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The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-08-06
A Wrong Impression.

A resolution was brought before
the couAcil at their meeting Monday
night raising the salary OF some OF
the employees.
Considerable adverse criticism has
been INDUCED 10 on account Of this
proposed increase, and some have
even claimed that this reform council
Is even becoming more extravigant
with the public money than the pre-
ceding council. Ii order that the
people may know just how expenses
are running with the present council
as compared with what they were
under The old. one Of the city en-
ployes not affected by the proposed
rise submits the following table.
The table shows the expense Of
each department per month at the
present and what 10 was last year:
Water Dept. 1soS-s19O. 19O9-s2s5.
Increase-$45.
City clerk, l9Os-s35O. City cashier,
19o9-s255. Decrease-$95.
Electric Light Dept. 19oS-s365.
19o0.-$346. Decrease-e2O.
Fire Dept. 19eS-s130. 1909-sl60.
Increase-s30.
Meter reader, 19OS-s5O. l9O9-s55.
Inorease-$5.
Total increase per year-s96O
Total decrease per year-t13SO.
Net decrease per year over last year
1920.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-08-06

this fall, and for generation eonduc-
ted the leading wholesale grocery
business Of the community, winning
for Kansas City an immense trade
territory which had been clio sed to 10
before their advent. In every public
enterprise where big business In
tsrests could exert an influence bene-
fetal to this city the RIdeDour- Baker
Grocery Company was In the fore
front. Mr.. Ridenour survived his
lifelong friend and partner for Ava
years. They were bound together by
ties closer than unite many brothers
In the blood and they stamped this
impress of camradeship ard comfy
upon their associates In . peculiarly
intensified degree. Mr.. Ridenour
stood for the best there is In modern
business life, for the best there ever
was in the old days OF sterner prebity
and more disingenuous integrity than
characterlzes many business trans
actions today. He projected into the
modern business world, so far as he
could mold it, the old-fashiened hon
or and honesty which absolutely re-
flute the specious claims that modern
business cannot succeed without
evasions Of the Deealogue.
1t is eminently fitting that Mr..
Ridenour's body should rest at last
In Lawrence, In the beautiful little
town which was the scene and arena
OF his earlier struggles, and which
shares with Kansas City the legacy
Of inspiration bequeathed by the
spl, ndid citizenship Of Peter D, Ride
nour.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-08-06
frat published in Chsnute Times Aug. 6. II
NOTICE or
FINAL SETTLEMENT.
4 Kansas, County Of Neosho, ss.

State Of Kansas, County Of Neosho. Is.
In the Probate Court In and for said county.
In ths matter Of the estate Of Dora n. Wick
ard. deceased.
Crsdl,ors aud other persons interested in the
aforesaid estate are hereby notified that at the
next regular term Of the Probate Court in and
for said county, to be begun and held al the
court house Ia Erie, in the county of Neosho.
STATE afosssald, on the first Monday 10 the
month Of September. A. D. 1909. shall. on the
9Th day Of said month, apply to said court for
q full and final settlement Of said estate.
DAN X. wICKARD
Executor Of the Estate Of Dora N. wiskard,
Deceased.
Dated Aug. 2. A. D. 1909.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-08-06

, Marion Allen al old gentleman of
this city who has bsen driving ths
delivery wagon for the Chesebrow
commission company for some time,
took sick Wednesd night and about
o o'clock Thursday morning was dead.
Heart trouble is reported a. the
cause Of death.
J. W. Daughty who had his right
hand badly mashed up one day last
week at Erie. while runaing . work
train on she Santa Fe' 10 IN the
hospital a. Topeka. Reports
yesterday were that he was getting
along nicely and that the physicians
hope to SaYs the hand.
Chase Brown, the ofisisl weather
reporter for Chanute, reports 6.4s
inches a. the rainfall for the month
OF July.
Prof Will Newell Of this city 10
president Of the Nsoshe csunty
Tsashsr's Association for the coming
year.
Miss Susie heManus has gone east
TO buy millinery goods. she will visit
In Ohio duriAg the trip.
Miss Mary P. Smith 80 years old,
died - the home Of Mr. Julia Tharp
Wednesday morRins.
James Roberts IL superintendlRg
the construction Of the new Prssby-
tsrlan church.
Charles Huhlsr had his foot caught
Ia hay press Tuesday aud badly
pinched.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-08-06
A Boon to the Corn Crop.

