The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-12-13
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Scdgwick City, December 10, i
THE GARDEN SPOT OF AMERICA.
Sayings and Dcings in the Counties and Towns
Of the Happy Valley.

Sayings and Doings in the Counties and Towns
Of the Happy Valley.
From the sumner County Press.
Wheat never looked better at this
time Of the year.
The beautiful snow came last We'd
nesdav night, the first of the season.
More new buildings since our last.
| Never since its location has yelling
ton grown so rapidly as during the
past half year.
The railroad committee met last
! Saturday, and completed the draft of
petition asking for an election on
tho proposition submitted by the
Atchison, Topeka Il Santa Fe rail-
road comoany.
From the Arkansas City Traveller.
A large rabbit, supposed to be
mountain hare, was caught at Maple
| City last week by McNown's hounds.
| 1t was nearly black, and much larger
than jack rabbit. Nc. has pair of
hounds that will overhaul anything
that runs.
AL. Pruden has an ear of corn grown
on his place that measures one foot
in length, and has twelve hundred
and thirty-two grains on it. Mr..
| Hamilton, one of Bottoms prominent
| farmers, says he is an old man, and
has seen large corn, and offers to give
one dollar each for every ear brought
| him that measures one foot i'll length.
! This will be the only dollar that he
will have to pay that we know of.
From the Hutchinson Interior.
The Good Templars' Lodge of this
city is one of the most fourishing in
slitutions of our place. They have
the most entertaining and pleasant
exercises at their weekly meetings.
Rev. A. d. Post, of Brooklyn, Iowa,
has come to Hutchinson to join his
father, Rev. j. G. Post, in his field of
labor in Reno county. They are now
engaged in holding m ceilings in Salt
Creek township.
From the Winfield Courie r.
Town lots are selliug like hot cakes
and Winfield is booming.
The work on the new brewery
northeast of town is progressing.
Court convened last Monday with
forty-four cases on the docket.
A man in this place owns two
teams and freie hts from here to Wich-
tia He drives one team and his wife
drives the other.
A family named Roberts, late of
10 -o.tfal 10, plooso,t
township and, each member Of the
family being musician, are giving
weekly concerts at the school houses
liz that neighborhood.
Two children about nine years old,
Harry Bair aud Frank Cochran, of
this place, short time since encoun-
tered porcupine with seven young
ones on the bank of the Walnut river
near town. They killed five of the
young ones with clubs, by which time
the old one drove the boys off by
shooting its quilts into them. One of
| the animals arrows struck Bair in the
forehead and another shruek him in
the neck. His mother pulled them
from the flesh after he arrived home.
From the Hutchinson Herald.
The Herald wants E. L. Meyer, Of
| that place, appointed commissioner
to the Paris exposition.
While OH her way to leap into the
mill race, Hutchinson girl met
man who proposed marriage and she
turned back and was happy. And
| now, almost any day, one can count
four or five Hutchinson girls wander
ing along the banks of the race.
From the Harvey County News
The Wichita flour is sold as cheap
as any flour in the city, although it is
actually worth one dollar per barrel
more than any other brand in the city
or that they can bring here.
Henry burst, of Harvey county,
while driving to Newton last week
Wednesday, was thrown from the
wagon, the mules having ran away,
and had his leg broken. DR.. Boyd at
tended him and he is rapidly recover
ing.
The first thing we know Kansas
| will all be sold, the wild acres waving
with grain; the railroads double
| tracked; money at four per cent;
| newspapers invariably paid for in ad-
vance; and nothing left for US except
to take in the Indian Territory and
| New MeXico-unless this immigration
is stopped.
From the Kinsley Republican.
| The actual average of the wheat
crop per acre for Edwards county, the
past year, was twenty-three bushels.
W. o. Ridgway, of Philadelphi, re-
turned Sunday morning, and he Is
perfecting arrangements forthe COM
ing of several enterprising families
yet this fall, for whom lands have
| been secured.
| Many of our farmers do not seem TO
realize the damage that is being done
to their wheat by the devouring, I'M
tanned goose. 1t will pay to guard
the growing grain with shot guns.
The wheat generally looks fair.
From the Great Bend Register.
A young man by the namo Of Yves
| ley j. Atkins committed suicide at
Spearville, Kansas, station on the
road sixteen miles east of Dodge City,
Oh the Goth of November, by taking
strychnine. Only cause assigned was
ill health and few trivial misfor-
| tunes.
From the oxford Independent
One thousand car loads of lumber
have been sold at wichita this year.
and over seventeen hundred car loads
of grain have been shipped from that
point since the last harvest. How is
that for one point in the "Great Amer
can Desert 2"
"Standing in the door Of the post
office last Saturday, we counted fifty
one wrgons on the street within sight.
A few hours afterwards the greater
number OF them had gone and their
places filled with new ones. "-Irau-
eler
We can beat that, Scotty. From our
door we can count over fifty any day