Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-06


Mcpherson county, Kansas, raised 4,0O(
| acres OF broom corn this season.
Northwest Kansas farmers are selling
their broom corn crop for $50 per ton.
Hays City has started a paper mill. Its
capacity is twelve tons of straw day.
| Nickerson has just completed a $4,000
school house ut the north end Of the town
The Augusta creamery will pay 20 cents
per hundred during the month OF October.
The Harper creamery is still turning
| out gilt-edged yellow butter by the cal
| load.
| Kansas Odd Fellows will hold their
| grand lodge in Topeka next week, begin
ming Monday.
| The farmers are receiving over $1,000
every day from the Newton millers for
| their wheat.
The Globe Salt company of Anthony,
| has just shipped five cars OF bulk salt to
| Sioux City, la.
The Attica Sugar works took the blue
ribbon at the Kansas State fair on sugar,
| syrup and cane.
| The law department of the State univer-
| sity opened with fifty-two members, its
| largest enrolment.
| The Cherryvale Republican wants snake
eggs. There seems to be no objection to
| his having them.
The Marion Record wants pie and adj
vertlses for pumpkins and cobS. 1t has d
match and some flour.
The Horton Daily Headlight has re-
sumed business at tue old stand after q
hye years suspension.
Conway Springs is clamoring for an
opera house. Conway Springs IS Il
dandy" but no dude"
The Republican thinks Cherryvale is on
the verge of boom, and all that is neces-
sary is to fall over Into it.
1t is still unsolved why everybody thinks
himself especially directed to bring tea
pot to china wedding
The smoke from the Attica sugar mill is
plainly visible from Hazelton. Kansas,
by nature, is great advertiser.
The Kingman Paint company recently
shipped large quantities of their paint to
st. Joseph, Mo-, and Aurora. lii.
There has not been circus in Harper
county this summer. and some people down
there don't think life worth living.
The Mulvane colt show will be held Oc-
tober IL and II, instead OF the 18th and
18th, as was formerly announced.
The Harper and Harper County Horse
Breeders meeting will be held in connec
ton with the Kiowa fair, October "a to 26.
The town omnibus at Hazelton is named
the BLACK Maria" but the Hazelton peo-
pie are not the kind who would object to
riding in 1t for that.
A young mans whole life and character,
as far as his fellow men are concerned,
may be formed by his fond mother refer
ring to him as "sOn."
1t ia not often that Kansas fogs are so
thick that a lantern is necessary but it
seems that some OF that variety are booked
for the state this fall.
The amount of cash in the treasury
Harper county at the close of business
September 80 and belonging to the various
funds, WAS S62, 66S.90.
Speaking Of sugar, it is said as the cane
of sugar shows great improvement both
IN appearance and quality.
The Wellington fellow who had a habit
of stepping behind the prescription case,
and who gon hold of bottle of chemically
pure sulphuric acid by mistake, is d
changed man.
The Lyons pottery is now burning an
other large kiln Of crockeryware. During
the last few weeks this company has put
on the market large quantity Of as line
ware as any need wish TO see.
Sumner county has little girl that was
named after Thomas Jefferson She is
quite young, however, and will not present
her parents with a declaration of indie
pendence until some eighteen years hence.
We are informed that the ladies were
kept very busy picking sand burs at the
Wichita fair.-Belle PLANE News. If it
was SO. your informer ought to be ashamed
of himself: but he is off; there are no sand
burs on Wichita.
Harper County Enterprise: The Larned
Eagie-Optic captured the premium tor the
best five consecutive numbers of Kansas
weekly, presswcrk makeup, and general
appearance to be the test. The Enterprise
did not compete.
Finney county took first premium on
sweet potatoes and millet at the state fair.
They tried to satisfy everybody at the state
fair and gave every county an award, but
it was mighty hoggish IN Shawnee county
in selecting the baby show as her portion.
Social item from Freeport: Some day
the melon season is drawing to a close, but
a couple of our Freeport sweethearts
imagined they were up with the times
when they went for a buggy load last
week. Probably it wasn't the melons that
were 80 delicious. but oh, the hug.
The Wichita canton OF Odd Fellows ap-
pears to be the best drilled one IN the
nited states. IL look the prize sO the
recent national meeting at Columbus.
Kansas seems TO have gone cunning for
bear IA Columbus this year. carrying oil
both the first prize for drilling and the
next meeting of the grand lodge.-State
Journal.
Barber County Index: sod Bub," the
calico pony belonging to ". ;. Denton,
strayed OF last winter and has not been
hear! OF since, up 20 last Saturday. when
a man rode him TO town and put him mp az
Nelson's stable. The man lives in this
county and had traded for the horse in Ok
lahoma Mr. Denton sent the pony out
home and the children have been happy a.
kittens ever since.
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