Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-09-25
SEDCWICk.
SEDGwIcK, Kas. Sept. 20

SEDGwIcK, Kas. Sept. 20, '85.
To the Editor of the Eagle.
The School building is now COM
plete, except few minor points such
as outside painting, etc. Our schools
will open tomorrow with six teachers,
Mr.. Tull, our new landlord at the
Commercial, is making some needed
improvements in and about the pro-
perry. He is determined TO make it
pleasant place to stopat.
A daughter of l.. NJ. Finch, residing
in Howard county, has been visiting
her father and sister, Mrs. Anderson,
for the past ten days.
Parmenter and Almack will erect
cribs with capacity to hold 10000
| bushels of ear corn. With such men
on the market as the above firm,
Shaefer e. Finn. Hall & Wiley,
Robert Rogers, Holmes & Waugh,
etc, our farmers will be
assured of top prices for their corn
this fall. G. ii. Perry has con ,racted
for the erection of a residence on his
lots on Sorth Commercial. He will
occupy the same as soon as completed,
He leaves a good farm in Grant town
ship, which will make him good
living He proposes taking times easy
in the future.
Our schools are attracting quite a
number of people TO our town. We
are glad to note the desire manifested
by parents for the niger education of
their children. 1t is the intention of
the board 10 use all means in their
power to provide all educational facil-
tiles demanded and to make it pos
sible for the children of all classes to
attain to a degree of advancement
aud culture in our home school that
airy vocation of life.
Quite number of our citizens are
recreating in Indiana and Ohio at
present, having gone OH an excursion
gotten up by &. w. Kanavel, of this
place.
&C. Bin and family have gone to
Utah to visit relatives living there.
Miss Sofie Nichols and a Mr.. Frey
are to be married this evening at the
home of the brides mother in Eagle
township Quite a number of invita-
tons were extended to parties in
town.
Congdon Bros. new building is up
to the second floor joist. w. A. Grit
g. L., laosol Tho nnnar room, for m
skating rink. 1t will be 44xS3 feet.
Our new attorney Judge Page has
purchased the w. A. Giffin property
on the southwest corner of Fifth and
Madison. Burt will proceed to erect
another house in the near future.
Stephen Richardson has sold his
farm one mile east of town to a
brother of j. w. Trump for $53 per
acre, who will occupy the same in the
near future.
We received but one EAGLE from
the fifth 10 the fourteenth and since
that date have missed one or two
numbers. We would not have al
ludcd TO this had il not
been for our wife, who has |
become 80 attached to the paper that
it seems to be one of the essentials of
her happiness.
The reunion at Topeka will not be !
attended as numerously by the boys |
from this locality this year as in the |
passed cause Everybody busy and |
some are saving up the ducats intend
ing to make the trip to California
next year.
The ladies of Sedgwick have organ
lied temperance union. Sedgwick
is decidedly temperance town both in
theory and practice, but still there is
plenty of work to do and extend to
the good ladies In this work. Our
best wishes for their success,
Our county fair will be in sessio n
Wednesday and Thursday,
of this week. r. McMANIs. |