The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-08-29
SOUTHWEST.

Marion County has a triangular
newspaper fight.
Hedges look we'll in Southern
Kansas.
DIR. White, of Eldorado, also
sprinkles hay seed in his hair.
F. n. i'otter has been selected as
principal of the Marion Center
schools.
The Eidoralu Times office was
overrun with handsome school
marms last week.
Prairie chickens are numerous
everywhere, and the Southwestern
sportsmen are having fun.
The graugers of Marion county
eat roasted calf together on Friday
last.
Another paper is soon tie be start
ed at Oxford, Sumner county. Ok
ford papers do have an awful time
with the fates.
Prof. Norton, of the State Nor.
NAL School at Emporia, is in attend
ance at our Institute. The profess
or is loved and beloved by the
teachers and educators of Butler
-Eldorado Times.
The Crawford tragedy cost Mar
rion county several thousand dol
lars. Set it down to whisky. That's
the way counties make money by
having licensed whisky shops, you
know.
Levi Billings offers special pre-
MUM of ten dollas for the best
specimen of ten pounds of wheat
produced in Marion county.
L1vELY.-Peabody is selling more
lumber than any three towns of its
size on the road; the grist mills
whistle rings through the air four
times day the mill itself rumbles
busily on from seven in the morn
ing until eleven at night; houses
are going up in various parts of the
| village !; thirteen quarter sections of
unimproved railroad land were
sold by II. X. Tabor in the early
part of the week-all to be occu-
pied man with m oney, experience
and vim is talking of instituting a
search for coal in the township, and
this includes all our boasting for
the week.-Gazette.
The Eldorado Times says the
new Methodist church building will
be 24x44 feet, with fourteen foot
story. The building will be com.
pleted in short order.
Prof. j. S. Weaver, of Emporia
formerly of Ohio, is In attendance
at the the Teachers Institute. Mr.
Weaver is quite a humorist, sings
and performs we'll on the organ, de.
livers a good lecture, and likes Ell
Observation-Disclosures Times.
| Geo. Parker, who lives about
seven miles east of this place, left
at this Office some apple blossoms
, Just taken from q Two year old apple
tree set out on his place last spring,
He says the tree is as full of wei
made blossoms as it can well be-
Marion County Record, 23d.
Case has been feeding the Marion
, County Record editor on nice
grapes.
Prof. Geo. w. Hoss, President Of
the State Normal School, at Empo.
ria, called to see us yesterday. The
Professor is greatly pleased with
Butler county. He said EldoFado
was growing faster in proportion
than Emporia. We are of the same
opion.-Eldorado Times.
Mr.. A. B. Salisbury, recently Of
the firm of Whitley & Salisbury, i.
putting in good stock of grocer
les in the room recently occupied by
Rathbone's shoe store. We can say
nothing new of Salisbury. His old
friends will be sure to fiDd his new
place of business, and all of his
customers will find him honorable
and reliable.-Peabody Gazette.
A number of teams passed
through Belle Plain this week, load.
ed with lumber for the salt works
! of Golf, Marshall and Taylor OF
Rimanto, in this county. Messrs
: Milligan, Falls and Axley of the
latter place, were in charge of the
teams. They informed us that
from five to six hundred pounds Of
salt are being made there, every day,
The company are making arrange
mepts to put In q good many
new vats.-Belle Plain Democrat.