The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-20
ghe aaieta naiu gsg Saturday orns augnst 20 81.

Colonel Recksecker was seen last nigh
and he thought the two men were treated
very ightiy.
from the southern tier of counties and
especially Sumner county. Charlie Col
Inns of Caldwell had a tent on the ground
and it was crowded all day. He calls il
the Caldwell camp.
! S. Besl of Ansea was up yesterday and
talked Populist doetr;n all day IN the best
of nature. Mr.. Beal il two months after
| leaving the army married and came to
Kansas and now has three sons who are
voters.
! Little Amey Bayless who was in the
parade day before yesterday with the Wo-
mems Relief Corps, was the first child
| born in the corps after its organization
here aud is known as the daughter of the
corps"
The most conspicuous people on the
grounds yesterday were husband and
| wife, each IS years old. They walked
about the grounds hand in hand as low
ingly as young lovers OF twenty. Both
live near Benton in Butter county and she
old gentleman was q soldier
There was at the park yesterday a man
who looked as much like Jerry Simpson
as one egg does another. He had there
some kind of wheel of fortune with cigar
prizes and he gained some n0toriety.
Every one pointed TO him as Jerry aud
hundreds were shocked to think that the
representative of the seventh district
wonld descend to the pursuit of such u vo-
cation. One excited individual tackled
him and began reading the riot act to him.
The poor wheel of fortune man couldn't
understand him and jawed back aud the
atmosphere became little warm as the
cross fire progressed. Finally the wheel
man caught on and protested that he was
not Jerry. The excited individual insist
ed that ne knew Jerry and that he was the
man, but to convince him of his mistake
the wheel man pulled up his trousers leg
and proved to the old man 5 satisfaction
that he WAS not Jerry by exposing the fact
that he wore socks that were neither hesh
nor silk.
A boy named Frank DEAN, son of the
carriage maker on South Main street, got
pinched between two ears coming from
the fair grounds last night, but fortu-
nately he was not seriously injured. de
had a very nnrrow escape from being
killed.
Mrs. John Roberts, of Caldwell, and her
daughter, were visitors at the reunion
grounds yesterday. Mrs. Roberts will ba
remembered by the old setslerf of Wichita,
having lived here in the early 7Os.
Miss Minnie Ferguson, of Wellington,
chaperoned by the princly Frank Owens,
of the same place, was q visitor in Camp
Sedgwick yesterday.
Hon. A w. Smith, candidate for gov
ernor, and ex-Warden Smith of the peni-
tertiary, were around the grounds
yesterday hunting up other members of
the Smith family. They met about 200 of
them and all of them believing that blood
is thicker than water assured their name
sake that he would surely get their votes
this fall.
During the entire week there was not an
old soldier arrested by the police notwith-
standing the fact that at least 10000 OF
them were in the city. This is certainly
very creditable record and speaks well for
the G. A. r.
The only thing that was not business
success at the reunion was the dancing
platform. For some reason or other il was
impossible to get up a dancing boom
although the committee expected a good
deal of revenue from that source.
The Federal Captain which is now being
produced at its big tent on the reunion
grounds by Ellis Brothers. under the
auspices of the Committee of Al has made
arrangements to finish the week with sew
eral new features which are too expensive
to be given every day and which have been
omitted for that reason. They have done
SO well during the week, however, that
they feel like doing this now to show their
appreciation of the generous patronage
they have received. They will finish the
week with three performances today at
each of which Miss Helen Schell, the tai
ented little singer of comic and senti-
mental songs will appear with the latest
songs of the day. Old soldiers who have
seen this play pronounce it the most real
istic military drama they have ever wit
messed and the talented author may well
feel proud of the fattering words Of praise
which he has evoked.