Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1899-11-30

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from Seneca last week, billed for San
Francisco.
The Topeka wooden mills enlarged
their capacity by 80 per cent during
November.
Burr Oak has new stone school
house which, with furnishings, has
cost $4,000
Fourteen OF the boys Of company lI--
the Lawrence company-are yet in the
Philippines,
A Wilson county man claims TO have
gathered $50 bushels of corn of ~
acres of ground,
The Kansas court Of appeals will eX'
pire by limitation before the the next
legislature meets
Some Of the hHndsomost diamonds In
Topeka are worn by employees in the
Rock Island offices,
Lawrence is TO have new s25,00t
school house and nm $50, 900 courthouse
in the near future,
Kansas farmers who come into towr
nowadays tell very good stories con
corning the wheat
The Mccormick Harvester Company
has bought ground and will build bis
warehouse in Wichita,
Hiram Stevens, an old-timc district
Judge in this state, died at the age o.
10 in Kansas City last week,
The space allotted in the capitol At
at Washington for the statues Of two
Kansans is still umoccupicd,
A Kirwin merchant offers n premium
Of $40 to the person who sells him the
most eggs before Christmas.
John A, Bright, grand master Of the
|, o. O, f., Of Kansas, has dedicated
new Odd Fellows hall ut Dclphos,
The towns of Jewell county are now
all connected by telephone and expect
to be soon connected with the outside
world.
State Labor Commissioner johnson
says that many persons are finding
work through the state employment
agency,
One year ago thirteen grandmothcrs
sat at u table in Galcna, and the other
day the same thirteen joined again
around the festal board.
Sims Ely, well known in western
Kansas and Oklahoma, is now connect
ed with an irrigation and reservoir
company at Phoenix, Arizona,
Galena city's council has decided to
ask all merchants except druggists,
meat market men and bakers, to close
their places of business Sunday noon.
The 9-year-old boy of James Hayes,
who was travelling in wagon from
Watson, Mo-, to Coal Gate, |. t., was
killed near Wichita, Kas., by the acct
dental discharge Of shotgun.
At the closing meeting of the Y, NJ.
G. A. convention at ottawa, in about
an hours time, enough money was
subscribed to insure the organization
of local association and to pay for
comfortable quarters for year.
Attorney Harry Wood of Wellington,
first lost his barn by fire, at which time
his buggy was taken out and cut to
pieces in front Of his house Now his
house and outbuildings have been
fred, but the house itself was saved
Mrs. Clara j. Elliott, widow of Cap
tain d, S, Elliott, late of Company G,
Twentieth Kansas, has been allowed
pension Of SEQ u month, dating back to
the time the captain was killed at
CaloocNn, last February Two children
will draw So n month each until they
are 10 years old,
Bethesda Hospital at Gocssel, is re.
ported in thriving condition. There
are four nurses, one trainer, on duty
all the time. Volunteer contributions
from the Mennonite churches are made
with regularity,
Thirty farmers of north Dickinson
county gathered and cribbed widows
corn crop, set up machine and
threshed her kafiir corn and put the
place in good shape generally, They
then departed without a word to the
widow. Their own hearts will reward
them.
Lieutenant j. II. Bell who is men
toned in the late dispatches from Ma.
Mia for his bravery, is well known in
central Kansas. When General For.
sythe was in command at Fort Riley,
Bell was his adjutant,
1t is said that the action of the Mis-.
souri, Pacific in deciding to distribute
it's hospital Accommodations along the
line, instead Of maintaining general
hospital at Kansas City, is due to the
united action of the employees OF the
road who were dissntished with tho