Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-02-18

pay the farmers S4O, month 1oE
cream.
Dickinson county raised eleven mill.
ion eggs last year and is q good place
for poor shows to avoid.
The Great Bend boy who went slat-
ing and got 30 cold he had to hug tbs
stove was no. onto his job
The new Claim brass band has six
teen instruments, and the people may
as well prepare for the worst.
Antelope appeared in Greedy county
last week and the change from jack
rabbit to venison was appreciated.
Atchison has changed great deal in
late years. A prominent citizen got
drunk and the people are talking about
it.
Professor Franklin of the state ami
versity has joined the travellers. He
will go to Costa Rica to look into some
mines.
A two-year.old child was burned to
death on the 18th at Eureka while play
ing with fire during the mothers abb
sence
The Kansas newspapers are actively
engaged in the dairy business and are
showing how everybody will get rich
out of it.
The ministers of Emporia who have
been in the habit of holding monthly
meetings in the city library have been
ordered out.
1t is fact that in some Kansas
towns bowling alleys are looked upon
as vicious and subversive of the morals
of the people.
The BARRIERS of Newton have sighed
a petition to the legislature praying
that the BARRIERS bill now before the
legislature, be passed.
A travelling comedy company which
is playing southern Kansas claims to
have genuine Cremona. But have
they any one who can play itP
Forty-seven per cent of the state un-
versity pupils are church members.
War and foot ball tend to make men
look to proper provision for the fu-
ture.
A fashlight picture was taken of
prayer meeting at Stafford and all the
men in it are figuring on using copies
as tickets for admission to the pearly
gates.
1t is wonderful with what ananimity
the Kansas prophets are declaring that
this is to be wet year. 1t will be wet.
Wet years occur every ten years in
Kansas.
A Chanute man who labors under
the impression that he is q singer tried
his voice last week and the fire depart
ment turned out thinking it was an
alarm of fire.
There is a man in Harper county who
claims that there is something in the
atmosphere of southern Kansas which
makes coal burn more quickly than
any other place on the globe.
The chief of the secret service of the
| Cat, Eo ,.o;1,ood ,oJ he ,ee;s+op ts,
are all known to the newspaper men
in Kansas and they never make move
that the papers do not duly chronicle
it
The people of Englewood who recent
ly saw an air ship sail over the city are
reputable citizens. The jointists of
Englewood also advertise openly in the
papers and competition has brought
the grade of whisky away above that
of other Kansas towns
Walter Thompson, an Usage county
farmer, who went there twelve years
ago, bought farm on time and agreed
to pay 81, 900 when he got able, drove
into Burlingame last week and paid off
the last dollar of debt and has a couple
of thousand bushels of corn left over.
Chautauqua has man by the name
of Cloyd, who makes practice of SOW
ing his wheat field with salt. He has
new variety of wheat which he calls
the Kentucky May, or our Little May,
but big grain and chaff, smooth head
wheat that ripens in May, and which
he expects to yield close to forty BUSH
els an acre. He got the seed from his
old home in Kentucky and raised
enough of it last year so that he has
fifty bushels of it sowed.
Read what Topeka tax assessor
writes about his business and then
take it to heart: Take the majority of
people, whom call in everything else
Just about as honest as they can be,
aud they would not misrepresent for
the world. But when il comes to tax.
alton they are about as dishonest as
they can be, and it Is not in any class
either. They lie about different things.