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


ard.
There has not been divorce suit in
Stanton county for five years. No
cause.
A dancing party was one of the at.
fractions at ottawa during the Chau.
tauqua.
A lawn tennis set has been purchas.
ed at Turon and the march of progress
is onward.
This hot weather has driven Gov
ernor Eslzridge to favor licensing beer
joints at Emporia.
Some of the people at Newton claim.
ed that the earth trembled during the
flight of the meteor
When Johnson county girl thought
she saw cyclone coming she put on
her Sunday stockings.
The Santa Fe has its steam pile dri.
yer at work at Great Bend putting
down the piles to build the trestle
work across the irrigation canal where
it crosses the roadway.
Several months ago Bradley Gordon,
a young Cowley county man, was ac-
cidentally shot in the uecl with 90
caliber revolver, the bullet entering
the neck at the front of the right side.
1t did not go through and its exact To-
cation was never discovered, although
every effort to locate it was made. DIR.
Pugh the attending physician, decided
to try the efficacy of the X-rays. A
skyograph was taken from the side of
the neck at which the bullet entered,
and although the test was very unsat-
isfactory, the bullet was located not
far from the surface on the opposite
side.
There appears to be a spirit of rival
ry in Wnterville, and especially among
the women, as to who can Guido the
other in the erection of homes Mrs.
Flora Berry, wife of ex-State Senator
E. A. Berry, is overseeing the erection
of handsome residence, while Mrs.
Mary Thompson, widow of N. B
Thompson, is building $4,000 resi-
dence in the Queen Anne style, with
all the latest modern improvements
Mrs. Sarah Thompson, widow of James
Thompson, contemplates the erection
of residence in the near future,
which, if carried out, will eclipse any
thing in the residence order in Water
vile. The homes of s. T. Powell,
Frank P Tnorne, j. D. Flannery and
j. P. Burtis are costly as well as at
tractive.
A Cowlew county citizen writes to
the Winfield Courier as follows: Secre-
tary Coburn sent his report on alfalfa
and in it told how this plant would
penetrate "gumbo" aud render it por-
GUS and greatly improve the soil. There
is layer of gumbo under my orchard
and to improve the soil sowed alfalfa
a couple of months ago. Along comes
a man who tells me that his father had
an orchard killed by alfalfa. Here was
a dilemma, and l wrote to tire secre-
tary for information and received an
answer which it would be well for the
people of Cowley county to know He
says: Don't SOW alfalfa IN an orchard.
and especially in a young orchard.
Wherever it has been tried it has prov
en- disastrous to the orchard Alfalfa
is strong root-growlrg plant and a
great drinkcr. 1t will absorb the mois-
ture from the ground and rob the trees
of nourishment, and eventually kill
the orchard"
Topeka is to have another new
creamery and butter factory. Work.
men are busy remodeling the old build
ing and it is to be equipped with a
and churns. The building
has been used by the Topeka cash meat
market which went out of business
several months ago and the refrigera-
tors are already there so that the work
of preparing the building for the new
business is not a great task. New
floors arc being put in the front room
which will be used for an Office and
double floors will be built in the rear
room where the separator and churns
will be placed. The KniclSerboclier
Creamery company is putting in the
plant. The company has had its head
quarters in Topeka but no attempt has
been made to receive milk or cream
there. The principal plant has been
at EslSridge and there are several
Swimming stations in other places.
The cream from the EslSridge plants
and the Swimming stations will be re-
ceived at Topeka and made into butter
as soon as the work of remodeling the
building is completed. This gives To-
peka the second creamery this year.
The Kansas creamery company is in
full blast and doing we'll and Topeka
is the headquarters for dozens of