Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-11-05

orators" this year than any other town
of its size in Kansas.
The Newton men who went to Can
ton came home safely but not telling
who gets the post office.
The shocking bee at Preston result
ed in a shockingly large number o.
red ears and chapped lips.
One of the issues up in Dickinson
county is whether it is a disgrace for q
school teacher to do his janitor worl
or not.
There is not single dude in Flor
ence, says the Bulletin. A dude is de-
fined as man who takes bath twice
a week.
A Newton woman says that if Inger'
soil should speak at Wichita she will
walk all the way down, if she had to,
to hear him.
A Harvey county man caught killing
quail last week had fifteen in his bag
and he paid country justice just SIS
for the mess.
A woman in Hiawatha did not think
it was proper to mark spoons sent to a
church social. She sent twelve and
got three back.
Three sl1unlls took refuge under a
church at White Cloud, and there was
more backsliding than can be made up
by dozen revivals.
The Topeka amateurs who are pre-
pairing to spring an "opera" on the
people, took their show out to the asy-
lum for trial Wednesday night
On November II an all-day pastors
prayer meeting will be held at the
First Baptist church in Topeka, to be
participated in by ministers of that de-
nomination from large section of
Kansas.
A sister of Russell woman is in the
secret service of the postofEice depart
ment at Chicago, and when she is sent
out to strike the trail of crook she
never fails. She is one of the thirteen
children, and all of them are invaria-
bly, lucky.
Five Indian boys averaging IA years
of age, escaped from Haskell Indian
school at Lawrence Sunday. The po-
lice departments of all prominent
towns in the state have been notified.
There is reward of S. each offered
for the capture of them.
Two Of the largest apples ever seen
in Kansas were sent here by man in
Minnesota. They were displayed in
the exhibit of the Horticulture society
at Topeka awhile and then given to
the governor. A small boy who saw
them said they were as large as water
melons
A snow begin to fall at Goodland at
midnight Thursday night and the fall
continued steadily. An October snow
is something rare in Kansas and causes
the average laboring man to wonder
what he did with his summers
wages. The snow extended into Colo
RADIO.
Before Oklahoma opened the writers
in southern Kansas spent large part
of their time writing up an outlaw
known as Belle Starr" She is about
forgotten in southern Kansas now, but
a writer named Varigny has recently
set Paris wild with descriptions of this
'daring beauty"
The Topeka lodge of Elks have de-
cided upon the first Sunday in Decem-
Der as the day on which memorial SER
vices for the dead members will be
held. Although customary among the
eastern lodges, the Topeka lodge OF
Elks has never held memorial services
in the past.
At a public meeting of Washburn
college recently the chairman announ-
ced that all the students were invited
to meet on the college campus on Sat
urday night, October 81, as there will
be some special entertainment provid-
ed by certain of the students in certain
of the buildings" This was enough of
an intimation to the college authori-
ties for them to hire some %atchmen
for Halloween.
On account of the abandonment of
the Anthony branch of the St Louis &
San Francisco railway, running from
Arkansas City to Anthony, II employees
of the engine and train service have
been transferred from Anthony to Neo-
desha and provided with runs out of
that point. The IL employees transfer
red are: Engineer Nick Walker and
Fireman Cap Holton, Engineer John
Osentorth and Fireman Frank Allen;
Conductors H. L. Hale, Ed Hoskins
and w. C. Jackman; Brakemen Amos
Tuck and Theodore Weedman; also
Conductor C. II. Long and Brakeman