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The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-11-03

Diptheria still prevails to a consider
able extent in EmpOria and we fear will
become more general if greater pre-
cautions are not observed in preventing
the spread of this dangerous malady.
The very contagious character of the dis
ease does not seem 10 be thoroughly APP
preciated if we have been correctly in
formed regarding the lack of precaution
exercised in regard TO this scourge. We
learn from reliable sources that mothers
were seen the other day coming away
from the funeral of a child who had
died of diphtheria leading children OF
carrying them in their arms, and that
children who are exposed to the infec
ton which so frequently carries death
into the household are sent
TO the public schools thu:
cndangering the health and lives
of scores of pupils. We take occasion
to refer TO these matters because of the
precious interests involved and in tho
hope that the utmost care will be taker
to stay the progress of disease which
has brought sorrow and mourning to 81
MANY homes
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-11-03
OVER THE STATE.
Howard brags on her sidewalks.
C;rayd ;s SHINING flour to Georpia

Howard brags on her sidewalks.
Girard is shipping flour to Georgia.
Elk county has only three tickets in
stead of five.
1891 sheep were killed by dogs in
Kansas last year.
The Kansas Academy of Science will
convene at Topeka Nov. 9th.
Leavenworth is infested with "skelOl-
ogists," a new term for grave robbers.
Volume No. 25 of the Kansas Su-
preme Court Report has been issued.
The Howard Courant loses none of
its good qualities by the late change in
propFietors.
Garside 81 Anderson, heavy Atchison
teamsters, failed. Liabilities, $2S, 900 /;
assets, $4,000.
The Democrats of Leayenworth county
are making their campaign on opposi-
ton to prohibition.
The handsomest lady in Parsons was
voted a $62 hat the other day. There
is no use for the preachers to talk to that
woman about preparing for heaven.
The Commonwealth already feels the
effect of its senseless cut on its suhscrip-
ton price and proposes to make it up
by heavy advance on its prices for ad-
vertising.
The recent dispensation of tho Grand
Master Workman, reducing the fees of
admission and reinstatement 10 tho
order, has given quite boom TO the A.
o. w. w. in Kansas. -'
Abe Steinberger will commence TO
blaze away at matters and things
through the Daily Winfield Telegram
on the 1st of November. We don't be-
lieve that town will have such chron-
ic Sunday look after he gets fairly warm
under the collar.
The Democrats now have good daily
in Topeka and if they don't give it
liberal support they do not deserve good
papers. We refer to the Daily Demo
graf, edited by Fugate & Chapman, at
S. per year or $1.25 for three months.
Address Topeka Daily Democrat,
Wichita sends greeting to the law
abiding people of Kansas in dispatch
which announces that every saloon in
Sedgwick county has been closed. Some
of the editors down that way have prob
ably discovered by this time that they
were a trifle premature in their specula-
lions as to how the cat was going to
jump on the prohibition question. Prin-
ciple is a better thing to tie to than ex
pediency, fact that great many Kan
sas politicians should employ all their
mental faculties in striving to remem-
ber
The Rev. Mr.. Tucker, of Winfield
was assaulted without warning in the
streets of that city, on the evening Of the
a4th, and brutally beaten by whiskyite
named Green, who had taken exceptions
to some utterances made by Tucker in
a temperance address delivered by him
on Sunday evening. There is strong
talk of tar and feathers for the coward
ly rascal who perpetrated the outrage,
but the temperance people of the place
counsel law and order and are willing
to abide the results of all such argu
ments.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-11-03
BOSTON BEAUTY.

