The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-10-20
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tants.
Parsons editors indulge in sAuer-
kraut.
Chase county's fair, the first ever held,
was complete success.
Augusta teachers are provided with
rawhides and propose to use them.
Thousands of sheep are being taken
into Ellis, TIego and Cove counties
Two brakemen were robbed on 3
street Of Parsons the other night of $50.
The forid editor of the Common
wealth Is SOLDERING over Sol. Miller.
He'll wish he hadn't before year rolls
round.
Madison news: Corn gathering is the
order of the day among farmers. The
yield is better than was anticipated some
weeks ago.
Alva Townsend, formerly of Plymouth,
this county, and then Of Chase county,
has located at Livingston. Texas, where
he has purchased mill.
According TO the Herald the Green
wood county fair was not as Innch of q
success as it ought to have been. The
stock people did not turn out.
The second annual meeting of the
Kansas State Fair Association will he
held at Topeka, September 1ith. 1S1h,
18Th, 18th, 18th and 10th, 1882.
W. II. Simpson, of Lawrence, has
been made private secretary of W. F.
White, general passenger and ticket
agent of the A, T. & 8. F. at Topeka.
In the Ryan case, at Independence,
Missouri, the motion for a new trial vas
Overruled, and the defendant will have
20 abide by the sentence of the court
Abilene has voted for the Holly sys-
tenn Of water works. The next thing
she wants to do is to thoroughly post
herself on the rights Of riparian owners.
Mrs. Lunsford, wife OF the editor of
the Madison News, who is east engaged
in the temperance work. addressed the
Iowa State Woman's Christiaa Temper
ance Union at Cedar Rapids few days
ago.
Hartford Call: : A religious revival is
in progress at the school house, and also
one at the NJ. E. church. A great re.
ligions interest is being awakened in
the minds of many of our citizens. AL
| ready number have been converted
and the good work still goes on.
The Larned Chronoscope prints n bis
of twenty-six persons who have thresheG
| GOT acres of wheat in that neighbOEhOOd
which yielded 6, 2O2 bushels. Tie May
wheat put in in season yielded esghteer
to twenty-five bushels per aese. Thu
Turkey wheat made poor yield.
Eureka Herald: The heavy rains q
the past two weeks have done mucl
damage to hay and corn in the shock
The strong winds blew = great man!
shocks over, and the beaAiDg rains drov'
into the interior of them and both cor
aeA fodder have begnA to mould.
Alma Home: We want it distincu
understood throughout Kansas tina
three townships in this county along tn
Mill Creek valley, viz: Maple Hill
Newbury, and Alma, have raised thi
year 10000 hxshels of wheat. This
the seventh consecutive crop of whes
raised in this valley. -..
/ The change brought about by the ci
tablishment of mannfac tories at LeaveI
worth is thus spoken of hy a correspond
eut of the Topeka Capital: Indeed tn
universal cry heard .here is for NOR
dwellings Many families are con
PEELED to hoard because they cannes ren
houses"
LeavenwOrth is bowling for vat
works. The local press is consfderat
enough to state that the desired irApFov
ment is demanded in connectlOn wit
the manufacturing interests Of the paac
leaving the public to infer that there h
been NO mitigation of the popular pre-
udice against water as beverage in thj
city.
Mcpherson Freeman: Mr. j. A. NJ
Conneii, living west OF this place, {
Little river bottom, came out from III
nois last spring. bougAs section
lara and planted 150 acres in broo
coGn. He now has s. tons of broo
conn of the best quality, for which
hhas been offered $40 per ton. E
liplanted the crop from May 10Th to Jul
10Th The crop was never cultivate
= while the value is about $4,000. Oh
! specimen shown us was from so acr
planting of July 10th. This matured
!, I two months, and is worth 81, 900. Here
money with but little work and time, 6
most sufficient to pay for the entire Sc
ton of land. But Mr.. Mcconnell is
man of push and energy, and he max
his efforts tell.
. This item from the Madison New
l D might be applied to every county in Il
eastern half of Kansas:
II AS an evidence of the growth of Il
country we refer to the settlement SOU
of town about three miles. Two yea
9 ago there was no house nearer to Il
n place than Madison. The country WI
p a wild waste of prairie land oyer whiC
cattle roamed unmolested. Now, Il
fertile slope land is taken up, fence
e and this year produced far yield
it grain. Comfortable houses hare bee
n built and recently school 'distri
formed, and now notice to contractors
4 given that they will build q stone scho
houSe- Twenty six children of schc
age are enrolled on the clerks books {
/, day. The rapid growth made in tn
: neighborhood is eqalled and even 81
passed by other neighborhoods arour
L US. There is no great noise made a6o'
r il, but il is an undeniable fact that ka
! sas is increasing in wealth and popai
. ton at rapid rate.
There came near being bloody tin
: at Strong City, few days ago. as v
learn from the Leader. A gang of Of
, or more darkies employed in ballastiE
} the railroad, came into Strong City on Il
train used for transporting ballast roc
. A number of them congregased in Pc
, Wheelan's billiard saloon, and one
them applied very abusive language
: DIR. McCallum, who with friend, wei
. in to get a cigar The doctor attempts
to leave without noticing the felloN
who grew holder when he saw the do
tor was not disposed to notice him. 4
last the. doctors patience gave out, an
seiZing billiard cue, he knocked Il
blackguard down. The rest of Il
crowd then began piling in @
the doctor who knocke
them right and left, retreatiu
in good order. He was assisted !
. Wheelan, who drew a part Of the crow
from the doctor by pounding them o
the head with Ratchet The crow
followed McCallum up the stree
CWheeler in the mean time havin
locked the crowd out Of his saloon
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