Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-12-19
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.


b floor walker in a Kansas City dr.
goods store-still keeping an eye ou
for sinners.
The religions revival at Usage City
has become so redhot that society ha'
suspended gaiety and literary clubs
quit meeting.
Abilene people going to Africa to d.
missionary work is like the famous
Thompson colt which swan the river
to get drink.
Herman Lay ton of Hewins was fool
ing with an empty revolver last week
when it went off anG spotted him gor'
geously in the leg.
It is said that Major Drumhlller
deputy oil inspector, is kept so busy in
his official duties that he has given uE
all his outside work.
The Rev. r. L. March holds out a
new hope to sinners. In a recent
lecture on "Hell' he said there was q
chance for reform after death.
Mort Albaugh became the father OF
girl baby six weeks ago, and kept
the secret until Milt Brown got hold
Of it last week and published it in his
paper.
A man is going through the North
west buying poultry by the car load.
In Mitchell county he struck so many
turkeys that he neglected chickens,
ducks and geese.
The people of Chautauqua county
are not scratching" this winter.
Kafir cornmeal has taken the place of
that nondescript mixture labeled
"buckwheat -four"
Last week the local corn markets $50
miles from Kansas City fixed the price
at about eighteen cents. This week
csttlemen are paying twenty-five. So
the country papers say.
A weather prophet, who does bust
ness at Hewins, predicts snow on thir-
ty-one different days this winter. This
Is encouraging to men who have put
in large plants of wheat.
The ice twill bear up" all over Kan
sas and the boys and girls have aban-
doned other pleasures for skating.
Great Scott! What fun that is! More
properly stated, what fun it was.
In the Ossawatomie asylum dining
room George McCune was struck upon
the head and his skull fractured by a
vegetable dish in the hands of Charles
Mold, a patient McCune may die.
A butterfly drill by sixteen young
ladies dressed in airy white wings will
be feature Of an 0lathe entertain
ment which, alone, the Mirror says,
will be worth the price of admission.
The people of Monet do not miss
their preacher if they can sing. One
Sunday night recently he failed to
show up, but they held a meeting just
the same, singing gospel hymns until
] o'clock.
Leavenworth has been called upon
TO mourn the death of giant colored
boy, who weighed 325 pounds at the
age Of 16 years, but man still lives
there who wrote 1000 love letters to
one women.
Chautauqua county ships out low
grade wheat, and in exchange ships in
No. for grinding. That is following
literally the old Jewish law to give
unto the stranger the worst food and
keep for yourself the best.
A Kansan man is captain of the Yale
foot ball team. A Kansas man made
the first speech in this Congress, A
Kansas man is going to the north pole.
"Look at the man, look at the man,
look at the Kansas man."
The case of the four Gores-father
two sons and a nephew-of Lebanon,
who hunted down and killed their
neighbor, James Amis, last week,
causes the papers to cry out for q
speedy trial and conviction and swift
hanging.
The Thomas w. Fauntleroy who has
such firm mortgage, bond and tax
grip on the Eastern counties of Kan
sas is son Of old General Fauntleroy,
who recommended to the government
that military post be established
,,,bara Fort Dt1arr non, 10
The Topeka Lance, which again as
sumes to be the organ of local swell
dom, says that since Jerry Blacks
marriage he has appeared at dinners
wearing Tuxedo instead of the reg
ulation coat with his dress suit, with
the complimentary high collar and
black satin tie, and his friends are
marveling at the change wrought in
him.
An Eastern paper says Dragging has
brought Kansas into sorry strait
again. She has been astonishing the
world for some time telling about her
400 million bushels corn crop of this
year, but now the crop is gathered and
measured she finds herself compelled
to sell her 200 million bushels, the &C.
tual crop, at the low price set by her
inflated estimate Of 400 million bush
els
The Rock Island is paying its take,
In full, thus getting the benefit of the
discount on the last half.