A Boston letter says: A lady from that
exalted state of Ohio was raving to me
this morning over the delicate and ex-
quisite skins of these New Englanders.
They all have this beautiful, fair COM
plexi0n, due, it must be, to something
purifying and bleaching in the climate.
Men, women and children rejoice
in purity and delicacy OF
tint that is the despair of all the dark
and muddy-skinned daughters of the
south and west, and this first and car
dinal point of beauty, without which a
lovely face misses half its charm, and
with which the plainest features are re.
deemed and made fair, gives Boston
beauty the palm over ali her rivals.
The vaunted compilations OF the Balti-
more bellies are nothing TO the sea-
shell and rose-leaf fairness of these girls,
reared on brown bread and beans and
famed by cutting east winds. A paint
ed face is the rarest of sights on Boston
streets The ladies have little need of
ar tificial aids, and the strict and
conscientious notions of the land
frown on such tricks. remem-
Der still the Mortified and astOnished
tone with which pink-and-white BOs
ton girl cried, "Why, she's powdered %
when celebrated beauty of Washington
society was pointed out. TattooIng
could not have been viewed with more
tint of rice powder and the fadeless
bloom of carmine. In no 9TH
or section of the country is
there SO much honesty in
such matters of the toilet az
here, and while southern girls are noto-
rious and reckless in the way they plas-
tr their countenances, and California
bellies stop at nothing IN the way OF en-
amei, penciled brows and bleached hair,
the Bostoniau views them with contempt
and suspicion Only last summer the
whole feminine faction of a hotel
along the south shore were as unit
against one poor, silly little wo-
man who would get herself up COM
plexion that surpassed the lilly and the
rose. Nothiug could allay the pref udice,
and although her family and standing
in the city were known, those other
women held sloof from her and fairly
froze her out. The gentlemen tried to
amend matters and only made them
worse by their companionship, the ladies
asking them point-blank if they
did not know paint when they saw il on
and obssinately holding TO the sphinx
riddle OF "Why does she do 90
Argument was useless, and pleas of
cutting her for nothing but that, were
settled with deliberate and conscien-
tiousIy spoken verdict: ~ am sure
she can't be nice" Where would the
best society, the first families. the Mob
hill beauties of San Francisco be If
these rigid censoFs had weight there !?
Some cities nearer home and the Hub
might hide their frescocd faces At such
prOcrusteaa measures, and Washington
draving-rOo would be more than
half depleted If they cast out all who
repaired the reyages of time and used
the clumsy counterfeits Of natures
bloom.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-11-03
Election Proclamation

State OF Kansas. Lyon county-sS
The state of Kansas 10 all to whom these
presents come greeting: Know We that l.
J. Il. Moon, Sheriff of Lyon county, Kansas
by virtue OF authority IN me vested do hv
tins proclamation give public notice that an
the Tuesday succeeding the first Monday in
November, y. ID. 1881, the same being
Tuesday, November Sth. 1881,
there will lie held General Election, AMI
the officers to be chosen at that time are as
follows, to-wit:
a County Clerk
4 County Treasurer.
A Register OF Deeds
Sheriff.
County Surveyor
Coroner
\ Commissioner for the First District rnn-
slsting of Emporia city and EInpnria town
ship, IN said county.
IL Is further ordered that the following
proposition be submitted to the legal voters
OF Lyon county, to-wit: Shall the Comma
sloners OF Lyon county, Kansas sell the Two
Hundred Thousand Dollars of stock owned
by the county in the Missouri, Kansas & TeN-
;ls railway company, Southern branch nj nat
less than 10 cents ON the dollar. and the Pre-
ceesIS 10 hc applied to the Redemption, and
payment Of the outstanding q per cent lion, =
ballots To he used in voting upon said proI.a-
Sltlon rs above, shall thereon contain the fol
lowing Words-those voting for the prup,,>.-
ton: For the Propositions Those voting
against the GainsJ the PropS-
SltloB-' And votes OF electors for said officers
and proposition will b0 received ut the pnlIS
OF each election district OF said county.
In tess imony whereof have hcrcnnto set
my hand, at Elnporia,. at my Office in saih
county. this 18th day Of September, a ID. 1871
j. Il. MOON.
foi" Sheriff Lyon county. Kansas
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-11-03
A Cheap Hotel.


