The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-08-16

Sir:-In reply to your very kind inquiry
regarding the fair. festival. flower and
| street carnival, / beg to say that you
know Wichitas reputation for doing
| things is unsurpassed; that while on
former occasions she has succeeded in
| entertaining the many thousands who
have had the good fortune to attend 70
| their hearts content, and judging from
the men who have it in charge and the
| attractions they propose to give. that all
former entertainments in that line viii be
eclipsed. The rush from parties who want
| to furnish attractions are numerous The
question for the fair men to decide is
| which shall they take. II the weather
| is propitious Wichita will have the great
| est week of festivities that has even
happened between the Missouri river auI
the Rockies.
One week ago yesterday the air was
filed for hours with grashoppers flying
southeast. The regular old crop destroy
ing variety. No one scarcely knew it.
A very few of them dropped down on
the city.
| Too slow, too slow, the weekly paper
was the remark of a farmer this week.
l see no reason why 1 should not take
| the daily and get the news every morn
ing the same as the city folks. 1 md
locals in my weekly that had been pub
lished a week before in the daily and
wife and 1 watch the markets; she for
her truck and / for grain and hogs Every
| day we know all about things
| see that all my neighbors have quit
taking weekly papers taking daily instead
and now if you folks will build US that
!, interurban railroad we will be fixed.
Ike Patton's white wings on Douglas
between Main and Marke. deserves a
reward for the extra amount of work
he does on his job. Nights after the
| streets are deserted once or twice a
week he turns on the hose and thor
oughly fushes and washes the streets.
The sanitary condition is very much
| better than when this is not done.
An cid lady more than sixty years OLD
| who lives by the sweat of her bow was
! induced to take a share in the home
building and loan association in antici-
patton of securing for herself home,
denying herself the most meager COM
forts in order to be able to pay her dues,
got a neighbor to come down town this
week TO enquire what had happened to
the company. On hearing What happened
to the company she Will no doubt want
something 10 happen to the man who
induced her TO join.
1 would light the Country club house
lawn every night when the moon did not
shine sufficient to make it pleasant
If you want to rid your premises Of
English sparrows get a pair of bluejays
to nest in one of the trees in your
once.
If a man should hire some little boys
to go from house to house and leave
candy or Iozenges soaked with strych-
nine in a book filed with illuminated
pictures. offering rewards and premiums
to the person who would take the great
est number OF them the whole town would
be up in arms at once to crush him, and
yet the town was flooded this week with
a book and sample cigar-nothing said.
Where's the difference? Which would
you rather your boy would take, strych-
nine and quit. or smoke the deadly cigar
cite?
Since the Eagle has established a free
hitching post and a boy to keep the
flies off the horses, if at any time the
lad is absent for lunch or a drink OF
water patrons complain
1 think the council is TO be recommend
ed in not allowing boats put on Topeka
avenue between Central and Second
street 1t would probably annoy the
people living along that ditch.
A new version of an old saw: The rich
ride in automobiles while the poor ride
in rubber tired buggies.
Three fourths of Topeka avenue is
curbed from Douglas avenue 70 Thir-
teenth street. and there is no reason why
all of il should not be curbed. VIII one
Of the councilmen please offer resolu-
ton 10 that effect? Topeka avenue can't
afford to be behind in improvements.
When one takes a look at ths slobs
that stand on the corners dissenting on
religion and finance, II suggests soap and
water disinfectants.
1 would have regular covered garbage
wagons. Open wagons draw swarms of
flies and the stencil is not the thing.
II Assistant Postmaster General Bris-
tow viii take up the r. F. D. box graft
he Will be able to discover something
that Will be worth chasing down. Be-
fore a commission was appointed to de-
eide on boxes the rural man get a box
for nothing as a premium from q pub
Usher But after that important body
held its session a few times the same
identical box which publishers had been
buying at S7ik 10 70 cents each the man
ufacturers raised 10 80 cents, and the
rural man now has TO pay Is cents for
the box that was once given TO him. for
publishers generally would not give
box that cost 50 cents-a raise OF 50 per
cent. Who gets It?
The average citizen. who. after hav-
ing driven from Murdoch avenue down
Main street and out Douglas avenue as
far as the Santa Fe depot. lodging the
holes and driving into them ard through
them and around them. IS ready 70 say
they don't want any more asphalt pave
ment-
As il rains every night regularly. our
street corner farmers have decided that