Wichita eagle., 1889-09-17
SUNFLOWER SHADOwMGa
Seeds. Sips. seions. Sprouts. Shoots and slis.

This is official.
The straw hats are waiting expectant Of
| the first frost.
The Atlanta lumber company has closed
out its business.
Says the correspondent from Sand Creek,
| marry birth, this week"
| The .'tardy bell'' lis now getting IN its
work on the felicity of the family at pres
| ent.
| The Stafford Republican tells of forty
one bushels OF miilet seed per acre yield
| out there.
About the most fashionable thing for
| Summer county farmer TO nave now Is q
new granary.
The Frisco shipped forty-one cars of
wheat from DosUer and nine from Black
stone last month.
Fishing parties are divided on which is
the better report: A small number Of fish,
or number OF small fish.
The sixth annual meeting of the Null
vane Colt show will be held Friday and
Saturday, October IL and Il.
/ Surprise parties have already begun to
meet at the little school house to form
plans for their depredations.
E. \. Smith, Mayor of. FL Dorado has
failed: made an assignment OF all his
property 10 CTcOiOOIS.
1t is difficult for some men who have
served on II jury to come down again and
be man in their nelghbOrhood.
1t is said that before another crop OF
cane is raised over twenty new sugar mills
will be ready for operation IN the state.
Fredonia shows her patriotism by keep
| ing the national colors flying over the
south school building during school hours.
mi -..I
| the Brown-Sequard preparation finally re-
covered, although death gave them close
call.
| A boxelder tree at Geu1a Springs grew
I nine feet this summer, and from this you
can imagine how the young girl visitors
| go up.
The most surprised person at surprise
party is the victimiZed hostess when she
| views her demoralized cupboard the next
! morning.
One hundred and seventy-one pupils en- =
rolled at the Mulvane schools the first day.
If this amt a colt show, the one next
month will be.
| Caldwell pays the water company $4,000
a year for water for city use. Arkansas
City pays great deal more than 5000,
| but not for water.
The man who owned and rented his
threshing outfit this summer. will come IN
| for not little mention around the hearths
this winter in mis- own county.
! The Mulvane postofIice has new Office.
The public funds and other valuables be-
| longing to that institution including the
| clerk will be deposited therein.
! The former editor of the Whitewater
| Tribune, having tried intellectual life i'll
| Butler county and failed will now attempt
| the Congo country as missionary.
September in Kansas is a month of re-
! unions and fairs. In almost every county
in the state there will be or has been fair
or reunion of some sort this month.
| 1t is not probable that Professor Huxley s
dreadful statement about the complicated
machinery of an oyster will effect the con-
sumption any in Kansas this winter.
/ Smallpox is reported as existing at
jefferson, Montgomery county, small
station on the Missouri Pacific railway
between Independence and Coffeyville.
| 1t will be hard tussle between pump
| kin pies and foregone conclusions of happi-
| ness and prosperity for the supremacy oil
/ dreamdom in the homes of Kansas farmers
| this winter.
The number of literary men and women
is increasing in Kansas yearly. Not halt
as many people call the figure of the
| Roman Gladiator or the stove top "RIch-
ard IlI' this year as last.
There is a hard working, industrious
man away out in the western part of sum
ner county, who if he didn't claim it de-
serves a distinction. He has meyer been
! connected with a newspaper.
The county seat removal agitation con-
tinues to occupy a front place in the af
fairs of La bette county, but Parsons has
not yet succeeded in securing enou gh
SIGNATURES an election ordered.
A Kansas paper analyses an esteemed
| contemporary argument as follows:
Il Blackguardism.. .................1 part
FalSeAo0G. parts
Hebatudinous idiocy -.-......T parts
The prisoners in the Winfield Jail are *
| crowded that 1t is next to Impossible fol
them to get sufficient exercise to keeI
them healthy. To atone for this lack OF
privilege they occasionally indulge IN q
| rough and tumble fight.
Autumn, the most delightful season of
the year IN Kansas, is here, and Its advent
will be welcomed by ali who appreciate
the incompatible glory of September, and
especially October and November, IN the
Sunfiower state.-Fredonia Citizen.
The Arkansas City fire department won
the race from the Winfield boys last week
on account of II hose coupling on the Win
field cart being, from some mysterIou:
cause, unusually hard to open, they say
This Is y base allegation, ana the y. Z
bows VIII resent IL.
The water works at Wellington are be
ing overnau!ed and improved. About hal
OF the present tower and the tank are be
ling taken down and a new standpipe lit
feet nigh will be erected thereon. The
dam across Slate creek will give the city
an abundant supply OF water.
On Saturday morning, September q, tn,
moon Will De in conjunction with Venus
Saturn and Mars. the planets being in tbs
constellation of Leo, and seen as the morn
ing stars These astronomical happening
are fast becoming in Kansas society of d
much importance as ''ice-cream and cake.
4 story OF acquiesced love from the A c
Traveller: Winfield, God bless her, did u:
white" upon this occasion. IL is estI
mated that there were 2.Oc0 people her
yesterday and the Courier had represen
tatiye upon the scene all the week Ma,
the county seats shadow never grow less
The city government OF Wellington ana
the Salvation Army have made compro
mise, the army agreeing TO obey the Cit.
marshal in the future in the regulation o
their parades, and the marshal agreeing Il
u. reasonable aud allow them 20 take Ii I
| tie fresh air aud out door exercise occa
sionslly. The army was arrested for dis
turbing the Big SIX band while giving Oh
of their street concerts and taken betor
the police Judge and the above coInproInis
effected. This is the first oE record
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.
School marms are now invading Okla