Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-07-22
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.


made net gain of twelve last week.
A Hiawatha girl on the Fourth OF
July said it was all right to praise the
men of '76, but rs 49, she preferred
them about 81.
Croquet is not in the regular course
of study, but all the teachers in the
Grant county institute are taking it.
The men of Abilene are organizing a
union, and will soon strike for the
right to wear Mothers Hubbards and
nothing else.
More commercial baggage was ham
died at the Blue Rapids depots during
the month of June than in any previous
month for three years
Western Kansas papers are kicking
on the government spending S55, 900
for fast mail for Kansas City news
papers and sending mail to Western
Kansas by freight.
An Arkansas City merchant AYERS
that he has never seen travelling men
so thick in Kansas as they are now.
The report of the big wheat crop has
brought them out of the east
Three big Norman horses ran away
with binder on the streets of Mt.
Hope recently and an old soldier says
the sound reminded him exactly of the
battle of Gettysburg at its height
A tramp says it is an actual fact that
farmers wife will hand him out a
better piece of bread when he is a
tramp than she will give him if he eats
at her house as one of her husbands
harvest hands.
The cost of keeping the Marshall
county paupers has been reduced from
$4,000 to about 50 900, and it is be-
lieved that the products of the farm
and the maturing stock will in the flu
ture nearly maintain the institution.
The Pottawatomie Indians on their
reservation in jackson county began
their annual green corn" dance and
win continue it for some time with
great enthusiasm. White people are
permitted to attend as visitors if they
remain quiet and orderly. The Indians
object to visitors using cameras during
the dance.
On July 18th the state board of equal
ization commenced its work for this
year, equalizing the property tax over
the state. The board is composed of
State Auditor Morris, State Treasurer
Hehebower and Secretary of State
Bush. The board will be in session
about two weeks, and during that time
many of the county clerks over the
state will appear before it.
DR.. @. A. Milton has made the first
wheat shipment from Ford county
this season. ThresheTs are busy on
his place, aud he is loading cars at
Wright station for shipment of 1000
bushels to Syracuse, at SO cents bush
ell. He will have about $500 bushels
wheat, averaging 20 bushels or more
to the acre. The wheat will grade No.
2, and weighs 60 to 6Ol5 pounds to the
bushel
Out at Garden City a secondhand
baby buggy was shipped in from a
Missouri town. There was legend
TO the effect that it had carried twins.
A Garden City man kept it for u year
He was presented with twins With
superstitious fear he presented it to q
farmer who had longed in vain for
years for children. Last week the
farmer came running into town and
the first man he met he yelled: Two
b. gosh and both girls! Hoorayw
The examiners of applicants for
teachers certificates declare that the
questions sent out by State Superin-
tendent Stryker were the most puz.
cling ever known and if the papers are
vigorously marked less than half the
applicants will pass. In Geary county
only II out of 55 were successful. The
raising of the standard for third grade
certificates TO an average of so instead
OF 20 per cent is looked on as an inius
tice, as large number of certificate,
were granted in April on the 10 pei
cent average
In Mama county the IS, 900 acres o
timothy, clover, blue grass, etc, viii
turn out only moderate yield. Two
dry weeks in May cut most tame grass
es short Plenty of the timothy ant
clover will go over two tons to tn,
acre, but much of it less. Blue gras
is rather short this year, and the 25,
900 acres of prairie meadow is not a
good as last year, yet by moving tim
it will have thickened considerably
The yield of prairie hay last year wa
10000 tons and tame grasses 1890
tons. This year it will not be so much
the farmers over the state are nov
busy threshing tteir wheat Many G