The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-07-23
WIGHT ArEN YEARS AGO.

moving fa1Q WHICH SuiOcS.
WIGHT ATEN YEARS AGO.
J. Oak Davidson and George L. Rouse
went to New York to look into a storage
battery which 1t was claimed would run
street cars.
The Wichita sports were all worship
ing John L. Sullivan. who had Just licked
Kilrain in the seventy-fifth round.
Sam Clark. a deserter from the regu-
lar army, was arrested here. His wife
pleaded for him and he was released. He
afterwards whipped his wife and was
handed over to the army authorities.
Bernice Butler celebrated her eighth
birthday. Her guests were Hattie Dean.
Birdie and Gertie Frooman, Lois and
Christine Sturgis. Anna Bond. Treva Alley
Edith and Bertha Blackwelder, Lizzie
Newcomb, Nellie Talmadge. Mabel and
Helen West, Edith Peckham. Florence
Reed, Cecilia whitlock. Edith Fegtley.
Clarina Lewis and Donna Fisher.
Miss Emma Potts entertained. Her
guests were Misses Ida Fortman, Anna
Shaw, Cora Beaver, Cora Ford. Anna
Long, Ella Long. Lizzie Long. Minnie
Shaw, Mary Shaw, Ida Wright. Mollie
Pike, Nora Woods, Jessie Reynolds, L. o.
Long and wife, and Messrs Elmer Eli
oft. John Pool Lew Ward. Jasper Wright,
George Skinner, Lew Short. Harvey Boy
er. K. Minick, c. z. Parkhurst, George
Taylor and A E. Nickles.
Judge Sluss appointed as a committee
to form a bar library for Wichita. Geo.
L. Douglas, r. r. Vermilion, J. r. Halo
well, s. J. Howe. and ]. NJ. Balderston.
Mrs. Oscar Smith and the Misses Skin
ner and Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Smythe, Mr..
and Mrs. George Matthews. Mr.. Grant
Woodman. Mrs. w. c. Woodman. Miss
Rea Woodman. Mr.. and Mrs. A. w. OIL
yer. went to the mountains.
Jane G. Carlisle, Laura Ruth Carlisle
and John G. Carlisle Jr., were given
children's party.
People do queer things. A man. once in
Wichita. then in Naples. sent the Eagle
a poem, written to him by a woman in
London. which the Eagle published.
Mr.. Henry Mlltner of the Zephyr Mills
was overcome with heat
Colonel Lewis was coming in for a
share Of blame because he turned the wa
tiers Of the Little River into Chisholm
Greek to run the Hydraulic Mills.
Miss Bessie Dagner entertained. Her
guests were Carl Neiderlander. Walter
Dyer. James Mulvey, Charles McAdams.
Sherman Skinner. George Chapman. Ed.
Campbell. r. T. Harris. and Misses Bea-
trice Thomas. Pearl Skinner. Gertie
Moore. Miss Chapman and Nettie Harris.
Ed. Paul. of the Pacific Express COM
pany. disappeared with several thousand
dollars.
c. S. Jobes of Attica advertised pub
Ito auction Of sixty-one head of imported
Holsteins.
Rev and Mrs. Savin entertained. Their
guests were Misses Lula Hatfield. Lula
Granger. Eta Fellows. Sadie. Ada and
Maggie Guthrie. Minnie. Belle and Fran
els Slower; Messrs. Chas. Martin, DR.. No
bic, Fred Sparkling. VIII Granger. VIII
NJ. Grove. Firm Cummings. Fred Guthrie,
Chester Urban and Harry Dunbar.
]. S. Richardson and Fred n. Peck is
sued the first number of the Daily Drov-
er's News.
The sewer system was delayed on ac-
count of the inability of the contractors
to obtain pipe.
A. JOS Henley road across the ties OF
the Missouri Pacific railroad bridge span
ming the Big Arkansas on a Columbia &C.
pound roadster. This was the old high
wheel and the distance Is 1000 feet
A crowd OF men on the street late at
night were arrested for singing There's
a Hole in the Bottom OF the Sea- bois-
terously.
Mrs. J. w. Wright of South Lawrence
avenue was accidentally shot by her son.
Two houses belonging to Horace KEEL
logg in Riverside were burned
Miss Clara ]. Hummeike entertained
Her guests were: Misses Sadie Vessel
hoft Emma Loudermilk. Ollie Bright
Ada Barrick. Lena Galway. Belle Cham
berlin, Mary Marrow. Amelia BIssantzs
Messrs VIII Diddle. Fred Sparkling James
Breidenstein. Louis Short. George Burns.
Charles Hartman and Charles Bright
The Wichita cracker factory was run
ming day and night TO ill orders.
E. r Brown paralyzed the town by re-
turning home looking like tramp. and
refusing to say anything.