Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-08-11

Pratt is to have new Catholic church.
The camp meeting at Hazelton is get
ting up steam.
A crowd of Pratt people will take in the
show at Wichita, Tuesday.
The town of Brainerd has voted twenty
mills levy for school purposes.
The Wellington man who can't talk in
| sporting parlance, don't talk at all.
| A Pratt county farmer reports crop of
wheat yielding fifty bushels TO the acre.
| When circumstances" happen at Pot
win it is always to the increase of the pop
ulation.
| Labette county is in the first throes of
agitation regarding the removal OF coun-
ty seat
Chanute furnishes another death from
the incOntrovertible habit of some Of look
ing at old revolyers.
The sun and moon are still red and some
people who live there think it is all for
Labette county's sake.
Allen county is not to be outdone by
Greenwood, but will also have female
candidate for register of deeds.
The wheat crop of Kansas this year
would load a train 545 miles in length. 1t
would make over seven millions barrels of
-four
An explosive has been discovered at
Horton, that one man at least believes is
powerful enough to blow up any one that
ever lived. 1t is his wife,
Despite the floods, heavy rains, back
ward season, etc., this section of the coun-
try will produce an immense corn crop,
says the Neodesha Register.
Arkansas City people guyed their neigh
bors OF Winfield circus day for the local
whimsicslity of carrying their haudker-
chiefs in their pistol pockets.
There hasn't been visitor at the Hazel
ton Express office in year who didn't
pick type out of the ''e'' box. examine it
and toss it back among the DDS"
A teaspoonful each of black and cayenne
pepper. mixed with a small quantity of
molasses and kept in room, will keep the
flies from 'pestificating" its occupants.
When paper says correspondents
must write on one side of the paper. We
mean you" it refers most particularly to
the genius in Sandhill township who uses
wall payer.
Florence re-engaged all her school
teachers for another year with one excep-
ton, and she wouldn't insist on kissing
all the dirty faced kids when they left her
at the end of school,
A gang of female "Whte Caps" in
tOOlIuSc nave UOllIcu LIE Oh the
Syracuse Journal that if he supports a
certain candidate for Office this fall
coat OF tar and feathers will be presented
him
Neodesha Register: Two failures have
occurred in this city during the past two
weeks. Hess & Sutton, liabilities from
$4,000 to $4,000; X. N. Foster & Sons,
about $4,000. Several other firms are re-
ported shaky.
In the language OF Sumner county Jim
myin' around consists in going into a
strange town without place to put up
and loafing around the streets with your
tongue loliing out and the bottom of your
feet burnt into blisters.
A liberal hearted and progressive citizen
OF Thayer, regardless of expense and with |
an eye only to the benefit of the public |
aud to the discontinue of his daughter
and her beaux, has erected a large street I
lamp in front of his residence.
Edward Purchase. 10 years old. hanged |
Clay Center. The evidence goes TO show |
that be was determined TO see how it would |
feel TO be swung up by the neck, and that |
his death was really an accident.
Big corn story from the Arkansas City 4
Traveller: 4 West Bolton farmer has /
taken the contract TO furnish Wichita |
with sixty-fve miles OF sewer pipe, for I
WHlCn purpose ne Is now DOIEug out Ifse I
cobs from two acres OF upland corn.
When person points a gun at you,
knock him down. Don't stop TO ask him
If it is loaded, but knock him down and I
don't be particular what you do IL with. /
Ii there's TO be coroner's inquest let il 4
be over the other feilow-he won't be 1
missed--Exchange
A man who did not know ANYTHING
about the newspaper business got control /
OF city paper. He run it-into the ground. |
Horace Greeley gave wonderful good ad- /
wise when he said that a man should never /
change his business after be was - years !
old unless he was horse thief.
Parsons Sun. Labette county will ship
more apples this fall than any two couD-
ties IN any state west OF the Mississippi /
river. Tue early settlers Of our county
figured well IS 20 the adApfability Of this
section to fruits, and a. a Consequence the
county is almost cce-third orchard
Geuda Springs las produced the stingi-
est man f. Kansas A physician attended
his wife during q brief Illness recently.
and when he settled with the doctor re-
turned three pills and demanded a reduc-
tiou OF fifty cents from tbs bill TIE doc
tor accepted the pills, allowed the recuc-
ton and settled
Cherryvale Republican: "Angeias' il
coming 20 this eountry-Milles's famous
Anseius--a picture valued as eiie.on /
The duty on this picture win be go OBJ.
The picture viii probably Be Snapped up i
by sorzae Kansas editor whose delanqcenr /
subscribers bare sesa their corn 81 50 cez,s Il
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