Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-12-05
Ed Howe has learned to plnn whist.

ton City Immensely.
The Syracuse dramatic company is
out with "the lightning rod agent"
Not to be behind Ottawa, Ellsworth
has discovered a remedy for hog chol-
era.
Miss Whsle McNaughton has taken
editorial charge of the Vermilion Rec
ord.
Ewing Herbert has added an electric
street railway boom to his other new
schemes.
Fred Collier is figuring on what sem
sational assignment to give Becky
Sharp next.
The Hiawatha academy and High
school seniors will edit the World on
December %.
Leavenworth, Atchison and Pawnee
counties have clerks who have held
their positions for twenty years.
Mrs NJ. w. Dunaway, formerly Of
Hoxie, has been elected county super
intendent of Lincoln county, Col.
Ben Matchett has come out of his
cave of gloom and is now running a
revival at Mayhem, in Jewell county
The dehorning machine has succeed
ed the broomcorn machine, and will
do business until spring blowing be-
gins.
Topeka gradually gets on. The
Lance, which owns Century diction-
airy, spells it baccara, dropping the
final t.
General Columbus Borin delivered
lecture at Lacrosse ON "Lipes and
Spaces" and as usual "drew a full
house"
An Effingham girl has taken four
teen bottles of sarsaparilla and is now
ready for the winters giddy whirl OF
society.
w. II. A. Freeman of Harper county
has turned his Sunday school class
over to a substitute and will spend the
winter at the Soldiers home.
A cousin of the Kansas Murdocks
is administrator of the estate of Clara
Campbell of Arbuclile breach of prom
Use fame. She left 100000.
Some Kansas tramps were caught
riding stolen horses, which shows very
plainly that nothing is SO utterly
worthless that nobody wants it.
A melancholy sign at the Leaven-
worth Soldiers home is the cemetery
containing over 1,1OO graves. The
home has not been in existence ten
years.
The town loafers have taken pos
session of the Chanute city building
for the winter and the city clerk and
city attorney have taken refuge in the
cellar
W. w. Dodd, one of the early set
tiers in Grant county, died few days |
ago soon after he had taken up his
residence at Blue Rapids, Marshall |
county.
There are thirty-fve music teachers
in Topeka. not counting Lee Jones,
who used to cause the multitude to |
walk miles to see him do the drum
major act.
The Rev. Father Hayden of Solomon
recently protested to the authorities
that there was too much drunkenness
in town, especially on Sunday. The
next day the buns were cleaned out
A barefooted tramp passed through
Fulton one day last week. Assistance
was offered, but he refused it, saying
that he could steal what he wanted.
A Kansas man is nothing if not proud.
That Harvey county colony who
went down into Louisiana about three
years ago to make fortune raising
rice, will locate in Kansas again. 1t
was mostly misfortune they found in
the south.
Sylvester Fowler who, when he sold
the Peoples Herald, agreed to stay
out of business year, has gone back
there, the year having elapsed, and is
figuring on a couple of papers. He
may start new Que. There are only
thirteen in the county now.
A Jewell City woman with fashion
able big sleeves on turned on the gas
in stove, and her sleeves filed with
the escaping gas Suddenly she was
lifted from the floor and floated to the
ceiling. She took pin from her hat,
punctured the sleeves in sew eral places
and descended gracefully to the floor.
w. II. Orvis, well known citizen
near Eureka, was found in his room
Wednesday in a moribund condition
and died later. The coroners inquest
Wednesday night resulted in a verdict
that death was due to the effects of a
fall on the slippery pavement Monday
evening, but there are many who re-
fuse to accept this verdict and hint at
foul play.
The Commercial bank of Eureka has
made contract with Mr.. Whit, the
quarryman, to put them in sidewalk
composed of single stone % X 16 feet.
The difficulty is in moving so large a
STONE from tho ouorrv tn town with