Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-13

The only prisoner in the Hamilton
county Jail sawed the bars and es-
capped recently.
Sumner county statesmen have let
the financial question drop while they
talk county high school.
The incest boy in Garnett does not
drink, smoke, chew tobacco, swear or
loaf on the streets. He is two years
old.
Perhaps the longest time mortgage
ever given on real estate in Sumner
county was filed last week in the Office
of the register of deeds. The mortgage
is secured by farm near Conway
Springs and will be due in the year
1000.
Major c. A. Woodwork of Effing-
ham, the new superintendent of the
soldiers orphans home at Atchison
will better acquaint himself with the
duties of that institution about the
first of June by going there, and on
the first of July he will assume charge.
Mrs. Woodwork will go with him as
matron of the home.
Muscotah claims the honor of being
the first place in the First congi ession-
al district to change postmasters. w.
A. Maynard was appointed April 8.
On the 9TH day of that month he sent
his bond to Washington, and on May
9th he received his commission and i'm
mediately took charge, succeeding NJ.
L. Roach, Democrat, who held the Of
fee just four years and two weeks,
giving general satisfaction.
j. S. Taylor of Smoky township,
Sherman county, will this season ex-
pertinent with some prehistoric corn"
the seed of which was taken from a
mound near the Mississippi river. Last
year the Missouri state agricultural
college planted some of the same seed
and the management reported favora-
bly,, and was well pleased with the
growth and yield of this ancient spe-
cies of maize. The plant is said to be
very hardy and grows rapidly, bearing
from four to a dozen ears on each
stock. The leaves are very wide, some !
measuring foot across, and contain
more nutriment than the fodder of q
common stock of corn. The seed is of |
reddish cast and is of the Dent varie-
ty. One of the peculiarities of this
this species of corn is its extensive
brace roots at two and sometimes
three joints which makes it hard to
blow down.
An item of especial seems to have
been overlooked by the journals of
Washington county, although it hap
pens only once in lifetime. Gideon
Talbot and Solomon Lanoue, now aged |
~ and 70 years, married Flavie and
Julia Provost, respectively, at the
same time and place, IN st. George,
Canada, September "a, 1886. They
came to the United States in 1851, set
ting in Illinois. In 1870 they moved |
to Kansas, locating in Washington |
county, both families travelling togeth-
er and locating on farms near by. |
Their golden wedding anniversary was
celebrated at the home of Mr.. Talbot
the cath day of September, 1896, at
which there were present not less than
"a children and grandchildren, besides
60 relatives and friends. This is the
first instance on record of a double
golden wedding anniversary in Wash
ington county.
At the Dickinson county poor farm
recently arrived a charge who has for
many years puzzled physicians and
whose case is to-day stranger than
ever. Newton Reed was born about
81 years ago and for long time has
lived in South Dickinson with relatives
who have cared for him. Their re-
moval made it best to bring him to the
county farm where he is we'll cared for
by the superintendent. When between
) and years old Reed had infamma-
tory rheumatism, which stopped the
growth Of his body. So it is to-day as
then, the body of child with tiny
limbs, drawn and mishapen by disease.
The head, however, is that of a normal
man, full-sized, with beard growing as
usual. Mr. Reed wears only nous
tache, however. There is a good
shaped forhead and the eyes show an
observant and intellectual brain be.
hind. He reads the papers, talks we'll
and takes lively interest in life. Yet
he cannot sit up, but lies always in
the little bed, helpless and hopeless of
ever being better. 1t is sad fate yet
many people with all the advantages
Of a sound body are less contented
than this unfortunate who abides in
resignation his dsetiny. The physi-
clans say there is no hope for improve.
ment, yet he may live to old age.
About ten years ago his story crept
into the papers, but some of the local