The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-07-13
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Let us have fountain in the court
house yard, by all means
c. G. Willett photographed the Welsh
Presbyterian church Saturday.
There seems to be some kicking on
account of the Merchants street grade.
F. p. Hillerman moved his office into
the Holderman block Thursday, next
door 10 Juustice Bachelors Office.
Ii Enporia is to continue prosperous
she must have a solid basis. Manulac- |
turing establishments will give her this
The court house is in better shape in
side than it has ever been. a fountain
in the yard is the next improvement in
order.
During the month of June there were
twenty-one state cases and thirty-five
civil cases tried before Justice Bachelor,
making a total of fifty-six.
A little daughter of G. A. Gaddis.
who resides on Rural street, fell out of
second-story window Friday onto the
ground. without bruising her flesh.
Commercial street Is TO be graveled
from the north side of Second avenue to
the south size of Randolph's addition.
This will be valuable improvement.
Marshal Birdsall desires to call the
attention of parties concerned to the re.
cent order issued by the board of health
and urges immediate compliance there
with.
John Atyeo has purchased of Judge
Kellogg what is known as the old Ivy
Place at the southeast corner of Sixth
avenue and Mechanics street, and will
fit 1t upas a meat market.
John Watson has purchased the va
cant lot Just west of Graham's furniture
shop, and will forthwith proceed to erect
thereon brick business house. Sixth
avenue still continues to boom.
George Spicer, with construction
gang arrived in Emporia from Kansas
City last week and will at once pro-
, coed to put up the poles and wires for
the telephone exchange in this city.
JIG Knock sold to DIR. NorthinGton
last week lot and a half off west side
OF the property recently purchased by
him of W. F. Ewing at the corner OF
, Fifth avenue and West street, for 81 200
l The central telephone Office has been
divided into two parts by running q
partition through the middle and the
new switchboard, which will be ready
for service in few days, has beer
placed in the east room.
Messrs X. MacLennan, L. B. Kellogg
and A. $. Tandy have been appointed
appraisers to appraise the lots ane
: pieces of ground liable to special as
sessment because of the Improvement
: on Fifth avenue, between Commercial
and Merchants streets; on Commercial
street between Third avenue and Ran
dolph's addition, and for paving the al
ley between Fourth and Fifth avenues
II and Commercial and Mechanics.
The Eureka Herald has the following
u TO say of l. f. Lambert's Grafton at tina
place on the Fourth of July: "The ad
G dress of Mr. Lambert was well consid
a cred review of the causes which led Il
:. the stand taken by the colonies for lib
G erty. 1t was a synopsis that vivid.
c called to mind each several stage in thu
progress of the great revolution in
fresh and entertaining manner Mr.
: Lambert is pleasant speaker and h,
. has the good sense to not weary crowC
o on warm day by long and tedious
# harangue. His speech was just twent.
minutes in delivery, and he left his au
dIence in a most desirable frame o
L mind toward him, no one being tiret
i and many regretting that he had ended