Once upon q time, no matter when nor
where, the writer stopped for night at
a cheap hotel. know the reason why
he did it, but won't tell. 1t was some
time ago, but the time and place, bed
fellows and hash are we'll remembered.
1t was a real cheap place, and 1 had a
real cheap time, and feel cheap every
time l think of it. Experience didn't
teach dear school that time. learned
some very cheap things for nominal
sum.
That hotel had the name of being a
two storied building. 1t had a kitchen,
a dining room, near enough to the
store house to smell the onions, an of
flee, two narrow dining halls and a
number of uncarpcted bed rooms. The
window in my room had no shades, and
opened on sweet smelling alley. The
bed was hard, lumpy and fragrant and
was well occupied. never want to see
livelier one. 1t was so active that /
rolled out OF it in a little time. One
poor little stool chair was my resting
place most Of the night.
But that office deserves a notice.
Everything about it was cheap; a
good many things dirt cheap. 1 did not
try to enjoy it till morning. 1 then
studied the room and its company al
MOST an hour. 1t was about ten feet
square and seven and o half feet high.
Part of the plastering was broken off,
and the rest of it was thickly orna-
mented with old fly specks. 1 don't
know how long the flies had been at
work on that ceiling. There were few
well wrought cob-webs near the top of
the windows and along the ceiling. The
most of them needed busting. The fur
niture consisted of a dilspidated lounge,
a few cheap chairs and pine box filled
with sand, tobacco juice, guilds, cigar
stumps, apple parings and other things.
1 did not examine it closely.
The dining-room was not very tidy.
Everything had the appearance of being
cheap. The oil cloth that covered the
table was nearly clean. The breakfast
was not first-class. But must say the
biscuits were good and the boiled eggs
were nice.
Moral - Cheap things are not always
the best G. r. r.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-11-03

Will Jarrett and Charlie De Camp
were shooting at West Lake Thursday
and among other game which they
brought home in the evening was an
immense pelican measuring nine feet
between the tips of its wings. The boys
are going TO have 1t stuffed by a
taXidermist in this city.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-11-03

A very harmonious and satisfactory
meeting was held at Plymouth Thurs
day, which was addressed by Col. J. w.
Fcighan, of this city, and L. N. Dixon
and S. b. Dillon, of Plymouth. The
latter gentlemen are responsible for the
statement that the canvass is in excellent
shape IN that section and that Pike will
do her duty by the regular Republican
ticket
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-11-03

Mr.. A. Howard and wife, of Dunlap,
old and esteemed citizens of this county,
returned from three months visit east
last Thursday. They visited Vermont,
their old home, Massachusetts and
Name. But don't say word TO MIR.
Howard about clam chowder. He can
taaie II vet
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-11-03

A horse belonging to John Weaver,
residing two miles cast of town was
stolen Thursday in broad day light from
where it was hitched, north IF the Saw
ings bank on Sixth avenue. Shortly be-
fore the animal was missing a suspicious
looking character was observed inspect
ing it, and he is supposed To be thief.
If Mr.. Weaver wants 10 recover his
property he had better put Tom Elem
ing ON the track of il.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-11-03

II seems that the upper end of Com
mcrcial street is To be cursed with a
rum hole, the room formerly occupied
by the Boston store having been fitted
up for a tipping den. This is the only
place ON the square where business will
be done behind screen, and the pro
prietor should be made 10 feel that there
is no room for his traffic in the neigh
borhoOd which he proposes 70 pOllute.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-11-03

John Weaver's horse. which was
stolen from where it was hitched on
Sixth avenue, on Wednesday, was seen
on the same afternoon OF the same day
at Wells ford, by o. l.. Davis, in pos
session of man who was riding it and
leading another horse. He told Davis
he was on his way to Usage county.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-11-03

jackson Township and the Kansas City
and EmPOria Railroad
The following communication will ex,
plain itself:
EMPoRIA, Kan, Oct. Goth, 1881.
j. n. Griffith, Esq, Chairman of the
Board of County Commissioners:
SIN: The Kansas City and Emporia
RAILROAD company win commence the
permanent location and securing the
right-of-wsy Of the road the coming
week. for which means are secured. The
work will be completed rs fast as men
and money can doit, and knowing this
to be the fact, request was made for a
small levy TO meet interest that in our
in igment will be due before next years
levy can be made available. But under.
standing that a few of the citizens Of
Jackson township are feeling aggrieved
over the matter, I would hereby say
that the railroad company
have no legal right TO demand
the levy at this time, and request that
the levy be not made al present, while ]
believe it would have been for the true
interest of the township to have accept
cd the action Of your board.
Respectfully, H. C.. Cross.
President of the Kansas City and En-
poria railroad
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-11-03

