The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-08-30
SOUTHWEST.

oI1Le CTeek, III OuIilucE County, 10
settling up rapidly.
Capt. G. II. Norton, of Arkansas
City, is going into the show bust
ness. He has engaged several
Osages to make tour cast 10 give
exhibitions.
The first school house built in
Harvey county since it was organ
lied, and, excepting q small one at
Sedgwick, the first built i'll the
county, was finished in District -,
Newton township, last Saturday.
Size 1Sx2S.-[Ncwton Kansan.
We have recently heard several
farmers say that they intend to buy
hogs this fall and feed their corn
crops rather than sell the corn at
25 cents per bushel. And we be-
lieve them right for so concluding.
1t don't pay to raise corn and sell it
SO cheap when the price can almost
be doubled by feeding to hogs and
cattle. Sumner county will soon be
one of the best corn-growing coun-
ties in the State, and also equally as
we'll adapted to stock-raising, which
affords the farming community o
most encouraging feature of future
prospective success Il Belle Plainc
Herald.
There seems to be considerable of
a rush of homo hunters to Marion
comfy.
Some of the paper state that the
proposition to vote $4,000 for
county buildings, at Winfield, was
carried by small majority.
Tho "Newton Kansan" is the
name of a new paper from Newton,
Kansas, with II. G. Ashbaugh as
editor. It is Republican in politics
and is full of interesting news. We
wish it success.
Several new school houses have
lately been finished in Marion
county.
Grasshoppers are going for the
buckwheat in Marion county.
One hundred men and forty teams
were put at work on tho X. ~ N.
railroad in this county on Wednes-
day Marion Center Record.
A poet in the Walnut Valley
Times wants to be taken home to
the "sweet sunny Soulful" w
have no objections.
Towanda has largo Grant and
Wilson club, with our esteemed
friend DIR. Angel as President.
Captain j. A. Pike has sold the
Florence hotel to III. A. Lond, of
Springfield, Mass. Travellers will
regret the retirement of Captain
Pike and his estimable wife from
the favorite Florence.
p. Aller is now sole proprietor OF
Marion county bank, at Florence,
he having bought out the interest of
j. r. Swallow.
Eldorado and Chelsea voted on
the 18th, by majority of ZIG, for
LuO JULIUS 70 INC OOO-IsAACu AoiA-
road. There wero only twelve
votes against the proposition in the
two townships. Our understand
ing is that the road is to be built
Immediately from Cedar Point on
the a. T. s. S. F. road to EIdOra.
NJ. M. Murdoch is talked of for
State Senator.
Eldorado will haye a graded
school this winter.
In EIdorado they dress the stone
for their building with a jack-plane
same as they do boards. The stone
hardens after being exposed 10 the
air.
Pete AIler, of the Florence Pion-
eer, generally has something good.
Here is one of his last:
"On our passenger trains they are
selling sewed, pegged or machine
stitched pies the size of an elephants
foot for the sum of two nickles
each. Those who think the coun-
try is not prospecting under the
present administration will do we'll
to note this fact"
There is food for columns of seri-
Gus and fearful Democratic editor
ials in the above. Grant ought not
to go "Scott free" for this culinary
outrage.
Captain North has sold his drug
store in Florence.
The editor of the Oxford Press
has been eating too many free wa
termelons, and has the "feveran-
agcr."