Deseret Evening News | 1899-09-23 | Page 21 | The Corn Carnival at Atchison

THE CORN CARNIVAL AT ATCIIISOB r > o 1 < Xp 4 ftJi i 11t JIII It has been 0M Ihlll the honI which the an 4 I tit I I 1 I t wllh rn rifles and bacchanalian feasts could never hove compatcd with the Ianna ton crop of this present your The result U I that this years corn oatnOal which look place I at Atchison on Sept M and 1 proved a more jubilant fes 1 h PI than ever before These carnivals have 1 had tho effect ot greatly militia allng < corn rowing In I Canada and Nebraska an7 have modified the Industries Indus-tries of the west This year cornstalks rrew I to an Incredible eight I and a Inllon agent living at Down Kan on the Missouri Tastes railway cut a Iolk which was 2 f1 and 1 Inches In bolchl With the husks from this one stalk he dorI1 his carriage In the manner hon In the accompanying lIIutollon which to Iron a photograph