The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-05-11
PERSONAL MENTION

sirs. DIR. Biddle has gone to InlIana-
polls on a visit.
Major Hood returned home from
Texas last Friday.
Miss Name Roberts returned Fri
day from New Mexico.
We regret TO learn of the very serious
illness of Mrs. Doctor Frost.
Mr.. ID. NJ. Prothero returned Friday
from Ration, New Mexico
President Wel.h, of the Normal, has
rented 1irst-class law Office at Topeka.
Jimmie Chalfant has accepted posi-
ton as clerk in the music store of
SupPe Il Sogard.
Uncle Joe Ernst is again IN town, and
his genial counienanee may be seen in
the treasuTer's Office.
Mr. NJ L. Stump, of Medora. Illinois,
is in Emporia looking after his landed
interests il this vicinity.
Tom Sebastian came down from Kan
sas City last Saturday TO spend the Sab
bath with Emporia friends
o. PfefTerle and r. Ehret started last
Monday for the east and expect To set sail
for Europe sometime next week
]. G. Parker and family, of Alden,
Indiana, arrived in Emporis Thursday
and are the guests OF Mr.. P's brother,
g. NJ. Parker, of this city.
Asa Bancroft returned from a trip to
the southwest last Friday and says he
never saw a finer prospect for wheat
than there is in Cowley and Sedgwick
counties.
QuetSch & Doan have secured the ser.
vices of l.. W Conrad TO assist them in
selling boots and shoes at their new store
at the corner of Sixth avenue and Com.
mercial street.
John Hartwick, formerly conductor
on the Denver & Rio Grande road, will
shortly take charge of train on the
Santa Fee, and will make Emporia his
headquarters.
Miss Lucille G. hurry arrived Thurs
day from Portsmouth, Ohio, and
will make lengthy visit with the fam
lily of $ B. Riggs. She contemplates
making Emporia her permanent home
We are informed by Judge Grave.
that Mr.. ]. +. Lambert, OF this city
made an exceedingly effective argument
for the prosecution in the BoughmaI
liquor case, tried this week in the dis
trict court of Greenwood county.
Mr.. II. j. Piper returned last Frida6
from ii seven weeks visit in Iowa and
Illinois. He had an exceedingly pleas
ant sine and left one of his children n
| Muscatine, Iowa, and the other at War
rem, Illinois, both with relatives who
will look kindly after them.
+. McHardy started east last Friday
ON a visit TO friends in New York, anC
will go from there To Canada. He
| took with him some specimens of grow
| ing fruit which will open the eyes o.
the people in the east who think tina
Kansas can grow nothing but grasshop
pers.
The many friends of Mr.. John Lep
pert will be pleased to learn that ht
has been tempted by an increase of sal
ary to remain for another year with Ii
]. Bird, with whom he has been em
| ployed for the last fifteen months. He
| is an agreeable gentleman and first-claS:
matchmaker.
Mr.. w r. Irwin, of the firm 81
Trimble IL Irwin, received word FIJI lay
| from Columbus, Ohio, that his mother
fell down stairs on Tuesday of thi:
week, breaking her arm in two place:
and dislOcating her shoulder. We trus
her injuries may not prove so serious a!
to prevent her speedy recovery.
Stephen Hinchaw returned Friday
FROM Philadelphia, where he has
been to visit his alma mater, tht
Friends WatertOwn boarding school
| and to attend the Philadelphia yearly
meeting. He reports having delight
full time, that the spring is very back
ward and much damage has been dom
| by late frosts.
| Mrs +. A. Moore has established, il
| connection with her dressmaking bust
ness a purchasing agency, which will
| prove source of great convenience Il
| her many customers outside of Emporia
| BY this new arrangement Mrs. Moor,
will, for stated commission, purchas,
| all such articles as may be needed b,
persons sending her orders, and he
taste and judgment can always be de
pended upon.
| II. +. Richter, Frank Moriarty ant
| S. NJ. Strictly, of Council Grove, stoppet
| in Emporia Saturday on their wa
home from the Indian Territory
and fishing for the past Tel
! gest kind of a time and intimated that
his friends would hire him a hall h
could tell some stories about the exploit
! of the party that would make Eli Pei
kins look exceedingly blue around tn
gills.
Under the head of "Pen Pictures O
Some Western Expressmen" is foun'
the following in n western paper:
First in point of duration of continu
Gus service is Arthur T. Taggart, vel
and favOrably known to many of you
readers. Mr.. Taggart is a giant in stat
ure, and, if what the boys say be true
his heart is in perfect correspondent
with the rest of his huge frame. He j
said TO be the handsomest maj
| in Kansas, and, if repor
again be true, is pleasantly unconsciou
of his personal advantages. Mr.. Tag
| CART is a first-rate expressman, a striC
disciplinarian, and jealous in all pei
| tanning 10 the interests of his territory
This embraces all the Atchison, Topek
u Santa Fe lines as far west as La Jun
| Ia; and to "hold down. such an exten
sive jurisdiction requires no small
knowledge of the business, and no meal
| judgment, foresight and forbearanct
Mr.. Taggart is an "Ohio man." ant
throws no discredit upon that nation
of Office holders.