Hutchinson gazette., 1901-10-03

the Kansas Wesleyan Mt Salina,
! Topeka packers are paying S0,75 for
I hogs the highest price since 1885.
The Unitarians Of Wichita are
planning TO build a $4,000 church,
sumner county expects 10 have an
Increased acreage OF wheat planted
this year,
The grape crop in some places in
Kansas Ia reported to be 10000 pounda
10 the acre,
Students other than Swedes are en-.
rolled this year In Bethany college,
ut Lindsborg,
An ancestor OF Carl D'Avignon, Of
Newton, Santa Fe brakeman, was n
French nobleman,
G.. A. Blair, Of Mulvanc, won the
first prize for the finest peaches Mt the
Buffalo exposition,
Corn in Nemaha county is yielding
40 to As bushels to the acre, tits selling
at 40 cents bushel.
The Old Soldiers reunion at River
side Park comes during the Wichita
fair and carnival week,
Chairman Henry i, Allen, Of the
state board OF charities, has bought
farm in Franklin county.
The board Of railroad commissioners
has decided in favor Of Concordia's be-
ing granted jobblng rates,
A collection for u special purpose was
taken in the Methodist church at Pratt
and the amount taken was SEES
The commercial club of Hutchinson
is agitating the purchase by the city of
the waterworlSs and light plant,
A Cloud county man who wasin Kan
sas City with cattle said that the num-
Der of cattle in his county is 30 per cent
short.
Alfalfa growers near CimOTon are
getting u fourth crop of hay this year
This is remarkable considering the
drouth.
The Jetmore College, new Metho-
dist school, has been opened. It's pres
ident Is r, A. Lee Master, the resident
minister.
A Parsons bank offers to cash war
rants Mt par, drawn on the general
fund for the amountneeded to purchase
the site for the new asylum.
Miss Abby Huntington Ware, of To-
petO, daughter Of Eugene Ware, is to
teach English and history in the Fort
Scott high school this year.
1t is said that j. NJ. Simpson, the Me-
Pherson politician, cleared $50, 900 in
one week, by investing in margins in
lard in the Kansas City market
The ahianced bride of Lieutenant
Burton Mitchell, Miss Marley OF
olathe, died recently. Lieutenant
Mitchell Is aide to General Funston.
Associate Justice A. II. Ellis, of the
supreme court, is sick at the home of
his brother in Kansas City and will
not be able to attend the October term
of the court,
The highest point in Kansas is Bird
City, in Cheyenne county, 900 feet
above the level Of the sea, The lowest
point is Kansas City, Kan,-7OO feet
above the sea level.
Business men of Emporia are PLAN
ming to buy lots adjoining the grounds
Of the state normal for the new library
building There is but one vacant place
on the grounds to put IL and that is
out of sight from anywhere; back of the
main building,
One entire outer wall of the Wareham
opera house at Manhattan fell, carrying
with IL about ten feet of the front, The
telephone office is in the building and
the system is damaged so that service
was cut off for time. The building is
insured only against fire,
st. Paul's Methodist church of Wich-
ita is planning to build II $4,000 ad-
dition, 1t will have pipe organ, The
church owns lTj feet on the corner
their old church occupies,
The Continental Creamery company,
has provided for fund of $780, 600 to
enlarge its factory and stations in Kan
sas and Oklahoma. II is expected that
SIS, 900 will be used to build q creamery
at Wichita. A large amount will be
used to increase the number of its skim
ming stations. They now have 300
slsimming stations.
Miss Maud Hunter represented Ceres
at the wheat jubilee in Wellington.
Ernest Lewis, l3-year.old colored
boy, is the latest victim of too much
boy jumping on moving trains in
switching yards, He did this in Wich-
ita and both his legs were cut off. He
lived eight hours never losing conscious.
ness, The boys father was informed