The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-11-15
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Nov. 13.-SOme several weeks ago,
the mayor and city council proclaimed
that wooden sidewalks should be no
more, and as consequence the prop
erty holders are replacing them with
either brick or stone. Everyone seems
to have taken the matter good natur-
edly and Is obeYing orders without a
whimper. At the rate the work is
now being executed, within a year
from now wooden sidewalks will have,
| like the Pop party, gone 10 join the
relics of the past; the last shin will
have been barked by flying boards; the
unfortunate pedestrian regained his
lost religions; the cottOn-tail forced to
hunt new place OF refuge aud the
unmindful cur new place to dig. We
doff our chapeau to the present city
c)uncil.
Erie has lost its promoter, its multi.
millionaire, its capitalist, its star board
Grand its thing OF beauty and Joy for
ever. He has gone, to be hoped, never
to return. The Hon. Franklin l..
Pease, who hailed from some where
town, became suddenly insulted be
cause the people and courts here asked
him to dig down into his mint Of mon
ey and square a few board bills and
pay a certain bill for trespass done by
one of his million dollar horses, and de-
parted, so we understand, for the city
Of Shaw, In hopes OF securing board
for wind and securing market tor
his $4,000 acres Of hay, the coal taken
from his 1900 acres Of coal land, and a
site for Baker University, for which
ne is negotiating. What is Erie loss
is also Shaw's.
The High School foot ball team went
to Girard last Saturday to participate
in game of foot ball, but judging
from their skinned, bruised, mayhem
ed and otherwise mangled condition
they must have bucked up against
a cyclone or a brick wall. They say.
however they had real lIvegame, but
lost by the score of 81 to 5. Moral:
No one killed.
Two of the most pitiful looking hu-
mans-a man and wOman-tEat have
venturned into this city lately appear
ed here last Thursday, thinly clad in
Salvation Army garbs, and held re-
ligious ceremonies, using the rock bal
a
curb-stones as pewS. Two Of our citi
zens, who claim to be among the main
guys Of our most prosperous church,
took occasion to refer to them In a
scoffing manner and made sighting
and sneering remarks. We did not
particularly fall in love at first
nor anything like that, but we do
maintain that if they we're earnest and
conscientious in their workings, they
are just as deserving as the church
to which these two gentlemen belong
But even granting that they were
nothing but full fledged grafters, their
music was about as entertaining and
no more of a roast on the people who
listened to them. than was the enter
tainment furnished here recently ~
some burlies and wenches who styleu
themselves "The Tennesseeans, es-
pecialy when the price is taken into
consideration. or course the songs
they sung were old, but they have not
had the opportunity of learning such
late and soul-stirring ditties as "These
Bones Shall Rise Again." as "The
Tennesseeans" have had.
County Atty Shnn is setting pace
that we fear is going to be slightly
swift for his successors. whoever they
may be. Aside from pursuing the
evil.doer with the strong arm of the
law, the story has evidently leaked out
that he is real handy with the needle;
at least BILLY" Cline, who is in the
office with the Co. Atty, Is authority
that Benjamin recently took in some
repairing to be done on certain artc-
les of wearing apparel from d female
inhabitant OF TenpeSsee-town.