Wichita eagle., 1889-10-01
suNFLowER sHADowINGs.
Seeds. Sips, soions. Sprouts. Shoots and slis
Ellsworth is all a-grog.

| Ellsworth is all a-grog.
The frost brings out what few beggars
Kansas has.
| 4 politician is rarely defeated in his own
mind except through treachery-
| Oats have sold for cents per bushel in
some portions of Butler county.
! The first thing girl visitor does is to
| find out where the pickles are kept.
a specimen of humor in the Winfield
| Courier: 1.-The watermelon still linger-
eth.''
! Experiments are being made with sugar
beets al Medicine Lodge with marked sue
cess.
| The Newton Republican is one paper in
| Kansas that makes good selections n
poetry.
| The Mt Hope Mentor has in its office 4.
ears Of corn that lifts the scale beam at So
| pounds
| There is a man in Topeka who never
swears when he puts up a stove pipe. he
! Is the mute.
| The way the Harvey county woman pre-
pares them, it is quite a trick to eat hot
sweet potato.
There are one hundred and forty-nine
schools in Cowley county, and each IS sup
| piled with a teacher.
| The citizens of Mcpherson county pro-
pose to hold an agricultural fair 10 be held
on October S, 9, 10 and IL.
| The Ottawa firemen were disguised with
! the way their town treated the visiting
| tiremen and threaten TO disband.
Ed Howe of the Atchison Globe defines
autumn as the season of the year when a
man can strike at a fly and hit 1t.
| Should you wish to see a monstrosity
| get point view of a Winfield boy trying
to eat a big Cowley county apple.
The Rozinante of the Kansas editor who
| advertised TO take oats for subscriptions,
| is already in the last stage of embonpolnt.
The Stafford Herald charges $40 for the
| announcement notice Tor state senator,
and oyer so to be received from any one
town.
The s'lost child has been as mysterious
and unfathomable in Ell Dorado as the
scheme and moral Of the amateur SHOWS
| given there.
The Pleasanton canning factory is about
to wind up the season with product OF
| over 200, 900 cans of corn, peas, string beans
and cherries.
The Ashland Journal says there is
| enough surplus feed in Clark county TO
! pasture many thousands more cattle than
there are there.
Englewood is preparing to hold an expo
sition this fall. The opening will occur
early next month and will be slgnailzed
/ by grand ball.
The Ottawa Republican reports pump
| kin vine which it says is $50 feet IN length
by actual measurement. 1t would only
! take thirty-tive vines like that to make q
mile.
junction City proposes to have an cleo
! trio rapid transit TO FIT. Riley. With a
population of 5000 soldiers at one end and
| a CITY of 1000 at the other. it seems such a
road ought to pay.
1t is approaching the time of year when
! you get down on your knees and feel under
| the stove in the dark for the poker, anu
discover it the next morning on the
daughters dresser as hair-curler.
An exchange says that the first line OF an
old nursery rhyme, running "Ium to nd
dletee. tee tee, tee; tumtee tiddletee, tee,
! tee, tee" sounds like an esteemed contem-
! porary's article on the political situation.
1t makes a whole cart load of cold
| shivers chase each other up and down
| fellows back when he pokes his head from
under the covers these cold mornings, To
! hear the rumble of the ice wagon on the
street below-Lawrence Tribune.
| A stock and farm paper informs that the
/ hog cholera begins its rayageS this month.
! 1t is greatly to be regretted that 1t does
not extend them to line old countrymen
| who mouopoliZe the only chairs IN the
| floral hall, all day long, at county fairs.
| Stafford Herald One of our Stafford boys
says its no trouble to get all the good whisky
! YOU want in St. joan. He says he only
| had to tell the clerk that 1T was Tor his
/ Door old father who lived near Leesburg,
| and he bought SO worth. Poor old man.
| A sample OF the ware from the first kiln
| burned at Sheuklefs pottery can be seen
! at this Office The ware is good, and, con-
! siderng the fact that Ii Is the nrst burned
! in a new kiln, 1t is very good indeed IL
/ required about fifteen tons OF coal IN the
| burning.-GeneseO Herald.
| Garden City Sentinel: An occasional
| traction engine. with its attendant string
| of tanks and machinery, steams through
! the streets Southwest Kansas Is natural
! lv adapted to the use Of steam as amotive
/ power on much larger scale. on account
! of the smooth surface and uniformly eN-
| ceient roads found here.
/ Larned Eagle-Optic: The famous heal
/ Ing properties OF the artesian water attract
many visitors to Larned. In the last four
| weeks one hundred and nineteen visitors
| from abroad have come to our city to tj1<e
the baths This is at the rate OF over If
teen hundred per year and is an important
| item and should not be overlooked in rec
oning the value OF Larned.
St. Narvs Gazette: The announcement
| of alleged forgery in the signing OF the ~.
| Marys bridge bonds has created no little
interest throughout the township. These
bonds were issued by the township IN lo'i,
! and were sold by the bridge committee TO
John d. Knox, OF Topeka, who disposed OF
them to other parties There were forty
/ OF them amounting TO $4U,UD, which, with
accumulated interest makes the amount
now in litigation IN the neighDornood OF
/ $50 Goa. AT the time the bonds were voted
/ the townships OF Belvue and Emmett were
| included in this township, but before
/ bonds were formally signed these town
sbips withdrew and organized as separate
! muoicipallties. No amount OF litigation
/ has since succeeded in forcing these town
ships to bear a proportion OF the contract
( TO which they were party.
The FL Dorado Republican gives the
! following instructions OF catching fish:
! If YOU have anything else TO do 1t don I
! pay to "a fishing. If you don't know
I how to fish don't try TO learn. Don't spit
+ on your bait. The girl that did 1t lost her
! false teeth in the creek. Don't use live
minnows for bait. let the minnOws grow
TO be big fish aud let the other fellow catch
them. II you like fish for breakfast buy a
mackerel or some col. fat mackerel
/ will cost thirty cents, whereas, the bass
which you may fail 10 get. may cost you a
( hard days work and two or three dollars
/ expense. II you must have bass 20 down
. 10 the dam and hire a boy TO catch you
one. II he don't get bass he may catch a
croppie or a cat-he has already caught
/ YOU for q sucker. 4 gOod way to eaten
l fish is 10 thrash around IN the water tll
YOU get the creek riled, then hittheIn with
a club when they get to the top.
Three experts came down from Newton
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