Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-09-25
KANSAS KERNALs.


Yates Center has begun to prospect fo-
coal.
Ellsworth has national bank, and is
booming.
Montgomery county wants n new court
house and jail.
The CawlScr Cit Methodist church is to
cost $500.
Giraid i in rapsures over coal found at
depth Of seventeen Feet.
Elk county has corn stalks thirteen feet
high, win ears a loot long.
Lynn county advertises watermelon
weighing for;y-three pounds.
The new Free Methodist church at Clay
Center has been dedicated.
Cawker City is receiving about three
thousand bushels of wheat daily.
Ellsworth turns up a farmer whose corn
will run seventy -iive bushels to the acre
Work on the new college building at En-
poria will be commenced at once.
The quarrel between the Wamego and
The foundation of the news NJ. E. church,
at Clay Center, will be completed by
Christmas.
Sabetha is making big preparations for
her reunion, to be held October 9TH, Sth and
9th.
After improvements to the amount Of over
$500, the Holton NJ. Z. church has been re-
opened.
The Presbyterian church at Abilene has a
new pipe organ. costing 81 800, and built by
&. Meibert, of Salina.
A claim is Sc: up that Fredonia has
one of the three successful creameries in
Kansas.
The corner stone of the new NJ. E. church
at Peabody has been laid. The building
complete will cost $500.
A Neodesha hen is reported as laying an
egg seven inches long. Either the story or
the egg is a little stretched"
Arkansas City is patiently awaiting the
action of the governor on its petition for a
charter as city of the second class.
On the recommendation of the Indian Of
fee, the name of the Lawrence Indian
school, Lawrence, Kansas, has been changed
to Haskell Institute, in memory of the late
Representative Haskell.
Cedarville, out on the Central branch
road, brings to light squash weighing one
hundred and thirty-five pounds.
There is quite demand for farms about
Seneca. One of 400 acres has just been sold
for S17, $50, and will be stocked with 800
sheep.
The second semi-annual dividend Of the
state school fund is Sl75,S43.S2, or forty-six
cents for each pupil, there peing 2S2,2 69
children of school age in the state.
Fifty-six Russians direct from the old
country, arrived at Newton last week, and
will make Kansas their future home They
are fine looking class of people.
The city council of Harper has been asked
by the saloon men to reduce the tax, or
monthly fines, from 500 per month to $50.
Mrs. Clapp, the widow of General Dexter
Z. Clapp, Of Woodson county, has accepted
a position in the Orphans Home at Leaven-
worth.
The farmers near Kirwin have organized
Farmers Shipping Association. 1t is eA-
pscted that some 200 farmers will be em-
braced in the order.
4 son of A. ID. Blanchett, one of the old
est and most prominent citizens of Lyon
Creek, near Abilene, accidentally shot him
self through the chest and died instantly.
The Blaine and Logan club of Marion is
booming. Its seventv-fvc uniforms and
torches and twenty-five fambeaus make
display never before seen in these parts.
J. J. Munger, of Carbon City, has been
appointed census takcr for Finney County,
preparatory to its being organized. 1t is
now attached TO Ford county for judicial
purposes.
The first run of sugar from the Kansas
Sugar Works was placed on sale in our