Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-04-29

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IN excursion 10 California.
The Garden City papers deny that .
Bible was given away as prize at q
card party there recently.
The young ladies of Garden City are
going to put on an amateur show in
interest Of the local cemetery.
Kiowa also saw the airship the other
night, but saw SO much Of it that nc
one believes they saw any of it.
People in covered wagons meet al
Garden City daily going east and west.
Those going west cuss the east and
those going east cuss the west.
A Greeley county man says he would
like q quarter of section of land on
wheels SO he could follow up the rain
clouds and catch the moisture.
Frank Brown of Garnett is down on
one Of the states for secretary of the
state. 1t is not probable that Brown
has the time to spend on the job.
We believe caves should be built-ant
all precaution taken to preserve life
We have never been visited by cy
clone which makes the reliability
greater than we may be. The thing
to do is to get ready. There should b.
more caves built and some provision
made to protect the lives of those dowr
town.
The executive committee of the or
der is sending out invitations to the
twenty-sixth annual meeting of the
grand lodge Knights of Pythias Of
Kansas in Wichita May II to 20 inclu'
sive. An elaborate program has beer
prepared for the four days meeting
and big time is expected
A terrific hail storm struck Holtor
ON the night of the 22d. The GROUND
was completely covered, and in some
places hailstones were piled five or siA
inches deep. Garden vegetables wer,
cut to pieces and the fruit buds anG
blossoms were mostly stripped off. The
falling hail caused most deafening
roae and shattered good many sky.
lights.
At lola on the 22d another large
''gushes" was struck in the gas field
on the 22d on the Brunnell farm ad.
joining the town on the east. This is
one of the strongest gas wells there,
having capacity of not less than ten
million cubic feet every twenty-four
hours The we'll is so strong that it is
impossible to force the string of tools,
weighing twenty-six hundred pounds
into the holes.
One of the biggest lead strikes that
has ever been made in the vicinity OF
Galena has been opened up on the
Short Creek Mining company's lease
on the Leddy & Schmidt Bros, ground
east of that city. The shaft is owned
by John Pickett and two sons, NJ. ].
and Frank and Fred Stone. They
have reached the depth of thirty-six
feet and on April the 18th three thous-
thousand pounds of pure galena was
taken out of this shaft in one and
half hours.
The butter, poultry and egg business
of the firm of Vance & White at Man
kato, is enormous. The firm paid out
in 1896 alone, in round figures $4,000
for live poultry, while not less than
81, 900 month was paid out for dress
ed poultry. In the last month from
the middle of March to April 18th,
they have shipped car load of eggs a
a day, paying an average of sees
case. There are about $4,000 dozen
eggs in car and amounts in found
numbers to about $3.50 day.
The old settlers of Jewell county are
already talking up the old settlers re-
union to be held at Jewell City some
time during the summer. Among the
many who will come under the head
of the old Jewell county settlers are
George and Henry Sorick, living near
there. They located on their farms
in the spring of 1870, and have contin-
uously resided there ever since. They
helped to build the old historic Jewell
City fort, which in a large measure
protected the early settlers in that vi
cinity from the then frequent Indian
raids. Through all these years they
have never mortgaged their farms.
AT the next meeting Of the board Of
education of Belleville the question
will come up whether the board will
continue the practice of employing
married women for teachers in the city
schools of BelleYille. This school en-
ploys nine teachers, two male and sew
en- female. Three of the women taach-
ers are married. The vigorous kick of
employing married women for teach
ers, and more especially those who
have able-bodied husbands who can
make them a living, comes from the
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