Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-07-27
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Seeds. Slips, scions, Sprouts, Shoots and SIlve

The new Reform church at Whitewater
was dedicated last Sunday.
| Cowley county farmers made 756, 219
| pounds of cheese last year.
In Leavenworth the lemonade stands
charge l cent glass for water.
| The Arkansas City Dispatch publishes
births under the head Of ''boomlets."
Several poems on 1.-THE Threshing Ma
chine at Rest are in preparation at Law
| renee.
A Thomas county wheat thresher has
already contracted to thresh the product
of 400 acres
| There are eleven feet of back water in
| the Walnut river from the Arkansas river
at Arkansas City.
Wellington Press: 1t may not make any
great difference but we used circus paste
| in getting up this weeks paper
| One Lyon county farmer delivered TO-
| 900 pounds of milk to the Emporia cream
cry during May and 9,5 pounds during
June.
X. G. Star: Kansas has Us creameries,
and the oId-fashioned pale butter with
hair in it is gradually going out OF
fashion.
The survivors of the Sth Kansas regi-
ment of which Governor Martin was colo
mel, will hold a reunion at the Atchlson
fair IN September.
A phantom horse and buggy, with a
grinning skeleton driver, Is producing
CONSERVATION among the residents on the
outskirts OF Lawrence.
'Oh," said Leavenworth man, just
after he had witnessed THE Last Days OF
Pompeii," "that Rider Haggard has a ire
mendous imagination"
The man who arrived in Eldorado the
other day and commenced peddling toilet
WATER" is never mentioned among MS
patrons without wink.
There are $50 varieties of sorghum in
cultivation west of the chemical labora-
tory. under direction of Prof. Failyer. at
the Agricultural college.
Caldwell Journal: The dog now pants
his little pant, the cat now news its NEW,
the donk now brays its loudest bray, and
the mosquitoes you bet, they do.
Wellington got in a little ahead of the
Kansas towns, particularly the inland ones
with the announcement that it has the
best llfe-saying crew IN the state.
The state normal school has fourteen
representatives among the the county su-
perintendents of Kansas. Eight of them
were at the commencement exercises.
The streets and alleys of Abilene need
more care to keep them clear of garbage
Certin parts of town are fixing for an
epidemic unless the surface is kept
cleaner.
The wheat crop of Sumner county, at Is
cents bushel, will bring total of 81 $780,
600, over 500 for every man, woman and
child in the county, says Sumner county
exchange
1t is said that bridge builders in south
klyrp Il Nah 10 ,npt hxarn IA n
and northwest Missouri have formed a
trust for the purpose of keeping prices at
the maximum.
FL Dorado Times: There were three
steers drowned at the mill bridge this af-
ternOOn out of the herd that passed
through. They fell into the mill-race and
were unable to get out.
A Leayenworth woman was heard to re-
mark the other day that she would marry
man who had plenty of money, though
he was so ugly she had to scream every
time she looked at him.
'Intemperate" is not applied to rainy,
dismal or gustful night at Atchison. but
to a clear atmosphere with afull moon SO
that d man can lay for the earth when it
jumps up and hits him.
1t looks like there were certain individ-
uals in certain towns who make flying
of reporting the appearance of crops and
getting their names in the paper.
Marion Record: There were twenty
seven 'drummers" in Marion one day last
week. and twenty-one another day. They
know that these big rains mean big crops,
and big crops mean big mercantile bust
ness
Coffeyville Journal and Sun: A fashion
note in one of our exchanges says that an
tiQue sleeves are fashionable. This is
good news, for our coat has been getting
shiny from age and hard usage for some
time.
The farmers of Haskell county smile
when you ask them about their crop pros
poets, and say,''It | don't raise the whoop-
INCEST crop you ever saw, You can count
on me for a candidate for the lunny
asylum"
Every paper in Kansas is looking askant
at its neighbor and its punning ability
when the item appears that the inhabit-
ants of Haddam are endeavoring to raise
fund for the purpose of locating mill in
their town.
A young ladies lawn tennis club has
been organized in Marion. One condition
of mem bership in the club is a pledge
never to marry, but as nearly all the
member are pledged the other way, says
the Record, this doesn't fool anybody.
A vacancy at the West Point military
academy is to be filled by appointment
from the Third congressional district OF
Kansas. A number OF ambitious boys
with military aspirations are preparing
for the competitive examination, which
takes place at Oswego July p.
Arkansas City Traveller: a Traveller rep
resentative saw an abstract yesterday of
quarter section of land which has sold for
800, 900. The abstract still further showed
that the land was in the name of a Grouse
valley granger. The land is III Cherokee
county and Is full OF minerals.
If an Arkansas City man has weak
ness. it is peaches. Recently young
choice specimens and left Immediately for
an extended trip to Wichita. Kantas City,
etc, and on his return was Jailed forthwith.
a iointist would have escaped.
Kingman Courier: The Moore Salt COM
pauy, through the assistance of Mr.. Omar
Gillette. made sale OF thirty car loads of
salt to the packing firms of Dold & Whit
aker, of Wichita. Mr.. Gillette made the
sale Monday. The gentlemen above re-
ferred TO acknowledge the TACT that King
man salt is superior TO any other on the
market for sailing meats and curing
hides.
Pratt County Republican,: a wolf was
reported living asleep on the farm of Jake
Mcfarland OH Sunday afternoon, and some
OF the sports about town, accompanied
with dogs. repaired at once to the spot,
but it proved TO be only the assessors
breaking plow. Those who went out don't
think that they were sold as bad as those
who climbed to high place TO watch the
chase.
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