Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-02-11
chanate iolnts are called ..dynaml.e

Newton girls ike TO go SKATING De-
cause they get = chance to hold the
boys hands.
A Leavenworth girl declares that
she bnys the old dresses CT the house
to hold her job.
The whereabou of the Bender fam
lily is again being discussed. 1t is
claimed that they are in Old Mexico.
When Miss Yaw meets a final and
real death she should have a monu-
ment reading: Greatness is made by
advertising, not born"
A Fort Scott man is having his stom-
nch investigated by the X rays. The
stomach troubles him and he wants to
find out where the flaw is.
A professor of two-step, who has es-
tablished herself at Galena. has been
granted permit by the mayor to spell
her first name Jeanne"
At Winfield the mayor has appoint
ed policeman to keep order at the sal
walton army meetings, the army pay
ing the salary of the officer
Rev. Pothshanks of Pillville has at
tackled the ball to be given by Miss
Bessie Durrant which will cost five
dollars and seventy-tve cents.
A Salins woman wants the Ameri-
cans to organize a society in which
each member will pledge himself to
buy only American made goods.
A bill has been introduced into the
Kansas legislature making the posses
sion Of government license by joint
ist prima facie evidence of guilt.
During the last twenty-five years
the city Of Topeka has paid out over
thirteen thousand dollars in insurance
premiums on the city school buildings.
Topeka has taken another start in
is boom for a big convention hall.
The man who first started this boom
died in 1868, and his son is now one of
the boomers.
Vick's Annual is now being distribu-
ted. In an early day the prettiest
thing that reached Kansas was the an
nual and the children used to fight for
possession.
The fact that cows are increasing in
western Kansas and that millions of
tons of ice are being put up now sug-
yests that ice cream will be dirt cheap
out there next summer.
Skating in Kansas is so rare that
when ice does core a number of old !
fashioned wooden skates with runners
that curl up over the top make their
appearance from the attics.
An Abilene man has moquette car
pet in his house that generates cleo
tricity in a wonderful way. The other
night young man went to kiss one of |
the girls and was knocked through the |
front door by the charge.
A story is told on Kansas girl that |
her mother recently put jug of boil
ng water at the foot of the girls bed |
% keep her feet warm, and that in the
hight the girls feet got so cold they
'roze the water solid, and bursted the
ug.
Another Kansas girl is setting the
Cast wild with her marvellous voice.
Ter name is Miss Boyd. A Kansas
newspaper writer says she is the same
iittie Boyd who lived up the creek
lear where Jake Potter now farms and
Who achieved that splendid voice by
illing the prairie dog valley with the
music of that marvellous opera written
~ Sig. Bovini, entitled "Cosboss, Coo
,oss."
There is great grief in a certain
Atchison family; a guest of the h use
las discovered that the oldest daagh-
er has voice, and the mother and
children are looking reproachfully at
he father because he doesn't send her
o Italy to have it cultivated. The girl,
moreover, was engaged to hardwork-
ng young mechanic, but has broken
/ off since told that she has voice,
or what has future Patti or Melba
o do with the making of pumps and
ar wheels? OF course the girl hasn't
enough voice to fool with.
A banker at Topeka has prepared at
he request of eastern parties, a state
nent of the public Indebtedness of
Kansas, meaning the indebtedness of
,he state, counties, cities, townships
md school districts. The statement
shows an aggregate indebtedness on
June 30, 1896, of S34, $50, O30. The tax
lble property of Kansas as fixed by the
state board of equalization for the year |
ending June 3d. 1896, is s521, 2l6, 93s. |
Kansas property is assessed at from % |
TO 80 per cent of its real value. Accept
ing the assessment of 1896 as true
value, the public indebtedness of Kan.
sas is 10 7-1O per cent of its taxable |