The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-01-28
AROUND TOWN.

whom they are going upon two such
valuable accessions to their community.
AROUND TOWN
AsThe Hotel Coolidge is slowly reaching
20 Jetiun.
rs Tor the Sanford lecture can be
had At re city book store.
We fekfn that all the telephone stock
is now taken bEt eight or ten shares.
Messrs. Chalfant s. Graham are get
ting out contract of seventeen blank
books for the Chicago lumber company.
Quite number of carpenters are out
of employment at present, but the pros
poets for spring boom are looking up
The sprinkling wagon looks awfully
chilly as it perambulates the streets,
furnishing water by the barrel from the
stand-pipe.
Hitching posts are not being put up
as extensively as was anticipated since
the passage Of the ordinance permitting
their erection.
Superintendent Hammond made a
thorough inspecting tour of the water
works the other day, and found every
thing in running order.
Miriam Chapter o. f. S. will hold a
stated communication at Masonic hall,
Friday evening 2Sth, beginning at z 80
MRS. NJ. II. Buck, Secretary.
The new school house is not plas,
tered yet, but the building is en-
closed and in good shape, and work will
be resumed as soon as the weather will
permit.
Invitations for the second annual mas
| querade party Of the Pleasant Hour
Club are out The pleasant event will
take place at Bancroft hall ON Friday
evening Febuary4.
The agent of E. l.. Howard & Co, Oi
Cincinnati, manufacturers of tower
clocks, is expected in Emporia this
week, to figure on the contract for the
new school clock and bell.
Emporia Lodge No. 2, A. o. U w.
had meeting last night and appointed
committees TO perfect plans for the meet
ing Of the grand lodge of the state
which will be held in Emporia mex
Tuesday.
The sidewalk on Commercial stree
between Ninth avenue and the Normal
has been repaired and the street commits
sioner hopes that he now islands in
with the young lady who censured hin
so freely before the work was DONE
The telephone connecting the waite
works building and engine hous'
works very nicely and sew
eral young ladies who used it tn
other day 10 talk with superintendent
Hammond thought 1t lawfully cute"
Two women were seen to enter a gin
shop the other evening and capture thei
husbands, whom they took home in
state of intoxication. The shamt
ling gait of the men rendere
the journey slow and chilly, but We dar
say 1t was warm enough after they &c
home.
Mrs. Schmidling is moving her furn
ture into the fremont House south Q
the railroad, on Commercial street. 1t hs
undergone thorough system of repair
: has been newly papered and painte
throughout, and IS admirably adapted /
the purpose of boarding house.
The committee on organization al
, pointed at the telephone exchange NEE
ing on Saturday night, met Tuesday ey
and drafted constitution and bylaw
and issued q call for meeting Of Il
stockholders on the Sd of February, f
the election of officers. All the stoc
has been subscribed but thirteen share
e Col. ]. P. Sanford, who viii lecture !
{ this city on Friday evening, comes
a Emporia under auspices which shouI
b insure him splendid reception. He
S somewhat known to our people. haviE
. lectured here some years az
e and no one who heard him then, wi
d forego the privilege of duplicating Il
v pleasure. He has been the recipient
l. the most flattering press notices wheI
ever he has appeared, and there can
: no doubt of his entire ability to plea
|, and instruct any audience that may /
2 semble 10 hear him. Get your ticke
J. ct the city book stors.