The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-04-20
Not a picnic yet.

Not picnic yet,
Butchers stuff is getting scarce in this
vicinity.
HI Bird received very fine music
box from Chicago this morning.
Remember the Catholic fair begins al
jays opera house next Monday evening
The next thing on the amusement OF
entertainment program is the Catholic
fair.
Oscar Palmer has succeeded Henry
Williams as porter at the Hotel Cool
ide.
We reckon Emporia viii foot up g.,
600 inhabitants by the end OF the present
year.
District court will not again convene
until May, and then will only be in ses-
sion here one day.
Hughes d Co. are clearing their store
room on south Commercial street, and
We learn VIII give Mr.. Suppe possession
next Friday.
Prothero & Thomas have obtained the
contract for putting up frame house for
Miss Edwards ON Sixth avenue near
West street.
Chas Evans, head cook at the Coolidge,
cut his hand very severely Tuesday
with butcher knife, and is obliged TO
wear il in "a sling
A warrant was issued last Tuesday
for the arrest of II. d. Curtis. charged
with selling liquor in violation of the
law In the north part of the county.
W. F. Chalfant, register of deeds. is
preparing TO make some handsome i'm
proyements. at his residence at the cor
ner Of Fifth avenue and NeoshO street.
The store room now occupied by
Hughes & Co, will, ~ soon as they va
cate II, be stocked with musical instru-
men,s by Mr. W. IL. Suppe and Thyge
Sogard.
The Tanner Bros new building just
north Of the Whitley opera house is
rapidly approaching completion, and
goods to stock it are.beginning TO ar
rive.
II is stated as fact that Billy Thorn
as is the luckiest fisherman in Emporia.
He never visits the Cottonwood unless
he catches some of the finny tribe OF a
ducking.
Three firstclass mill-wrights have ar
rived in EmpOrIa from Fredonia, and
are al work placing the machinery in
the steam mill OF Dr. Armor on Me:
chanics street.
Thomas NJ. Quigley, conductor on
the Santa Fee road, was killed last week
near Las Vegas by locomotive jump
ing the track Engineer Mitchell was
also seriously injured.
Mr.. Harry Collard, who drives Ad-
ans express wagon, felt bigger Satur-
day night than if he had received The
nomination for governor on the Green.
back ticket It's ten pound boy.
We are glad To learn from parties who
came down from Americas today that
the condition of l.. a. Wood is very
much improved. and that there is now
an excellent prospect for his recovery.
We were shown apple, peach and
cherry branches the other day by NAH
lon Stubbs, which were full of we'll
| formed Grnit. Deacon Paisley will have
to fall few cats on the peach crop.
The missing trees in Evergreen Place,
Copley's addition, have just been re-
placed with a choice 10! from Eilivauger
~ Bairy's, Rochester. Though small,
this il IA embryo. the finest park in the
city.
The express wagon of Wells, Fargo 81
Co is just from the shop where it has
been rcpainted, etc. II looks as bright
and shining as did the heads occupying
the front row ofseals at the late Madame
Rentz entertainment.
This morning Mrs. j. NJ. billiard was
removing her millinery goods into the
store room lately vacated by Baird Bros,
where she will remain while her rooms
on Sixth avenue are being repaired and
replsstercd.
Mr.. w. II. Sheen, of Lawrence, Grand
Master Workman of the A. o. U. W., OF
Kansas, had pleasant visit with the
Emporia lodge Thursday. He left by
the afternoon train for Ellinwood, where
he goes to organize lodge.
The transfer tracks connecting the
Missouri Pacific with the Santa Fe are
completed and wee used for the frs,
time Tuesday. This Improvement
will greatly facilitate the transaction al
business between the two roads.
The funeral services of the infant sor
of l. c. and Ida Walthour occurred
Friday afternoon ut 2 o'clock from the
family residence on Constitution street
and were quite largely attended by rela
tives and friends of the family.
: n Howard gold watch, valued at $500
was sold Saturday by T. NJ. Fry to I
young gentleman of this city, who or
dered it engraved with the monogram
&C. l. s." 1t is one of the handsomes
time-piCces ever brought 10 Emporia
and was made to order for the purchaser
.
2 We learn that our legal friend j
Harvey Firth has entered into n partner
ship with a young gentleman of tn
same name. The partnership dates from
last Saturday night, and the little fellow
weighs 10 pounds aud looks just like it
pa
Miss Laura Belle Miller, whose pa
= rents reside a short distance This side a
Neosho Rapids, died Sunday night at
- O'Clock, and was buried last Monda
at 4 o'clock. Miss Miller Yves in he
h twentieth year. We were unable L
n learn the nature of her ailment.
very interesting ceremony too
place at the Catholic church last ever
5 ing in the blessing of the images Re
y Gently received from New York for th
e new altar This consisted in sprinklin
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