The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-08-20
HARTFORD News.
BY A." DoC.' -
WEDNEsDAY. AUG. II

WEDNESDAY, Aug. II.
Miss Nellie Wood, of Americas, has
been spending a few days with friends |
in this place. IL. Fred. P1iager, of Den |
yer. Col, former resident of Hartford, |
is in town visiting among old acquaint-
ances, and preparing TO move TO Califor-
MA w. b. Rambo, of Topeka, is stay
ing with his father here for few days,
when he will again resume his bust
ness. Sammy Bear, our genial and
obliging station agent, has left the Of
flee in charge of gentleman from juno
ton City, and has departed for a trip
cast, where he will enjoy a short vaca-
ton among his friends and relatives.
-. The heat today was so great that
| the men at work with threshing ma
chimes in the country around Hartford
had to stop thTeshing and seek the shade.
| Several came to town, and reported the
| others as almost dead from the excessive
heat :. . Mr.. Pruitt has further improved
his house, and now il is II first-class house
in every particular, and few towns OF
| the size of this can boast of as conven-
lent and commodious q hotel as the
Pruitt House.
THURSDAY, Aug. II
A young child OF w. d. Osbourne was
buried here yesterday. Could not learn
the particulars. MISS Rachel Two
good, who has been in Colorado for
some months, has Just returned to her
home near town DR.. G. ID. MaXson
was elected director of district No. %
for the next three years, at the annual
meeting to-day. 1t was voted that
every person in the district over twenty
one years of age who wishes to attend
school may do so without the payment
of tuition A tax of 5 per cent. for Incl
dental, ) per cent. for teachers, and 3
|, per cent. for the sinking fund was levied
for the coming year. 1t was also voted
that no person living outside the dis
trict shall be allowed the privilege of at
tending the school under any consldera-
ton whatever. Although this looks like
a formidable proposition, 1t appears
that still it may be lodged by anyone
who wishes to attend, simply by engag
ing To work for some person within the
2 district and declaring that his home
when under the school law, he cannot
be debarred from school. The reasons
assigned for the act are, that the build
ings, &c, are not sufficient even for The
l children now residing i'll the district
FRIDAY, August Is.
c There will only be six months OF
Y school this winter, rs the district wishes
:. to get out of debt. Mr. James Klock
of Neosho Rapids, who has been teach
ing at that place for several years and i.
one of Lyon county's best teachers, ha
applied for the principalship of tn
i Hartford schools. :. The whooping ant
yelling of II crowd of boys and youn:
B men who gathered around the ban'
~ stand last evening was enough to dis
= grace any town, and if parents have los
y entire control of their children, it i
a about time that the officers of the Law
e. put a stop to such proceedings that on
- beautiful little city shall be one quIe
u ness and not uproar. :. Harrison Cow
y, ley's house three miles northeast c
n town was destroyed by fire on Tuesda
le evening. He had built fire in til
;, stove to prepare his meal, after whic
L. he had left the house to do some cho
he ing and upon his return found it on fir
N He saved trunk which contained article
Il of considerable value. So says the Cal