Wichita eagle., 1889-06-04
SUNFLOWER SOUPCON.

SUNFLOWER SOUPCON.
| Marion has got the trades display.
Blind Boone, the colored pianist, is
doing the state.
Hiawatha is discussing the advisable
ty Of new paper.
Winfield is going to tear up the earth
on Fourth of July.
johnson City is smacking its lips over
proposed cheese factory.
The "chinch-bug and ''tobacco-heart'
young man have gone perhaps forever.
Report says there will be over one
hundred county fairs in Kansas this
year.
a party of picnicers from Wellington
recently captured six coyotes. Nice
amusement.
One of Cherrvvale's papers refers to a
councilman as the John j. ingalls, of the
city council.
The La Tosca parasol has struck Els
worth and now there's no going on the
streets at all.
Everybody has gone fishing at Cald-
well. Which statement probably means
just what it says.
The Meade Center refers to the ladies
who ride in that city as graceful and
most daring equestriennes."
That town that doesn't hear Mendel-
sohn'S Rendo Capreciose at least once a
year is very poor town indeed.
Strawberries are of nightly occur
renee in Kansas City, Kansas, and
| 10 blind with oycitop,ant
Near Beaver, in western Kansas, there
is a small on the top of sand hill. A
case never before brought to light.
Milt Reynolds offers Gueda Springs
water as special lnducement for Okla
homa sufferers to locate at Gueda.
What with revivals and the prospect
for magnificent crops, Coldwater is
ready to mount on wings and soar.
What with the rainy season and the
closing of public schools shingles are in
great demand for open and uncovered
places.
The weekly papers throughout the
state have already begun to demonstrate
with their cities for a lack of interest in
the glorious fourth of July.
Last Tuesday evening the vicinity
about Protection. Comanche county, was
visited with severe hail storm, which
did great injury to the wheat.
The cheese factory at Jetmore is now
running in full blast. The daily supply
of milk runs from l 800 to 1900 pounds
per day, and is daily increasing.
A man from Gueda who attended the
Arrapahoe and Cheyenne dance at Lis
bon complains of poor orchestration on
the part of the musical conductor.
The literary circles have dropped the
tattered argument sis marriage fail
ure?' and are now full blown over,
.Was Enoch Arden contaminated ASST
Since recent lecture on literature
at Burden, the booksellers of that place
may do well to expect a great demand
for Encyclopedias of Useful knowl-
edge"
Some of the older citizens Of Kansas
City, Kansas, object vigorously against
changing the names OF Wawas, Sum-
mundiewat and Wilt streets. They are
historical.
John Clowdish, farmer near Chilli
cothe, who never subscribed for news
paper in his life, was drugged and rob-
bed of 81, 500 by four confidence men
few days ago.
The city council of Yates Center has
wisely repealed that ordinance forbid
ding people to congregate on the streets
on Sunday except when attending relig
iOus or moral meetings.
All those who have ponds or running
streams which they wish to stock with
Gcl,< l. in1 oil ha
adapted to this latitude if they will APP
ply to the state fish commissioner.
A case of ''a well known and popular
bachelor taking better half unto him.
self" is setting society agog at Argen-
tine. AS it is apparently the first case,
formality will excuse any INDIGENOUS
"agog."
Some young boys who attended an
Indian pOw-wow of the kickapoos near
Baker recently and came in contact with
an Indian chief weighing 325 pounds
who was acting as sergeant-at-arms, are
now open to write the most bloodhound
ling dime novels.
Salina Republican: When Salina is
preparing for celebration July 4th, the
committees on arrangements should
bear in mind that this city has shed its
swaddling clothes and does not want
such Jim crow town performances as
sack races, creased poles or other back |
woods proceedings.
The printers devil has a new duty as
signed to him-that of saving the plate |
music which has lately come in vogue |
with newspapers, and it is not uncom- |
mon to see waltz sandwiched in be- |
tween q wedding march, which the fair |
lady subscriber pounds at all day unsuc- |
cessfully and then blame5 Wagner.
The Seneca Tribune furnishes this evil
dence of the curse of rum: A car of the |
1 o'clock west bound freight was off the |
track at the G.. 1. depot, Thursday. |
While switching the train an innocent |
little beer keg was dislodged from the |
platform, fell on the ties, and at an angle |
OF about IS degrees caught beneath the
axle Of a moving car, lifting it from the
track.
The Cherryvale Republican hurls the
following at its neighbor: Coffeyville
expresses its enthusiasm in a very /
strong manner. Onion bouquets were
upon the devoted head of a
crack bats singer Of that place the other
night The aforesaid crack singer
gracefully accepted the vegetables, but a
glistening, pearly tear was seen TO
trickle down his cheek before he had
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