The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-06-13

Cunningham s. McCarty have just
made "A valuable addition to their law
library by the purchase of over hun.
dred volumes of reports from the library
of the late Judge Ruggles.
Mr.. Thomas Clark, who last month
purchased the Roberts suburban resi-
dence, east of the city, arrived "Wednesday
with his family, from their late home in
Bridgeport Ohio. They will make
valuable addition to our population.
We acknowledge the receipt of a COM
plimentary ticket to the first meeting of
the Fort Scott trotting and running
association, to be held July 4th and 9Th.
The railroads have provided reduced
rates, and first class horses are expected.
Mr.. S. A. Howard has started a gro
Gerry store in the building where he form
erly kept leather store. He finds that
more people buy things to eat than buy
shoe pegs and lasts, and hence he has
gone into the grocery business. He has
put in real good stock, and will do his
level best to please all customers.
The graduating class of the Emporia
High School will give reception, Fri
day evening, at the residence of Judge
Watson, occupied by Mr.. c. A. Garlick.
The members of the class are as follows
Charles N. Riggs, Cora E. Kelley, Alice
Pettengill, Perlee r. Bennett, Addie NJ.
Sweet, Nettie Smith. We return thanks
for a neatly gotten up invitation and will
endeavOr to be present.
A BARGAINl-An excellent little farm
of 40 acres, good house of four rooms,
pantry and hall bearing apple, cherry,
peach and pear trees; good hedges,
8 acres timber and only 21S miles from
Emporia, will be sold for 81 500, one
half cash, if taken within fifteen days.
Apply to H. w. McCune, real estate
agent, in new EmpOria National bank
building. d17Ot3-w24t1.
N. b. IRELAND 81 CO,-This new
grocery firm has got well started in the
building which S. J. Smith has been
using for hardware store. Mr.. Ireland
is we'll and favorably known as the sales
man Mt A. 4. Baker & Co.'S. wholesale
grocery before that firm went to Kansas
City. He understands the entire trade,
and will be able to sell as low as the
lowest. You will find N. B. Ireland &
Co.'S good store to trade at.
J. Y. LevengoOd has leased the ground
floor of Gillett Il Forbes building, for
merly the Harvey Bancroft building, on
Commercial street, and is fitting it up for
a first class dining hall and ice cream
saloon. He will open on or about June
IL. Mr.. Levengood has had extensive
experience as hotel and restaurant man,
and proposes to conduct an unexception-
able and attractive resort that will be an
addition to the business establishments
of our city.
We neglected TO make a note of the
fact that Mrs. Jennie Hurst had been call
ed to Westport, Missouri, last Monday,
by the receipt of the sad intelligence
that her father, A. Waskey, had died
suddenly the day before. Mr.. Waskey
was once interested in bushes here, and
spent considerable time in Emporia.
He was a kind hearted man, and was es-
teemed by all who knew him for his
noble qualities. We learn his disease
was apople KY.
AN ARcHITEcT.-We are glad to make
note of the fact, that Captain E. G. Mich
OILS, of Dalton, Ohio, a professional ar
chitect, has concluded, after examining
various towns in Kansas, to make his
home in Emporla, and will offer his ser
vices to our people. We believe from
the high character of the recommends
tiOns in Captain Nichols possession that
he is first class architect, and that we
are fortunate in numbering him among
our citizens.
REFUNDING Commemorative learn
from the post master that after many
solicitations and applications for these
securities he put up special bond of
$25, 900, and sent and got supply of
the four per cent. refunding certifica-
ties, and has been issuing them for two
or three days. These certificates are in
sums of $40 each, bear 4 per cent inter-
est, and are sold at that sum with &C
crued interest-iAterest running from
April LIST. They are fundable in govern.
ment 4 per cent. bonds in sums of $50
and over.
We are pleased to see that at the clos
ing exercises of Bethany College, Tope-
ka, for the term just ended, that several
of the young ladies from this section
took creditable parts. We extract the
following from the programme of the
annual concert given on Tuesday even
ing:
Music-Fly Forth, oh, Gentle Dove, Miss
Florence Webster.
Vocal Duett-La serenade, Misses Webster
and Smith.
song~La COqaette, Miss Maggie Breiner.
Piano Solo-Wm o. The Wisp Miss Kate
song-The Flower Girl. Miss Florence Web
i ster
Piano Ducts MazepDa Grand GalOp, Misses
/ Breiner and Shepard.
w. A. Worcester has brought us very
singular stone, evidently petrefaction,
which he picked up ON the prairie, at
the foot of a large mound eight miles east
of Emporia- 1t is of light brown col.
or, smooth surface, shaped like squash,
and of hard, fine texture, and not as
heavy in weight as some stones of the
same size would be. 1t measures nine
inches in diameter from side to side, foul
inches thick from bottom to top, and 2S
inches in circumference. If it is a pet
rified squash it is very complete one
and if it isn't what is it? We shall con
tribute it, with Mr.. Worcester's permits
sion, to the Normal School museum.
The knights Templar band was out
with the parade Tuesday, which was thu
first time they have played in public
, for about a year. They had only me
three or four times for practice, but theil
music was as good as ever. The arriva
of Prof Petite Saturday, made the boy
peculiarly happy, as they play no othel
music but that composed and arranged by
him. He is one of the finest composer
of band music in the United States, an,