The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-06-28
NEOSHO RAPIDS.

Your excellent paper is a welcome
visitor in our quiet little village, but
we feel little jealous in not seeing
Neosho Rapids in print.
Fifteen new buildings have been
erected here within the past six
months, and others will soon be COM
menced.
MIR. Gibson's mammoth wind mill
is rapidly approaching completion,
and promises to be decided success.
Wheat harvest has commenced.
and much better yield than was ex-
pected will be the result.
Our cnterprising merchants are
fully up with the times. The firm of
Z. Tolford & Co. have gained ali envi-
able reput alton by fair dealing and
gentlemanly department, which is
fully appreciated by the public.
Richmond 6 Gruwell have form
ed o-partnership. Hereafter the ex-
tensive business of both will be COM
bihed. They have fitted up their build
Ing, on the corner of Main street and
South avenue, in splendid style, ex-
clusively for drugs and medicines, in
the rear of which is DR.. Nugent's
rooms, where he can be found night or
day, unless absent on professional
business. Prescriptions ara filed by
an experienced hand, at all times.
&Dr. N. halls from Wamego, Kansas.
He comes well recommended, and has
already made host of friends.
Next door south is the dry goods
and grocery rooms of Messrs. r. & G.,
wherea full line of goods are kept.
Still another door south is their meat
market. o. F. and Tom are bricks,
and have an eye to business. They
will feed you on Texas beef till sick:
drug you till dead; then sell the fun
eral outfit.
Two new hotels have been opened
recently, and are highly spoken of by
guests, whom we have noticed leave
there complaining of tight pants.
Our patriotic friend j. w.
Matthews is making all the necessary
preparations for grand party, to be
given at his residence near here, July
4th. He knows just how to do it, and
we predict gay day. First-class
music will be in attendance, and the
dance will commence early in the D.
m. on a splendid matched floor pre-
pared for the purpose, in the grove.
Fail not to come at your own peril,
one and all.
Honor to whom honor is due.
The I. o. o, F. of this place have pro-
cured, staked offAnd plated a lovely
piece of ground one mile northeast of
here, making a first-class cemetry.
Too much credit cannot be given them
for their much needed and benevolent
enterprise.
The Masonic order, too, has been
trying to keep pace with the rest.
They did propose to have a public lee
ture here the oath of this month, by an
eloquent speaker and fine looking gen.
tleman, who did claim to be well post
ed, and who now sports fine pair of
Burnside whiskers on his face, and
huge square and compass on his left
breast, but upon strict examination it
was found that he never had received
the degrees. He, however, gives a
very satisfactory explanation of the
matter. am told that he says he was
"black baIled." He blames it all on
the present corrupt administration.
Gen. Grant, the Nepotistical, gift-tak-
ing swindling and brainless President,
fer and in consideration of fast trot-
ting horse, has unlawfully permitted
some of his relatives in the east to
manufacture and sell ttblack marbles"
which our friend thinks interferes
with the 'tshivil yites" NV American
adopted citizens. He is now going for
Greeley and Brown. By the way, he.
is the only citizen we know of in this
community who ever had any Repub-
lican proclivities who can swallow the
Cincinnati mess.
The Rapids, as its name indicates,
is making rapid strides to become q
city at no distant day. Everything
here shows signs of life except the
Democracy. Poor, superanuated old
soul, her youthful days were brilliant
and prosperous beyond a parallel.
The prime of her life was spent in
reyeling in sin, oppression and prosti-
tuition, until her moral and physical
constitution gave way. Her strength
and energy are gone forever, and now
we see the pitiful frame reeling and
lettering on the very brink of a pre-
mature grave, made with her own
hands, where she is destined to lay
until our political Gabriel shall see
proper to s'toot his horn" If her life
had only been such in this world as to
inspire hope for her in the next, we
would not feel so sad.
TOMMY WARDEN. 3
Neosho Rapids. June "a, 1872. W
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