The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-11-26
ADDITIONAL LOCAL MATTERS
CITY IN BRIEF.

j. NJ. Kane or klnShSher was IN the
city last night.
The freight Offices Of all the railroads
will be closed today.
The High school library will be closed
today, Thanksgiving.
The city library will be closed today In
honor of Thanksgiving.
Mrs. Ed Dorsey is entertaining Mrs.
Mary Kirby of st. Louis.
The egg nog season will be formally
opened in this city today.
George E Barrett of Chicago was q
visitor in the city yesterday.
James Bell of Rockford township died
In the city hospital yesterday.
H H Case Of Lorena. Kan. was doing
business in the city yesterday.
IRA T. Pierce returned yesterday from
Battle Creek, Mich, much i'm proved in
health.
Judge Wyatt will reopen his law office
when mis- term Of office as probate judge
expires.
Mrs. Louise Henderson went to Attica
yesterday to spend Thanksgiving with
her mother.
Clarence Fulton leaves today for east
ern markets to purchase a full line Of
Christmas noVc:.i=s.
Miss May Hartman, one Of the fair
daughters Of Leavenworth, is visiting
her aunt, Mrs. J. P. Allen.
William Grimes of Oklahoma was a
guest at the Carey yesterday and re-
turned to his home al Kingfisher on the
evening train.
II is not usual to have a thunderstorm
on Thanksgiving eve, but there was one
IN StranUA fhinpS
happen in Kansas.
Miss Mollie Ross of this city and Mr.
Harry Hammond OF Canton. Ohio, will
be married this evening at tie home Of
the brides parents.
Friday night is pegged in the Alama-
nae for another dance under the auspices
of the Owl and Crescent club. 1t will be
quite a swell affair.
All members of Queen City Lodge No.
29S, l. o. o. F., are requested to be pres
INT on Thursday evening to elect officers
for the ensuing term. By order of n. G.
St Johns Episcopal church, corner Of
Third and Topeka avenue-Services this
Thanksgiving morning al 1920 O'Clock.
Short service. All cordially invited to
be present.
The funeral Of the late George Kay
scr well be held at 3 o'clock this after
noon from the family residence, 213 S.
Lawrence avenue. Friends Of the fam
lily are invited.
Fred Van Dine of the Manhattan will
serve a Thanksgiving dinner today that
Mill be an object lesson on prosperity.
His spread will commence at 1880 and
continue until go
Sheriff Cone will serve a turkey and |
cranberry dinner in the Jail today. He |
had six fire ones hanging up yesterday. |
He says he will give the enclosed gentle
men all they can eat.
THANKSGIVING day is a legal holiday
and the postoffice will be open from $50
a. m. to II a. m. Carriers will not de-
liver mail on the routes. The money |
order division will not open.
Fritz Schneider threw forty-one for a |
turkey last night and he had plans made |
for carving it today, when along came |
colored man and threw forty-two. 1t |
take colored man TO gobble the fowl, |
every time.
William r Green returned last night |
from Topeka, where he attended confer |
ence of Populists. William looked wise. |
booked confident, looked self-satisfied, !!
but he wouldn't say a word. He did, |
however. say that the appointment OF Ed. |
Little suited him to dot.
The ladies in charge of the City hos
pital desire to thank the members of |
the n. ]. w. o. circle of Kings Daugh- |
tiers, for their kindness toward James |
Bel, who died al the hospital yesterday |
of cancerous tumor. The ladies fire.
Quently brought flowers and delicacies
and in many other ways gladdened the /
last days of the sufferer.
Owing 10 the disturbances caused by |
young hoodlums in front of the opera
house every night the chief Of police has |
caused special detail of police in citi-
gems clothes stationed there with orders
to make arrests and to call the patrol |
wagon at the next outbreak of these lit
tile savages. These disturbances are
very annoying TO patrons of the opera
house and will be stopped. I
One of the prettiest solos sang at the
Consstory reunion of the Scottish Rite
last week, II is said, was the baritone
solo by Mr.. F. ". Sweet, entitled
Faith 1t is composition written by
Mr.. Cyrus Eugene Marsh. musical direc-
tor of the Consstory at Kansas City, |
Mo, and received many favorable COM
ments by all who heard il.