Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-11-22
C0WSkIN CRUMBS.

To the Editor Of The Eagle:
Since the Cowskiner Rooster has ceased Ia
crow and the bard of Glen-Mary to chant
his lays, it's seldom that we hear any thing
from this part of the fruitful valley of the
Cowskin, now teeming with business life
and energy in the shape of railroad building
and the gathering of the immense corn crop
OF which, even with the accounts of the
EAGLE before us, we may say that ''the
half was never told.' Like the Vicar OF
Wakefield, ''to tell even the truth would be
refrain and leave all such TO the editors OF
neighboring county papers, who dwell in
Imagination only in regard to the crop re-
ports.
The facts arc, that all neighbors have 10
pull down their barns and build greater.
But improvements do not stop in the build
ing OF granaries. Mr.. A. Featheroff has
just finished n very neat and tasty residence
which, together with neatly painted barn
and cribs, ..and Charley Campbells we'll
fenced farm and yards just opposite. would
make one think he had suddenly landed in
old Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, where
land is worth $500 per acre.
DIR. Oatley has just completed one Of the
most convenient, home-like and best-built
houses in the township, with barn. out
buildings, trees. to correspond. The doc
tor never does anything by halves rs was
made evident by the entertainment given a
few days ago on the occasion of be cele-
- ,t,o;r xroll;,c
Mr.. BRAZIL has built fine front to his
one-story house on the place he is now i'm.
proving. Tommy is true western man
with the snap OF steel-trap and the perse-
verence OF Sedgwick county candidate for
office. This is the second place he has inn
proved within mile of the Cowskin, the
waters OF which stream, If not like the one
sought for by De Leon-"give perpetual
YOUTH" do, the settlers say, act rs a panacea
for homesickness for any other location in
Uncle Sans domain.
Kenyon and Martinson's railroad town is
yet on canvass on the banks Of the Co wskin
and corner lots have decided tendency
down stream. But they still live like the
early settlers of Kansas by the three graces,
faith, hope and charity.
Charley Kenyon and Mcdonald want to
start a dancing academy. Roth gentlemen
have given public exhibitions Of their tai
ent in this line, and each has fine ear for
music.
Charley Campbell has been shocking corn
all summer, with gransries and cribs all full
now, besides having furnished the Santa Fe
all they have used this far on their line. He
says he would furnish the company all they
want TO ship over their road were he not
afraid of making his old Sucker State friends
feel jealous.
Mr.. Turner, who lives on the Uncle Jake
Pope place, has about 100 acres Of corn
cribbed. The working hours Uncle Turner
gets out of the twenty-four the year round
would make DIR. Tanner ashamed Of him
self.
Our school, Pleasant Hill district No. IS,
under the supervision of our worthy and
efficient teacher, Mr.. j. C. Herring, is do
ing finely. He appears to be one Of those
teachers described by lngersoll in his late
article: Don't teach school, but ht chill
dreu TO ill their places in after life." The
only place we might differ with him would
be In the extreme OF the grading busines -.
on this we like the comments Of the EAGLE.
Bat must bid you good night and resign
myselr to the hands OF old Morpheus. for
evening tzpir IL lit again the ssRubicon
will have been crosaed," and the snort Of
the iron horse, that great medium Of civil.
ixaiion that binds together the future and
The present, will wake the denixens q the
Cowskin to the fact that they have railroad
communication with the rest Of the world.
suCcKs.