immediately and 1t
was not found until late that night.
This is terrible blow to Wills par
ents and they have the sympathy of
everyone. Mrs. Ginrich who has
heart trouble is said to be very low,
and there are some fears that she
cannot survive. The dead boy had
lately become member of the A. O.
U. w. which order will probably con-
duct the burial services. He carried
an insurance of $4,000.
Writing IN apparent haste and
red ink, a subscriber from Anderson
county propounds the following query:
where the devil is my last weeks
copy of THE TIMEs?" With equal
courtesy and brevIty we might ask
how the devil he supposes we know?
There are countless ways by which a
periodical can go astray. In this par
ticular instance the valuable publica-
ton might have been stolen in transit
or the mail messenger might have
lost it under his thumb nail. In short,
anything is supposable except that
the error should have occurred in this
Office, where everybody is as correct
as the multiplication table. However,
we can't blame the bereaved one for
mourning the loss of SO good paper.
BY way of assuaging his grief we
hereby mail him another copy with
our own obliging hand.
Mr.. P. C. WEIGH, Santa Fe EN-.
ploye, died suddenly Tuesday evening
about o'clock while sitting on the
porch at his home on South High street
Mr.. WEIGH had been in bad health for
some weeks, but was at no time
thought to be in danger, as he was ap-
parently feeling better that afternoon
Deceased leaves widow, one daughter
Mrs. c. L. Wagner, of Burlington,
and two sons. The remains were
shipped to Ottawa yesterday for bur-
ial. Mr.. WEIGH was one of our
highly respected citizens, and the peo-
pie of Chanute deeply sympath,ze with
the bereaved family.
Burglars visited the house Of Mrs,
Crane, on North Main street, one
night last week when the family was
away, and ransacked the place thor
ougflly, but Judging from the silver.
| a1,,, h1a arffN1aS
strewn around the floor, it is evident
that they were not looking for any.
thing but money. O
The general inclination of ou1
citizens is to improve the appearance
} of their homes, and anyone who paints
his house, fixes the fence, laws wall
or shows any interest in the better
ment of his property is adding to the
general stock of prosperity now or
hand.
w. S. Winchester, of Greensburg
Ind, who secured the contract fol
shooting Mr.. Knapp's oil wells, ar
rived last Sunday and will begin
work soon. This will be a sight
which no one can afford to miss, No
tice will be given as to time of shoot
ing.
The Tribune is read by more peo
pie IN Chanute than all the other pa
pers in the city com bined.-Tribune
Did you notice that, Fred'k? And still
you let it go unchallanged and never
raise your dukes? POUNDS, people
may believe
The farmers go about their work
whistlIng and singing, with happy
thoughts of the glorious prospects Of
a bounteous yield to be gathered this
fall. Old Mother Earth has been well
disturbed and you can almost see the
corn grow.
"A patch on the knee caused by
holding down wood on saw buck
looks a good deal better than on the
gable end caused by holding down a
dry goods box. This opinion. how
ever, is not likely to lessen the mum
Der found roosting on the usual cor
ners.
The city is considering the question
of putting in system of electric lights
on her own hook. Something may be
done this time If there's anything IN
| fSOp'S story concerning INC ShiOOth
old partridge and her young.
They had an old maids conven'
ton at Howard couple of weeks ago
The Courant says it was very laugh
able affair, but that there were really
no old maids connected with II. O1
course not. The very idea!
"A Wilson county girl recently
walked four miles through the heal
and dust to get married. She proba
bly, will not have to walk over
quarter Of a mile to get an armful Of
wood or milk the COW.
The night is six months long IL
Greenland. When man sits up al
night there to play poker he doesn''
feel much like working the next day
The sidewalk between town and
the Katy depot is in deplorable con
dition. Now you see it and now you
don't.
DIR. Norman l.. Roberts, Dentist
office over First National bank. Office
hours 9 a. IN. to p. IN. Phone w.
The ]. Waldere Kirk of lola wal
down Sunday reading the signs. Tall
about a sun-kissed daisy!