The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-05-30
Flags everyw here today.

Mr.. G. Koch lsin st. Louis fer ten
days lay off.
Elva Popping and wife are here
from Colorado City.
Lady wanted.-To 90 general house
work.-Ed. Thurstin.
Mrs. J. B. Beatty and Miss Nellie
spent Sunday at Neosho Falls.
Poor church bugs, they are getting
their skirts badly bedraggled.
Floyd Hall has transferred his USE
fulness from the Tribune to the Sun.
D. w. Light Is building an addition
to his residence in the Fourth ward.
No, Tommy, Riverside Park will not
be used as a beer garden this summer.
Chase w. Brown went up to Ottawa
Sunday to spread the glories of Cha.
mute.
The Star drilling company occupies
the Allen building, recently used as a
school room.
Mrs. S. F. Grub has gone to North
Dakota to speak in the interest of
temperance.
Edna Ramsey and Myrtle Cox are
home from their years work in music,
at Llndsborg.
The creeks did not get so high with
the Sunday night rain, as they did a
few days before.
Misses Adell Lee and Lulu Haynes
have gone to Virginia to spend the
summer with relatives.
DR.. j. R. Fay, A. H. Turner and L.
B. Keifer attended the Republican
state convention at Wichita.
DR.. Quayle will lecture at the M. e.
church on the evening Of May 30. for
, the benefit of the library. Subject,
King Lear.
Mr.. Light has turned over the man.
agement OF the Dubach lumber yard
at this place, to Mr. Martin. Mr.. Light
: will 70 on the road.
No better oil land in the Chanute
District, and stock less than one-hal1
the price OF any other cOmpany's
stock. This means Kansas Crude Oil
Co. S stock.
The city council will soon rise t.
vote-from their old quarters in pc
lice court to Music Hall, which viii
be equipped with furnishings to more
nearly conform with aldermanic dig
nifty.
An immense rain Saturday night
accompanied by heavy wind and much
lightning, visited the southern part Of
; the county. A storeroom in South
Mound, was struck by lightning and
/, burned up.
W. R. Cline, of Erie, was in towr
Tuesday. He seemed amazed at Cha
nute's Brobdingnagian strides, ant
ventured to predict that she would
i, contain 10000 people in three more
years. Correct.
E.P. Work, excursion agent Of thu
katy" was in town Wednesday, In thu
interest of the Katy excursion toJunc
tion City and Fit. Riley on Sunday
June LIST. The Junction people have
ARRANGED a fine band concert by thu
Ninth Artillery Band, Sunday after
noon at 2 O'Clock on the parade ground
also ball game between the soldiers
and the Kansas City Athletics. Ample
Accommodations will be provided and {
most pleasant trip is assured.
A new Oil company has been sprung
on the Chanute public, The Barker
. Clark Oil Co., capitalized at one mil
lion dollars. The company is vet il
: an incipient state, but 1t is probabl
that local parties will conduct tn
q management. The land to be pros
pected embraces the 420 acres Of ID
Barker, north Of town, and as 1t |
surrounded by good paying wells
there is little doubt Of the company
u success.
The Kansas City Commercial Clut
100 strong, visited Chanute last Satur
day for couple of hours. They wer
met at the depot by the local club 4
(, carriages, and each citizen, taking hi
5. business contemporary, raced aroun
% through the Oil and gas fields. AcouI
lie of oilers were opened up for the en-
q tertainment of the visitors, but OWN
IS to the limited time allotted here, onl
d a small fraction Of the territory cOul
be shown.
If St. Paul, which has nothing else t
= do, has an excellent A. II. T. A. lodge
e and this week the sleuths have anott
Dc er horse thief to add to their record
!. One Ed Pierce, from somewhere, ar
>. propriated an animal belonging t
- Capt. I. S. Bahney of st. Paul, but wa
= captured at Cherryvale the next da
!" blythe st. Paul boys and taken bac
and placed in custody. Thieves of an