The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-07-09
AMER1cus NorEs.
EDITED BY KENO"
sATrRpAY. July :

SATURDAY, July 8.
Rubber boots are in order
The rain this morning was boss
ID. p. Tressler has been rusticating in
Hartford for day or two.
A boy ON Allen creek WAS bitten bv a
rattlesnake day or two since,
Mr.. Fuller, of the Fuller House, En-
poria, came up last evening. Mr. f. is
an old resident of Americas.
Mr.. A. 5. Wiley and Mr. Mcclure
heve bought 250 sheep and viii start
sheep ranch five miles west of town.
This we believe to be the most profitable
business in Lyon county for the capital
invested
Great improvements have been made
in the Sutton House and also in the
management, and now travelling men
make it point To stop over here when
convenient,
MONDAY, July 3
Some one has started cemetery in
the p1blic square.
There hasn't been sensation in town
for IA week. Look out for one.
Mr.. Bonds and Dr. Wrighrs resi-
dences and the post Office were decorated
on the 4th.
If this weather continues 1t will
bust" our farmers to buy enough lum-
Der to crib their corn.
The fellow that has been LAYING up
something for wet day, will never have
better chance TO take il down.
There is report of cutting affray
in Dunlap on Saturday, but we have
not received The particulars.
The band was driven through the prin-
cipal avenues in the new wagon on Sat
urday playing patriotic airs, and finally
| brought up at Z. :. Adams, where they
| got away with four or five gollons of ice
cream. Saturday was remarkably
quiet Fourth here. In the evening Miss
Ellie Bond Tecited the Declaration of In
dependence to a select audience. The
recitation was very creditable TO both
Miss Ellie and her teacher, Miss F. NJ
Estabrook-
On Saturday evening it commenced
raining about As and rained until II sc
II inches of rain having fallen in that
time. This was the heaviest rain We
have seen this side ofCalifornia. Poster
creek which runs through town on the
west side raised 10 feet in four hours
washing out every bridge and culvert
from one end to the other, including The
railroad bridge.
Troublesome creek was also booming
but not having so much fall did not dc
so much damage, The Neosho raised
Is feet at l4ambert's ford. Winfield, Mr.
Auley and family deserted their house
at ii O'Clock at night, there being two
feet of water at the door when they LETT
| made a flat-boat of myself and ferried
some ladies across Main street while il
was lake. There were quite number
of culverts and small bridges washed oui
on the railroad, but the trains Will get
over the road on time today Old resi-
dents says small streams have not been
so high in fifteen years.
TUESDAY, July 6.
| Gen. Grant saw me yesterday. and
went away apparently satisfied.
Mrs. Aggie Waite is attending tho
teachers institute at Emporia. Mrs. W
taught several years in the south during
the war aud afierward.
The general understanding thai on ac
count of the washouts on the NJ, X. &
L. there would not be any train down
yesterday morning, kept many of our peo
pie from going to see Gen. Grant, and
the rain yesterday morning also detained
n great many who would otherwise have
gone.
WEDNESDAY, July Z.
There will he IL black berry festival a
the L. p, church on Tuesday evening
July 18th, and everybody knows thai
the ladies never fall at the Il. p, 10 ge
up something grand, and festivals have
not been the rage for sometime.