Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-02-04

Dodge City women will give min
strel show and tell jokes on their hus-
bands.
Hicks chuckles with unseemly glee
as he reads the weather reports from
Kansas.
A Topeka man is paying for being
married on the installment plan. This
is fact.
The weather man may have it in for
the ice dealers, but evidently he is not
trying to freeze them out.
Last week Professor Dyche has to
postpone lecture on the North Pole
because of the cold weather.
A Kansas man has discovered that
as matter of fact the dogs of Egypt
do not bark at the pyramids at all.
Joblot parties are so thick in Atchi-
son just now that even the breakfast"
dates have been claimed until Lent.
During the recent cold weather in
southern Kansas the plumbers have
been seeking it to the steam laundries.
An Atchison mans idea of a person
who is we'll educated is one who can
spell both ends of Bailie Waggoner's
name.
There are as many fools in other
states as in Kansas, but the trouble is
that in Kansas we pay more attention
to them.
The husbands of the women who set
the social pace in Atchison haYe hired
cook and will live in club until the
afternoon craze is over.
While the recent cold snap has been
raging in Kansas the railroads in the
state have been entirely free from
buns. Buns will not face cold wealth
err from any truck.
A Cherryvale man is credited with
the intention to bring suit for divorce
against his wife on the ground that
she is running his health and uniting
him for business by her poor cooking.
Peanuts are staple crop in Cowley
county. An acre of ground will pro
duce about $50 bushels, and they bring
for cents bushel. The cost of pro-
duction is about 25 per cent of the pro-
duct.
The Arkansas City dogs are happy.
The order to muzzle them has been re-
scinded. There are other GROWERS in
Arkansas City which should be muz-
zIed, but then such is the case in most
all towns.
A Newton man sold his overcoat to
buy a costume for his daughter who is
on leg-pulling scheme, He will ap-
peal to the city council to put pro-
hibitory tax on all strolling amateurs
who come to town hereafter
It's our luck, during real cold wealth.
err, says an Atchison man. to hear from
friend in the south who is eating
Strawberries, and in very hot weather
we always hear from friend who is
sitting by the fire in the mountains
A prominent Kansas paper says that
in summer we are told to suffer the
heat patiently because it makes corn
grow and suits the farmers. In winter
we are to bear patiently the zero
weather because it makes the ice men
happy. When do the people get their
rights?
The Newton Kansan says: sit is said
that Newton man has twelve dogs
and that he hides them all in the cellar
when the assessor call upon him. A
census is taken of the dogs of county
just as it is Of the people, so when the
number is announced this year, just
add twelve to the total number in Or
der to make it correct.
The Dunkards, or Thinkers, of whom
the governor of Kansas is represen-
tive, says the Kansas City Star, belong
to sect founded in 1908 at Schwarz-
enau, Germany, by Alexander Mack
and seven others who rejected the doc.
trines of paedo'baptism, The name is
nickname, derived from the German
Tunker-to dip; members of the sect
styling themselves brethren. Persecu'
ton drove the founders to Holland
and between 1919 and 1929 they all
emigrated thence to America. They
are found in Pennsylvania, Maryland
Virginia, Ohio and Indiana, and it i.
apparent that some have found theil
way further West, but their number,
all told are not great. Their church
discipline is nearly the same as that o
other Baptists, except that every
brother is allowed to exhort. Mer
found apt to teach are ordained minis
tiers, and the eldest teachers bishops
The Dunkards affect great plainness o
speech and dress, like the Quakers
Neither take oaths, fight nor go to law
and formerly they took no interest
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