Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-08-16
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Seeds. Slips. scions. Sprouts. Shoots and sse


Seeds. Slips. seions Sprouts. Shoots and sIisers.
The Topeka fambeau club considers
their services at the Paris exhibition worth
s25, 900.
The weeds are getting so large and tall
at Usage City that they have forest nres
nightly.
Some of Leavenworth's muddy streets
would make vitrified brick blush, II that
were possible.
Sumner county Republicans have nomi-
mated district judge by the Crawford
county system.
The Jewett farm, near Cheney, last
Tuesday shipped car load OF nne horses
to Lexington, KY.
Mr.. Mattingly will start pigeon
"roost at Wakasusa, near IopeAa, STOCK
ing it with 10000 breeders.
1t is rumored that j. L. Isenberg, Of the
Harper Sentinel, is to join the editorial
staff Of the Kansas City Star.
The county candidate is always referring
to some designing persons. who nave
his destruction particularly In view.
The artist who carried some Limburger
recently has been expelled from the string
band.
About one-half of the roof of the new
union depot at Atchison is now up. The
balance will all be put on by the first OF
September.
One of Senator Ingalls, "phenomena"
was seen here Monday and he paid the
city the usual fine Of 81 and costs.-Barber
County Index.
There are now Asa G. A. r. posts in Kan
sas, with a membership of 1858 This is
a net increase OF CT members since the
last quarterly report.
The majority of schools throughout the
state will open September g. and the boys
and girls are already dunninG the "oId
gov" for sponges aud slate pencils.
1t is pretty hard rustling news, sticking
type, doing job work and conducting a
normal institute, all at one time, but that
is what some western Kansas editors are
doing.
There are only two Kansas life insur-
ance companies authorized to do business
in the state. They are the Kansas Mutual
of Hiawatha and the Kansas Protective
Union of Topeka.
The Odd Fellows of Kansas are making
preparations for an excursion to Column
bus, Ohio next month: The annual meet
ing OF the Sovereign Grand Lodge will be
held there. this year.
The Kansas minister who gave out his
text, 'W hat is that in thy hand?" recently
was surprised when the masculine portion
of his congregation replied In concert.
Plug; have a chew"
The rains Monday night were unusually
heavy in portions of the state, especially
in Brown, Shawnee, Atchison and Doug
las counties, where high winds and rain
did considerable damage 60 the growing
crops.
A jefferson county boy, Is years of age.
is industriously collecting q variety Of
grasses for exhibition at the Kansas State
fair and will make a bid for the 500
special prize for the best display OF
grasses.
When Atchison people see an unmarried
friend Of theirs wearing polka-dot neck
tie and buttons On his waist coat, they
commence right away to jew the Jeweler
down on a half dozen solid silver spoons,
the popular wedding present in that city.
Judge Strang, of Larned, has written a
letter declining q denomination as judge.
He was appointed to the bench in 1851 by
Governor St. John and has served con-
ever since. 1t is understood he
will engage in the practice of law at
Larned.
Five hundred feet of the Atchisou, To-
peka g. Santa Fe track were washed out
near Lecompton, and at place mile aud
one-haif from Lake View-three miles
west of Lawrence-a stone wall known us
the Mansfield wall was undermined by the
rain, and it caved in on the track.
The Belle PLANE News estimates the
cost of the normal Institutes to teachers to
the round sum OF Sic, 200. Time OF 40
teachers one month at $40 per month. Sl0,-
nf aff Normal
per teacher including board. Car fare, III
cldentals, etc, S., 400, total expense to the
teachers SIG, 2S.
The Katydid is known to farmers and
others as the prophet OF the woods, and its
cry in the late summer season is taken as
an infallible indication of colder weather.
In the suburbs recently this never failing
herald of waning summer and positive
coming Of frost within six weeks was
heard. To judge from this the lndica-
lions point to d severe winter.-Atchlson
Globe.
Winfield Courier: Curns & Manser
nave several trophies of agriculture in
heir office They have a variety of early
corn that natures by the first of August,
and bunch of millet, raised on the Plat
.er farm, that, when growing in the field
was over seven feet high. Mr.. Curns also
mas some peaches raised in his own yard
)ne of which measured eleven inches in
diameter.
State Journal: Among the new Kansas
sugar mills which Will soon begin the
of sugar from cane, are those
1t Liberal, Arkalon, Meade and Minneola. |
At the Meade mill over 800 acres OF cane !
will he consumed: at Liberal, $500 acres, |
1t ArkalOn, 500 and at Minneola 800 /
acres. The Rock Island railway company
$ interested in each of these mills, and it |
5 largely due to the efforts of that COM |
)any that they were established. Each |
,ne is located on the railway and numer- /
Jus sidetracks and switches have been con- |
tructed to accommodate the freight which |
will accumulate at the mills.