Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-09-23
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Fort Scott ladies take great interest
IN the cooking school at that place.
1t is said that both quail and prairie
chichen are quite plentiful in western
Kansas
The First Presbyterian church oil
Hutchinson has celebrated its twenty
9Th anniversary.
Cherry trees at Goodland which were
stripped by the big hail storm some
weeks ago, are in bloom again.
The late rains have put the ground
in splendid condition for seeding and
vast amount of wheat will be sown
this fall.
The Santa Fe House, one of the first
buildings put up in Nickerson, and at
one time the most popular hostelry in
the city, is being torn down this week
and moved into the country.
From four to six car loads of water
melons are shipped from Turou, in
Pratt county, daily. Two cars were
shipped to Deadwood, Dakota Each
car contains about 1900 Melons
The election in Kansas this fall will
be of more importance than perhaps is
generally known. There are twenty
nine judicial districts IN the state, and
thirteen of them must elect judges this
year
Last year was considered bad crop
year in Dickinson county, still the to-
tai farm products amounted to 81, O73,-
sO3.33, or more than 800 per capita
for each mar, woman and child in the
county.
Port Arthur has just been knocked
galley-west by a cyclone Last spring
Kansas was flooded with advertising
circulars for Port Arthur reading: mo
more cyclones, no more droughts, no
more crop failures"
Hundreds of agents representing
Chicago grocery stores are soliciting
orders from farmers of Kansas. Now
that the farmers are prosperous, they
should, and no doubt will, stand by
the local home stores that stood by
them when they needed friends.
The Nottingham Review of Noting.
ham, England, contains long editor
ial article on the wonderful wheat crop
of Kansas. 1t says: "The Kansas
farmer is in rare luck as all the world |
Is compelled to pay him tribute. Kan
Sas is the greatest wheat and cattle re-
gion in America and the farmers there
are coming money on both wheat and
cattle"
A church in Kansas City, Kuns., has
arranged nursery for babies during
service. Last Sunday the nurse was
there wearing her sweetest baby smile, !
with bottles of milk and jumping jacks /
for food and amuscments for the dear
little things, and not single baby
came to church. Hence the thunder of
the big organ soured all the milk of |
human kindness in the bottles
For several reasons the chinch bug
has done but little damage in tile /
State this season although parts of |
come fields have been destroyed. This |
rs no indication that there will be but
few next season. There are plenty in
Che fields COW to do great deal of
damage next season il but few OF !
them pass the winter. As a measure
tor preventing the bugs wintering
over, it would be well to gather up
and destroy all the old rubbish or the
farm in which the bugs may find lodg-
ncnt.
Two brothers named Bunker are sue
ecssful farmers in Sumner county.
Kansas. They are the sons of the
Siamese twins, who married two white
sisters near Mt Airy, N c at the foot
Of the Blue Ridge seven miles south of
she Virginia line, and reared two large
families Of bright and enterprisiuc
children. When they were first mar
cied the twins and their wives occupied
the same house, but after period of
daul felicity the wives got jealous of
each other aud the twins separated
them into different domiciles.
Louis Lindsay Dyche, professor of
zoology in the University OF Kansas,
returned from three months vaca-
'ian, lie spent these three monts at
ihe Konkins seaside labratory, on
Monterey bay, in California. The pro-
lessor says he gave mammals rest
;his time and devoted himself to the
lower forms of animal life, which
tbound in the warm waters of the Pa
eitic lie has secured over a ton OF
specimens Tor the university museum
and for use in the labratory, and has
gathered much valuable data for use
IN the class room.
The New York Evening Post which
has speut good two years in bump
ing Kansas heads against the editor
tal columns had m ortirle laet ,ooal,