Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1899-05-25

Page ads OF the Santa Fe road arc
becoming as common as public sale
bills in the fall.
This Is commencement season." Q
great time Tor the dress makers and
photographers. M
A Hanover firm paid out close to ten
thousand dollars for eggs during the
month OF April.
According to the assessors returns
l. Il, Wilcox, farmerpolitlclan, 10 the
richest man in Atchison county.
Oliver Ewell OF Known county, has
one thousand acres Of upland planted
to sorghum and kafllir corn, and the
crop looks we'll.
A northern Kansas man who Is Wis
iting down in Arkansas says in let
ter to newspaper that all that state
lacks to place 1t in the front rank Is
some Kansas push,
Phillip Kelly OF the Soldiers Home
at Leavenworth is putting the finish
ing touches on n statute OF Dewey
which is said to be u faithful repre-
sentatlon Of the Admiral.
The Post says that there has been
large increase in the Indian trade OF
Powhattan within the last few months,
Perhaps the name Of the town has
something to do with drawing the In
dams there
A sad accident is reported by the
Powhattan Post; A farmer living few
miles from that town shot off his
mouth so hard the other day than the
rccol put him back week with his
corn planting.
With sledge hammers the mayor Of
Eskridge, assisted by the sheriff OF
Wabaunsce county, demolished the
bar fixtures OF couple of jointists
who had recently been brought to the
end of their string by the district
court
The continued dry, windy weather
10 not favorable to growing crops and
the improvement in wheat, oats, barley
and grass this week is generally con-
fined to portions Of counties in which
good local showers occurred Rye Is
beginning to head in Trego county,
Encouraging reports come in from
all sections OF the state concerning the
crops Sedgwicls county was visited
by good rain on the night OF May
10, over two inches of water falling.
Good rains are reported throughout
the state and the young corn is doing
well,
Business men Of Soldier, over in jack
son county, have adopted q novel adj
vertising scheme. They offer cash
wrize Of $40 TO the farmer who drives
the greatest distance to trade ut that
point between May 90 and May 81.
The only conditions to be complied
with are that the farmers purchase
81. 80 worth of goods, and register at
one of the stores, The business men
Of Soldier believe that in this way
tiny will succeed in impressing itupou
q lot of people that it will be TO their
advantage to do their trading at that
point,
Occasionally a report comes in to
the effect that chinch bug is bobbing
up here and there in spite of the rig
orous weather which it was hoped
would lay them low; but the condi-
lions are against them, and IT. is not
likely that they will be able to do
great damage this season 1t seems
hat about the only thing that will
make chinch bug give up his tenaci-
Gus hold on life is a dose of Prof.
SHOWS celebrated knock em.stiff; and
that will do II, If the directions which
accompany the infected bugs are fol-
Owed,
In n Pratt county town the other
lay a man, recently from Missouri,
a restaurant and sat down.
Presently colored man entered and
sat down. The Mssourian arose,
threw the colored man out and was
arrested.
John Bechtel, boy of 10 years,
while wolf hunting on the prairies of
western Kansas, alighted from his
horse, tying the halter strap to his
wrist. The horse ran away, dragging
him over the rocks and when found
he was dead.
What Kansas wants to know is II
eastern dollars will follow on the
heels of eastern compliments.
Public opinion, though not always
an infallible test Of the truth, is usu-
ally right, and there can be no reason
able doubt that 1t Endorses advertising