Kansas Grit from Wichita, Kansas • 1

KflW ILLUSTRATED. Wichita, Kansas, September 7, 18Uo. 2 Cents. Number 3. ery headquarters, at 553 Iloylston St.

Huston: KANSAS 1S)5 CORN CROP, HUSH EES. "He Him lias I ImmI Iii Kansas, lliuueli lie mu hi. Can II ml mmtlirr shi mill call ll timin'; As someone suv Kansas mail may si ray May li'um is-reliuiH'i', ili'part ur go Run.v lit spirit, may main tint. Is In anywlii'ri', He ill list return If In can raise llie fare." Ilcuutiful Scenery. In thin issue of Gkit in on illustration of the little Arkansan river look-ing mirth from Oak street bridge.

To the right can lie seen the boat house and barn belonging to Finlay Koss. There are many such beautiful views in and near Wichita, and Mr. V. I. the View Artist will photograph them for us.

You will miss them unless you subscribe for Gkit, the only up to date illustrated paper in the state. rder it sent to you every Saturday. It costs only five cents a month. and women on bicycls, the deceased having been a member of the bicycle club. The cats of the Isle of Man are as destitute of tails as if they were guinea pigs.

It has never been accounted for, but in spite of being unscientific it is a fact. At the last teachers' examination held in this county, nine persons were granted first grade certificates, sixty-two second grade and seventy-seven third grade. Notice the advertisement of Jno. C. McNaghten on the fourth page, and kindly mention that you read it in Gkit, when you go to take advantage of the bargains he is offering.

Save your copies of Gkit, and at the end of the year, bring them to this office and have them bound. We will Fe freight oflice, is confined to his room with typhoid fever. Hon Serviss visited Miillinvilie, Sunday, and returned on the "wood choppers" excursion, Monday. Jno, A. Crugiiu, of the Crngun Abstract Kingman, was transacting business in the city Monday.

E. H. Smith, letter carrier number five, will leave for Eouisville, next Tuesday to attend the reunion. Mrs. Frank Eewis, wife of the county clerk of Ilarber county, is visiting Mrs.

Hive ClifTton, of this city. Chief of Police, Massey, went to Topeka this week to attend his habeas corpus case in the Supreme court. R. E. Kirkpatrick, wife and daughter, of South McAlister, I.

T. arc visiting Mr. and Mrs. E. V.

Critch field, 522 North Fourth avenue. mail undertaker in that state. If you have relatives or friends from a distance visiting you, tell it to (Jkit. We received a fair to middling order for Gkit from Emporia, Tuesday. Order Gkit delivered ut your residence.

It will cost you only 5 a week. The Van Zandt Implement have sold seventy-six corn shelters this season. Seven hundred and seven excursionists came in on the Wichita Western, Monday. The Woodman parade was a very creditable one, there being 140 neighbors in the parade. Height, beautiful, breezy, vivacious and absorbing is Gkit.

Order it sent to you regularly. Tin: CONSENSUS Of Opinion Is That Kansas rit is a ITopali Papali. Wc Were Pleased. We were pleased with the contents of the Kansas (Jkit, which is a new paper edited by Attica's former editor, rt ind his sample copy bids fair to its Iture success. Attica Correspondent TC Harper Sentinel.

A- W' is Xeat. I Ajir- received a copy of the Kansas IT 'd 1 f. edited by (1. W. Kelley tSc Sons, in, merly of this place.

The (Jkit is a .1 interesting, and original paper, 'hy, shows that the editors posses just the paper says, Kansas (Jrit. Attica Corresjiondcnt of Harper Ad-vocate. Will Soon Come to the Front. Geo. W.

Kelley, who was burned out at Attica, has started a new paper at Y'chita which he calls Kansas paper shows as much of the ality suggested by its name as its editor has shown it will soon come to the Anthony Republi- Sccqc on Little ftTHansas RivcY looHinft nofth and bafn to the fight. i Missex Oil ic and Eflic Moore, of Ilrainerd, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. I). Adams.

The lecture of Miss Edith Hill at the Y. M. C. A. auditorium last night was a success, ami fairly well attended.

Ex-Mayor Denton, of Attica, was the guest Monday, of his brother-in-law, J. N. Richardson, of the Fourth National bank. Our friend Glenn O'Brien, of Norwich, secured a first grade certificate at the last teachers' examination held in this county. John Cox, while starting to Douglas Monday with a load of oil, had the misfortune to upset his wagon, mashing the tank, thereby sustaining considerable loss.

Postmaster Fitch and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Oliver will go down the New York harbor to-day, in a yacht to view the yacht race between the Defender and Valkyre III. Mr. and Mrs.

T. K. McLean and little son Lorn have gone to Boston and will go from there to Canada before returning home. They expect to be absent a mouth. Mr.

