Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-11-10

some splendid work.
After next week there will be clear
track for foot ball news.
sherman Gates, a Wichita boy, goes
to Australia, where he has good job
working for q New York electrical
company,
Not even the jugglcrs magic flower
vase Is more prolific than good old
Kansas soil Joe Gravel OF Harvey
county, Ia just harvesting his second
crop of potatoes off the same piece OF
ground.
Never In one year has there been so
many debts paid and so much improve
ment made ns there has been In Kan
sas during the past twelve months
Let the good work 60 on and all will
be happy,
Kansans are enjoying sublime aut-
umn weather just at the present time.
But then as a general thing, Kansans
scarcely get touch Of winter until
after Christmas, and sometimes us late
as January,
Last weeks Golfers Weekly con-
tained u picture of Johnny outlund,
the Mitchell county Quaker boy who
is captain OF the Pennsylvania Univer-
sity foot ball team. 1t was rafting
good picture OF him, too A Chicago
paper OF recent date printed n cut Ia
beled captain outland" which looked
more like pirate would after hard
fight al sen,
V. d. King, proprietor OF the Mead.
ow Brook sheep farm, near Burlington
came nearer scooping the platter with
Merinos than any other exhibitor at
the Omaha exposition. He secured 10
out OF 29 first premiums, and in all
gathered In Al premiums, When de-
effort Is made TO make II pos.
sible for any Kansas product to strut
ut the head Of the procession It gener-
ally succeeds.
Woodson county will vote on prop
osition to issue $50, 900 worth of bonds
for the purpose Of erecting court
house, Mitchell county ought to fol-
low suit. 1t is probably safe to say
that Mitchell county has the poorest
apology for court house to be found
in the state, II Is such ram-shaclsle
Did hut that the sessions of the district
court are held in another building, as
inc crowd in attendance would surely
wreck the court house," and the coun-
~ officials have rooms in four or five
different buildings.
The dairy department OF the expert
nent station has been experimenting
With ether us n means of distinguish
ng between butter and oleo margar-
ne. Take very small portions Of but
or and oleo margarine about the size
II pin head, and place in separate
pots on clean piece Of glass, drop
If ether placed on the butter will as
iume wavy but somewhat regular
outline; while drop placed on the
'leo margarine will have a ragged out
ine, very much like the appearance of
cog wheel with the cogs sharpened
o point,
Clay Park has loosed the rein OF fan
US pen and sings song which makes
Is say amen: "The wizard of autumn
las waved his wand over Kansas, and
within fortnight change Of nature
las been wrought as marvellous as ever
prang from magirian's COMPUTATIONS.
rhc green Of woodland and pasture
las burst into the scarlet tints of aut-
INN days, and ON the heart of forest
nd meadow there is flame of golden
-lory such as was never born in artists
widest visions. There are no autumn
lays; no autumn scenes like those Of
Kansas, anywhere else"
A new source Of revenue in Western
Kansas just now coming in is celery,
I is grown moderately on the upland
~ the aid Of irrigation, but the most
profitable experiments have been in
he lowlands, along the creek valleys
where the water is nearer the surface.
Along the Beaver, the forks of the
,appa, the Prairie Dog and the Solo
non no less than fifty men have been
uccessful in the growth of celery-so
uccessful that they yearly increase
heir plants and in Denver, where it is
marketed, their product is sold along
With the Michigan article.
A good many Kansas newspapers are
Dragging about the amount of job
work they are turning out just at pres
mt, There isn't any business that
ycts hit any harder or any more quick
y on account of the coming of hard
ines times than the country print
,hops. and It is cause for considerable
to know that things are
coming their way again. A man will