The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-09-06

/ Ing the Only lilG4c Aoc 0oOPANa 49,
new fad of wearing corsets. colored
gentleman, has set the pace for Wichita
III were town lot speculator, I would
| go TO the West Side. on University ave
nue. and streets nearby. Just watch the
building boom that viii follow the
/ paved streets.
Tie regulars say they do not give their
names for publication when they tell a
reporter of a case they are attending,
| but If a reporter makes note Of the case
and fails to mention the regulars name
! in connection with it the reporter gets
! roasted.
The merchants who refused to join the
recent organization promulgated by the
Kansas City company are already con-
graduating themselves. Why sane
| man who is doing a legitimate business
will tie himself up to be controlled by
/ fellow occupying a 7xS office in the fifth
I story of a building $50 miles away, one
, cannot imagine The trade relations OF
| Wichita are entirely different from those
of a mining town or a town like Topeka.
just why the advertising CRATER with
| his gold brick outfit is immune has long
been one of the unaccountable mysteries.
| The merchant has the remedy at mana
and If he would listen more to the ad-
vice Of the advertising representatives
| of the papers in his own city he would
save money and make money at the
same time The local advertising man
/ ager is usually conscientious and strives
! TO make each and every ad pay the local
merchant. as he knows that by showing
results he will get more business. The
newspaper, which goes to the home, Is
/ saved until every member of the family
! has read it is the only true and effective
method of reaching the people. All other
! efforts to get paying returns from adj
| vertising are sure TO result in disap-
pointrnent to the investor.
man came to town yesterday and
wanted TO enter into a scheme with the
Eagle TO fake the business men OF Wien
| ita-a very taking, smooth affair. on
being told that it was an important part
| of the Eagles business to protect the
business men OF Wichita against fakes in
! the printing line he waxed wroth ana
! informed us that he had money enough
| to buy the Eagle. His dream Of spend
! ing a week in Wichita and then taking
a Pullman with five hundred crisp plunks
| of Wichita business mems money, has
| gone to hunt the comet, and those plunks
are on deposit in the banks 10 the credit
! of the aforementioned tradesmen
Different people have different styles or
| fads in their respective communities, as
| the lady will no doubt learn who is Wis
iting this city and trailing the business
streets, chained to dog There are two
classes led about the streets by dogs
the blind beggar and -
| city which attempts TO have clean
| streets might very properly pass an or
| dinance regulating the distribution OF
handbills. and if il went so far as TO
abolish them altogether no harm would
be done. They are thrown into door
yards and on door-steps. where some
body must pick them up and put them
in the fire, or else suffer them to litter
I'D the ward and street. Their practical
value as advertising is by no means COM
mensurate with the annoyance they oc-
casion.
The Retail Merchants association Of
| Ottumwa. Iowa, by a unanimous vote,
/ has decided TO eliminate all forms of
! advertising except that furnished by the
/ newspapers or by individual methods
| II is the opinion of all members that
/ program advertising Of all kinds. time
books time cards. etc, are Improbable
/ and not productive Of good results as
advertisements.
I rf-1-- Of he Central ditch
! east from Topeka avenue is probably q
serious one. but there are engineers that
can solve it WHY not sewer it? The
people living on that street are tired
As the electric blinkers are an abso-
lutte failure. l move that the city council
| order at least four placed at the corner
of Main and Douglas.
see the Valley Center people are petit
tioning the Santa Fe to stop their even
ing train going north. II the Valley
I Center people viii purchase a round trip
ticket and go home on that train, 1t
must stop and let them on
would make the toboggans at the
corner OF Main and Douglas twice their
present width.
would clean up the limbs and leaves
that were shaken from the trees in the
4 park last week
The council will have to inaugurate
some new system for sweeping the side
/ walks. as the dragging skirts have about
disappeared
l would build bleacher seats at the fair
/ grounds. enough 10 hold two thousand
( visitors at least
Taxes are collected on property in liti-
( ration. why Is IT exempted or held in
allowance in building sidewalks and
curbing?
4 man came to Wichita month since
and sold a lot OF sticking gum in sticks
The sample he used for introducing It
/ did the work beautifully. but the goods
he delivered were worthless. as large
number of purchasers viii testify-bsnks
and Offices He was the smoothest faker
that ever took IN the town
wichita had better hire attorneys to
defend the railroads in their attempt -
raise rates on cattle into Kansas city,
that octopus at the mouth Of the kav
that has grown 50 fat on Kansas. She
wiz soon he assuming the importance Of
& walking delegate
still insist that a city cannot be built
- a.. -,,as L matters not about mud