Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-06-10

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The acreage Of potatoes is repre-
scented as 10 to IS per cent less than
one year ago. Condition 80.
A dam across the Little Arkansas
has made Halstead one Of the attrac-
tive watering places in Central Kan
saA
A lodge has been instituted in Cha
mute known as "Knights OF the Gar
ter" Now don't get any wrong inn
preston.
Two young ladies from Great Bend
have caused the old feud between the
Stafford and St. John boys to break
out in fresh spot
Fifteen hundred dollars were paid
out last week to the patrons of the
Cawker City creamery for their product
of milk in one month.
The reason Ellinwood is so popular
as convention town is that II is easy
for the fellows who get left to wash
down their disappointment.
The complete returns as given by the
city assessor show gain of $50 people
in Salina over last year The popula-
ton is now 1865, The county shows
gain of 367.
Reports of the excellent health and
condition of live stock are monotonous-
ly uniform; a mention or two of hog
cholera, blind staggers and blackleg
affording about the only variations.
The Republican county committee
has called a convention to meet IN
Larned June Is to elect ten delegates
to the district judicial convention
which meets at La Crosse on June 90.
At the soldiers home at Dodge City
is one of the finest gardens in the west
The garden supplies more vegetables
than the home people can use, and it
is proposed to give away to the poor
people the surplus.
In general there is decreased acre
age of broom-corn, although few of
the more prominent broom.corn coun-
ties show large increase, such as Nc
Pherson, 90 per cent, Reno, 116, Rice,
11S and Stafford 100 per cent. The
present condition is "a.
The average condition of oats is n.
Some counties which raise most oats
report the lowest conditions Cool
weather has interfered with growth.
Highest conditions are in Meade, Pratt,
and Sedgwick, the latter reporting 1902,
and Morris but 81 Throughout the
State conditions differ widely, even in
counties adjoining.
An imposter is working his game on
some of the Kansas towns, selling
from house to house, a salve which he
guarantees to cure warts. All sensible
people know that the only way to re-
move wart is to rub it with half a
raw potato which is afterwards to be
buried by a cross-eyed negro in the
northwest corner of a graveyard at
midnight in the dark of the moon, As
the potato decays the wart will disap-
pear. This wart salve put up in tin
boxes is delusion and a snare.
Ike Crumley, county clerk of Thorn
as county, has the largest wheat field
in the county. In round figures he has
1000 acres in wheat, besides 400 acres
in oats and barley. Thomas county
has about $4,000 acres in wheat which
is about a month earlier than ever be-
fore known, and the most of it prom
Uses a good yield. Good rains have
fallen over the county recently, and
there is better feeling among all our
people than for several years Anum-
Der of eastern land buyers have been
in this vicinity, many of them making
purchases.
A summarized reports from CORE
spondents of the Kansas Board of Ag-
riculture in nearly every township in
the State has been made public, giving
conditions of growing crops Of May 81.
Unusual and almost uninterrupted cool
weather, with abundant seasonable
rainfall over much of the State has
been excellent for wheat, and its gen.
eral condition of SO is an advance of
three points over that at date of the
last report, April 20. From a very few
localities of least rainfall some old-crop
chinch bugs are reported, but net yet
doing much in material damage or pro-
pagation. In Kansas chinch bug cir
cles the season thus far has been one
Of discouraging depression, while the
wheat has continued to prosper. The
same weather so congenial to wheat
has, however, held back the corn, and
while the stand and prospect are very
good indeed and cultivation is well in
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hand the growth is not vigorous, uor
can it be until there is succession OF
warm DAYS. The general condition for