The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-08-01
AME RICUS.

AMERICUS.
Rev. W. f. Copeland, of Emporia, Is
announced to preach in the school
house, in this place, next Sabbath al
3 o'clock.
Lewis HaVer is completing fine
new building on h Is farm on the Eeo-
sho. 1t is a two-story with L, and
will compare favorably with the best
farm house in the valley, and there
are some good ones among them.
There is great need of rain now for
the growing corn. The earth is be-
coming SO dry and parched that a Sc
ries of heavy showers will be necessary
to insure crop.
The farmers, through their COM
mittee, have been endeavsring to start
q farmers store in Americas. Had
supposed that our present farmers
stores were doing about all they could
afford to for the farmers.
For a hard-worked team on a hot
day Mr.. Cilley's horses made lively
thing of their runaway on Monday.
Starting from the mill they ''done" the
town thoroughly, even going out of
their way considerably to look up the
machinery about Wood g Archer's
blacksmith shop. They finally "called"
at the front fence on their way to the
stable when they got home, and took a
couple of the fence posts as trophies.
No damage worth mentioning.
The haying business is being push
ed vigorously during this favorable
weather for that work. Some of the
enterprising contractors have already
several jobs under way, and there is
going to be big lot of it put up in
this vicinity. This is shay year."
The train regulations on the NJ. K.
& T. are better now for Americas than
ever before. There are two trains each
way daily, and all pass this place in
the day time. One passenger and one
freight stop at Americas for meals.
MIR. j. B. Morgan has a plan for
the disposal of the Kaw Lands that we
think would give eminent satisfaction.
1t is to have the Indian Department
offer the land on ten years credit to
actual settlers at ten per cent. interest,
said interest payable annually. If this
were done, so that no one but actual
settlers could obtain the land, it would
soon be all sold. The Indians would
be as well of if paid in this way as
any other, because they now get only
the interest annually on the endow-
ment fund created by the sale of their
lands. Mr.. Morgan thinks this policy
could be secured by proper effort.
When a person is away from home
it is natural for him or her to compare
every town, city or county with the
one in which they haye home. We
all do this in order to satisfy ourselves
as to whether or not VIC are prosper
ing like other folks. If our town il
doing as we'll as other towns we are
usually satisfied, even though we be
not pushing ahead so fast as in times
past. During the past month the writ
er hereof has travelled more or less In
twenty-one counties in Kansas, and
our mind has dwelt good deal on the
comparative prosperity of the towns
and people which we have seen. We
have witnessed all the different stages
of development, from the newly"staked
OUT town to the sleepy, dreamy city
Then on coming home we took frest
look over our own town and country
to see how they would bear q compar-
ison with the others, and have come Il
the conclusion that Lyon county is JUS
as good q county as there is in Kansas
and that the people of Americas arr
fully as well off as they are anywher'
else. 1t is true the people here com
plain of hard times, and some are dis
contented and want to sell out and "g,
west" So it is everywhere. But be-
fore they go let them consider thesI
facts . Americas is now sixteen year
old and now contains an actual popu
lation of upwards of five hundred
She has q railroad that furnishes direc
communication with st. Louis and thu
East, and also with Colorado and tn
West. Her merchants sell all kinds o
goods to be found anywhere ut as Low
prices as they can be had in any of tn
towns about here. She has as fine
-four mill as there is in the country
situated on the town site. She has a.
fine church edifiees as could be desired
with services every Sabbath and tn
pastors of these churches are not Onl.
able and learned men, but are respect
ed and honored TO the highest degre
by their respective congregations, a
well as by the people generally. n
other town has better schools; no 9th
er county has better health, or q NOR
peaceable people. No other town
freer from intemperance, rowdyisI
and kindred immortality. America
has less number of idle, dependen
citizens than any town we have seeI
All of her people have some sort {
employment. A large proportion {
). them are employed in cheesemakins
or cultivate land outside of town {
deal in stock.
We hear n great deal about the woT
derfully rich valleys in other portion
of the country. The Neosho vale
Is unsurpassed by any of them. Amel
, icus township produces as much graf
= annually as any other township in the.
Gar-famed valleys; and she has soE
things that many of them have not
y she has scores of handsome orchard
that bear fruit, and great many mile
OF improbable hedge fence. She b.
some of the finest farms in the Yves
:, and their owners can raise stock
), well as grain If they want to. v
have Travelled through several COUNT
where there were no fences at all, an
nearly every quarter-section of lar
= had 8 field Of corn growing, but 1
cattle. Their owners cannot keep ca
!. tie because they have no fences, and
. they had fences they would haye !
range for stock.
:. There are towns that are buildiI
more rapidly than Americas is no.
This, however, does not prove tn
they have greater advantages or a
more desirable to locate in. Americ
once built as fast as any of them, b
that was under the pressure of railro
aE excitement and speculation, when 1
hands, filled with the hope Of immet