Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-07-14
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

"A summer county farmer cut llU acrcs
Of wheat in four days with self-binder
There are thirty applications on file
for the principalship OF the Fredonia
city schools.
The Frisco mortgage of 500, 000,.
600 is being recorded in each
county through which the road passes
The wife of Senator Plumb and his
eldest son, Amos, will spend the sum.
mer together at a quiet resort on the
Atlantic slope. Mary. the eldest daugh-
ter is n Europe and Ruth, Carrie and
Preston, jr., are at EmpOria.
Arkansas City Traveller: pota.
toes first came some friend brought in
vine with potatoes on. We laid the
vine down on the Office stove. The po-
tatoes dropped off and more new ones
have grown on. There was no dirt on
the vine and it was laid out where the
Kansas zephyrs could fan it.
Don't you trouble yourself about the
wetness, "said an old Kansan at the edi-
torial meeting in Clay Center the other
day. 'There never was year in Kan
sas when there was too much rain. and
there never was wet season when the
they knew what to do with"
Some AtchisOn capitalists are talk
ing of putting up warehouses along the
Central branch and other railroads for
the storage of grain on the sub treasury
plan. Money will be advanced on all
grain stored. the farmers to pay inter-
est at stipulated rate, and in addition
a commission for storage and insurance.
The thirtieth anniversary of the bat
tie of Wilson creek, fought August 10,
1861, will be celebrated by regimental
reunion of the Second Kansas infantry
and the Second Kansas cavalry at juno
ton City. August 10th and 18th. A
cordial invitation has been publicly ex-
tended to all comrades to meet there
and TO once more touch elbows.
The Missouri river has been on tear
for several days, and at Atchison, Kas.,
it cut through Doniphan point few
miles north of the city and converted
several Missouri farms into vast
island. The newly found channel is
current changes it Will leave lake
eight miles in length in the old bed.
The first appointment to be made by
President and General Manager Cross
of the NJ, X. g. II. was James Hager-
man of Kansas City, Mo, as general
solicitor. The appointment is regard
ed as most excellent one. During
the regime of Receivers Cross and
Eddy Hagerman acted in the capacity
of general solicitor and has given salts
faction.
July l the Newton National bank,
watch failed November 30. 1890,
assumed business. This is the second
National bank to reopen after passing
into the hands of receiver. The
stockholders have paid in 100000 for
now capital and the old assets are re-
tanned The president of the bank is
the Hon. E. B. Philbrick, formerly of
Rye Beach, N. Y.
TO farmers who are short of corn
land this season, especially in the south
ern portion of the State, we would sug-
gest the advisability of at once listing
their wheat stubbles to corn. This is
no experiment. Many farmers of Kan
sas have raised good-in fact their best
crops in this way. Even should it fail
to make good corn, it will make splend-
i'd feed for stOck.-Kansas Farmer.
The pennsylvania physician VINO has
discovered that ice cream freezers with
metal paddles resolve themselves into
electric batteries, which set free miner
al poison in the metal to contaminate
the cream, will be blessed by all young
bachelors whoes best girls have a mania
for that delicious frozen mixture. No
proper young man would allow his best
girl to run the risk of being poisoned.
There is good deal of ripe wheat in
Kansas which is still still standing be-
cause the ground is too wet to admit of