A Boon to the Corn Crop
The glorious gentle rain OF YESTERDAY
morning COOLED the air and thoroughly
wet the corn crop again. There has
been no time this summer when corr
has suffered for rain. At times We
had surplus OF moisture that made
corn culture little difficult for few
days but the farmer who had reason.
ably we'll drained ground has had
almost an ideal season and II he does
not now have a great bls crop of corn
now practically made 1t Is his fault
and not the fault of the season. OF
course we want few more showers
yet to bring out the late corn to its
fullest capacity.
In addition to timely rains all
summer we have had hot days and
warm growing nights, conditions that
have just pushed the corr right along
whether ii wanted to crow or NOT.
Already Kansans are beginning to
tell biz corn stories. They are now
In order, for no difference how big
they are, they can scarcely exaggerate
the truth. 1t has been many years
Sit ce this locality had any such corL
as 1t has To-Day, or course hail
storm might destroy the whole thing
In very few minutes tut such a
visitation is not to DO expected.
A farmer out 10 Big Greek township
one day last week thought 10 SOW
some turnip seed in small patch Of
corn he was going to cut up for his
| hogs.
On scratching up the ground with
his hoe he discovered the ground was
full of fiBe roasting ears, every corn
root seeming TO neurish large ear.
1t is unnecessary to ray he did not
SOW the turnips.
A farmer on the bottoms who was
irving to do little too much in the
way of farming was somewhat dis
couraged awhile back to find his corn
field full Of big sunflower stocks.
| The first Of the week he and the
boys went down TO the field with their
hees to clean out the weeds when
1 10 n q N
that every sapfower stock contained
i've or six big ears OF corn half as long
as u mans arm. The weeds were not
cut.
A Canville township farmer planted
some pumpkin seeds In his corn field,
He has an immense crop OF very large
pumpkins. The other day he and the
boys managed to get one rolled out to
the pasture fence thinking to feed his
milk COWS. On chopplng hole 10
the pumpkin It was found to be
chuck full Of shelled corn instead OF
seeds. He took about ten bushels OF
shelled corn out OF the pumpkin. The
corn was not guile dry so no moIs
pumpkins will be picked now.
A man near Thayer has started a
new industry that is In a very thirty
ing condition.
He bores three half inch holes into
q corn stalk and drives three good
stiff splles Into the holes and hangs a
ten quart pail On each splle.
Ina half day the buckets are full
OF very delicious sweet juice, much
sweetsr than the ola fashioned sugar
water. This is boiled down Ia large
vats and a must excellent quality Of
corn syrup Is produced. Though his
wife keeps the furnaces under the
watts roaring all day and night he
IS. as yet, unable TO supply the de
mand. He hopes to keep his wife
busy the rest Of the season.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-08-06
LOCALS

