The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-06-23
OVER THE STATE.
Winfield has two parks.
Parsons is IN want of a park

Wlnneld has Two parks.
Parsons is IN want of park
Ansel Gridley is building in Winfield.
The Daily Eclipse thinks the wheat
crop in eastern Kansas above the aver
age.
Wheat harvest is in progress all along
the line of the Santa Fee road. and good
crops are reported.
Winfield raised about $500 for the
Floral (Cowley county, cyclone suffer
ers. Liberal Winfield.
J.T. Shelton, who is dcnominated the
"sinner's preacher" has become one of
the editors of the Wichita Daily Repub-
lican, Mr.. Whitworth retiring.
The most difficult thing you ever un-
dertoOk to lobby into a Kansas mans
mind is the solemn fact that snake bite
can be cured without whisky.-Winfield
Courier.
The grass, like the Greenback party,
is growing apidly.-COlumbus Times.
But the grass, like the Greenback par
ty, is always somewhat dried up in the
fall.-Girard Press.
The seal used by Kansas when ter
ritOrY is in possession of the secretary of
state at Topeka. 1t was devised by Gov.
A. II. Reeder, and bears date May so,
1854, the day of the passage of the ia
nous Kansas and Nebraska act.
1t is said that Topeka Is struggling
with an epidemic of Sunday school pic
MICS. This will probably account for
the persistent appearance of Jim Snod-
dy's patronymic among the hotel arri-
walls reported in the newspapers of that
city.
The best evidence that the stock busi-
ness in this county pays is the fact that
| last week an eastern man returned from
a trip over the Cherokee strip with $7O,-
600 cash having been unable To find a
single man on the range who was will
ing to sell his location ut any price
Wellington Press.
Kansas is just recovering from the
terror inspired by the we'll organized
system of cyclones which have been
making Il careful canvass of the state,
when 1t is announced that the Green
hackers contemplate holding camp
meeting at Bismarck grove, in August.
It has probably not failed to strike
the average reader Of the public prints
that Kansas is turning out an unusually
fine crop of snake stories this season for
state whose organic law prohibits the
manufacture and sale of liquors save fol
scientific, mechanical and medical pur
poses"
Eureka Republican: While in WITCH
tia last Monday we observed that the sa
looms were running in full blast. They
pretend to have nothing but cider to sell
A man wanting beer, wine or whisky
5 simply makes that want known, but il
: order to secure the desired article call
B for cider.
Kansas Is still maintaining her prouG
position in the van of moral and sccia
reform. We learn that the suggestion
of introducing the art of shaving ant
i Embarrassing into the curriculum of tn
deaf and dumb asylum at Olathe,
meeting with decided favor at the hand
of the board of state charities.
Marion Center Record; Mr.. Barney
: of the Marion Center sugar factory firm
came In from his Chicago home, ant
spent a few days last week. He an
Mr.. Rugg, his partner, have made al
rsngements for putting in immediatel
the machinery necessary for the mani
facture of sugar. The Marion Cente
sugar factory is preparing to boom.
5 The Mcpherson branch Will make col
nectiOn with the main line or the SAINT
= Fe at It's western end on the LIST of Al
gust, thus shortening the distance b,
u tween Florence and EllinwOOd abOI
= twenty miles, and avoiding a heav
grade west of Peabody. A new roun
:, house is being built at EliinwOod, an
= corner lots are showing an upward tel
:, Gency.
b The work of razing the old Tefft hou:
he at Topeka was commenced MOnds
d and will be pushed forward with vig'
h. and dispatch by the proprietor of thi
historic pile of stone and morts
Parties who are interested in the stud
of entomology would realize incalcul
- BILE benefit by making arrangements
be upon the ground during the proce
- Of demolition.
\, Madison News: Some of our stoG
q men filed complaint under the Ne
. Texas cattle law against the parties wi
~ were holding Southern cattle on Il
MT Van Horn Branch. Sheriff Werner can
10 up last Tuesday morning TO take char
n, of the cattle, but found no cattle n
YER men. They had taken leave during 4
70 night and have not since been hea
in from. Let it be known once for ali, ID
,is 1t will not pay to drive such cattle in
40 Greenwood county. The stockmen Al
m, farmers are in earnest when they decls
,cr they will deal out the maximum of I
-;s, law to those who would infect thu
,st herds with Texas fever.
Wellington Press: A ten year {
county, One hundred and six tho
e a aud acres of growing corn! Eigh
the four thousand acres of promising win
lies wheat! Six hundred and fffY-
for thousand healthy fruit trees, nearly o
rec halt of which are now loaded with fru
On A population of twenty-one thousa
AM progressive, enterprising, thrifty poop
20 One hundred and sixty-tWo organi,
siVe school districts and one hundred 8
twelve miles OF railroads. What