The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-09-10

Americas Department,
r. w. RANDALL. Editor
Americas, September 10, 1869
Pretty near a frost the last two mornings.
There is getting to be considerable sickness,
in this vicinity-mostly bilIiousness.
Prairie chickens are more numerous than
the hunters. yet.
There will be congregational meeting al
the T. p. church next Tuesday, ut O'Clock. r.
NJ. All are cordially invited to attend
The season for sorghum making has ar
rived, and quite number in this vicinity
are engaged at the business. The crop is Il
splendid one.
5. c. James. proprietor of the Americas
cheese factory, has taken some Of his cheese
to Lawrence for exhibition at the State Fair.
We anticipate good report.
The railroad company is '.bunching up the
hands between Americas and Council Grove.
in order to close uD the grade before the track
layers, who were overhanIing them. The road
is coming right along.
We have seen wagon loads of melons,
large and lucioils. decaying i'm the fields, in
our rambles lately. Everybody has an
abundance of them, that they cannot all
find market.
P. B. Campbell informs us that he intends
; building again in town. Americas seldom
loses Inhabitants who have resided here as
long as ''By.'' has. and we should judge
! that his success while a citizen of this place
ought to make him permanent resident
/ among us.
| The storm last Saturday blew down the
corn badly in some places along the Neosho,
| blew down a large rick of wheat and the
! tips off several others for Lewis Haver, also
| blew down some stacks for VIM. MOorhead
and did some other damage to grain stacks
below that point.
! We made flying visit to Charles Hin
| shaw's nursery, three miles west of town,
/ last Saturday, and saw sights of grapes,
| of the finest quality, ripened excellently;
! thousands of blackberry, raspberry, goose
| berry, and other vines and bushes, and a
| large stock of young peach trees were being
budded, while there were older ones ready
for setting. Mr.. II. is preparing to set a
considerable field of strawberries.
Money is becoming more plenty than here
tofore in this section. The frequent sales of
real estate are the principal cause, though the
large amount of produce which is now finding
\ market has cOnSidera bla IN do with IL The
railroad men arc consuming great many oats,
which relieves the farmers very materially,
while the prospect for Il ready market for the
surplus wheat and corn brightens the rail-
road approaches. We are informed that fur
Their up the road there is beginning to be a
brisk demand for these articles.
E. Goddard, Esq, got out his "big
blacks the other day for drive to Empo-
ria, and rs ''prelude'' to starting, exc
cuted a circle or two i'll front of the hotel,
during which the team SHE'D suddenly,
| turning the buggy s. 'tother side up and
landing t'Lish'' and another gentleman in
the street, after which the horses detached
themselves from the buggy, with but slight
damage to it, and playfully galloping around
4 couple of squares. were caught where they
started from. No one was hurt.
There are some very attractive flower gar
dens in and about Americas, now at the hight
of their beauty. Among the most Hastily and
artistically arranged, and exhibiting the great
est variety of flowers. that have come under
our notice, are those of f. d. 10y, Mrs. r.
Freeman, Mrs. J. d. Jaquith and Mrs. Grin
mel. We don't believe the pOssessors of these
gardens regret the small outlay, nor the time
! - hot flnnFa
and we are sure no passer-by can help admir-
ing them, and feeling that they are just
essential to happiness the costly buildings,
the loaded fruit trees, the tall corn, the ricks of
grain, and the belts of timber, that together
make cur land so lovely and inviting.
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A CHANCE.-A good undergrad at Ameri-
Gus would, in our opinion, be paying institu-
ton. With such an abundance of all kinds of
produce there is in the country, and the GER
tainty of a cash market for it all upon the COM
pletion of. the railroad to this place, there
is scarce a farmer in the country but ex-
poets to make some sort of Improvement this
fall and winter in the way of building, to say
nothing of the demand for lumber which the
growth of our town will create. At present
all pine lumber must be hauled from Topeka
and Lawrence, or we have to go to Emporia
and bring back that which has been hauled
right past us. Time is one of the greatest de-
sideratums with our busy farmers, and no one
would go away from home after this article if
it could be had here. We invite the attention
ofthose seeking profitable business to this
subject.
WAGEs.-As we are all intent at Americas
on building up a flOurishing town, at this
point, it is always in order to consider how We
can best operate to effect that end. In view of
this we would like to make few suggestions
to the citizens of this community upon the sub