Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-08-22

n OdIbOH COuuGy man hOD Ou1y 4O1t
his crops by the food in the Arkansas,
but also three acres of land.
Jesse Mays, of Lawrence, dropped
dead on the street while laughing at a
funny story told by George Dodson.
A Junction City man advertises, 81
have wife and four children to sup
port, and will work at anything"
According to Mandate of the city
council of Hiawatha dogs and draymen
will have to have tags after this.
The old style girl who used to make
"charm strings" of buttons collected
from her friends is asked for at Caw-
ker City.
There are unsupported advantages
in the big corn crop. The "oldest in
habitant" at Garnett can't remember
to beat it.
There is man at Baxter Springs
who is such poor manager that If he
run lumber yard he couldn't get his
board out of it.
Burlington people believe in the the
DRY of isolating evils, and have raised
$3.50 to put band stand in the middle
of the City park.
The recent heavy rains have caused
serious break in the irrigation canal
in Kearney county, which will cost
49, 900 to repair.
All flesh is not grass or a Leroy
man who ships eight or ten carloads
of hay each week might be the pro-
prietor of 4 packing house.
Every town in Smith county report
ed one or more babies born last week,
which only goes to, show that some
crops don't have to have rain.
In all the combinations that have
been thought of for 1896, George E.
Cole has been listed for auditor of
state. Even the Pops like him.
The editor of the Gridley Herald
has gone to teaching school. It is a
whole lot easier to teach children than
than to educate the "masses.
A man on the Smoky river took ad-
vantage of the recent high water and
advertised sixteen hundred acres of
land for sale with running water.
The semi-annual division of the ac-
cumulated interest on the annual
school fund has been completed.
Cowley county will receive S4,76O.s 80.
The people of Hackney are almost
as tired of hearing "this rain is fine
for the corn" as the Athenians were of
hearing about thejustness of Aristides.
A Chicago girl who is up in all the
latest fashions is visiting in Muscotah
and the women and girls are SO anx-
ious to get glimpse of her they let
the bread burn.
Whooping cough is epidemic at ODER
lin but it wasn't discovered before
great many young men had been de-
ceived into believing the girls were
flirting with them.
The young women of Baldwin are
going to edit the Ledger next week.
The paper will come out at the usual
time if the adding of postscripts doesn't
take too much time.
The farmers in the western counties
keep "a cuttin' and a tryin" on the
matter of crops with a zeal worthy of |
success. They will succeed, too. Such
energy, enterprise and grit always
win.
The monument being erected over
the remains of Geo. A. Eddy, at Leav-
enworth, is of dark granite and weighs
over eight tons. He was brother of
E. D. Eddy, leading druggist of Cow
ley county.
The fact that Reno county has a set
ting gobbler would have less suggest
iveness in it were it not that the lady I
who owns him is president Of the
Equal Suffrage club. Oh, the new
woman is a-comin',
The average value of an irrigated
acre in the arid region of the United
States is $50. II. V. Hinckley, a scian-
fist of Topeka, says million acres
may be successfully and proftably ir-
rigated in Western Kansas alone.
Kansas has ia, O6O acres in fax this
year. She also has over nine million
acres in corn and will raise upwards of
4OO, 100000 bushels, which will be
worth three times as much as all the
taxable property in the state in 1865
which was $50, 19O,045,
The annual Bible school of the Kan
sas Gospel union began it's sessions at
Bismark Grove, Lawrence, Tuesday.
There are a number in attendance from
different parts of the state. Promi-
nent teachers are: Rev. T. G. Horton,
st. Paul, Mimi; A.. E. Bishop and
George S. Fisher of Kansas City, and
others. The school will last till Au-
gust 90.
At one o'clock Friday morning the
big seven-story distillery at Leaven-
worth caught fire and within an hours
time was mass of smouldering ruins.