Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-10-01

water at the topeka reunion.
The Pawnee Rock band has bought
band wagon with a red box and yell
; low wheels.
! The small boys of Lawrence are re-
joicing over the fact that the nutting
season is at hand.
Sol Miller thinks half the people
who pretend to make love, could be
arrested for counterfeitlng.
What great hand Jim Busser of
Seneca must have been to play drop
the handkerchief when he was a kid.
None of the essential elements OF tho
average wedding were found wanting
in the marriage of Mr.. Stark to Miss
Dark at Uniontown last week.
A AtchiSon woman says her husband
is so contrary that if he should fall in
the river and be drowned his body
would be found at st. Joseph.
Wolf scalp industry hasn't yet be-
come extinct in Leavenworth county.
the bounty having been claimed on
three at the clerks office day or two
ago.
Albert Bigelow Paine, the Fort
Scott poet living in New York, who
recently had trouble with his wife,
has sent for her and comfy will be
restored.
It is understood that Doniphan coun-
ty applejacl is to be the only officially
recognized beverage for use during the
festivities incident to Leavenworths
apple carnival next month.
When Sam Chestnut of Tabor looked
upon his eighth son and heir in the
arms of its nurse the other day he
turned sadly away with the remark;
''This is getting to be chestnut"
Several of our Western Kansas ex-
changes have remarked that this week
should be called "Sunhower week." as
the big gold disc are now in the height
of their glory. Next week the golden
rod will have its turn and in the first
week of November both will give way
to winter visit from Jack frost.
The work of Mrs John Graham,
Lyons county woman, exhibited with
out her knowledge, took first prize in
competition with 800 other choice
specimens of china painting at the re-
cent fair in Ithaca, N. Y. The pieces
receiving the prize were a cracker
jar and ice cream plates, and were
shown by a lady to whom Mrs Ora
ham had sold them.
A Douglas county girl wanted man
so bad that she robbed her mother of
$50 with which to pay the marriage
expenses. The bridal couple went to
Lawrence and were having a blissful
honeymoon on the stolen money when
the sheriff took cruel hand and lodg-
ed the pair in Jail. Later-as might
have been bet on-the mother forgave
the hayward couple and took them to
her home,
A very proper old girl who went to
the theater the other night in Atchi-
son, and saw the little bare Cupids
John Seaton has had painted on the
wall, will petition the theatergoers to
demand that the infants be clothed.
She claims that even the protecting
way in which the rushes grow does
not make their nakedness less glaring,
and that the bare spot on the wall
which the artist covered, looked better
than the bare spots on the Cupids
Guy Stoddard of the Muscotah Re-
cord took young man "snipo hunt
ing" After the sport, the victim
drove Stoddard and the other con-
spirators to Everest sixteen miles dis
tant, and decoyed them out of the
vehicle, drove off and left them. When
Stodiard met the young fellow he
thumped him, and the next day Stod-
dard settled with the police judge.
Less than two years ago Topeka
man stole few hundred dollars of
lodge money and was sent to the pen
itentiary for a year. He served his
time and is now back in Topeka living
IL down. Daily there passes his little
shop man who stole large sum and
and county officers and courts of JUS
tice know all the particulars, but not
a step has been taken to put him in
the penitentiary. The ex-eonvict can
not understand it.
The old settlers Of Ford county held
a reunion one day last week at which
many incidents of hardship and priva-
ton were related by the speakers.
Mrs. Pogue, wife of well known
farmer, told of a terrible blizzard
which came along in 1878. She and
her husband lived in little two-rOom-
ed house. To save their only COW and