The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-09-08
PERsoNAI. nrENrrON.

PERSONAL. MENTION.
Mr.. Frank Hall, son of T. P. Hall, is
home from New Mexico on short visit.
Dwight Bill returned last week
from Colorado, looking and feeling first
Glass
ST. Woodruff, brakeman On freight
No. 0, had his leg broken at Cottonwood
Friday.
james Benson and family have gone
to Butler county, to establish them
selves upon farm near EIdorado.
Our fellow townsman, G. W. Williams,
Esq, has recently returned 10 Emporia
from tour to his old home in Illinois.
Sheriff Moon has made good seIec-
ton in appointing B. F. Romano his
deputy, TO succeed the late JAS. Spill
man.
Mrs. Dunlap and Mrs. Waller, who
have been visiting friends in this city
for some weeks, returned TO their homes
in Ohio last week.
Miss Nellie Perry, assistant book
keeper with Stevenson, Emery & TAN,
of Topeka, is spending her vacation with
Mr.. and Mrs. Engineer Case, on Neosho
street
Winfield Courier: Judge J. Jay Buck,
of Emporia, is in the city, a guest of Col.
McMullen. Judge Buck is booked for
an address during the temperance camp
meeting.
H. w. McCune, of the Emporia Ledg-
er, returned Thursday from a visit of
some weeks to his old home in Indiana.
His mother, whose illness called him
thence, is slowly improving.
Finn Irwin and James Hilton, who
went west some weeks ago as guards in
the employ Of the Santa Fe company,
have returned to EmpOra. Mr.. Hilton
win resume his position at the Santa Fe
depot
Mr.. r. NJ. Mills returned from a visit
of some weeks to his old tramping
ground in Maine, last week. His
wife did not come with him, being de-
tanned at the bedside of her sick
mother.
Tom Flynn, formerly messenger for
the Western Union telegraph company,
at this place, but latterly operator at
Reading, has been transferred to Cot
tonwood. AS this is the nature of a
promotion we congratulate Tom on his
good fortune.
Newton Republican; Rev. DIR. Cord
| ley, of Emporia, addressed the members
of the Sunday school convention at the
Opera House last Wednesday evening.
He had large audience, and he fully
sustained his reputation as a strong, fore.
ible and an entertaining speaker.
Mr.. Jesse Fell, of Normal, Illinois,
was in the city Thursday. He is max.
ing a tour of the state in the interest OF
the Chicago & Alton railroad company
which is about TO inaugurate system
of forest planting, as a means of sup
plying the future demands of that cor
poration for ties with which to extend
its lines.
Mr.. C.. Mixer, who has been employed
for some months past as operator at the
train dispatcher's Office of the Santa Fe
started last week for San Marcial, New
| Mexico, where he will hold a similar
but better position. During his stay
in Emporia, he proved himself gentle
man in every sense of that term, anC
made very many friends who regret hi:
departure.
Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Stotler returned
from a visit of five weeks among friends
in West Virginia and Ohio, Thursday
They were accompanied by Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas Murdoch, who have beer
absent from Emporia for nearly a year
The entire party are in the best of health
and are we'll satisfied to get back to
Kansas.
Hon. ]. S. Codding, president of The
Kansas Sheep Breeders and Wool Grow
ers' Association, returned from his TRIP
to Eureka and went west Thursday. He
was much pleased with the sheep farms
of Greenwood county. He had little
time to spend in this city, but reports
that sheep men everywhere are alive tc
the importance of first-class exhibit OF
wool and stock at the State Fair
Newton Republican: We congratu
late the Republicans of Lyon county on
the nomination of our boyhood and
lifelong friend, w. F. Chalfantj fol
Register of Deeds. We know him per
sonally as an honest man, lifelong Re
publican, patriotic soldier. who carries
the scars of wounds received IN defense
of his country, and in addition to all this
he has the very best qualifications fol
the Office. He deserves the unanimous
support of the patriotic voters of Lyon
county.