Geo. T. Shirley is on the sick list
Mrs. I. @. Somers Is visiting In Rest
Wilbur Allen was laid up last week
Wilbur Lapham is home for the
summer.
Miss Bea Cunningham is taking her
vacation.
Courteous treatment and fair deal
ing at the Neosho Valley bank.
Prof. Myers has returned to
Chanute.
Miss HELEN Pulliam Is visiting in
Chanuts.
Guy Murphy went to Newton,
Tuesday.
Mrs. r. A. Parsons went to Hum
boidt, Monday.
The Neosho Valley bank solicits
your business.
Mrs. S. Fredline has gone to Colo
rado Springs.
DR. Gragg is again on the street,
after q severe illness.
The Neosho Valley State bank il
doing business on the old eorner.
Mrs. j. A. Cannan has gone to
Colorado. John will join her little
later.
Prof LETTERS has been called to
Iii OILS by the severe illness of his
father.
l. L. MARCEL and family have goae
to >She northern lakes for short
vacation.
Fred Hartman and Geo. Jennsr
have gone to Rcckey Ford, Col, for q
vacation.
Young Jimmie Justice Is carrying
his arm 10 a sling. He had the mis-
fortune to break his wrist.
Frank Courtney returned from
Texas. He did not like his job there,
and has new gone to Bartlesville.
A. D!ckenson, Elsie Patterson and
S. E. Beach left Chanute Wednesday
bound for Manitou.
The Blks are struggling home from
their western trip. Several OF the
boys have arrived and all report q
wonderful trip.
Mrs. W. F. Henderson and Mrs.
J. W. La Barr Of Erie passed through
Chanute the forepart OF the week on
their way to Colorado.
Harry w. Jones of Independence
was IN Oh anute the first Of the week
looking after improvements being
made Ia the Lindsay block.
E. P. Burris has gone to Portland,
Oregan to join bis wife who has BEE q
out there for some time. They will
visit the exposition before they ie'
turn.
We notice many Of the better tow ms
of Kansas are getting their insurance
rates lowered. What 10 the matter
with Chanute? Oar rates seem to be
raised.
Dell Kennedy does not have to
pay taxes on mortgages he has filed
Ia his own name but which he say1
be does not OVID. So rules the Sta .
tax commission.
Prof Pinet Of Erie is an applicant
for the position Of superintendent Of
our city schools. Prof. Pinet las
never yet tackled q position he did
not ill to the entire satisfaction OF
all concerned and we believe he Is
the logical maa for the place.
Mr., and Mira. p. D. Keys are visit
ing In this city till about the 2oth.
Thsy are to sail from New York
about September 1st for Spais. After
six months 10 preparation there they
will be sent 30 their missionary feld
10 Africa. Mrs. Keys will be remem
bered as Clara Evans.
The good roads committee Of this
place has wisely concluded 10 repair
the stretch Of Macadam road from
the Katy track to the small bridge
west or the river bridge. This was
Aha first piece Of Maeadam road built
here under the law and WAS over the
worst piece Of road leading into
Chanute. It has been In very bad
order for year or mOrs.
HECRlME OF IDLRNESS.
Idlsness means trouble for aay zoe
It's the same with . lazy liver. II
causes constipation, hssdaohe, jam.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-08-06
THECRlME oFIDLRNEss

Idlsness means trouble for aay zoe.
Its the same with . lazy liver. Is
causes constipation, hssdaohe, jaun-
dice, sailow complexion, pfmplss and
blofohes, loss Of appetite. nausea, but
DR.. KIng's New Life Pills soen Danish
liver troubles and build up y.ur
health, csc at the Oriental Drug 90.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-10
The Roosevelts in Paris.

Mrs Theodore Roosevelt, Miss Ethel and Archie and Quentin are living quietly in an apartment in the Avenue Gabriel near the Elysee Palace and the Champs Elysees, Paris, Mrs. Roosevelt has con sistently declined to talk with newspaper men ever since landing in Europe, and insists on living as becomes the wife of an American private citizen.
 Mrs Roosevelt and Miss Roosevelt make occasional shopping expeditions to the Bon Marche and other big stores but they are seldom recognized except by Americans. to whom their Appearance Is familiar through pictures in the news papers at home. On these trips they gen orally hire a taXi-auto.
 Miss Ethel and Archie are apparently great chums. They walk downtown to- gether frequently, and on a recent Sun day afternoon they visited shop in the Rue de Rivoli and purchased a large sup ply of souvenir post cards. Other per sons who chanced to be in that particular shop at the same time overheard a con- versation something like this:
 Heres a dandy picture, Ethel don't you like it?''
 No. not particularly. This old cathe- dral appeals to me. Shan't we take this one?'
 "Oh, I don tNcape so very much for that. It's a handsome building outside, though. You buy an exterior and I'll take the in- terfOr t
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-10
Household Economics.

It is never wise. no matter how much money you may have, to spend for things you do not want.
 But it is quite as unwise to buy for the immediate present only.
 Groceries, if they are the kind that will keep, and you have any place to keep them, positively make money for you by being bought in large quantities.
 But this large-quantity idea is often q snare and a pitfall elsewhere in the house.
 Cake recipes, for instance. are rarely doubled with success It is usually bet ter, unless you are. sure of your strength and skill to make one loaf and start again.
 Another case of mistaken economy is to use too large jars for preserves. jams, and the like, in the effort to save trou- ble tops, etc. A small family is not able to consume the whole quantity at a time and the rest is likely to be wasted.
 Jellies often refuse to jel when put into large receptaces.
 Cooking an extra supply of fod in or der to have enough to warm up or recook is often unwise. because the food the first time it is cooked Is likely to be more wholesome than when all fried up in grease or stewed to toughness from a second cooking.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-10
DoPED A CUSTOM HOUSE.
How Opium Smuggling From Mexico
 Into Texas Was Discovered.
From the Mexican Herald.

