The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-08-31
OVER THE STATE.

OVER THE STATE.
The Cincinnati Commercial calls Us
Cranky Kansas" Guess Kansas can
stand it.
A company of old soldiers will march
from MarysvilIe to Topeka, to take part
10 the reunion.
The Kirwin creamery utilities the
cream of 200 COWS and makes 100 pounds
of butter daily.
A number of Kansas farmers are buy
ing hogs in Illinois and Iowa, 10 fatten
on Kansas corn.
John Brady, Of Nemeha county, owns
thirty cats. Mr.. B. seems TO be an
old maid OF the male persuasion
A person standing on top Of the opera
house at Mcpherson can see 5000 wheat
stacks, and about twenty threshers at
work.
Fifteen counties in Kansas and one
county in Missouri have signihed their
intention of making displays ct the
Bismarck fair.
Three births at Williamsburg and
twins and single birth At Wellsville
last week, indicate that franklin coun.
ty is raising something besides corn and
castor beans.
Smith county viii have only half q
crop of corn, but it is reassuring TO learn
that It has thirteen candidates in the
field for sheriff. The henehcent law OF
compensation never falls in Kansas.
The latest story is that a turkey
gobbler in Harper county Matched nine
guinea eggs. Nature seems to be al
ready trimming her sails, 80 to speak. to
the female suffrage breeze in Kansas.
Usage county is threatened with one
Of those intensely hilarious Affairs, z
fair without horse race. This, it i'm
presses Us, would be almost as interest
ing as an Irish wake without whisky.
What Kansas wants Is Temperance
without hypocrisy and prohibition with
out OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
You can't get everything all at once
just as you want it. But they are all
coming.
Osborne County Farmer: "Abe
Smith, register of deeds, informs US that
the chief business in his oflce nowadays
lie cAnceling chattel mortgages. The
effects Of the wheat crop are beginning
TO be felt in some localities"
Topeka Capital: Prof r B. WEIGH
desires 1t understood that he has never
written any letter which would justify
the sending out of such q dispatch as
that which came over the wires from
Bloomington, Illinois, on Monday.
The Western National Fair associa.
ton offers a premium Of 800 for the
best horticultural display at their fair at
Bismarck grove, Lawrence, from the
18th to the Esd OF September, TO any 30
ciety, and q premium of $50 TO the soci-
ETY. making the second best display.
The Kirwln Chief complains that
"the miserable pittance of 5000 per
month, to males, and $3.50 per month
to females, is all that is paid to teachers
In Phillips county" This Is rough on
the probate judge of that county. There
is not one woman in hundred that can
support husband on $3.50 q month.
It is very dull day In Topeka now
when they don't have Law and order
meeting. Meanwhile. it is not an I'm.
common occurrence for prominent men
of that city to essay the. mechanical feat
of opening their hall doors with cork
screw when they return home at night
from lodge meeting or from seeing a
man."
Topeka Capital: The muster rolls
for the reunion are beginning TO come
in and of the first 1923 names received
Illinois furnished 20S, Indiana 1875
Kansas Ill, Iowa SO and Ohio SO, max.
ing 6l3 out OF the 1,026. The balance
which has not yet been sorted and cop.
led in state groups come from almost
every state in the Union.
It will cost you only one cent q mile
on all points on the Atchison, Topeka
8 Santa Fe railroad to visit the unriv
aled Western National fair at Bismarck
Grove, Lawrence, from the 18th to the
23d of September, and the free exhibit
ion at Lawrence of the grand regatta BY
champion rowing crews of the east on
the 10Th and Goth of September.
That there are some people who are
not satisfied with Kansas, after briel
trial, is true. It is not expected that
everybody will like the country and
stay. But there is one fellow in Ohio
who doubtless thinks by this that ne ii
fool for leaving. He lived in Saline
county about two years. Becoming
dissatisfied he went back to Ohio. He
was so intensely disguised with Kansas
that he sold his interest in 8 growing
wheat crop for ten dollars. That "In
terest" was harvested and has just beer
threshed. The yield was sac hundred
and thirtyJfUe bushels.