Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-01-02

Horton girls gave minstrel show
one evening recently, and succeeded
in clearing So.
The merchants of Jewell City take
an hour off twice week to attend af-
ternoon prayer meeting. George Case
lives in that town.
A Glen Elder man caught 300 fish
out of the Solomon last week. They
presumably passed Lawrence before
the dam was built.
Toliver Bird, the "Hon." who re-
Gently was given his old position OF
janitor of the supreme court rooms,
belongs to Topeka's negro swelldom.
DR.. Mabel Spencer, Kansas City
woman has been appointed county
physician of Riley county, the first
woman in Kansas to receive such an
appointment.
According to the Star and Kansan,
Montgomery's corn crop was not suf-
ficient for home consumption, and
dealers are shipping in from Harper
and Kingman counties,
"Monty" Montgomery, the rainma-
ker, has gone to the gold mines of Col
orado, where the Goodland Republic
says he has enough stuff in sight to
make him comfortable the rest of his
life.
A Harper county paper has put up
crib to accommodate farmers who
want to pay their subscriptions, back
and front, in corn. 1t allows twenty
five cents bushel, and collections are
good.
Twenty thousand bushels of corn
are in crib at Jewell City, and the fell
lows who have money are in the mar
ket for more The Kansas farmers
and dealers are dealers in dead earn
est, and no corn will move at present
prices.
President Weller of Central college,
Abilene, has accepted the pastorate OF
the United Brethren church of Spring
field, and left Monday for his new field
of labor. Mrs. Weller remained in
Abilene and will be the nominal head
of the school.
A man in Topeka found piece of
horse collar in railroad sandwich he
was eating and made an awful roar
about it. But he ought to have known
that even the generosity of Fred Har-
vey would not allow whole horse to
90 with ten cent sandwich.
Down at Erie a minister delivered
two lectures entitled "That old maid"
and "The Plague of Old Bachelors"
which would no doubt would have in
many instances suited the bachelors
better by the delivery of one lecture
with combination of the titles.
Galena and it's tributary mining
camps are to have an electric railway.
There is fear that the Joplin system
may hook on it and give cheap trans
portation to another trade center, but
Weldy says in the Republican that
Galena is big enough to hold its own
against Joplin or any other town.
Mr. A. Rosaker of Stafford county
believes in Kansas. He is the proud
possessor of 1900 acres of land, 1856
cattle, 200 hogs, good buildings and
every convenience and money-making
and saving device. He has a large
windmill, used for several different
purposes, pumping water, grinding
feed, etc Irrigation of garden and
fruit trees is another one of his fail
ings. He has about sixty acres of
alfalfa.
In the fourteen counties lying west
of the east lines of Jewell and Mitch
ell counties, Frank Kiser, missionary
of the American Sunday School union,
has, since 1885, organized S4s schools
for Il, ISL children and 1894 teachers;
Travelled &C, 3OS miles; made 1888 house
visitations; distributed 2,375 Bibles;
collected or otherwise received S3,O17
in aid of 5G9 schools; organized 1877
churches out of schools, and estab-
lished $50 mission points.
The Garnett Eagle is opposed to the
proposed curfew bell in that town. 1t
thinks the old fashioned way of keep
ing boys at home cannot be improved
upon. 1t says: "When we were kids
our mothers used a piece of barrel
stave for curfew, which brought us
in quicker than any bell would have
done, and if mothers would use these
same persuaders now there would be
no need to ring BELLS" The Eagle
man presumably never sneaked out
over the kitchen roof after he had
gone to bed 1t is for such kids that
the curfew is intended
An Atchson mortgage bid in tract
of land at song and for the remain
der of the debt holds Judgment over
the mortgagor. Afterward the mort
gage contracted to sell the land al
about double the original debt. Now
Chief Justice Martins decision enters
into the case. The MORTGAGE has
bargained to give a warranty deed
but there stands the mortgagor''
equity of redemption and the mort
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