E. V. Vogenitz, proprietor of Vogenitz' Art Gallery is very sick with typhoid malaria. V. I.

Ilaycroft the View Artist has charge of the gallery during his absence. Miss Margaret Brown will go to New York city from Boston. From there she will go to Vermont and to the Thousand Islands. She will return home in about six weeks. Ex-Police Commissioner Jones will return from Boston by way of New York, Rochester, Port Huron and Detroit.

He will stop at his old home at Flint, Michigan, where Mrs. Jones is visiting, and she will return with him. Mr. E. E.

Martliug, the new manager of the Crawford Grand Opera House is getting out an elegant program for the coming season. The first page is finely litographed by the Wichita Lithograph Co. The Gkit job department secured the printing of the remaining pages. The Ladies Aid Society of the First Presbyterian church gave a lawn fete at the residence of Mrs. Rule, corner of Lawrence avenue and Oak street Wednesday evening.

The lawn was brightly illuminated with Chinese lanterns, and the large crowd present spent a happy evening. Mr. F. Craig and Miss Florence Washburn were united in marriage Thursday evening. They left on the evening train for Chicago, where they will made their future home.

They have a host of friends in this city who, while wishing tnem a pleasant journey and a happy future, regret their departure. Critics, foreign and domestic, are saying the beauty of American women was never so pronounced as at present. Whether due to fashions, wealthy parents or to outdoor and athletic life, now so very general, the fact remains the dream of fair women is realized right here in these United States. Is beauty beautiful, asked Thackery, "or is only our eyes that make it so? But Thackery was sometimes cynical. Once again the loog gone ribbon bracelet will be worn.

Women of thirty or so can remember when black velvet was worn about the wrists, but girls who wont confess to more than eighteen years must beware and pretend the notion is quite new. If you are only eighteen years old you can look among your mother's things and find a pair of beautiful little sliding clasps which will serve for fastening these little ribbon bracelets. A right pretty custom has been revived abroad which will probably strike Americans hard, just as did the boil under the arm business. Men no longer offer their arms to ladies handing them from dining to drawing room, but grasp the tip of their fair partner's fing'ers and lead them away, just as they used to do in the time of the Louises. Of course, it is a fad that will make men appear extremely awkward unless they practice it a good deal, but perhaps that will just suit the women, they will seem that much more graceful by contrast.

The entertainment given Tuesday evening at South Emporia Avenue M. E. church by Miss Nellie Wood, assisted by her sister, Miss Celia Wood, was a decided treat to all who attended. Miss Wood is truly an artist in elocution and oratory making her audience feel rather than hear the sentiment of the selection. Her recitations Shipwrecked, and "The Healing of the Lepers were splendid, and exceedingly well rendered, while her oration "Our Nation's Perpetuity has never been excelled in our city.

In this oration Miss Wood portrayed the past, present and future of our great nation, with marvelous skill. It is useless to add more than, that Miss Wood won the first prize in the Indiana State Oratorical Contest. SOCIAL CHATTER. Mrs. Harry Wilson is visiting relatives in Ohio.

Mrs. Hcrtram left Monday for visit to her parents at Sterling. Mrs. M. Rudolph left Tuesday for a visit to friends in Norman, Ok.

fforn Oal St. Bridge. Finlay Ross' Fforq photo by Hoyciaft. Miss Hlinco has returned from a visit to relafives in Richmond, Va. II.

A. Hill is enjoying his business vacation by visiting at De Soto, Mo. Rev. Leah Horner, of Hutchinson, is visiting relatives and friends at Maize. Miss Mary Stevens, of Medicine Lodge is visiting friends in this city.

Mrs. M. M. Granger has returned from her outing in the Rocky mountains. J.

T. McDonald, carrier No. 6, has been enjoying a well earned rest this week. Harry Gillan, the noted horseman of Kingman county, was in the city, Saturday. Mrs.

C. H. (Juincy is visiting her sister, Mrs. Arthur J. Denton, at Attica, this week.

Mrs. Geo. W. Moore, 818 Chicago avenue, has been quite sick with malarial fever. Prof.

Geo. L. Williams, of Attica, will take the Civil Service examination in this city October 21. Ex-Sheriff McClelland, of Kingman, was among the crowd of excursionists from that city Monday. E.

L. Seeley and F. (1. Aldrich, leading ranchemen of King'inan county, were in the city Monday. E.

B. Noble, bill clerk at the Santa 2nd. Street, Wichita, Kan boat house Mrs. Welsh, who was visiting her daughter Mrs. Jergans.

returned to her home at St. Louis, Wednesday. Miss Douglass, the champion marks woman of England, recently scored fifty-seven bull's-eyes in succession. Misses Nora and Ruth Woody have returned from an extended visit among relatives in Mount Vernon, Indiana. Jacob Orendorf left for Fort Smith, Arkansas, this week, to close a deal for a small fruit farm near that city.

