Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-07-15
KANSAS ITEMS or INTEREST

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the merchant tailors are bucking one
another in Harper
The Attica Exchange bank has
S4,13O.51 in individual deposits, with
total resources of 1O,77477.
In return for early closing the clerks
of the grocery stores of Wellington re-
Gently entertained their employees.
The Harper State bank has s43, O4o.-
"a in individual deposits, S14, 1866 in
time certificates and total resources OF
$50, 1888.
e. A Newton merchant has organized
baseball club on tue side and is now
looking for some one to come up and
be slaughtered.
A Harvey county man started in in
Kansas by losing $4,000 in cattle. Now
he won't look at so much as n very
small Jersey calf
10 advertisements there is really
crying need for phrase synonymous
and less monotonous than "LOok over
the following prices"
The last note has been sounded in
the Ely-Wallxer fire sale in Southern
Kansas, but it did not become entirely
inaudable until last week.
The shoe men at Wellington are
Dragging over the fact that the best
dressed girl in the Fourth of July par
ade there wore green shoes.
A barber at Attica has this humorous
advertisement: "Since there is no pro-
lection on wool, have a right to cut
mems and boys hair for Is cents"
The ice dealers of Hutchinson who
have been having war of prices have
quit, on the theory that there is moth
ing in doing business for nothing.
The real estate men in all the towns
are beginning to push bargains in good
residences. This would donate q
steady immigration into Southern
Kansas
The ]. v. Brinliman Company's bank
Mt Great Bend has s69, 1863. O5 in indi-
vidual deposits, sos, 994s9 in time GER
tifcates and its total resources stands
at $1s7, 7s5. 16.
The implement men of Southern
Kansas have been doing an immense
business this spring, but have received
little notice from the newspapers AS
rule they do not advertise.
The village of Burdette, twenty
miles west of Larued, is in state of
intense excitement over the finding of
the dead body of Mrs. Phillips on the
the prairie ten miles from home.
Silsbee & Scott's advertisement for
the Fourth at Hutchinson consisted of
this chunk OF wisdom: Don't let all
your patriotism go off in smoke. The
spread eagle is all right, but good
spread on the table is better"
Farmers in the western part of Bar
ton county, especially about Pawnee
Rock, are complaining of grasshoppers,
which have appeared in large numbers
in the last ten days 1t is said that
considerable corn damage has been
done, several whole fields having been
ruined.
Only few years ago the people of
Logan expended several hundred dol
lars in exterminating the Russian this
Gle, which threatened to take the coun
try, The pest is again making great
Roadway. In several places within the
city limits can be seen patches, which
should be destroyed without delay.
The law fixing the standard OF
weights and measures has gone into
effect, and the weight in pounds per
bushel is given herewith: Wheat, co.;
rye and shelled corn, sc; ear corn, TO-;
rice, corn and sorghum seed, Sc; buck
wheat, so; barley, 4s; oats, SO; bran, 60;
cornmeal, so; Irish potatoes, 60; sweet
potatoes, so; turnips, SO; salt, so; flax
seed, Sc; onions, 81; castor beans, 4G;
blue grass, 90; timothy, As; green ap-
Piles, 4s; coal 30; lime, 80; kafiir corn,
Sc.
State Architect Lescher says an ex-
penditure of 500 will be necessary to
repair the damage at the state normal
school at Emporia, occasioned by the
settling of the foundation under the
west wing of the main building AL.
though Mr.. Lescher does not discuss
the proposition it is clearly another
case In which the contractors have
taken advantage of the state in the
construction of buildings. The foun
dalton is crumbling, permitting tn,
entire wall to settle and placing The
building in great danger, were the diff
6culty not promptly overcome. Mr.
Lescher will put iron rods through tn
wall and make other necessary repair
for the safety of the building. Worl
will be commenced soon.
The town of Chanute was mama,