The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-02-07
LOCAL JOTTINGS
Lent begins February II.

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Money to loan on good chattel mort
gage securities. John +. Roe.
Tom McNeal lectures at opera house
tonight. Don't fail to come out.
/ JAS. E. SHOEMAKER. dentist.
Office on same floor Farrelly's law Office
Miss Laura Heffley, of Girard, was
the guest of Miss Myrtle Ashford yes
terday.
FOR SALE.-One thousand loads of
dirt for lot filling. Inquire of G. NJ.
Phillips.
1t is reported that Dave Houston
has sold one eighty of his land at 800
per acre.
Judge Stillwell and J. l.. Denison
went through town Monday on their
way to lola.
Roy McCune is back from Okla
homa, where he went to look over that
thistle patch.
If you intend to buy property 10
Chanute don't wait until spring. Val.
ues are increasing every day.
The fire department has ordered a
new combination hose, hook and lad
der and chemical wagon to cost 500.
The editor of the TIMES has receiv-
ed package of garden seeds from
Congressman A. M. Jackson. Hurry
UP, Spring.
WANTED Position in store or
elsewhere by industrious young mai
of steady habits. Not afraid of work.
Good references. Call at this office.
The Daily Sun is negotiating for
another newspaper press. Fred got
buncoed in the present machine, ard
will doubtless be more circumspect
this time.
| I will receive orders for Silver
Laced Wyandott eggs until Feb. Is;
81 90 for setting OF - eggs; money to
accnmnarv he order, Lewis Thomas,
Chanute, Kan.
Tom Barrlnger, the notorious hop
tea vendor, after an incarceration Of
several months in the city baSliln is
petitiOning the council for release,
urging the claim that he has already
been punished enough.
There is deep bereavement at the
Oriental Pharmacy. Pug" the poo
die. the beloved Of all patrons Of that
firm, is dead from poisoning. Pug"
was an unusually smart animal, and
was given Christian burial.
John Gilmore, Of the Eredonia Citi-
zen, paid his respects to Chanute be-
tween trains last SATURDAY,. Mr. Gil
more had been to Topeka attending
the Kansas Day Club meeting. Most
of the boy s got back the day he ore,
ut it took John an extra day 10 sober
up.
a party Of Second ward young pen-
pie. while out sleighing few evenings
ago, ran into somn genuine excite
mrnt Of an unusual nature. When
about two miles west of town, ON the
return trip, they heard the howling
Of wulves, and perceived two of the
animals following them "A few hund
red yards in the rear. There was no
jogging along after that, aud short
cut to town was taken by the fright
ed company.
Strangers are becoming more i'm
pressed every day with our ga'and oil
developments. II hardly needed the
practical demonstration of tt e
strength and genuineness of the for
mer product, however, which the 9TH
err day singed councilman aud a
couple OF visiting spectators, to con-
vince outsiders that the Chanute field
is the best in the state. But if you
are still doubtful, come and learn d
few burning truths any old time.
1.-THE woman in black" the noctur-
nal prowler who once caused so much
CONSERVATION among the Willie BOYS
of this town, and who waylaid one Of
our tonsorial ''artists" near Wickard's
elevator a year or so ago and LAID him
out cold, has evidently returned TO
thescenes of her formeF exploits. She
arose before breakfast (which we pre-
sumo is her usual custom) last Friday
morning, and espying one Joe Golaby,
a teamster, attacked him in Doves
livery stable, and in her inscrutable
way succeeded in breaking one of the
victims arms and otherwise injuring
him in a manner totally incompre.
sible to the poor fellow, leaving him
in a dazed condition at the equine
cafe. Joey says he can't imagine
what struck him, and can remember
nothing to furnish a clue TO the mys-
terry. While Chanute can be relied
on 10 furnish fresh sensation almost
every day, this one is so far out of pro-