Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-09-17
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with the coming hen?
Everything is in a furry at Atchiso
over the Corn Carnival which is to b
held there September "a.
"Edyth, a papa's joy of Concordia
has been eclipsed by "Edythae,"
mammals pet of Minneapolis.
Burglars entered the home of tn
Lindsborg News and stole S13 in hare
money. Whose money was it?
A Kansas City laundry threatens t.
knock the starch out of the collar ant
cuff business. 1t claims to have
secret process for laundering
those useful articles without wearing
them out
Lacrosse boasts of seventh daught.
er of a seventh daughter, who can
lift the veil from the future at so much
per lift. That's nothing. Hiawatha
has the seventh son of a son-of-a-gun
in its midst.
Ed Howe gives fair notice that the
people who have just returned from
the long, lazy, loafing vacations, will
find him little abrupt when they be-
gin tell him what a nice time they
have had.
Now that the swimming days have
passed and school will open in a short
time, there is little in this world to
make life joy to the average Kansas
kid save the anticipation of the Holt
days.
A Wellington young man keeps the
picture of his sweetheart on his desk,
so that he can at any time take look
at her fair face. That may be all right
but we should think that the girl
would kick on such public display of
his affection.
Billy Morgan says when a young
man works through his dinner hour in
order to get off an hour earlier in the
evening, so as to walk home with his
girl, it is time for the probate Judge to
take him to one side and give him
market quotations on marriage license.
Rev. John Smith, colored preacher
of Atchison, was fined S25 for carrying
concealed weapons and put on Their
pile to work it out. Rev. Smith says
that he believes the early Christians in
Rome had snap compared to Kansas
Christians, He Is the sixth parson
who has been forced to work on the
Atchison stone pile and he proposes to
warn all others away.
The first white child born in Rush
county is now 20 years old and is a
school teacher in the county. 1t is
Katie Wilson, and she began teaching
four years ago. Last winter she
boarded at home and taught four
miles away, and intends doing so again
this winter, Her parents came from
Scotland to America a quarter of a
century ago.
Love is stronger than religion, death
or the devil. When Captain Mahoffey
of the Harvey county Salvation army
fell in love with the widow Drummer he
cast his religious VOWS to the wind
and married the widow out of hand.
The Salvation army has mighty strict |
rules about its officers marrying. They
cannot do it without permission from
the squeegee who ranks above them.
True industry always reaps its Just
reware. The man who humbly tolls |
along in the sphere which God has
fixed for MIN is almost certain to rise
and grasp the bubble success at the !
moment when he least expects it. A
lowly farmer boy wandered into a |
Kansas town the other day with but |
% cents in his clothes The FOUNDERS |
spotted him for sucker and enticed |
him into crap game. When the game
ended he went to a store and bought !
himself the best suit of clothes in town.
Then he bought watch and revolver,
and finished by sending $50 home to |
his mother-which shows that he was
not only deserving boy, but also a |
good and loving son.
There is a man-in Atchison who is !
so cordially hated by the womeA that |
he don't dare go to church social for
fear OF being poisoned He has been |
a dry goods clerk so long that he
knows the cost of every thing a wo-
man wears and he talks about il to the |
other men. Here comes girl whose |
dress cost IS cents yard" he said the |
other cay, as one of Atchison's sweet |
est buds floated down the street. She |
has on it six yards of lace at - cents |
a yard, which together with the hooks
eyes and thread, makes a total of
s3.57. She is an economical girl, as
the lace has been put on without much
cutting, which indicates that she viii |
trim another dress with it next sum-
mer."