The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-05-11
GnInea and GaIherinos

On Saturday morning, April 22d, !
walked through the darkness that comes
just before day, to the A, T. q s. T. de-
pot, purchased a ticket and boarded the
Howard Branch train for Climax. DIR.
CoTdley was on the train, and we put
our heads together and after full consul
tation, unanimously concluded that the
present arrangement turned men out of
their beds at a very unreasonable hour.
Then DIR. G. arranged the seats for
nap, which he didn't get. We reached
Madison at six O'Clock and got good
breakfast at the Strong House. Stolpe
knows how to excite and satisfy an
carly riserer's appetite. A little further
along, about eight O'Clock a. M, the cry
Eureka" was heard and our good DIR.
c. gathered his grip-sack and rushed
out to see, and stopped short the
Climax once in his life. | hope he
found something better.
The Maple Grove school house is
located in beautiful prairie, sixteen
miles south of Eureka. The country
is being settled up of late, and new i'm
provements are TO be seen in every di-
rection. The Methodist have society
and Sunday school here, and worship
for the present in the school house. We
had a pleasant and profitable quarterly
meeting with them.
We have to hold two and three meet
ings every week 10 get around. So we
generally divide the Sabbath services
| with two circuits and stations. On Sun
day, Odd ult., we started from Maple
Grove for our evening appointment
Union school house, Eureka circuit
The horse was poor and lazy, and started
at a slow pace; got slower and slower,
and stopped The Eureka circuit
preacher, II. A. Cook, was with me.
He urged the poor horse. but it was no
go. We held q counsel of war, turned
| the horse loose and struck out on foot.
1t was after o'clock, and the school
house was five miles away; but we made
| it. A pair of unbroken shoes made me
say, more than once, BLESSED is the
man who invented old shoes" But we
had a good meeting, and slept well that
| night.
Tuesday, the 25th, rode over to To-
ronto, the present terminus of the st.
Louis, FIT. Scott & Wichita railroad.
| How the old iron horse does wake up
the sleeping towns! One year ago no
new thing could be seen about this
place; now new houses can be seen in
every direction. More than twenty new
houses have been put up this spring.
Toronto is twenty-five miles east of Eu-
reka, and is surrounded by good farm
ing country The Methodist have the
only church building in the place.
l rode over to Horner creek and held
the Virgil quarterly meeting last Satur-
day. There is great deal of unfenced
land between Toronto and Homer.
think cattle will find free pasturage
here for some years to come. There
are some good farms along the creek
| There are some herds of sheep on the
prairie. Cattle and sheep are poor, the
result of bad hay and scarcity of grain.
Stock that had millet are in good con.
dition. 1t will pay to raise millet.
| Eureka is quietly waiting for the new
railroad boom. 1t will strike by the
| first of June The construction train is
about ten miles from town now. Eu.
reka may be the western terminus OF
the road for some months.
The farmers have about finished
planting corn. Some of them are cult.
waiting the first planting. If it rains
enough to keep the chinches down, the
| corn crop will be immense. The acre.
age is broader, and the planting earlier,
than that of any previous year. The
berry crop is quite promising. think
| we may safely count on a fair crop of
peaches and apples. The future glory
| of Kansas is secured if we have good
! crops this year and faithfully maintain
the prohibition law. C. R.R.
The HOmeoPathists.
At the Homeopathic convention held
last week at Wyandotte, the following
officers were elected for the ensuing
| year:
Presidential. w. Gilley.
presidential. P. Forster.
Recording secretary-C. II. Halo
| we'll.
Corresponding secretary-S. A. New
hall.
Treasurer-G. II. T. johnson.
Board of censors-J. ]. Edic, F.
Klemp, p. Deidrich.