Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-09-30

public county will hIYe e,OOO,OOu
bushels of corn.
The Jensen Creamery company Of
Beloit are making plans for the estab
lishment of skimming station at
Stockton.
The Methodist camp-meeting ground
near Lawrence is called Sunnydale.
The Baptists meet at Riverside where
water is plenty.
The booty fellow who broke into a
restaurant in Wellington and ate half
gallon of hot chill broke out next
day-with heat
Washington schools at Ottawa have
been dismissed on account of the dan
gerous condition of the building. 1t
was built in 1872.
They have an extra school in Butler
county this fall. 1t is a guessing school
as to thename of the male teacher who
hugs the big girls.
Horsethieves are again getting plen-
tiful in Sumner county. Where is that
Anti-Horsethief Association that was
organized there some years ago?
Topeka society people will not be
admitted to the dances given by the
patients at the insane asylum. The
wards of the state must be protected.
The Old Settlers meeting at Ell Do
RADIO developed the fact that there are
only three old settlers now living who
who were in Butler county forty years
ago.
While digging u well in north Dick
inson county, Il farmer nociced gilt
tering substance at depth of seventy
feet, which a jeweler has pronounced
gold.
The new Sumner county High school
has opened with an enrolment Of over
two hundred. This schc | was estab-
lished by special act of the last Legis-
laturc.
A prairie fire near Colby destroyed
about one hundred and fifty acres of
wheat for Ole Jensen and about four
hundred bushels of wheat for Ran.
dolph Jones.
A reward of $s5 is offered for the mr..
rest and conviction of the person who
set fire to the Baptist Church, near
Sharon, Kans. The church was en-
tirely consumed.
The test of superiority in Northwest
Kansas towns is where the big circus
stops. This year Rlngling went to
Phillipsburg and that town will put
on airs until next season.
The farmers and stock raisers in the
vicinity of Oberlin have organized the
Farmers State bank, in which there
are twenty-seven stockholders, twenty
four Of them farmers and stock raisers,
all of whom have make their money in
western Kansas.
A handsome widow of eastern Kan.
saS walked two miles to exchange so
cents worth of 2-cent stamps for the
more delicately colored 1-cent kind.
She said: "They look better on my
black bordered envelopes than the
glaring red ones.
The Abilene Chronicle says: The fool
statement that scarlet fever has secur-
ed hold in Abilene and is going the
rounds and in our exchanges we find
no less than four references to it.
There is no scarlet fever in Abilene
and the hurtful statement that there
is should be corrected.
Miss Constance Ingalls,, second
daughter of ex-senator John j. Ingalls,,
will shortly enter the Church Training
school in Philadelphia, to prepare her
self for deaconess in the Protestant
Episcopal church. Miss Ingalls, has
long been active in charitable work
and is social favorite.
They may not know it, but it is a
fact nevertheless, that the girls of Sa-
lima interfere with the business of the
United States The postal clerks on
the Union Pacific trains have to quit
work every time they pass through Sa-
lima to watch the pretty girls on the
depot platform. And they say salina
is the only place on the run where this
occurs, too
]. A. Hammond of Smith county has
a daughter who will be o years old on
the Sd day of October coming, who
weighs 100 pounds. At birth she weigh
ed less than eight pounds. Her father
and mother are medium size, the father
weighing only 1856 pounds and the ma
ternal si1e of the house less. The child
was Of ordinary size up to three years
of age, when she began to manifest an
inordinate growth, which she Fas kept
up until the present, with fair pros
poets of increasing her avoirdupois.
Quails and prairie-chickens can be