C. A. Tanner, who wascalled to Iowa last week by the sad news of the death of his father, returned home yesterday. Postmaster Fitch will go down to New York from Boston, and will spend two weeks in the east before returning home. Mrs.

Geo. S. Freeman and family have joined her husband at Newton, who is manager of the Santa Fe hotel there. Miss Helen Voorhes, of Attica, is in the city to-day, on her way to Emporia, where she will attend the State Normal. Miss Belle Tilbury, of Attica, was in the city Sunday.

She was on her way to Emporia to attend the State Normal. Mr. Kies, Western Union lineman for the Pan Handle division of the Santa Fe made Gkit a friendly call, Thursday. Have Gkit sent to your home and to some friend you would like to induce to come to Kansas. There is a one-armed man in Georgia who can plow, drive a mule, swear and smoke a pipe all at once.

The Winfield Reds have disbanded and catcher Jack Wolever is finishing the season with the Emporia Maroons. The Van Eaiult Implement ordered ten car loads of corn shelters, Monday, from the factory at Joliet, 111. Remember that Kansas Gkit is the only paper in the state using half-tone illustrations. It has no competitor for public favor. An individual who called his first daughter Kate, when his wife surprised him with another girl promptly called it Duplicate.

The Winfield tennis cracks, Collin and Strother, won the Southern Kansas championship in tennis doubles at Harper last week. Any one having a horse to let out for his feed, or which they wish to sell cheap should address V. I. liaycraft, 1627 Eulu Avenue. A Prohibition convention will be held in the Hoard of Trade room, next Saturday, at 3 oclock p.

in. for the purpose of nominating a comity ticket. In a Wisconsin village a funeral procession was largely made upof men Neat and Newsy. The Kansas (Jkit, illustrated, published by (Jeo. W.

Kelley at Wichita, is the latest publication that has come to our desk. It is a six column folio, all home print, neat and newsy. This attempt shows rustle and determination and we wish Mr. Kelley every success in his new venture. Norwich Courant.

An Attractive Sheet. Mr. George W. Kelley and sons, formerly publishers of Attica Tribune, have started a new publication at "Wichita which they call the Kansas Gkit. It is an illustrated paper, both local and general in character, and is devoted to the interests of Kansas.

The Kansas Gkit is a very neat and attractive sheet and the Sentinel hopes it may attain the success it deserves. Harper Sentinel. Itrimful of Good Heading. The initial number of Kansas (Jkit, Geo. W.

Kelleys new Wichita paper, is on our exchange table. It is a six column folio, very neat typographically, and brimful of good reading, Mr. Kelley was formerly editor and proprietor of the Attica Tribune, but on the 23rd of last April his printing office was destroyed by fire and the paper was not resurrected. We wish him abundant success in his new venture. Attica Independent.

Illustrations arc Excellent. We received the first issue of the Kansas Gkit, published by Kelley Sons, at Wichita. Messrs. Kelley formerly published the Attica Tribune and are well qualified to run a publication of such a name. It is an illustrated weekly and printed on book paper, making it a neat and admirable paper.

The illustrations are excellent and the general make-up first-class. Success is our wish. Harper Advocate. "(JR bind them in a neat and substantial manner, for one dollar. In this city, oil October 21, 1H)5, there will be held a Civil Service examination for applicants who wish to enter the printing and railway mail departments, Indian service, of the government.

On September 14 the traveling men of Hutchinson and of this city will engage in a game of base ball. As the jolly drummer" has charge of the affair, it is needless to state that it will be a success. Work is in progress at the War Department to secure the incorporation of another star on the U. S. flag to represent Utah.

The flags having the additional star will not be used until July 4, 18, the date of the admission of Utah as a state. The Smith Allen Realty 150 North Market street, have the finest display of agricultural products we have seen. The mammoth ears of corn, Irish potatoes, sweet potatoes, sugar beets and heads of cabbage astonish even a Kansan. We measured some corn there Thursday morning, the stalk of which was over fourteen feet high, the length of the stalk f- uu the roots to the ears being eight feet seven inches. The following inscription decorated the wall just above the refreshment booth at the Kansas Grand Command- Star Office, 1 OS and 110 Subscribe for Gkit.

If you are going away visiting, tell Gkit. The best paper for Sunday reading is Gkit. We appreciate the many kind words said of Gkit. Our subscription list is increasing rapidly. Thanks.

Remember that all the type in the Gkit job oflice is new. About fifty old soldiers are attending the reunion at Eldorado. If you want people to know what i you are doing, tell it to Gkit. 1 Saco, Maine, boasts of the only wo-.