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Newspaper
The Chanute Times
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1902
Page
5
Father Nogie visits Wichita. Chanute to have night police. Bloomhart Wright style noted. Residents visit relatives, business and legal notes, and local politics. Baseball games, school news, and Workman lodge officers reported with multiple names and upcoming plans.
Tie county commissioners solicit bids for several steel bridge projects across Village Creek and the Neosho area while noting traffic disruption from backwater and cover exposure. Nearby towns report drilling activity by The Erle Gas and Mineral Co and Southwestern Oil Co plans. Henry Hemphill and Ernest Lang head to Galoradly for summer. W. T. Davis to visit his brother G. C. Davis in Weston.
Readers are invited to visit Chanute as a rising town with a Mammoth Store offering goods cheaper than many towns. The note promises newcomers a chance to be convinced of the town’s growing appeal and the value of local real estate opportunities.
Community notes announce a William J. Bryan lecture at Epworth League fair grounds on June 20, a congressional convention in Winfield with several local leaders, and Fred Grubb launching a Dallas weekly. A Santa Fe Gas and Oil well five miles northwest expands the local gas field while Neosho River floods threaten crops. levees near Austin and Erle hold firm amid rising waters.
The two grand army posts unite to form a single post in the city with plans to grow and recruit veterans. Leaders express hope every old soldier will join, noting dwindling numbers as Civil War veterans age and pass away, while new recruits and youth look to the future.
A Wichita reader endorses Herbine to regulate the liver and bowels after ten years of irregularity. The letter notes daily bowel movements and expulsion of wastes as health goals and cites a purchase price of 50 cents at Geo. P. Wilder's.
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