N. E. Weaver toes the mark and comes
out with his sign in the NEws. Mr..
Weaver is the grand mOgul over the
hardware and implement ranch and
store-rOoms at the quarters so long pre-
sided over by Lewis Lutz. Ned is no
chaplain but he can make you happy by
talking and selling you hardware The
shoes of the late proprietor are not too
big for his successor in this particular,
to saw the least
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-11-03
EMPLOYMENT FOR ALL
To SELL HOUSEHOLD ARTICLE.

UNllE poor as VOL IA the rich, the oil as
Il well rs the yoaug. the wife rs well Us the
husband, the young maiden as we'll rs the
young man. the girl as we'll the boy, may
Just as well earn u few dollars in honest en-
ploymcni, rs To sit around the house and wait
Tor Others Ia earn 1t for them. We can give
YOU employment, all the time, or during your
spare hours only; travelling, or in your own
ucighlorh0~t, among your friends and ac-
quaintanccs. you do not care for employ
mcnt, We can impart valuable Information to
you tree OF cost IL will cost you only ono
cent for u Postal card TO write FOR our Pros
pcctus, and 10 may be the means of making
you good many dollars.
DO not neglect this opportunity. You do
not have to Invest \ large sum OF money. and
run great risk Of losing it. You will rcadi-
lp sec that IL will DC an easy matter TO make
from $40 TO 500 n week, and g. tabliSh n lucrn-
tive and independent business, honorable,
straightforward and profitable. Attend 10
this matter NOW for their Is MONEY IN IT
for all who engage with US. We will surprise
You and You will wonder why you never
wrote TO us before. We send full pauticulars
FRKE. Address, BUCKEYE Mfg CO,
(Name this paper.l MARION, ONO
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-11-03

Take care of your liver. A great
number of the diseases to which man
kind are liable arise from disordered
condition of this organ. Keep it in a
sound and healthy condition and YOU
can defy disease. Prlckly Ash Bitters
are especially adapted for this purpose,
being composed of drugs which act on
the liver, giving it tone and strength
to withstand malaria.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-11-03

The anti-prohibition organ of this city
is authority for the statement that it is
Pfefferle who has leased the Boston
storeEoom and has partitioned it off into
stalls. The authorities and the temper.
ance people want to keep their weather
eye on this chronic and insolent violator
of the liquor law.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-11-03

The meeting of the Litera,i last Fri
day was we'll attended, notwithstanding
the doubtful aspect of the weather Wis
itors to the society should not forget the
proper degree OF dccorum which is due
the society as tribute of respect All
are cordially invited to attend the meet
ings. REPORTER.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-11-03

The BrOadwell case for which jury
was .impaneled Thursday before Justice
Culver was dismissed by the county at
torney because of lack of evidence to
warrant the prosecution in going on
with the trial. 1t appears the main
witness for the state, upon whose state
ments the proceeding was brought
failed the prosecution at the last mo-
mcnt, and went square back ON what lac
had said he could testify to.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-11-03

AS yet there have been no cases of
"pink-eye" reported among the horses in
this vicinity, though Buckeye is pre-
vailing TO some extent among the local
rum-venders, and the indications are that
the disorder will assume the form of an
epidemic before the Temperance people
lay down their arms.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-11-03

Judge Buck, register in bankruptcy,
to-day declared dividend in the bank
rupt case of w. ii. Craddock of two
cents and four mills on the dollar. This,
we understand, is TO be the "last of
its raceo
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-11-03

Leavenworth Times; The school tax
levy in Lyon county amounts TO $42,-
9JO.S3, of which amount Emporia city is
assessed $10,OO6.7s and Emporia town
ship $4,069.54. The young idea ought
to be taught to shoot pretty correctly on
that amount of money.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-11-03

