Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-12-24

to pay an assessment for November.
! The college of Emporia has selected
homemade song for their own especial
use.
The business men of Hiawatha have
organized mutual fire insurance com.
pGny
Forty-one Cuban patriots were re-
cruited at Fort Scott last month-all
mules.
By some accident s36.15 in cash was
left in the vault when the Baxter
Springs bank failed.
An Emporia hunter rested his gun,
muzzle down ON his foot. The doctOra
hope to save his foot.
Usage City teachers who dance will
be discharged. How is that for inva-
sion of personal property?
The government put $4,000 fish into
Kansas streams last gear not counting
the suckers made by politics
Lawrence girls have given two leap
year parties, and are prepared to take
extreme measures if necessary.
Tho women of Ottawa have organ,
lied o lodge which does not even allow
men to 'sit in the lodge room"
1t is said that Kansas has a level.
headed preacher who refuses to be the
beneficiary of donation parties"
There is fat women's club at Har.
per. Members must weigh not less
than $50 pounds or more than ton.
Pneumatic gates are being put in by
the Santa Fe at the street crossings in
Newton to keep the jam of people of
the tracks.
The freshman class of the state uni.
versity expects to eclipse all of its
predecessors in the splendor of its So
cial operations.
A Wichita lawyer was fined $40 for
calling a witness a liar. He should
understand that such title can only
be applied to another lawyer.
The Lord is taking care of Billy Ed
wards. Hehas given him gold mine,
aud the dividends will begin to come
on or about January 18th.
The Northwestern Kansas conference
of the Methodist Episcopal church
meets at Beloit March "a. Chaplain
McCabe will be the presiding bishop.
A Greedy county literary society is
debating the question: Resolved,
That dishwashing machine would be
worth more to man than woman
would be.
A young man of Jackson county re-
Gently husked and cribbed 16O bushels
of corn in one day and then walked q
mile or two TO see his sweetheart in
in the evening.
A Kansas man has invented flying
which seems to have been
phenomenally successful. At the first
trial it smashed itself into flinders
without killing anyone.
Ellinwood has dozen maids whose
haye been failure this
year, and, to give them one more
chance, a leap year party will be Civ
en- for their benefit this month.
A western Kansas newspaper proud.
y remarks that the prairies of western
Kansas are sight better than the
'ocls bound coasts of New England
where the Pilgrim fathers staked their
,laims.
The school boarn of northern Kan.
as town has by formal resolution
erved notice on the teachers that il
hey dance they will lose thor jobs
This is an encrouchment upon the bill
# rights, but job is a job these times
md the pretty teachers must foregc
he pleasures of the two-stcp.
A Beloit man reports fout dead hor.
es, as the result of the new disease
.mong them, A neighbor of his lost
i've and Jewell man lost fourteen.
several have been examined after
leath and the brain was found conges-
ed. The veterinarians say it is caus-
ID by substance which grows on differ
mt kinds of grain and is eaten by the
lorses. 1t may be found on one farm
Ind on no other in the neighborhood.
It is poisonous to man as we'll as beast,
'ut does not find its way into our food
n sufficient quantities to injure us.
A story is going the rounds to the
fleet that a married lady in an adjoin-
ng county had birthday anniversary
/ few days since, upon which her hus-
'and presented her a parlor lamp. He
vas much flattered when she intended
o give it his name, until he asked her
'eason for so peculiar proceeding.
Well" said she, you know, dear it
has good deal of brass about it, is
to look at requires a good
leal of attention, is sometimes nm