Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-01-21
,.,.amery meetings are being held at

is also MeKinley's birthday.
Over 100000 cattle registered at the
Emporia stock yards last year.
Fivs babies were born at Hope last
week. What'O the matter with Kan
/ sas9
! The "Tribe of Cad" at Larned, does
not like 10 be called the Tribe Of
Cab"
Nine antelope were killed in the
southwestern part Of Clark county 70
Gently.
The county printing war is raging in
Stafford and printers ink is being shed
like water
In Harper county many of the farm
ers have not yet finished husking last
years corn.
Last week there was big snow out
West; this week the farmers are plow-
ing for oats.
A pupil of the Lawrence schools has
been suspended for kissing girl with
out her consent.
There are SO many whist clubs at
Minneapolis that the spots are being
worn off the cards
Butler county has 1874 head of
live stock, the largest number of the
county in the state.
Feed is so cheap in Lincoln that liv
erymen give horse square meal and
shelter for five cents
The police court at Newton manages
to get about $50 out of the fellows who
booze up every month.
The Ellsworth court house has been
sold under foreclosure and is now the
property of Mrs. Way.
A farmer in central Kansas has fig
ured out in logarithns that hen is
worth an acre of ground.
A Kingman young woman who bet
the oysters on Bryan has just conceded
his defeat and set em up.
A Kiowa man mourns for the good
old days when money was plenty and
silk hats scarce in Kiowa.
They say down in Sumner county
that bottle of No. Geuda Springs
"opens your hilarity valve"
Both Ewing Herbert and win White
could have told Bryan before he began,
that lecturing didn't pay.
The frontipiccc of the Peterson's
magazine for January is a poem by
Roy Farrell Greene of Arkansas City
Tobacco is dreadful habit. An Ar
kansas City man smoked for forty
years and then died. And he is still
smoking.
The parents at Winfield are mad be-
cause of an increase of the lash in the
public schools there Perhaps the kids
deserve it.
Kansas is the greatest place on earth
for people to have faith in the town"
1t is the predominating characteristic
of Kansas men.
A comic opera company torturing
western Kansas admonishes patrons in
its advertisements to ''sow on your
buttons tight"
One of the finest farms in Sumner
county is owned by George S. Hill.
Three years ago he started in farming
with one SOW.
The Pure Food show at Topeka will
be largely attended by editors who
will all carry baskets to carry samples
away with them.
At Winfield the question is asked
why is the nose in the middle of the
face. The answer is: because it is
the natural center"
Marion county which always gives a
Republican majority, is fareiug better
at the Populist pie counter than other
counties which always go wrong,
Many of the patent medicine adver-
tisements written in Kansas papers are
written for New England readers. One
such advertisement speaks of the dan"
ger of the January thaw. Kansas has
no January thaw.
On Christmas night the editor OF a
prominent Kansas newspaper saw
three thousand delinquent subscribers
in line in front of his office all clamor.
ing to pay their bills 1t was dream
and it has not yet come true.
A good story is told on Pop mem.
Der of the Legislature. lie wanted to
be in the swim so he engaged room
Mt the National hotel The first night
he was there he wrote to friend al
home and said that Topeka was a
great place, and that he was having q
gay time. He said that he was trsnt
ed mighty nice" at his hotel, :hal 20
lite little boys waited on him bringing
him everything that his heart could
} wish, and that his room had fine fur
: niture, pretty brussels carpet and was