The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-02-02
PERsoNAL MENrIoN.

viii ChalfAnt has been installed a
his fathers deputy at the register o.
deeds office.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. ]. Bird returned
Tuesday from a visit of some weeks Il
Illinois and Wisconsin.
Charlie Cayaness is building HOUSE
and fitting up home on bis stock farm
in Center township.
Mr.. D. X. Mcpherson, of Parsons
Kansas, who has real estate interests in
this vicinity, is in town.
Conductor Nash, who has been of
duty for some weeks. resumed his run
on the Santa Fe Wednesday.
Cole McColIoch, of Peabody, and a
long time citizen OF Emporia. is visit
ing his father, Van McColloch.
The eldest SON of James Doyle is ly.
ing very seriously i'll at his fathers
residence northeast of the city.
Miss Matte Tice arrived home last
night from Winfield, whittier she was
called by the illness of her brother.
Mr.F.W. Prince started to Detroit
Monday TO purchase machinery to
equip a first-class candy factory in EN-
pOria.
Mr.. s. b. Jones, well-to-do stock
grower of Coffey county, has come to
Emporia 10 settle and is looking for q
home.
C. W. Raihbu6, division superintend.
ent of the eastern division of the Santa
Fe, is in the city on business connected
with the road.
II. w. Speer, superintendent of state
instruction will be in attendance at the
county teachers association in this city
next Saturday.
Robt. Hizer, one of the leading attor-
neys of Usage county, and former resi-
dent Of this place, is making short visit
in Emporia.
Conductor J. NJ. johnson, of the Santa
Fee, who has been taking leave of alb
sence since the 10Th of December. is
back TO his post.
d. J. Roberts and wife came down
from Kansas City last evening and we
learn that they think of making their
home in this city or AT Americas
G. w. Brown, agent of the s. A.
& Co. Brown lumber yard at Dunlap,
was in the city Wednesday on his way
home from visit to Cincinnati, Ohio.
Winfield Daily Courant: Capt. C. N.
Sterry, one of Emporia's brightest legal
limbs, is in the city looking after some
matters at chambers, before Judge Tor
rance.
Mrs. Buckius, who was called TO Fair
field, Iowa, some days ago to minister at
the bedside of dying relative, has re-
turned and resumed her place ia the
city schools Tuesday.
On Dit: That W. II. Ingerman, of the
First National bank, has purchased
an interest in the floral department of
the Hallberg gardens. For further in
formation, apply to Henry.
Conductor Hamilton arrived yester-
day from Kentucky where he had gone
to bring back his wife and child, but as
the latter was not in sufficiently vigor-
Gus health to make the trip he returned
without them.
S. L. Davidson, of Monmouth, Illi-
nois, brother of Thad. Davidson, of this
city, has arrived in Emporia to take up
his residence with US. He is welcome
to the prettiest and most fiourishing
town in Kansas.
John Murdoch, of Kingwood, West
Virginia, has accepted position in the
grocery store of G. w. Bennett He is q
young man OF excellent reputation and
good business qualifications and both he
and Mr.. Bennett are TO be congratulated
upon their new business relations.
Hon. Joel Moody, of Linn county, is
in the city on business connected with
the proposed st. Louis and Emporia
railroad. He is jubilant over the pros
poets of this enterprise, and is confident
that connection will be established
within year between Mound City and
this point
Hon. A. r. Greene is in the city for
the purpose of writing up Emporia for
the Kansas City Journal, with which
he is connected. He is thoroughly i'm
bued with the beauties and advantages
of the town, and being a graphic and
polished writer, will give the queen
city of the Neosho valley fine send-of.
Mr.. and Mrs. 1. D. Fox and Mrs.
Trask arrived Wednesday from Chicago
where Mrs. F. fingered many days be.
tween life and death and at whose bed.
side her mother was called weeks ago.
We are pleased to note her GONZALES.
cence which will be a source of much
qualification to her friends in Emporia,
F. A. Brogan, who for some time past
has been corresponding for THE News
from Hartford over the so6riquet OF
Dorkas, started yesterday for Washing
ton, D. c., where he will resume his
law studies at Georgetown college. He
is a young man of excellent ability and
is bound to prove an ornament to his
chosen profession.
w. +. Osborn and wife, II. L. Jarboe
and wife, Orson Kent and wife, B. L.
Kingsbury and wife, Job Throckmorton
and wife, Il. G.. Beatty and wife, NJ. E
Grimes and wife, and several others, all
old and leading citizens of our sister
city, Burlington, came up TO heaz
the Garland Murray company and
to take look at our new opera house
They are the guests of the Coolidge.
Mr.. w. A. Gardner, formerly superin
tendent of telegraph for the Wheeling s
Lake Erie railroad at Norwalk, Ohio
assumed the responsible office of train
master of the Santa Fe at this place
Tuesday, Cice Mr.. Fl. II. AbFams, re
signed. Mr.. Gardner, in adddi
ton to being a gentleman of very
pleasing manners and excellen
address, has the reputation of being &
thorough railroad man, and the com
pany are to be congratulated upon hav.
ing secured his services. We have moi
learned Mr.. Abrams plans for the
future, but in common with many
Others in this city wish him success
when his indifferent health warrants his
acceptance of another position.
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Church Notes.
Rev. DIR. Cordley preached an unusu
ally fine discourse on Success at the Con
gregational church Sunday morning.
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