Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-02-10

Seven stores and houses were moved
in one week from Brakeman to At
wood.
The Usher guards, officially known
as Company H, of the X. N. G., will
give their fourth annual ball on Feb.
22. In connection with the ball the
prize drill contest between members of
the company will take place. 1t is ex-
pected quite number of the officers
of the state militia will be in Lawrence
for the event.
Ellis county is populated principally
by people who came from Russia and
brought with them the fashions of the
time of Peter the Great Last week
the county commissioners let the con-
tract for new court house with Chin
neys all over it and stovepipe hole in
every room-just as was the fashion in
the time of Peter the Great.
Tim Long, the news boy at the Santa
Fe depot in Topeka, is deserving of
the western title of being "onto his
job" A few days ago he sold paper
to man on No. 5. That afternoon the
man came back on No. 6 and returned
the paper. Tim resold it to man on
No. who carried it east and next day
it came back on 49, Tim then sold it
to man in the depot and when he
left the paper in his seat Tim took it
home and read it himself
At the registers office in Saline coun-
ty have been filed two old and inter-
esting papers, The older of the two
was given in May, 1861, to the widow
of Jonas Trexler, n veteran of the war
of 1912, and conveys the title of 100
acres of land in the present township
of Liberty, in Saline county. 1t was
assigned to Joseph Ridley. The Sec
ond was issued in June, 1864, to Alfred
S. Soper, a United States marine, for
services in the battle of Shanghai, and
also conveys 100 acres in the same
township.
The Kansas railroads IRE now wrest-
ling with the proposition concerning
the issuance of passes to sheriffs.
Under the old law sheriffs were allow
ed mileage no matter whether they
had passes OF not. The roads always
furnished them passes then. The new
fee law only allows them actual expen-
ses paid while conveying prisoners to
the penitentiary or in making other
trips on official business. They can.
not therefore now charge mileage if
they have passes and would not be
benefited by carrying passes. The
roads are figuring on giving them
transportation for personal business
bat not for official business.
! One of the teachers in the Pleasan-
ton school has found cure for the
gum chewing habit She supplied her.
self with quinine one morning recent
~ and when the pupils assembled sew
eral of them were working their jaws
at good gait. The teacher compelled
each one to disgorge their quid and a
liberal coating of quinine was spriuk-
led over the same, and the chewer was
required TO resume the process Of
"chawin'," but the gum had lost all its
flavor and in its place was bitter dose
of quinine. We do not know whether
the pupils abstain while out of school,
but it is a fact that the practice Of
chewing in school has been completely
broken.
The Abilene Poultry association hat
started movement to have county
commissioners empowered to appro
pirate aid for poultry exhibits Th'
members will gather signers TO peti
tions during the year asking the SAINT
privileges as are now enjoyed by fair
and normal institutes
The past month has been the mos
favorable January for wheat in thu
memory of the oldest Ellis county resi-
dents. The crop condition is fully 10
per cent better than that Of 1897 at IT,
corresponding time.