Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-03-11

A cake walk is the idea Burlington
people have of a high old time.
Kaffir corn bread is on the regular
bill of fare of a Mulvane bakery.
The white crook" show wasn't bad
enough to suit Arkansas City people.
There is talk of moving the western
court Of appeals from Garden City to
Larned.
Dighton is little late but has or
gained dancing club and will learn
the two-step.
Arkansas City was we'll represented
at the Inauguration of Mckinley, 81
everything went off we'll.
Fred vandegrift holds there are five
seasons in Kansas: Summer, Autumn,
Winter March and Spring.
Iugalls reported the inauguration. He
SNid he had risen from the ranks Of the'
senators to the place of reporter.
The drill in the gas well at lola is
hopelessly stuck ara the engineer is
trying to hoke hole out around it.
The town of Howard is so musical
that the advertisers in the Courant
publish sheets of the newest music
Miss Hattie Smith of Atchison, has
signed two-year contract with Au-
gustin DAILY, the theater man of New
York.
A Syracuse preacher delivered SER
mon denouncing dancing but the club
had a very enjoyable party just the
same.
The Lawrence amateurs who are
giving their show in Eastern Kansas
towns charge the price of two bottles
to get in.
Miss Hatfield, graduate Of the New
ton High school, is now trimmer in
one of the big millinery establishments
of Chicago.
Master Mechanic Hasbrouch of Dodge
City says that some locomotives are
running still and doing good work at
the age of go years.
Last Sunday near Douglas "a large
flock of wild geese settled down on the
farm of Robert Snodgrass who got his
gun and bagged two.
Olathe young men are talking about
putting up trocha between them and
Ottawa, to keep the Ottawa boys away
from the Olathe girls,
The postmaster at Frederick, Rice
county, allowed women, WHISKY and
politics to get the best of him and his
successor is appointed.
The Garden City man who prefers
prayer meeting and choir practice to
dances and ice cream parlors won't run
we'll at city election.
A poker game at Greeley cost the
man who opened S.. He opened with
stove poker and the charge was as
sault with intent to kill.
If you will study Kansas society col
umns you will find a world of differ
ence in the phrases. Those present
were and THE invited guests were"
A Greenwood county justice who was
goaded by an attorney said; Courts
adjourned. Mr.. Attorney, you are
scoundrel and liar. Courts in scs-
sion"
The latest story is from lola and is
to the effect that man there explain.
ed broken five dollar bill to his wife
by telling her he slipped on the pave
ment and sat on it.
Every few months a certrin young
man in town engages in an enterprise,
and the good people praise him for his
ambition and energy, and hope that he
will succeed better than in previous
undertakings
A good many farmers in Atchison
county are claiming that much of the
wheat is almost ruined. 1t is claimed
that the wheat sowed late is most dam
aged, but that which is sowed early
will yield fairly well.
A heavy thunder storm with a great
fall of rain visited southern Kansas on
March 5th. The bottom lands in some
of the valleys are almost flooded. Farm
work will be retarded some on account
of the condition of the fields.
The New York Tribune suggests that
those Kansas populists who are so anx-
ious to do up eastern insurance compa-
MES might accomplish their object by
getting their lives insured in these
companies and then go off and die.
A Sterling man while at Hutchinson
recently, placed his pocket-book con-
tanning $40 under his pillow on going
to bed. He forgot all about his pocl,-
et-book when he returned to Sterling
the next day. A chambermaid found
it and left it at the hotel office, and in
a few hours a telegram was received
from the Sterling man telling of his
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