Some of the gentlemen who are so lib
eral in regard TO party fcaliY this fall
will probably be stiff advocates of party
organization and party nominations by
next year, or at least they will be SO as
as soon as they want the party support
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-11-03

There are three orders for premiums
still in the hands of the secretary Of the
Lyon County Agricultural Society which
have not been called for. AS they will
be "outlawed" by first of November the
parties who are entitled to them had bet
ter hurry up.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-11-03

The meetings at the Friends church
on Sylvan street are growing in interest
and attendance. The services are con
Quoted by Rev. Mr.. Kenworthy assisted
by Mrs. Mary Rogers, who has been very
successful as an evangelist.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-11-03

At meeting of the faculty and stud
ents of the State Normal School of En-
poria, Kansas, the following resolutions
were unanimously adopted:
WHEREAS, 1t has pleased our Heaven
ly Father to remove from our midst
Miss Nellie Burns, one of our most
promising and estimable students, there
fore:
ReS0lUed, That we tender to the be-
reaved family and friends our sincere
and heartfelt sympathies.
Res0lDed, That these resolutions be
published in the Emporia NEWS, and
that copy be sent to the sorrOwing
family. COMMITTEE.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-11-03

Lcavenworth Times: The Whitley OPP
era house, now building in Emporia. is
pronounced by recent visitor to give
promise of being one of the most CON-
pletc and well appointed places of
amusement in the West.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-11-03
Publication Notice

LAND OFFICE At ToPKKA, Kansas
October s. 1881.
Notice Is hereby given tGat the following
named settler has filed notice of his Inten-
ton TO make hna! proof in support OF his
claim. and that said proof will he made he
fore the Clerk OF the Court OF Lyon county
nc the county seat, ON Tuesday, November Is,
1881, viz; John Q Slead, Homestead applie.-
ton No. d5i6 for the east half of northeast
quarter OF section "a, township n south.
range IL east.
lie names the following witnesses To prove
his continuous residence upon AMI cuitiva-
ton of said land. viz: James Malone, l.. &
Twogood. j. Twogood and James Hamlet. all
of Kansas.
W. H. FITZPATRICK.
WHO Register
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-11-03

The hog market still continues to
languish. You can tell when quota
tions drop notch lower by the faces of
Emporia parties who have pigs in soak
in Kansas CITY and St. Louis.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-11-03

Chase County Leader: Mr.. and Mrs.
J. V. Sanders, of Emporia, were it town
on Tuesday, receiving the congratula-
tions of numerous old friends. J. V.
can't he dispensed with by his old eli
cnts
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-11-03

Usage City Free Press: Mr.. L. Sew
cry was in town Monday Arranging tor
the furniture of the new Usage County
Bank which will probably get into its
new building by the middle of NOycm-
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-11-03
III the better element of society con

If the better element of society comes
70 the front and does its whole duty in
the warfare which has been so success
fully inaugurated against the rum traffic
in Emporia, the era of screens and pine
partitions in this city will soon be past.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-11-03

A letter received by II. J. Bird, of this
city, from Atlanta, Georgia, says that
over two thousand car loads of freight
have arrived at that city in the way of
displays for the great cotton exposition.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-11-03

Emporia is receiving encOmiums on
every hand for the war she ismaking on
the whiskyites. Let us merit in the
fullest degree the good words that have
been said of us.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-11-03

The Masonic fraternity of Fredonia
claim the finest hall in Southern Kansas.
But how the persimmons will fall when
Emporia gets her Masonic temple com
nlefad
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-11-03

A certain young lady threatens TO box
the cars of certain young man when
she can find box large enough
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-11-03

The festive 'oyster supper" 10 raise
funds for a new organ, or a new carpet,
etc, looms up in the near future.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-11-03

The third meeting for this year of the
Lyon county Teachers Association will
be held in this city next Saturday.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-11-03

A party of photographers from St.
Louis are in the city taking pictures Of
business houses and dwellings.