Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-10-31
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The Topeka pension Office uses 500
900 envelopes a year.
Jim Hollowell's son has a position
In George R. Peck's law office.
osbore county sends horses ant
young men to Louisiana to grow VI
with the country.
The Kansas Mutual Life Insurance
company has been admitted to do bus
mess in the state of New York.
In Ottawa, if man steals anything,
the papers say he ''removed"it. That's
the advantage of being cultured.
A daughter of Judge A. R. Clark OF
Rice county was married the 18th inst.
10 James S. Bonn of the Philadelphia
Record staff.
An animal without any cerebum has
has appeared in some Kansas towns
which scrapes up fallen leaves and
burns them on the street.
A Missourian who is visiting at
Sparta, Mcpherson county, is aston
ished at the crops. He said he never
saw so much of everything.
A recent number of the London In
formation contained a half column BIZ
ographical sketch of L. L. Dyche of
the Kansas state university.
1t is said that the ella monster
which recently died in the X. U. mu-
scum was unspeaka bly, ugly. 1t was
not a curiosity in Lawrence.
. A Belleville woman poured gasoline
into hot water and she came out of the
steam bath sans hair, sans eyebrows;
not SO pretty as before, but a heap
wiser.
The Eureka Times says that when
person begins to grow thin there is
something wrong. The editor of the
Times has evidently never seen John ].
Ingalls,
The term of U. S. court at Leaven-
worth is measured by the patience of
the court officials with the hotels.
When they can't stand it any longer
the term ends.
1t is thought that if the diphtheria
epidemic should continue in Ottawa all
winter the local papers will find out
before spring how to spell the name
Of the disease.
Becky Sharp of the Topeka Journal
will act as a trolley car conductor for
the benefit of q local charity November
ard. 1t will be big car with drawn
curtains, electric lights and mandolin |
music.
There is some talk of erecti ng mon !
ument to dead soldiers on Mt. Dread,
Lawrence, but it would appear is the |
memorial is to be that high up the
soldiers might as we'll wait till they
get to heaven.
Ottawa boasts of woman who can
throw herself into trance state and
find pocket books with money in
them. We will whack up with her
half and half if she'll find any of our
pocketbooks with money in them,
The third pair of twins has just come
to the family of John Oliver of Butler
county. Twins could save q good deal
of domestic bitterness if they would
agree between them for one to say
mamma" first and the other papa"
Twenty cents a bushel is the ruling
price for choice hand picked apples in
Mama county. Dealers who sell APP
pies three for a dime ought to get
their supplies in Mama county, and
possibly they could afford to give more
for the money.
The town of Kipp, which was named
after Chief Justice Martins mother-in-
law, has talked up a boom. The stucco
mill which had been shut down has
been started up; new elevator Il
nearing completion, and dancing
master visits the town twice week.
Sparks from Memphis engine set
the grass on fire just east of Cherokee
and while Mrs. Mary Baldwin was try
ing to extinguish the flames, her
clothing caught fire and she was so
badly burned she died.
Leavenworth people are going to
give a chrysanthemum show. That
flow er being distinguished for its big
head, the event will doubtless follow
the apple carnival.
A runaway team in Harvey county
drove the pole of the buggy through a
horse ahead from rear to front, the an
NAL dying instantly. The young wo-
man who was riding the animal es-
capped unhurt
Thousands of cattle are weekly |
driven from mo Mans Land" and |
shipped to Kansas City from Liberal |
Over 1000 head have been shipped |
since the season opened, and the rush |
has only begnn.
Prof. and Mrs. A. G. Garfield who |
were married last spring at Lawrence
and have been east all summer, will be |
given reception by Mrs. Canfeld's |
parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Sayre at
Lawrence Monday night.
Thad Platt, who formerly conducted !
a swell ice cream factory in Topeka,