Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-04-25

Kendrick shows an enrolment IN the
public schools of Junction city Of
LOLA,
A special convention Of the Episco.
pal diocese of Kansas has been called
to meet in Topeka May 9s to elect a
new bishop.
Arbor day was not neglected ut the
Soldiers home at Dodge City; 500
fruit trees are there that were not
there before.
]. H. Snyder, farmer living near
Hiawatha, took his life Thursday,
cutting himself with an ak and shoot
ing himself with a gun.
Mabel Benton, the l6-year-old daught.
err of G. NJ. Benton of Efangham, was
severely burned Saturday morning
while burning some rubbish at her
home. Her clothes were burned al
most off before she could be- rescued.
The people of Ottawa very sensibly
destroyed the pest house before any
body else could be taken to it. Civil
lied people do not want their friends
or relatives taken from their homes
and put in such place as the average
smallpox hospital.
The removal of the tariff duty on
eggs does not seem to have affected
the industry in the west very serious.
ly after all. S. R. Hunt, Of Peabody,
last week shipped car load Of eggs
to Boston, right under the noses OF
the Canadians as it were.
The annual convention Of the Kan
sas State Sunday School association
will be held this year at Salina, May
z, 8 and o. The music to be in charge
of Professor Excel of Chicago. The
leading Sunday School workers of Ill
inois, Missouri and Kansas are upon
the program.
Sheriff Glover of Olathe, captured a
noted crook and horsethief, William
Fisher, who is over so years old, near
there Thursday. Fisher stole valu-
BILE horse and buggy from G G. Doug
lass. leading merchant of Kansas
City, and was endeavoring to sell the
stolen property when arrested.
An excellent quality of clay for
modelling purposes has been discover
ed in Geary county, and Miss Lizzie
hobart has been untilizing it. An at
tractive display of fruits and flowers
made from this clay and colored by
this young lady, adorns the windows
of Junction City business house.
VIM. Ratliff, who supplies Fl. Riley
with milk, after trying some Of the
most highly recommended families Of
milk stock, has decided to go back to
the Short Horns as the most profitable
all around. He is also making some
in feed and will try fax
seed meal mixed with bran.
Poodle Tote, viii Plunkett and
Fritz Toftc, were arrested at an early
hour Sunday morning for holding up
u farmer named Orr at Atchison and
him OF S75. The money was
not found on the footpads, but it was
learned that Poodle
Tofte had left sos with the night tele-
graph operator at the Union depot.
The Juvenile Literary Society Of
Cedarvale presents an example of ler.
sistence in goUd cause worthy OF
emulation. They have been giving
ice cream so!ials and entertainments
of various kinds for three years tor
the purpose of raising funds to main.
tain public school library. They
now have 81 volumes.
Mulching has been recommended |
for great many kinds of plants, but
a Barton county farmer is perhaps the
first to apply the system to wheat.
Early last winter he hauled lot OF
straw and spread over his wheat field,
and the result is that his crop is in ex.
celent condition, while that of MANY
of his neighbors was destroyed wholly
or in part by the severe weather.
The colored Baptists of Douglas
county held q four days bible insti.
tute in Lawrence last week. There
were number OF prominent divines
of the state in attendance, and the il
stitute was conducted by Rev. w. L.
Grant, assisted by State Evangelist
Beasley and Rev. A. S. Green. The
institute continued till Sunday when
l1s converts were baptized in the Kan.
sas river.
Miss Helen E. Price, formerly Of FL |
Dorado, was married September 20 |
last to Howard Ribinitzky of Washing
ton but Washington knew nothing of
it until Saturday, as she feared she
would lose her place as copyist If the
was discovered. She was a
protege of the late Senator Perkins.
The marriage was known from the
first by her father, w. NJ. Price, and
the rest OF the family who live at Ell
Dorado,
The exclu~ re distine elton of possess.
ing class yells no longer rests with the
college boys. 1t has been taken up
by the high schools, and il is evident
ly only a question of time until the
air of Kansas will be rent by 1900 |
scpernte and distinct class |