Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-03-03


ped car load of hogs to market las
week.
There are so many ex-residents o
Beloit in Chicago that they have forme'
a club.
Delphos is talking telephone. TIL,
idea seems to be spreading radidly thi
year in Kansas.
A Dorcas Society social away out il
Kearney county cleaned up SIT in on'
night last week.
The farmers of southern Kansas
have considerable blowing done and
many Of them are pushing their spring
work along.
According to the Sentinel there is
more drunkenness on the streets Of
Lincoln now than at any time for the
past three years.
The lists of cattle brands in the pa
pers of southwest Kansas are growing
in length, which means that they are
keeping step with the weasel skin of
the feeders.
A HiawaUha man goes out to the
graveyard on the 4th of July and shoots
fire-crackers over his wife's grave in
order to prove his loyalty. He is look
ing for another wife to encourage him
in his declining years.
A Kansas merchant advertises a
plentiful supply of home cured meat
for sale. The ad. mas very refresh
ing sound There should be more such
goods sold in the state. AS it is now
Kansans raise the meat, ship it to the
killers where it is put in marketable
shape and then re.shipped to the pro-
Queer, who pays freight on it both
ways by the time he purchases it for
consumption.
A Chautauqua county man has the
and illustrations prepared
for book of poems on various topics,
I'll relating in a manner to Kansas, and
q Kansas journalist, after examining
the production, states with degree of
frankness that it is as unusual as it is
that the designs are far SUI
perior to the literary features of the
york, although the latter show con
siderable ability"
Did you ever read or hear of cham
pion corn-husker? Well, as in every
hing else, Kansas leads in this pecu-
lar vocation or sport, as you choose to
put it. jake Joerg of Randall Jewell
county, is the champion corn-husSer of
,he United States. His record is TWEEN
5y-seven bushels in one hour, and he
Uses only his bare hands in husking.
When you consider that wagon bed |
with sideboards on will only hold about !
twenty-five bushels, this is some husl1.
ng.
Since the destruction of the Carbon
lale school building by fire on the 4th
nst,, the city has been without school.
public meeting was held last week |
% discuss the ACCESSIBILITY Of continu-
ng the schools to the end of the unex-
bred term. After much discussion, a
'ote was taken on motion authoriz-
ng the board of education to proceed |
n the matter of renting and fitting up
ooms for schoo! purposes, but the
was negativated by very
mall majority, This action leaves the
ity without schools until the compile
ion of the contemplated new structure
text fall.
A Kansas fruit-grower says: Orch
rds Will in time exhaust, at least par
tally, the fertility of the soil, and this
exhaustion is especially noticeable on
oils which are not especially rich at
he time the trees are planted. To
make young trees grow more rapidly,
fertilizar should be used containing q
mall per cent of nitrogen mixed with
,otash and phosphates. For older
richards the nitrogen is not so neces-
ssary, while phosphates and potash
hould be increased, especially the
Quantity of potash. 1t is frequently
.ood plan to stimulate top growth by
owing the orchard to crimson clover
n late summer and turning it under
n spring.
A company of forty tramps were
heltered in the police station at Fort
scott recently. When questioned as
o their willingness to volunteer and
light against Spain, one acted as spo-
,esman for the company, and said:
'Pardner, here are forty able bodied
men who are compelled to ask aid.
some of them I know are worthy, and
here is not fifty cents among them.
They are hungry and have nothing to
at. II you think a hungry man won't
light for the protection of our country
'ou have the wrong impression. II
,ur president sees fit to declare war to-
lay, I'll venture to say that every sim
,le one of these unfortunae men will |