Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1899-08-24
KANSAS ITEMS or INTEREST

Nothing seems to have been shrivel-
ed In Kansas this year but the delin'
quent Tux lists
This year in Kansas patch OF corn
fifteen feet long and fifteen feet wide
forms n perfect cube
No one can doubt that II pays TO be
plous, since n clergyman won a quilt
at n rafile in Leavenworth.
Since the day OF the first record In
Kansas there has mover been a time
when Kansas was rs green on August
10 us 1t is today,
Tho jointists at Topeka are becom-
Ing bold, but no enough 80 to keep
their beer on leo and servo IL In a pro-
tesslonal manner
The state superintendent OF public
instruction in Kansas actually had TO
be taught how to carry his new baby
without dropping It,
A sensitive woman In Jackson coun-
ty horsewhlpped man who com
planned Of the way she was running a
farm which she rented TO him.
Engineers all over Kansas are pick
Ing from corn fields extraordinarily
largo ears OF corn and tying them at
the side OF the locomotive headlight
Lcaveuworth Pythians are prepar-
Ing 10 show visiting members good
time during the encampment and
brigade meeting there September l2'i4.
Former residents OF Ohio now living
In Franklin held a reunion at Ottawa
recently. The association was organ
lied In 1907, and now has l,7OO mem.
bera
The managers OF the state tennis
tournament in Topeka are out ST. so,
which means that there will never be
another meeting Of that kind at the
state capitol
Many old veterans at the Leaveh-
worth Soldiers home are cultivating
little gardens which bring them in
small sums for onions, cucumbers, to-
mntoes and melons
For tho benefit OF the solicitors and
canvassers of various kinds, 1t is prop
er TO state that the name Of the Ateh-
ison man who recently bought ll6
bulldogs, 10 John Stein.
In addition TO all OF the other com
plants that have been lodged against
the state house at Topeka, 1t is now
charged that young men and young
women meet there TO carry on tlirta'
tions in violation OF social ethics,
At Coffeyvillo tho construction Of
the now flour warehouse Of the Nc
Grew Milling company connects the
mill building proper with the cooper
shop building and makes one solid
brick building 3Oi feet long and 80
feet wide.
A Jewell county farmer says; ~
have lived In Jewell county for thirty
years, and ! never saw such corn
crop in all those years as we have al
present Heretofore when wo walked
off with the corn banner, we have had
from 10 to 20 per cont of the county
badly damaged. This year there Is
not quarter section in the county but
what Is in fine shape Jewell county
will raise from 19,5OOOOO to Is, 900, o0J
bushels this year, which is 500 bushels
for each inhabitant, or $3.50 for each
man, woman and child In the county
at IL cents per bushel, The county
that takes the banner from us this
year will be Joe Dandy"
The trouble which the family clut
at Topeka is having to find u name is {
very small matter as compared will
the time IL will have when it begins
to hunt around for cook
Three nieces OF man who was los
when the Bourgogno went down have
offered a purse of $40, 900 to the person
who invents the best method of saw
ing life at seq, The offer Is made as
memorial to their uncle, and It would
just be like some one out here on tn,
Kansas prairies to walk Off with tn
prize.
A Topeka attorney has inherited tn
entire estate of one OF his clients
amounting to $4,000 The legatee 1
in double luck, for he will not have t
hire u lawyer to defend the will
against the relatives of the tcstator
The county commissioners at For
Scott have ruled that there Is no pre-
vision of law that the county shall
turn fees growing out of the prosecu
ton of the violations OF the liquo
law, into the county. The county al
torney at Fort Scott has collecte
$1,000 in fees which ho will keep.
The school teachers in this state ar
feeling good Their salaries have bee
increased in nearly every county fror
five to twenty per cent