Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-12-03
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Atchison women give Mother Hub
bard parties and then wonder why the
guests are able to eat SO much,
Jim Gordon, a western Kansas boy
was elected states attorney of Hender'
Eon county, Illinois, by big majority.
Messrs. Teller, Hightower. Benof
and Ford of Arkansas City while hunt
ing coons last week cornered nine in
one tree. They secured six of these.
The Wichita schools are to be dis
missed during January to save expen-
ses. We thought licensing saloons
mean plenty of money and low taxes.
GoVernor-elect Leedy, it is said, has
since his election read over dwellings,
inaugural address and will carefully
avoid following its ideas in any partic-
ular.
If the Arkansas City merchant who
ndvertises "three quarts of kisses for
quarter" would hire some pretty girl
clerks he would do Marc Hanna bus
mess.
An Atehison girl prays every morn
ing to be delivered from a marriage
into which she feels that she is drift
ing, and every evening she lights fire
in the parlor and proceeds to drift in
further.
There is a scheme on foot to consoli-
date the veterinary board, the agricul-
tural board and the labor bureau into
a single board and the secretary to
draw fair salary and DE appointed by
the governor.
Fred Golfers article in defense of
Kansas last week ranks among the
really good things that have appeared
in the Kansas newspapers. 1t was
clean and clear cut and every praise
found Judgement.
County seat fights in western Kansas
were agreat aid to the Republican par
ty for while. They were so bitter
that the people didn't have time to
think of politics and voted the Repub-
lican ticket by general agreement that
politics didn't amount to anything,
anyway.
If every man in the state of Kansas
will devote as much energy the next
six months to the permanent improve
ment of something as he has the last
six months to discussing politics, we
win guarantee the greatest season of
prosperity ever known. But the Lord
knows the won't do it.
Miller of the Second congressional
district is the only one of his kind in
Kansas He went to congress one term
and said that he wouldn't have any |
more congressional life if they doub-
led his salary and made it life posi-
ton. A seat in congress, as a matter
of fact, is great disappointment
The returns from Kansas appear to
show that only one male citizen out of
every 100 in the state over 81 years of
age failed to vote at the Late election.
The Topeka Capital is firmly grounded
in its belief that many more than that
really did not vote, but that some 9TH
er fellows voted for them.
Mrs. Carrie Liebengood, who submit
ted to an Y ray test of her foot, has
had to have that member amputated
at the ankle as result of the expert
ment Within few days after the
test, which was conducted by Prof.
Blake, of the state university at Law
renee, abcess after abcess formed, the
pains finally becoming unbearable.
The shoemakers profit by the new
gravel walks in the statehouse yard
nobody else, Probably 100 men and
women are employed in and around
the statehouse, and the sharp gravel
causes no less than SIS extra wear and
tear of shoes for every person. In adj
dition, persons who cross the grounds
to get to and from Kansas avenue sui.
fer an equal loss. Then there it the
yellow mud when it rains and the
clouds of sand when it blows. Kill the
man who suggested gravel walks.
A man down in Labette county was
telling that threadbare story about
how he went east and heard Kansas
abused, and said that he denied that
he lived in Kansas, when some of his
Labette county hearers turned in and
clicked" him for not standing up for
Kansas anywhere and everywhere
There are others. Who are these east
erners that they should feel themselves
so superior to Kansas people that they
can insult them every tune they go
East. 1t is base Kansan who will
endure it without at least retorting in
kind.
The various states nearly all have a
corrupt practices" act, which compels
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