Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-11-04
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

brick plant.
Ottawa is making initial efforts to
secure packing house.
The Santa Fe has put in bath room
for It's employees at Newton.
Neodesha will issue $4,000 in bonds
and build city water works
The machinery for big vitrified
brick yard is being laid down in Cher
ryvale.
The onion crop of Meade county is
threshing out three hundred bushels
to the acre.
On the Kansas prairie at night it is
possible to hear the clatter Of farm
wagon four miles.
The registration at Newton 10 1899,
being ninety more than a year ago.
Newton is growing.
A farmer living near Centralia has
on exhibition stock of corn on which
are SIX well developed ears
When the registration books closed
in Topeka the records indicated that
1851 certificates had been issued.
The Nemaha county attorney re-
quires all merchants to keep their
places of business closed on Sundays.
The dancing element Of Galena are
kicking h. cause there is not decent
place in tLe city TO have their dances.
Authority has leen grS lted for the
organization of the Alma National
bank ut Alma, with capital of S5l,-
600.
The warmest thing in Kansas is the
fight between two creameries at Be-
lott. Each wants the cream of the
business.
A proof that the world is moving is
found in the announcement that the
Mennonite church at Newton has
bought an organ.
A Blue Rapids woman has hen with
double joints in her knees and toes
pointed both ways, so that she can
walk forward Or backward with equal
case.
The regents of the University Of
Kansas hav- appointed Prof. b. Miller
to repre- .cnt that institution at the
formal opening of the new obserya-
tory OF the University Of Chicago.
The Fort Leavenworth football team
has disbanded. 1t was impossible to
get the men out of practice and several
of the team showed symptoms of intel
ligence by having their hair trimmed.
Judge Riggs has sustained the new
banking law in a case at Garnett in
which the creditors of a defunct bank
asl, that the receiver be directed to
bring action against the stockholders
for the benefit of all the creditors.
The present city council at Hutchin-
son is achieving some notoriety from
recent laws passed. A few days since
an ordinance was adopted requiring
the curfew bell to ring at the report OF
robbery and all citizens ordered tc
turn out and chase the thief. And
now comes an ordinance putting q
charge on the Salvation Army every
time they parade the street Every
time they parade with the big drum
and the fiddle it will cost them spec
fled amount per trip, This applies
only to Main street. The effect of this
ordinance and the future conduct o
the Army will be watched with inter
est in Hutchinson.
Ole Olson !" one of the early booking
Mt the Crawford Grand, Wichita. o
the company the Chicago Inter-oceal
of Sept 21st says: Entirely changed n
to its story and cast, "Ole Olson, TN
comedy which has withstood the storm
of eleven theatrical seasons, was pre-
sented at the Lincoln theater yestei
dav to two audiences that overfowe
the house. The changes in the piec
make 1t more acceptable than it eve
was. Ben Hendricks has assumed tn
title role formerly in the hands Of Gu
Heege, and those who have seen h
rendition of it claim it suffers none
comparison. Miss st. George Husse
is the only one of the old cast left.
would be hard to imagine any one els
in the role of Bridget OFlaunigar
Pretty jeanette Lewis is the soubrett
of the company. One of the feature
shown is striking one. John Lawson
known as "the Terrible Swede," Il
worlds record breaking bicyclist,
shown in competitive race with
A. Anderson, the winner of this year
Pullman road race, and Ivor Gustav
son, considered the fastest amateur
Chicago The scene is very realist
and calls forth much applause fro
the audience.
The general fund Of the city of Ate
ison is s24, 900 worse than nothir
Atchison is town run on the "bu