Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-09-01

OLD neWsboy.
Winfield society people have water
melon parties.
The Wichita fair is being advertised
In adjoining towns.
Expansionist Dewey is the way some
KanSans refer to Dewey.
The streets OF Leavcnworth are moi
as clean as they should be.
Counterfeit half dollars are being
circulated in northern Kansas
A Beloit man is threshing out big
wheat crop which will fall just little
bit shy OF 10000 bushels,
The First U. p. church at Topeka
has passed resolutions declaring
against Sunday base ball playing.
Del Valentine still insists that nc
high-priced threshing machine outfit
ever turned out TO be money-making
investment for the owner,
A Lindsborg man has hne patch OF
tobacco growing In his garden. In the
southern part Of the state cotton is
raised, This is mighty hot old state.
OF late years in Kansas when man
tells friend he is going to run for the
legislature the friend snealss Off to the
aspirants physician and wife and
whispers the information to them.
Modcsty Is a characteristic Of the
great majority of the letters which arc
sent home by the soldiers, but once in
a while one appears which creates the
impression that the writer is the whole
smear.
A Dickinson county man, who has
had good chance to form an intelli-
gent opinion, says that he thinks there
will be fully as much corn in that
county this year as last, and plenty Of
fodder, also,
If this meets the eye Of airy retired
Banker or Merchant, or any other bus
mess man who desires good position
in good business, write Walker e.
Luling, No, 200 New England Bldg,
Kansas City, Missouri.
At public sale in Dickinson county
which amounted to nearly 5000, over
s5 per cent Of the purchases were paid
for in cash. This shows where a lot of
Kansas money is. 1t is the farmers
who attend public sales
The Lawrence World says that in
Douglas county the only corn com
plant heard is that there are no nub-
bins. The farmers who have been
feeding nubbins to their cattle will
have to cut the big ears up with their
axes.
From the 1st day of January up to
the 10th Of last month the Galcna-Em-
pire mining district furnished IS per
cent Of the total output of the entire
mining district of Southeast Kansas
and Southwest Missouri, so says the
Galena Republican,
Americans are great on boasting Of
living in the land of the free and the
home Of the brave, but in Russell
county last week young lady signed
contract to teach country school,
and interlined in the contract was
stipulation that she would refrain
from keeping company with n certain
young man Of the district. Did you
ever hear tell of the like?
While the sheriff OF Nemaha county
and his wife were attending funeral
q few days since three booty toughs
called at the Jail and asked Miss Mary
Raglan, the only person about, to be
allowed too see one of the prisoners
She replied that she could not permit
them to do so, when they concluded to
do 1t, anyhow Thereupon the young
lady secured the sheriff's revolver, and
with It for backing, issued peremp-
tory order for them topull their freight
without any loss of time; and they
didn't wait for repetition of it, eth
err.
5The shell game CRATER got in his
work in Mcpherson county this week.
VIII the time ever come when people
will fail to bite ut this bait?
1t is hotter than sin now, but signs
of cold weather are getting to the
front. A western Kansas coal dealer
advertises that coal will go for cash
only this year.
Sam Peace, Of Sumner county, has
been honorably discharged from the
Twenty-frst Kansas and granted q
pension of eight dollars per month.
Cause, sickness,
In Kansas there is contingent num-
boring about 10000 who spend their
lives trading farms for livery stables
and livery stables for farms
Whenever an eastern man visits q
Kansas town the local papers may en-
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