The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-02-07
OUR NEW DRESS.

:. ~ Here we are, earreatlcrs, in our new
tSpc-what is termed by printers-olir
.-new dress We fancy we look about
ms well as any paper III the State, and
when We get a decent article of pa
per to print on, which viii be as soon
as the present supply is used up, and
make a few other improvements, we
shall print little the incest looking pa
:, pei. IN Kansas We now have the boot
fitted and most thorough Office i'll lle
= State, outside of Leavenwortli, Law
renee, Atchison and Topeka, that We
have any knowledge Of We have three
=, presses, including a "spink and span
new" Jobber, 200 lb. fount of long
e primer type, a 200 lb. fount of burgcois,
4 a l50lb. fount of BREWER, and 200 lb.
fount of minion, all bran new, two large
marble imp osing stones, and about 100
.lfonnts of card, job and display type.
With the old type We part with feel
ssiugs akin to those experienced in part
ing with an old friend. They commence
ed their mission in Emporia nearly elev-
5 eli years ago in the EmrOria House,
(now occupied by Holderman & Coz
Well do we remember the day we conf
menced setting up the first number of
The NEWS. The floors of the building
were net laid, and We commenced work
= on boards laid down loose. There was
the hotel frame, the frame of Mr.. Esk-
ridges store, and a little sllanty Oppo-
site The News building, and that's all
:, there was of Emporia when we went
IN IN fIof Fl ,.cf H. -,
per. And there were but two or three
cabins to be seen As far as the eye could
stretch UP and down the Ncosho, and
Cottonwood. If any man had told us
at the endof that first lonesome days
work that We wonld be here eleven
years hence opening the packages of
type FOR q new dress for TIE News, we
should have ''laft linn to seornr us Mas
by would say. But that's, just what we
= have been doing for several days the
past week. These old types which take
their leave FOR the foundry, have done
long and, faithful service. For 525
weeks they have borne The news of pass
ing events TO the people of this region.
In that time they have given to the pub
Lie over 1900 columns of editorials"
''locals, news and miscellancy They
Lave chronieled the rise and downfall
htof states men, politicians, Kingdoms.
They have told of tie overthrow of
Governors, Senators and Generals
They have printed the history, in brief,
of one of the bloodiest instructions
history has ever recorded. Their i'm
gpressions have gone out weekly, bear
ling good news to some and to others
sadness Some have been made to swear,
81 mt the dOings of these old types, and
ssOme to rejoice-some to laugh and 9TH
l.ers to grumbIe. They have had a prom
.iinent part III building up the country,
= and have always been its warm friend.
They have done the bidding of 10 mas
ter or CLIQUE, but have spoken E:as
man, himself free, to n nation of free
men. " They have often differed with
their readers, but they are cast aside
from further usefulness with malice
for none and charity for ALL Where
Twill,we be, and what will We be at the
end of the next eleven yea 3? a city with
- railroads, telegraphs and daily papers
big hotels, fine churches. school build
1ngs, halls, libraries and mum bering our
inhabitants by the thousand.