The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-06-11


will be issued to the teachers in sheets |
and at the end of the year be bound in a
single volume. Ef ttsaEt
Notwithstanding the discouraging
accounts from the Gunnison country
and other mining sections, the daily |
travel to the far west falls little short Of
n veritable stampede.
DED-At Hicksville, Long Island,
New York, May 14th, 1880, suddenly, of
heart disease, Sarah, wife of John For
gle, aged 62 years, mother of Mrs. G.
w. Skidmore, Of Emporia.
An examination for admission to the |
Emporia high schoo! will be held in
this city to. day (Friday) All pupils of
the first grade will be eligible and any
Others who may desire TO enter.
The high school class in physics
spent n few hours quite profitabIy the
other evening in studying the engine at
the State Normal School, under the
obligIng conduct of the engineer
The plans for the new hotel have ar
rived and are very complete and hand |
some. There is no doubt that the Coolidge |
House will DC reckoned among the I'M
provements of Emporia before fall.
The Winfield Daily Telegram has sus
pended as n morning paper, and will
hereafter be published as an evening |
paper without telegraph dispatches, be-
cause the morning issue doesn't pay.
Topeka Commonwealth =. j. Bry-
an, conductor of the freight train on the |
Santa Fe road that ran into another one |
at Wilder few days since, has been ex-
honorated from all blame by the COM
pany.
DIED. Wednesday, June ., 1880. at
four o'block in the afternoon, Johanna
Berger, wife of Chas. II. Berger The
funeral took place this afternoon from
the residence on Lower Commercial
street.
At meeting of the Emporia Rifles
last week DIR. Young was elected ID
lieutenant, rice Professor Davis, who
was NiN1ANu abOut ~ WIN bEps bhA ~
signed for want of the time to devote To
the position. =.
1t is estimated that between twenty
five and thirty Knights will go from
Emporia TO attend the Grand Encamp-
ment of the Knights TcmplaI Of the
United States of America, to be held at
Chicago in August.
The painting of the water works ma
chinery began under the supervision of
Mr.. Rastal Thursday. This work will &c
cupy probably ten days during which
time there will, of course, he no opera
ton of the pumps or engine.
The Baccalaureate address to the class
, of 1880, VIII be delivered in the assembly
room Of the State Normal, on Sunday.
June 18th, at 4 p. IN. The room will he
seated so as to accommodate GOO people.
The public generally is invited.
The Western Union Telegraph com
pany have reduced its rates to points
east, about twenty-five per cent This
change does not effect local points, but
its benefits will be limited to the larger
commercial centers of the country
We would respectively suggest the
propriety of the Normal Lyceum fur
nishing some sort of light by means
of which visitors TO their highly interest
ing exercises may bc able to get down
stairs and out of the building without
jeopardy. The luminosity should not
all be shed abroad in the debating room.
III some means could be devised by
which the annual exodus of young men
from the farms of the country TO its
cities and towns could be checked, pota.
toes would soon become cheaper and the
standard of the different professions
speedily enobled.
b. II. Fennimore has removed from
the corner of Seventh avenue to Sixth
avenue between Commercial and Me.
chanics and will conduct regular sec
ond hand store and auction room where
all kinks of old and new goods may be
bought and sold.
The EmporIa Knights Tcmplar band
has very kindly consented to play at the
commencement of the high school.
which will probably he held in Bancroft
Hall. A very excellent programme has
been arranged, which will doubtless
prove quite interesting
n colored itinerant divine addressed a
small and drowsy audience at the court
house last evening, while another broth
or oil the African persuasion proclaimed
the glad tidings of salvation from "A Ban
list standpoint al Heritage hall. The
evangelical interests Of Emporia are
looking up.
The First National Bank presents a
gorgeous appearance, its walls and cell.
ings having been covered with "A mag.
nificent pattern of gilt and crimson
paper, with handsome dado and
frieze. /, ID. Fox & Co, who had the
contract, deserve much credit for the
excellence of the work.
1t is now definitely settled that the
commencement exercises ofthe Emporia
high school will he held in Bancroft Hall
and that the class reception will he given
in Norton's grove, at the corner of Fifth
avenue and Merchants street The es-
says have been written and the general
plan of the programme completed
NJ special meeting of the city coun.
Gil last week Mr.. Rosenberrry was al
lowed S525.00 in part pay for the con
struction of the water works building,
and committee was appointed TO pre-
= pare reception for the guests who will
be present ut the formal opening of the
works, the date of which has not vet
been fixed upon.
Mr.. ID. ID. Moses is delivering to sub
cribers his birds eye view OF Emporia.
1t is quite creditable piece of work,
showing the city and the suburbs and
the country between the Neosho and
Cottonwood rivers. The new buildings.
the railroads, the water works, the round
house all appear, and shows EN-.
poria to be quite an important town on
paper rs well as u fact