The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-10-04
AMERICUS.

Prof. A. D. Chambers visited our
schools this week.
Prairie chickens are very numer-
GUS.
Good cows are now offered for
sale in this place at $25 per head.
The fall wheat is looking fine and
there is a good deal of it.
The shade treets in the Americas
cemetery have grown very nicely this
season.
Carpenter and Noll got home
from Denver, Tuesday, having sold all
their cheese.
George Boards father and mother
from Aurora, Ill, are now visiting at
his home In this place.
We never knew the farmers to cut
up 30 much corn in any former season
as they have this year.
Have heard . number of farmers
inquiring for stock to winter. They
have secured a surplus of hay, corn
fodder, straw, etc., and want some
bOdy's cattle to consume it. About
four dollars per head is the price
asked.
We understand that Mr.. VIM.
Carl has sold his farm one mile west
of town to Pugh Yeakley. 1t is good
farm and has fallen into good hands.
We regret TO say that Mr.. Carl will
move back to Ohio, where he owns a
fine farm. Maybe he will like Kan
sas better after comparing it with
Ohio q while.
Crib has tombstone In his mar
ble-yard made of the common lime
stone taken from the hills north of
town, that Is good enough for any one.
He has reduced it 10 as fine finish as
any OF his marble, and cut on oak twig
and acorn abovesth inscription that
fully equal the best marble cutting.
The stone is In monument style, and
he has sold it for $s5 to Mr.. Milton
Frost. Go and see what genius can
accomplish.
Henry EdmIston desires to make
IL known that ne child had It's arm
broken about his circular swing at the
fair grounds, Is some supposed. The
accident that was attributed to his
swing occurred in the amphitheatre.
The people who attended the
county fair from this vicinity were
generally very well pleased with the
exhibition. Almost all say it was bet
ter than they had anticipated. Amer
icus township was nor very well rep
resented In the exhibition, though it
carried OF some of the premiums.
Lewis Haver's black colts, raised by
himself, took the first premium for
carriage team. As usual after the fair
everybody is bound to take something
next year that will take the rag.
Jacob DUNN, a young man who
came to Americas from Perry county,
Pennsylvania, last spring, died very
suddenly last Sunday evening, at the
house of his brother-in-law, in this
place. He had been having ague for
some days, but was no worse that even
ing than he had been for q number of
days. His relatives all attended
church that evening, except the lady
Of the house, and when they came
home one of them went to his room to
give him some medicine and found him
dead. His death is supposed to have
occurred from heart disease.
u The appraisers OF the Kaw land
expect to finish the trust land next
week, when they win proceed to ap-
praise the diminished reserve. 1t is
decided, we understand, that the Indi-
ans are to be removed in the spring.
There are yet some good claims that
can be taken on the trust lands ifdone
before the commissioners reach them
with the appraisement.
Begin, now, to think seriously
about setting out fruit trees this fall.
Ask every fruit man what kinds you
ought to buy, and why he would rec
ommend them. If You 60 directly to
the nursery for your trees, instead of
ordering them through some canvass
ing agent, you can learn a good
many valuable things from the nur-
serymen about pruning, setting and
otherwise treating your trees. They
can also tell You what varieties bear
the best In this locality. We have got
more fruit from White Winter Pear
main and WInesap than any other
In our little orchard. The former does
not keep very well when gathered.
Ask others how theirs have done.
May be some of the old heads will
come out In the NEWS and tell you
what they know about these things.
They ought to do so for the benefit OF
the beginners. We heard one old gen.
tleman tell lot of men assembled on
the court hOese steps, q short time
since, that If they would dig the dirt
away from the trunks of their peach
trees, and throw on Stacked lime and
ashes, two or three shovelsful to each
tree, 1t would give the trees new lite
and destroy troublesome insects. Try
II, and II it succeeds, tell Others about
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