Hutchinson gazette., 1899-01-05

he got the money.
II has been found necessary TO In
crease the capacity OF the electric
light plant At Bcloit
For the third time the residents OF
lola have voted down the question Of
city ownership OF gas.
A booze fighter who got too gay In a
BeloIt hotel was thrown out by the
fifteen year old daughter Of the land
lady.
The saloons have been abolished In
some OF the western Kansas towns and
yet they are not as dry as they might
be.
Judge Nelson Case's handsome gift
to the Baldwin University was one OF
the brightest features OF the ohristmai
season.
The Sentinel boasts that Glen Elder
ds one OF the few towns that has no
citizen who Is budgeriug Stanley for a
position.
The Hiawatha World Office, which Is
hard to beat in It's present condition,
will soon be in better shape than ever
with new and improved machinery.
State Superintendent stryker has n
bill ready for the consideration of tho
extra session OF the legislature, pro-
viding for the extension Of the text
book law so as TO include High school
books and apparatus.
The Baptists OF Peabody will feel
better after the dawning Of the New
Year On the last day of 1893 special
services will be held and Mt that timo
the mortgage which has been on the
church will be burned.
AS further evidence that the people
In the western portion Of Kansas are
doing well IL is noted in the Stockton
Record that within the past year five
fraternal insurance orders have been
established in that town.
One couldn't pick up n western Kan
sas paper last week that didn't tell
about two or three carloads Of dressed
turkeys being shipped out. 1t is not
our fault II there were not happy
Christmas dinners in the eastern cit
les.
At Fort Scott there is pending be-
fore the city council an ordinance pro-
hibiting tho doing Of any sort OF work
on Sunday for pay, and including even
preachers. Fort Scott must be greatly
different from most places or 1t would
be very difficult to prove that a preach
er got pay for preaching on Sunday.
AS rule they don't get pay sufficient
to cover more than small part of
their week day work, to say nothing
Of Sunday.
The following notice is posted on
the door Of the Office Of tho Rock Is
land agent at Phillipsburg; "Haltl
About, Facel March, Personally we
have no objection to your presence in
the Office, but we need our time TO do
our work. Your presence is hiud-
rance. II you have business to trans
act, call at the window where we will
be pleased to meet you. Please do not
come inside the office" The company
ought to put that agent on the retired
list.
All agricultural colleges should pro
vide winter courses of study and in
struction for farmers boys and girls.
The work on the farm demands their
help during the summer months and
the winter season is the only time that
most OF the farmers boys and girls
can devote to attending school. The
school year for farmers children who
are old enough to attend colleges must
begin with about the first Of Novem'
ber and end with about the first OF
April. This gives five months for
school in each year.
The up-to-date Presbyterlans Of Bur-
lingame had Ferris wheel in place OF
the old fashioned Christmas tree.
Out in western Kansas it is not an
uncommon thing for residents of the
country to put their horses up at
livery stable, and then take their own
nights rest in burrow in the hay
NOW. A liveryman at Hoxie says that
he has no objections to this plan, but
he does think it is shanty trick for q
man to put up his team at n rival barn
and then come to his place for hay
NOW lodging.
An Ellsworth county stock man was
with considerable pride displaying on
the streets of the county seat the other
day an eighteen months old bull that
weighed !, 1885 pounds.
The hog has received a great many
kicks and curses in his day but he has
rrona ,,;uht alone non oafr11,, rrru, ti,,o