The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-08-19
PLYMOUTH.

What an agreeable change in the weather!
1t has rained and continued to rain. Corn and
potatoes have been benefited. The ground is
now in good condition for blowing and sowing
fall wheat, considerable Of which Is being
done in this section. In boring a hole ia the
prairie sod find that what rain has fallen has
wet the ground as deep as it had dried out.
ay-mlking has taken u back-set. Grass is
rather scarce, except where it is under fence.
1t has been too dry to produce hay ON the up
lands this year, therefore lay-makiDg win he
confined TO the bottoms.
rhrcshers have been at work In this section
for several weeks. Wheat is nearly up TO the
average of last year in the yield, and the grain
is larger and plumpeT The farmers generally
are getting better varieties Of seed wheat than
has heretofore been sown, and more attention
is being given TO fall wheat.
A gentleman connected with the A., t. &
S. f. r. r., recently purchased four acres Of
ground, adjoining Plymouth on the south, pay
ing therefor $50 per acre. He has built house
and is now occupying the same. This is but a
commencement. Others will soon do likewise.
The junior editor of THE NEWS, in his arti-
Gle entitled "Trip to the Southwest" appears
to have stepped on the corns of several over
sensitive persons. A correspondent to the
Cottonwood Falls IndeI, signing himself
"Toledo Watcher" whose letter 1 saw in last
weeks Emporia Tribune, undertakes to en-
tighten the junior editor IN regard TO distances,
and the extent Of the Quaker settlement In this
section, and intimates that he got whisky at
Plymouth, the quality OF which impaired his
vision, and caused him to locate Toledo, in his
own mind, "seyeral miles to the right
fright here, for the benefit of ''Toledo Watch
err" and others Of his ilk, l will say that the
aforesaid junior is strictly temperate and he
was accompanied by one OF Emporia's strong
est temperance men, therefore the SUR amounts
to nothing). The location and advantages of
Toledo, or any other town hereabouts, is
neither here nor there to me; but this town of
Toledo reminds me Of town in certain
county in this State, the inhabitants of which
used to claim that it was centrally located, and
that person could start from there and go to
any place In the United Statesi While the
junior seeks to be truthful in all that he writes
for either department of THE NEWS, it seems
that he has Internationally varied little in
this instance, according to the notion of some
persons who feel that they have been wronged.
Who wQnldn't be an editor? What an enyia-
BILE position! He is supposed to know every
thing; form correct ideas at glance, and write
to suit everybody. 1 like to see him make a
statement now and then that will cause some
of these old dead-heads to take the field to
correct him-for instance, the exact location
of Toledo is given, which viii be matter OF
news 10 some; but unfortunately, it is in
Chase county, and for that reason these sensi-
tive persons think THE NEWS is not interested
in its welfare. To my certain knowledge the
editors OF the above paper have repeatedly
asked that persons in not only Lyon, but any
other county In this portion OF the State, write
them in regard to any matters Of interest &c