From the Mexican Herald.
 Officers, clerks and laborers employed by the Brownsville custom house have for the last few days been suffering from a strange attack resembling the dreaded sleeping sickness, and the symptoms were becoming so accentuated that the matter was getting to be serious, until the other morning a sack of cocoanuts addressed to a Chinamen at San Antonio, Tex, was 1auled out into the corral of the custom house for more convenient keeping
 The sack of cocoanuts arrived by ex- press from Tampico by way of Monterey several days ago and had not been called for
 The express messenger, baggage master and postal clerk, all of whom occupy the same car were fast asleep when the train pulled into the station. The express mes senger was lying with his head upon the sack and was the most difficult of the three to awaken.
 When it was found that they were not drunk examination of the contents of the sack was made and 1t was found that one of the cocoanuts was merels the shell, the space within containing opium. The sack was seized by the authorities on the Texas side of the river and was thrown carelessly into a corner of the office room 1t will from now on. however. be stored in the yard until it is disposed of through the usual method.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-10
Sweet Lavender Again.

An old fashion that deserves the re- vival it seems to be having is the use of lavender. Lavender, sweet lavender used to be carried about the streets in English towns, and is beginning to be sold again, both in London and New York
 Laid away between the folds of cloth- ing, lavender, it is said, will keep out the moths, and how much pleasanter the scent is than the smell of moth balls! Some women make quaint little bags to put the dried lavender leaves in. The bags may be embroidered in cross-stitch, in designs showing baskets filled with bright flowers, wreaths inclosing a name, a monogram, or a motto, or a spray of violets A bag that is easy to make is an embroidered handkerchief folded and bound with lavender wash ribbons and initiated with sewing silk.
 A delightful toilet water Is made of white wine vinegar and lavender flowers Steep the lavender, handfuls of 1t, in the vinegar, using stone jars. Keep the jars for three days in a moderately warm place on the stove, after which strain and bottle it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-10
QUEER PENsioN TALE.
Woman Was Pensioned as Her Step
 fathers Widow.

From the Kansas City Journal.
 story that rivals the tales of Zols was thrown upon the desk of A. s. Nai- kenburgh. United States district attorney in Kansas City being 12 pounds or the record of the pension case of Sarah Baker of Kinder. Pension examiners claim to have found that the woman was declaring herself to be the widow of her stepfather. and that in that role sha had actually received some 1888 in pensiou money.
 Early in the eos an Illinois soldier named Baker married Nancy Brown. Ir is outside the story but inside the facts that he had buried one wife whose name too had been Nancy. Nancy Brown had been the widow of soldier, and she had got a pension for his death, losing that pension when she married a second soldier named Baker. from whom she was divorced. They had child named Sarah
 Being out of soldiers again. Nancy took unto herself third. this time the Tli- nois man named Kinder. To Kinder she took her daughter by her former hus- band her Sarah Sarah had attractions for the soldier, so the government papers read, for the real wife found herself suppianted by the daughter, compelled 10 take the name of Mrs. Robertson, and to say that she was assisting in the work"
 The condition Of affairs in this extra- ordinary household- by this time estab- lished in West Plains, southern Missouri. ia told in the last para graph of the goy- } ernment report
 Kinder died and the government heard of his death when, as it was supposed. the widow applied for 6 pension for herself and their four children. The claim ran through the various channels pension claims have to take: pension examiners went to the Kinder home and made per- sonal examination and investigations, as they always do, and so well was the proof l of the claims of the supposed widow. Sarah Kinder. established that not only she, but the four children also were put on the pension list and kept there for four years. They were paid as the widow and children of the Illinois veteran.
 Last April Washington heard from an- other Mrs. Kinder. This time it was Mrs. Nancy Kinder. who claimed a pension as the widow of the William Kinder. Two and two were put together, and 1t was found that while there were two Mrs. Flinders in the files the one drawing a pension and the one wanting to, there was only one William Kinder claimed as l their husband.
 Away went the pension examiners again. l this time with a clue that led straight 1 to West Plains where Mrs. Nancy Kinder
 was, and there, it is claimed, they learned
 of the state of affairs which had made | her stand by and see her own daughter l take her husband, but not the daughters
 father away from her and made her be the servant of the house for the sake of peace.
 ] Being unettered, not certain that she | had not made herself legally liable. uii- familiar with the changes in the pension ] laws, the real widow, the mother of the i alleged illegal widow. postponed asking ] for pension until this year, when her 1 application started the accumulation of a report that already weighs 12 pounds and may send 9 woman to the federal prison.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-10
Nimrodic Exploits.


