Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-09-10
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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The Erie schools will be conducted
by Rosebush the coming year.
Schlatter has been running thresh-
ing machine in Mcpherson county.
One of the fair and fragile flowers OF
Olsburg is Miss Minnie Barkyoumbe.
Miss Bobo lives at Baldwin, while
Miss Hugus alluringly resides at OF
tawa.
Miss Lamme, of Wellington, is in no
particular need of a shepherd. She
wears beautiful diamond ring.
At Abilene where they give the
children box of matches and send
them to the barn to play, a lot Of prop
erty was destroyed.
Miss Sally Segar of Lyon county
ought to take down the Standard die
tionary and discover that Cigar Is the
aristocratic way to spell it.
TT is all a bluff" said a Harvey
ounty girl to the editor when he told
her she looked cool. II have enough
on under this white duck suit to sail a
ship"
Rex. Case OF Harper county preached
from the text last Sunday, What is
Man?" There are, of course, some few
exceptions, but as rule man is a
Chump.
Instead of being up with the times
and preaching from shooting the
Chutes," Rev. Smith of Brown county
chose as his theme last Sunday, 1.-THE
Devils Toboggan Slide"
1t is said that when any of the peo-
pie leave Stanton county they are
dead sure to come back again, even if
they return in worse shape than they
left, which is often the case.
We always admire people who keep
the rosy tint of youth on their cheeks
through the scar years of life, and
whose frolics at eve are as gay as at
morn. Dannie Galloway and Racine
Brooks, each aged Sc years, were mar
ried at Fort Scott the other day.
A female ghost stalks around Galena
every night between IL and 2 o'clock.
This ghost does not wear the conven-
tional ghostly garments. She has a
long black dress and veil. She is as
speedy as deer, and sometimes flies
from one house top to another.
Harvey county has the champion
mean man. His young son was es-
sorting his juvenile inamorata home
one night last week when the old man
bounced on him and carried him home
by the ear, leaving the girl to get
home the best way she could. When
that boy grows up he will be entirely
excusable if he wades into the old man
and lays him up for few months.
Another cargo of Greenwood county
cattle is on the way to the English
market. The shippers are; o. E.
Ladd, 200 head; Gilbert Bitter, 100
head and S. Birllett, 40 head. They
will accompany the shipment, sailing
direct from Boston to Liverpool This
shipment, like the first, is an expert
ment, and in order to make thorough
test various grades Of cattle have been
sent-some choice export steers, some
of medium quality and few rough
ones,
A Topeka crank who goes wild at
the sight of the grotesque in funerals
files fresh kick. An undertaken of
that town has introduced the practice
of putting white cape-overcoats and
plug hats on his hearse and carriage
drivers. The coats are kept on hand,
intended to be worn by all sizes and
shapes of men, and in consequence the
colored men who drive look like scare
crows swaying with the wind Some
time that undertaken will strike q
corpse that will refuse to be a party
to such procession.
A woman at Hiawatha told her little
girl to tell a book agent at the door
that she was lying down and did not
care to be disturbed. What was her
horror a moment later to hear the lit
tie one announces: Mamma is all un-
dressed and it would disturb you to
zee her"
The female cyclists of Ft. Scott came
out on the streets so scantily clothed
that the modest were shocked and
made complaint to the city authorities
1t is not merely a given number of
years that bring age. That woman of
Robinson, Brown county, who was
married at II, who is now "a and who
is the mother Of IL children, is as old
as her grandmother to all intents and
purposes.
The Almena Plaindealer has quit;
Ere, no insurance; incendiary.
A Marion county female who has