The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-08-27
Additional CITY NEVIS
roPlcs OF THE TOWN .

A marriage license was issued yester-
day to ]. w. Kennedy and Mrs. Jennie
Aiexsell, both of this city.
Mrs. Ransom Brown. 81 South Market
street, who has been quite Ill with malar-
ial fever. is reported to be improving
Mrs. C. s. Fuller, VINO has been visiting
with her parents. Mr.. and Mrs. J. c.
Robb. 1887 Strong avenue, left last night
for her home at Cherryvale.
Cash Henderson leaves for New York
this morning to purchase goods for his
big store. Mr.. Henderson says that this
is the sixty-fifth trip made to New York
to purchase goods.
Col. Sam Hess is figuring little on the
theory of biologists that the earth is get
ting cooler as the ages go by. After sew
eral calculations Col. Hess has just arriv-
ed at the Missouri stage.
Mrs. A. H. Rowe and son Jack, and
daughter Mrs. 10. Forsythe and two chill
dren, left over the Frisco Sunday mornlns
for an extended visit with relatives in the
eastern part of Pennsylvania.
Mrs. James Terry and daughters, Mrs.
Minnie Clayton and Miss Lulu Terry, all
Of Viola. Ill, are visiting the family OF
Coroner Levi Mclaughlin. Mrs. Terry and
Mrs. Mclaughlin are sisters.
A jolly camping party left early this
morning for a weeks outing at Bradford's
mill, Butler county, composed of Mr.. and
Mrs. ]. z. Richmond and family. Mr.. and
Mrs. Pettijohn and family and Miss Mary
Penerly.
Judge and Mrs. Dale. Mr.. and Mrs.
VIII Ayres, Mr.. and Mrs. 10 Brubacher.
Mr.. and Mrs. Grant Hatfield and Mr.. and
Mrs. Victor Murdoch attended the silver
wedding Of Mr.. and Mrs. Dennison at Ell
Dorado Friday night.
Mr.. G. L. vanvolkenburg and Miss
Maud Haifley. both of Maize. were mar
ried yesterday afternoon at the home Of
Mrs. Edgington. 1886 South Market street.
by Rev. H. E. Thayer, of the Plymouth
Congregational church.
Fred Baldwin made a fashlight photo
graph OF the floral offerings at the fu--
neral of c. NJ. Jones in the Masonic ca
thedral Wednesday night. The picture is
20X24 and very fine. It is one of the
largest ever taken here.
Jesse Burton, an old Wichita boy who
now lives at Tucson, Arizona, passed
through Wichita yesterday on his way
home. taking with him a bride from
South Dakota. Mr.. and Mrs. Barton will
visit a few days at Belle Plaine.
A charge Of grand larceny was filed
against Pinkey Dunn yesterday in the dis
trdct court. Pinkey is the colored girl
who is charged with stealing a watch
from young man at the Alley house on
East Douglas avenue a few days ago.
Ella R. Mattox yesterday commenced
proceedings to secure a divorce from her
husband, J. W. Mattox, to whom she
was married in 1892 at Lexington, o. T.
Mrs. Mattox alleges that her husband
abandoned her and viii not come back.
Mr. E. ]. Vesey, who lives nine miles
south. has seventeen acres OF watermelons
this season. He has sold two large loads
every day since the first Of August and he
says one cannot miss any from the patch
yet Mr.. vesey's melons are large and
OF excellent flavor, as the Eagle boys have
good reason to know.
Mel. Shearer, brother Of the Miss
Shearer who died so suddenly while visit
ing at Newton last week, is said to be In
very precarious condition and Is hardly
expected to get well. 1t is understood
the physicians differ in their diagnosis
of his sickness, but 1t is thought he has
neuralgia of the stomach.
Rev. Arthur Casselman Of Columbiana,
Ohio, and Mr.. Glenn Roger OF st. Joe, Mo,
were in the city yesterday shaking hands
with their friends here, both having been
students in the wichita university during
Its existence. Rev. Casselman left last
night for lyons, where he breaches to-
day. and Mr.. Rogers returned to st. Joe.
call has been issued to all former
students of Garfield university to meet at
the off1ce of Blake & Ayers on North
Main street next Wednesday afternoon
at o'clock for the purpose OF calling a
reunion Of the old students. These re-
occasions in the past and 1t is desired to
keep them up.
Miss Lola Mcclure, O teacher In the
schools at Ell Reno. o. T., Is in the city,
a guest Of Mr.. and Mrs James Tapp. Miss
Mcclure was one of the passengers on
the Rock Island train which was held UP
by the Jenkins gang this side Of Chicka-
sha, and was the only woman who was
robbed. The women OF the train were
marched out and stood up against the
fence and no effort was made to rob them
but Miss Mcclure forgot her pocket book
and left It in the car. She hasn't seen It
since.