The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-07-15
ARKANSAS CITY ITEMS.
ARKANSAS CITY, CowLEY Co., KAs.

ARKANSAS CITY, COwLEY Co., KAs.,l
F.-- July 9Th, 1870. !
Our celebration on the Fourth was q sue
cess; weather cool, no mosquitoes, large attend
anee, and much applauded; instructive and
entertaining orations, delivered by Prof. Nor
ton, of Arkansas City, and Mr.. Cunningham,
Of Emporia. A number of Emporians were
present. The programme was carried out to
the letter, and all We're ''gay and happy" In
the evening large number repaired to Col.
Woolsey's commodious hotel, where many feet
kept time to enchanting music till late in the
evening, when supper was announced by Col.
WoOlsey, and all sat down to one of the best
suppers ever gotten up in Southern Kansas.
The Colonel is one of our most enterprising
and accommodating men.
Prof. Norton (who is the handspring of
Arkansas City's prosperity and lady arrived
home on the I'd.
Mrs. Slocum and daughter, Mrs. F. b.
Smith, and number of others came down
with them. Mrs. Slocum has claim near Ar
kansas City. and intends making it her future
home, and judging from what she has already
done, we believe that in few years she will
have one of the. finest places in Kansas. She
went to Emporia in 1858, and Immediately
commenced planting fruit and forest trees,
small fruits, shrubs and flowers. She now has
one of the most beautiful places near Emporia.
Very few men have done as much.
MIR. Mains, of the Emporia Tribune, will
commence the building for a printing Office
next week, and as soon as IL is finished he will
commence the publication of first-cIass pa
per, worthy the patronage of an intelligent
people like ours of Southern Kansas. 1t
should and will be supported. Suppose it win
be called the Arkansas Traveller. The first
number is to be out August 1st, 1870.
The following are among the more than
fifty houses now being built, or under contract
to be built, in Arkansas City: Norton & Co., a
dry goods and gr oeery store; Mr.. Sheath, one
neat residence finished and another commence
ed; Livingston & Gray, a clothing store, build
ing 1sx26; S. p. Channell, dry goods and
grocery store; II. c. Meigs, building 20x32,
two-stories, with cellar under the whole build
ing; c. A. Wilkinson, building to rent; Beck
& Woolsey, restaurant and bakery; E. l.
Fitch. millinery and dressmaking establish
ment; Mr.. Walker, dry goods and grocery
store; D. Lewis, stone store building, 21x31
feet; s. A. Moone, paint shop; MIR. johnson,
carriage shop; Harmon & Endicott, a building
20x50 feet, two-stories, the lower for store,
and the upper for a hall; Paul Beck, black
sIniLn SnOp; Z. n. Nye, HARNESS. anu SauuIe
shop; A. D. Keith, drug store; DIR. Alexander,
Office and drug store; Mr.. Groat, a restaurant;
F. II. Denton, store 1sx24; Mr.. Bridge, hotel
and bakery.
Pond s. Blackburn, of EmpOria, have es-
tablished a real estate agency here. Persons
wanting to buy or look up claims will find 1t
to their interest to call on them. They are ac-
commodating. and are well posted as to the To-
cation and quality of nearly all the claims that
are vacant, and those that are for sale. They
are honest and upright young men. They are
building 4 neat office.
The citizens of Allen, Wilson, Howard
and Cowley counties will meet in general and
mass convention at Fredonia, on Saturday the
10th of July, 1870, for the purpose of efecting
a railroad organization and electing directors
CT the Humboldt, Fredonia & Arkansas City
railroad. Eminent speakers from distance
will be present.
We had another splendid ram last even
ing, and the weather is now delightfully."- cool.
There is little or no sickness here now, not
a case of ague in this vicinity. Our doctors
and lawyers are the only men that look down
east and discouraged.
The Arkansas river is rising, and is nearly
or quite past fording.
We were unsuccessful in finding the State
line when we went to look for it a week ortwo
ago. We are going down again this week TO
try to find the marks on the east side of the
Arkansas. We found plenty of mounds while
on our last trip, but they had "'dead Ingins in
'em.o NJ. F.