The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-25
AROUND About.

AdOOND ADOS1s
Corn is selling at 81 to SO cents at All
dover.
I A "pie social'' is a great society functio
at Norwich.
Jerry Simpson is the name of one of An
gusta's citizens.
The wife of Sheriff Nipp Of Cowley cour
ty died last week.
The graveyard at Kinsley Is still in
dilapidated condition.
The Harper county Alliance will NEE
at Harper next Saturday.
/ Caldwell is said to be freer of joints thai
it has been for long time.
Ansunusually large acreage of oats i:
being sown in Harper county.
a man received $3.50 for thirteen coyot
scalps at Medicine Lodge the other day.
Interest at FL Dorado is divided betweel
haunted house and progressive luncheon
/ A wolf-drive in Wilson county last weeE
resulted in the capture of one lone cayote
TIenty-seven aspirants are looking fol-
! the Office of mayor OF Hutchinson, this
spring.
| An Argonia man who is in Florida
sent home couple OF live slligators a:
valentines.
The Hazelton Express prints its birth
notices under the suggestive bead "Popu
lation Notes.
Mr.. Eckert of the Arkansas City Trav
eler says Ed. Greer of Winfield is sure
enough lin it, for congress.
Saint Valentines day was totally ig-
nored in Fredonia this year and Johnny
Gilmore says We'll enough"
The Harper Sentinel believes that Har-
per could get along better with two wards
than four, but doesn't state why.
The boys of Attica are making pocket
money by selling bones, and it is charged
that they have been getting, in their zeal,
too near the graveyard.
You can't keep an editor down. Bill
Bolton of the Greensburg Signal says he
borrowed money at 2 per cent per month
to 90 Oh that southern editorial excursion.
Abiline will repudiate its waterworks
franchise, suit being ordered. The De,
benture and Guarantee company of Chi
cage holds the plant and $4,000 back rental
is due.
The New York Dry Goods Economist
offered prize for the best essay on adver-
Using. 800 essays were received, and the
prizs was awarded to Richardson 81 Co.,
merchants of Wellington.
A Kinsley editor is said to have read an
essay on Journalism" recently and start
ed off in this way: when / first started
in the newspaper business, | was poor and
honest l am still poor"
Recently, the Methodists Of Coyville,
Wilson county, appointed a janitor for
their church. Soon after his service began
he was arrested on the charge of bootleg
ging and taken to Fall River.
A queer advertisement in the Coldwater
Enterprise: Amy one wishing to sell SO
worth OF twenty-five cent pieces, will find
it to their advantage to consult either Eb
Frazier or John P Bowles. Office hours
Sunday between a. N. and 10 p. m.
A Butler county pupil asked his teacher
the other dayif she could write out in
mum bers, Eleven thousand, eleven hun
dred and eleven" After she had tried it
several times the cause of the trouble
dawned upon her and she went out behind
the school house and sunk her head in the
rain barrel.
L. NJ Axline in the Medicine Lodge
Cresset: The Anthony Journal has dis
covered that two girls, who pre-empted adj
joining quarter sections on Peavine Ridge
in this county. lately fought duel with
pistols over handsome cowboy, and then
ad xuha onr1lH Ii Ill oh
other, and licked the cowboy until he
wished he had never been born. This is
big scoop on the Barber county papers. If
some one win tell US where Peavine Ridge
s we will send out our sensational reporter
% investigate the truth of the Journals
story.