Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-07-01
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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Meade county contributed $1,000 to
the state treasury last week.
Oberlin people gave up 500 to mu-
steal director for weeks drill.
The present record is that that me-
teor fell in forty-nine different places
The usual number of engagements
will follow the Winfield Chautauqua.
It's legal holiday and all the stores
close at Stafford when the base ball
club plays.
There will be Eve Fourth of July
celebrations IN Mcpherson county all
on the Sd.
The report sent out from Finney
county regarding the big cherry crop
Is bouncer
Wanted Agents. Best work. Good
commissions. Kansas Steam Laundry,
Wichita, Kansas.
The normal institute at Ness City
has more pretty school teachers in
attendance than ever before.
The Crescent Produce company,
which has hitherto been located at
Peabody, has moved to Newton.
The city council of Phillipsburg has
decided to quit licensing 'hop tea"
places and the boys are going dry.
The Wichita girls who attended the
Chautauqua Assembly, say chiggers
and shirt waists are mean combina-
tiOn.
Newton girls have such warm times
at home that they have to visit neigh
boring towns to catch up with their
sleep.
viii White has gone to Washington
and it is thought he will be named
postmaster at Emporia and end the
fight.
Harper people are demanding a new
time card on the Hutchinson & South
ern and threaten to walk If the don't
get it.
At Atchison John ]. Ingalls, has APP
peared in new linen suit and when
he gets between you and the sun he
looks like an X ray exhibition.
THE Benton" steamboat went up
the Missouri river the other day past
Leavenworth, stopping at Omaha
That shows how much it has rained
in the Missouri Valley this spring.
Henry Billings of Catron, Kansas, an
armless soldier, sold his grocery store
to another armless veteran this week,
and the Catron Gazette chronicles the
fact by saying: 1.-THE Billings grocery
has changed hands"
A big turtle has taken up headquar-
tiers in the dam at Ell Dorado. and none
of the boys dare go in swimming there
according to reports. Same thing true
of Winfield. Same thing true of EN-
poria. Do you see? Scheme to keep
the boys from swimming.
The proprietors of the Blue Valley
creamery at Marysville paid the fam
ers of that vicinity more than s95, 900
for milk during the past year. This
creamery has been in operation more
than three years, and is one Of the Sol-
id institutions of the town.
Work on the skimming station ct
Milan is progressing finely. The build
ing is now enclosed and will. soon be
ready for the machinery, which has al
ready arrived. AS soon as the machln-
cry is put in order operations will be-
gin at once, as 23O milk cans have been
received to start with.
In his lecture at Topeka entitled
"From the Ball Room to He'll, Pastor
Sims of Wichita said; "Why, if hair
Drained, silly, mimicking, foolish,
sleek. well-groomed dancing master,
or any other dancing man, should
waltz around the ball room with my
wife, l would hunt him up the next
morning and kick him around the pub
lie square if could do it. If 1 couldn't
do it, would hire the biggest darkey
in town to do il for me. 1t would be
done"
The Mcpherson Republican says: "a
story is told of Russian in this coun-
try who was engaged to marry his
cousin. He counseled with a friend
about the probable expense and was
told that he could nor marry her in
this state. He then asked how much
would be the expense of trip to Ne
brasla, and found out that it would
cost him over $40. "Och," exclaimed
the disappointed would-be bridegroom,
that is too much cost There Is anoth-
err girl down there 1 can get, and l
will 1t don't make much difference.
nohow.'"
The Wichita girl who went into a
general store and inquired for gar
den hose" was surprised when the
clerk brought black pair with yellow