The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-12-08
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Senator Plumb left for Washington
Thursday.
Ed. Kinnan Is keeping books for L. D.
Fox s. Co.
Ed. Jay has accepted position in the
Emporia postoffiee.
Captain Sommers has returned from
Colorado for the winter
Geo. d. Phillips and wife. of Howard,
are visiting the family of Col. Todd in
this city
On dit: That George Kramer is go
ing to be Sheriff Ryan's deputy. We
shall be pleased to confirm this ruinor-
Mrs. Albright, whose husband pub
fishes the Santa Fe Democrat, nj Santa
Fe, is stopping at the Park Place hotel.
VIM. E. Jones, of Middle Granville.
New York, is in Emporia, looking after
his real estate interests in this vicinity.
Mr.. j. *. johnson, superintendent of
the Pacific Express, with headquarters
at Kansas City, was in the city Thurs
day.
W. T. Heatherington has gone east to
join his wife. and J. NJ McCown has
been installed as editor pro tenn of the
Sentinel
Mrs MofTet and her daughter Emily
started for New York City Sunday. to
visit friends. They will be absent for
some weeks.
Will Biddle is doing just as well as
could be expected of a man to whom the
delightful experience is SO entirely new.
Ien-pOnnd boy.
Mari Gilchrist started Thursday for Ur-
bana, Illinois, where his wife has been
visiting for some weeks. He wilt be
gone for about ten days.
s. Betting, Caldwell attorney, and
John Woods, banker from that place,
were in Emporia Saturday on business
connected with Danford's affairs.
The mother of T. j. Downing, who
recently came to Kansas from London,
Ohio, is lying very seriously i'll with
dropsy OF the liver, at the Park Place no.
tel.
a very life-like crayon picture of the
late Robert B. Hurst, by Scholten, of St.
Louis, can be seen at the First National
bank, of which the deceased was the first
cashier.
Judge Elstun has rented the room for |
merly occupied by Holmes 81 Holden
aod mill o1oo q low OfFoa VVa lawn
that the Judge was quite successful as
an attorney in Illinois.
Mrs. Mary Rogers, of this city, is hold
ing a series of protracted meetings at |
Winfield. At Columbus she was instru-
mental in bringing over one hundred
souls into the church.
Mr.. Wilson, a Kansas City attorney,
fresh from the seat Of war in Sumner |
county, was IN the city Saturday. He left |
Caldwell with as much expedition as
Judge Campbell employed in getting
away from that place.
We met in the city Thursday W.
W. Mandis, of Freeman, Mo-, who pro-
poses to locate here to engage in the
queensware and grocery business. He
is an experienced business man, and is
well spoken of by those who know him.
s. E. Smoke, formerly with Chas.
Cook, but lately in the Santa Fe car re
corder's Office at Topeka, spent few
hours in Emporia Wednesday on his
way to Las Vegas, New Mexico. We
our friend Smoke on his
worthy promotion in the Division Super
Office at Las Vegas.
Burlington Independent: The many
friends of DR.. j. s. Lawrence will be
pleased to learn that his mining inter-
ests near Silverton, Colorado, are becom-
ing quite valuable. He has located at
Durango, Colorado, where he will prac-
tice medicine while his mines are being
developed. The doctors home is in
but he is known all over the
state as a successful physician, and as
an oculist ne stands at the head of his
profession. We hope when the doctor
makes his "pile'' he will return to Kan
sas, where he will receive the Fright
hand of fellowship"
Printers naturally take to the stage,
and we find in one of the "leading peo-
ple'' of the Williams troupe a good
printer in the person of 81 Robinson.
He came up yesterday and threw down
his makeup" We told him that was
8 season ticket" TO THE NEWS office
while he was in town. AS fun-maker
81. is brilliant success. He kept the
audience giggling continually last even
ing, both as "Trotter," with his potato,
and as Uncle JOSH" Sis motto is:
"Tickle the public and make it grim
The more you tickle the more your win.'