 Society papers of England go wild over the nimrodic exploits of Lady Grize Hamilton, leading liberal hostess, who has just returned home after two years globe-trot and hunt in the wilds of East Africa.
 Lady Grizel was arrayed in male dress while she accompanied her husband on big game shooting. She is crack shot, and has established several records. Un- like most women of prowess and abnor- nal strength she is quite pretty and rather petite of physique. but she has shown wonderful endurance in the wilds of the Dark Continent. During the expe- dition in the trans-Tana territory her bag included a hippopotamus, rhinoceros, and capea buffalo, tihs being the first occasion onrwhich woman has shot the last-named animal. She is one of the seven daughters of the rich Earl of Dun donald
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-10
Opportunity.

They do me wrong who say I come no more When once l knock and fail to find you
 in; For every day I stand outside your door, And bid you wake and rise to fight and
 win. Vail not for precious chances passed
 away, weep not for golden ages on the wane' Each night I burn the records of the day, At sunrise every soul Is born again. Laugh like a boy at splendors that have
 sped, Te vanished joys be blind and deaf and
 dumb; My judgments seal the dead past with
 its dead But never bind a moments yet to come Though deep in mire, wiring not your
 hands and weep, :, I lend my arm to all who say; ! can. No shamefaced outeast ever sank so deep But he might rise and be again man.
 The Busy Mans Magazine
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-10
Attractive Toilet Table Silver.

"One of my friends has the most fas- cinating dressing table I have ever seen,'' said an observant woman recently. Tt is not that the article of furniture of itself is more attractive, perhaps, than some others I have in mind but it is the beauty of the table with it's furnishings that appeals to me. Her toilet articles are silver, and no. matter when one sees them they are always bright. In fact, 1t is difficult to believe that they have not just arrived from the jewellers, so new do they look. One day I asked her to take me into her secret and tell me how she ever managed to find time to clean those 27 articles-I had the number right by actual count You can scarcely imag- Inc my surprise when she told me she did not clean them oftener than once month or once in six weeks. She went on to explain why it was necessary to clean articles so infrequently. She. said that every morning she made it part of her duty to wipe off each article on her dress
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-10
Many Kinds of Letter Paper
 To Be Used This Season.

] Fashionable correspondence paper is of various texture and shades. There is the kid~fnished paper in oak grained effect, which comes in sheets and envelopes of two sizes and is exceptionally smart; the cross-barred weave with a white or col cred border resembling the finishing of q hemstitched handkerchief; what is known as French dimity, white, gray, blue and buff plain linen; a thin, fine quality of lawn, which appears in maize, mauve and dawn pink, and linen and glace fabrics which have envelopes dantily embossed in embroidery patterns.
 Herringbone weaves, showing corduroy and puue effects, are steadily gaining ground. as they come in all the fashion able shades and in the three customary sizes Satin bond finished and linen fab ric stationery of note, letter and commer- cial size may he conveniently purchased ir the form of writing tablet which is provided with an envelope drawer.
 Among stationery novelties are small sheets of cross-barred weaves engraved with the first name of the writer and intended only for correspondence with in- innate friends; featherweight sheets. nc- companied by gray lined tissue envelopes. for foreign correspondence. and 'hastv
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-10
Apples in Grape Jelly.

q was reading in the Age-Heral of making grape jelly without cooking it after the sugar is added" said a Bir- mingham woman recently. and l shall try that way when I make mine this year. I have had trouble in the past in getting my grape jelly of the right con sistency, for often it does not iell we'll. An old housekeeper told me that she had the same trouble until she tried ad- ding a few apples to -er grapes. She simply quarters the fruit neither peeliHs nor coring it.s She said that when the apples were added she never had any difficulty whatever with her grape ieiy. There is not sufficient apple to flavor The