Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-09-17
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.
WANTED-THE EARTH.
An Irresistible Mirth-PTOvOking Satire
On Social Tendencies of the
Present Days

the plays John Dillon will give az the
Crawford Grand on his appearance in
Wichita during the State Fair week
commencing Monday September 21st
The play itself is good one. The
curtain goes up on Jay D. Smiths farm
in New Jersey. AS the keeper of q
summer boarding house, Mr.. Smith is
only moderate success; as soil agi-
tator he is dead failure and concludes
to sell the farm. remove to New York
and enter ''sassiety." The sale of the
farm is made to great advantage Mr..
Smith removes to the metropolis,
changes his name to Jason DeSmythe
and becomes a genuine dude. AS
speculator the imam from Jersey" is
bowling success, and rapidly acquires
vast fortune, together with a fair
knowledge of French. His courtship
OF the Widow Van Doodle is replete
with humor and demonstrates what
can be accomplished by a man of gem
nine nerve. After being arrested as a
celebrated sharp, threatened with
breach. of promise suit, and meeting
with other minor mishaps, he finally
succeeds in securing the afternoon
morning glory and is happy Through
out the entire play Mr.. Dillon keeps
the house in roar of laughter. 1t is
truly "a hot day when the flies roost
on Dillons frame" During three
nights Mr. Dillon's great success "a
Model Husband" will be given.
Mayor Selig of Lawrence has vetoed
the Curfew ordinance. The university
students are threatening to pack up
and 60 to some other institution.
The two Poppen girls of Cawker
City were married at the same cere-
mony the other day, and a fellow who
was looking over our shoulder suggests
that there must have been a lot of
poppen as preliminary to the affair.
An odd election wager has been made
at Nortonville. Two business men do
ing business in the same building, but
being of different politics, have agreed
to vote the same ticket. To settle
which ticket this shall be they are to
run foot race on election morning.
1t is said both will go into training
and do his best to win vote.
A farmer living on the Arkansas
river in Cowley county, has just begun
to market his onion crop He drove
into his home town few days ago
with big load of the white spanish
variety and got fifty cents a bushel
for them, and will have about 1000
to sell. He argues that there is good
money in raising onions, and that it
pays better than any other crop. An
acre Or two of ground will raise sever
al hundred bushels if properly culti-
waited.
The probate judge of Harvey county
came awful near becoming party to a
crime the other day. He was marry
ing Josiah Gown and Emma Kay and
had almost come to the point of pro-
nouncing them man and wife when the
groom interrupted with: "Hold on
there, judge. I can't swear to all of
that because En- and are first cous-
ms" OF course, the marriage was
stopped midway and the disconsolate |
lovers were informed that first cousins
could not marry this side of Missouri
Lieutenant Alge Berry, the Ellis
worth county young man who is charg-
ed with ravishing a 15-year-old farm
er girl at recent Ellsworth county
picnic, had his preliminary examina-
ton Monday, The girl could not pos
itively identify Berry as her assailant,
but other witnesses swore they saw
the two together and on this testimo-
ny he was bound over to the district
court. Berry had Just been assigned
to a regiment of cavalry and was visit
ing his old home before reporting for
duty.
The Kansas State Board of Agricul-
ture has just issued its August Bulle-
tin, and giving the probable yield of
corn before husking begins. The re-
port is given on IS counties, and gives
the total of the yield of marketable
corn PA, 900 bushels or 1l.6 per
cent more than the total crop of 1895
The average number of bushels per
acre on the area planted in the So coun-
ties is 2s]l. The quantity of old corn
on hand in March as found by assess
ors was 57,627, 421 bushels. In portions
of the state fall blowing is being re-
tarded because of insufficient moisture
while in Others it is being pushed, and
Feeding to wheat and rye will be done
early.
The police Judge of Abilene resigned
the other day, although it was paying
s21.6O a month. Some men don't know
a good thing when they see it