Wichita eagle., 1889-09-28

and ST. Joseph. No, yesterday.
Large bonnets, says fashion journal,
are things of the past. But that journal
never attended a Wellington theater.
A new grocery store at Wellington
passes through the most wretched part OF
Its existence in learning who IS good pay.
October is the month when you haven't
the stoves up yet and the family encamps
around the cooking stove and lives In the
kitchen.
More than twenty counties in Kansas
have each this year raised a larger corn
crop than all the New England States
! combined.
A little fellow out west gave birthday
| party and what was his surprise when his
guests came tripping in with fourteen Sill
yer mugs as presents.
| Vaccination will hardly stop the spread
| Of the mania for punning on Kansas towns.
| Microbe-killer seems to be the only tnIng
that might reach the spot.
Kansas is great state. Acres of land
/ which used to raise nothing but sunfiowerS
are now covered with towns and are raiS-
ing twins by the dozen.-News.
| Kansas musicians have a failing for
grasping the ideas of the composer in per-
| forming the Fairy Moonlight" valse and
other classical masterpieces.
| The colored people of Oskaloosa had a
! barbecue last week, but eight OF the town
| boys raided a watermelon patch and We're
caught and were forced TO fork over 500.
| Newton hasn't said anything about an
! exposition and palace of any sort yet. 1t
| is thought that they have a corner on sor-
! ghum and corn and will announce pop
! corn ball edifice.
| The Methodist conference is being held
| at Newton and the Republican says the
| Methodist ministers have been here two
days and the mortality among the chick
ems has been very great.
X c. Star: An addition of thirty acres
is to be taken into the city of Alma, the
county seat of Wabaunse county. That
Will make the distance between Alma and
Topeka about quarter OF mile.
| the Sumner county commissioners went
| to the new bridge at Zybra "Wednesday to
examine the work. the contractors having
announced ii ready to turn over to them.
! The contact was taken for 200.
| The figure "9' will be used in making
date lines for the next Ill years. This Is
tiresome to think of, but then we have been
using the figure ''1'' for $50 years and no
body has mplained.-StateJ Journal.
Arkalon is the site of the westernmost
sorghum sugar mill in Kansas. 1t began
operations Monday morning. The build
! ing Is IeeJ dUQ luTce SlOTISS III
height 1t has 1000 acres OF good cane to
WORK up.
Blaine, Pottawatomie county. has a
widow only fourteen years old. Her hus-
| band was accidentally killed last wee6.
! He had $1,000 Insurance. in the Unity Camp
| Modern Woodmen, AtchisOn Kansas
Manhattan Nationalist.
W. III. II. Martin, living TWO miles north
OF town, Informs US he has volunteer
pumpkin vine on his farm which has forty
nine well matured, and one small, pump
kins and not very good vine for pump
kins either.-Belle Plaine News.
The Sterling Gazette is offered for sale.
| The publisher says the paper Is the Oldest
In Rice county, has a large circulation
among the best people in the co immunity
and good advertising patronage. The
office is a fairly well equipped country
I office for newspaper and job work.
One of the most delightful sensations in
this world of sunshine and shadow is to
| fiud out that the one dollar bill in your
pocketbook is fve.-kansas City GA
| zette But to make the sensation more
applicable to the average individual, what
a pleasure it is to find the penny dime.
| But, alas it is all such stuff as dreams are
made OF.
The state fair last week had big run.
! timated ct % 900 TO 81, 900 people. At To-
| peka they pay their 80 cents and go in.
| while those at Lawrence set on the barbed
wire fence and look over. That's the
! reason there can't be any more Blsmarc
fairs, while the Topeka fair clears big
money ellington Press.
The Salina public schools have adopted
q military organization. Each room has
two companies with captains The cap
tains are required to report on the ASSEMBLE
| ing of the pupils in the school. The mill
tary companies drill every day. The pu-
pills are much interested, and the drill is
an excellent means of securing discipline
! The total enrolment in the schools Is ,OS6.
Lawrence Tribune: The Atchison Globe
| is the only paper in the state that has the
nerve to kick on the price and quality of
Kansas beer. 1t claims that an unlawful
discrimination is made against the state,
and that the brewers make an inferior
quality to send here because il is prohib-
! ton state But the Globe neglects TO sug-
! gest any remedy for the great evil
Meade Republican: She's a boomer =
they ali say of the big we'll at the sugar
mill On Monday night, shortly after y
! O'Clock. the dlgCers reached water at a
| depth OF 1G2 feet, and 1T came up rapidly,
eight feet the first five minutes. The men
! were taken out at once and stood gazing
st the result Oh tlPlE ttu JAYS "OTh- ne
! well, 6xS feet, is now about full and the
| water slowly raising. Ii will, as did the
one bored. flow over This will furnish
water enough for any purpose. and ere the
Republican again greets its readers
| Meade's sugar mill will be grinding out
the sugar.
Argonia Clipper: P. Z. Pool was in the
city tins week and seemed very much
elared over his fine crops. He has one
field of corn of an early and very small
variety. a part of which be has already
| gathered and fed 10 hogs, that made by
actual measurement sixty-four bushels
per acre He has another variety which Is
larger that he thinks viii make at least
eighty bushels per acre He says the corr
crop in Kansas this year Is equal 10 any
crop he ever saw in Illinois or any other
state. Mr.. Pool has grown 90 acres OF
sorghum for the factory at Conway
Springs this year. and says the factory j.
doing much better than 1t did last year.
He mas $50 stock II the mill and has
great confidence il the Kansas sorghum