Hutchinson gazette., 1899-01-05


week blew themselves for n complete
lot OF new instruments.
Tho warning af the fall In tempera-
ture came in ample time TO enable one
to replenlsh their coal bin this time,
The salaries of the country school
teachers In Kansas, averaged S3s per
month, the smallest average in the
Union. ...t
A vast amount OF money has been
spent for Christmas presents this year.
in fact much more than is usually eS-
pended,
Many OF the Kansas farmers are
still holding on TO the wheat crop
with the expectation OF getting bet
Ter price,
After the first OF the year the Odd
Fellows and Receccas OF 0swego will
meet In new hall which they are
fitting up,
Clay Center wants an insane asylum.
Concordin wants q normal school and
Stockton may put in a bid for nor
NAL school, too.
Those people at Woodbine who blew
up joint with dynamite certainly
have most emphatic way OF mani
Testing their dlspleasure,
Three fad.end pugilists are giving
exhibitions in small towns In western
Kansas. Their point is to get enough
money to take them on to the next
town.
Westmorcland, the county seat of
Pottawatomic, is still making signs for
q railroad to come that way. West
moreland is the only county seat town
in tine eastern half of the state that is
without railroad
The insurance companies are now
fighting against putting up the money
on the policies of Kimmel, the Arkan-
sas City banker who completely disap.
pearcd. Do the insurance companies
ever pay without growl?
The Wichita Eagle says; Collins did
not fire the shots which killed his
father. No mans brain is constructed
in way to allow him to kill another,
for the assination Of whom he had ut
tempted to hire others who had proved
themselves to him unreliable.
Milking cows properly requires ex-
perience skill and tact, and is both u
science and an art 1t requires patience
and yet it must be done quickly and
gently A man who can milk eight or
ten good cows in an hour and do It
we'll is valuable man for dairyman
TO have, A kicking COW can nearly
always be traced to a kicking or un-
slullful mixer, A swearing man or
boy should not be allowed to milk
COW, for an oath and q blow generally
go together, and they are both indica-
tive of the brute in human form.
Secretary Coburn is overwhelmed
with applications for his reports, so
much so, in fact, that he can not begin
to supply the demand. The statement
that has been made that there are sew
cral tons of old reports Of various
kinds in the basement of the state
house does not apply to his reports.
They are gobbled up as fast as they
are published, Before the last bien-
nial report was out there were thou
sand applications on file for copies,
and as soon as the newspapers an
nounced that it had been issued the
applications came in by the hundred.
The people Of Humboldt have a
grievance. The claim is made that the
town is persistcntly misrepresentcd by
every other town within the limits of
the gas district,
Thanks to the generosity Of the peo-
pie OF Atchison, says the Globe, the
inmates of the Orphans Home had the
most successful Christmas treat this
year in the history Of the institution.
There are 29s children in the home
and each one received at least three
presents, aside from almost unlimited
amounts of nuts, candy and pop corn,
It is all right, of course, TO class
Kansas rs prairie state, but in the
vicinity of Cummings, a small town in
Atchison county, three saw mills are
in operation, and they are not working
on sunaowers either.
Harry Allen advises the young man
who is tempted to become an Office
seeker to take trip to Topeka and
watch the surging crowd who are
"after something" 1t is a fact that
the sight of this push has tendency
to cause the man who has q job he can
hold to feel contented with his lot.
j. G. Lewis, Of Santa Fe, is another