The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-01-26
AROUND TOWN.

railroad traInc has been unusually
dull for the past ten days
Lent begins this year on Washington's
birthday, the 22d Of February.
Our morning paper will be issued
Sunday but not Monday mornings.
Our readers enjoy The NEWS for
breakfast more than they did for supper.
Conductor NJ. S. Moorehouse received
the lantern voted him by the Emporia
Rifles this week.
A new iron bridge is being construct
ed by the Santa Fe across the Cotton
wood river at Florence.
New masonryls being put In at num-
Der of bridges on the Santa Fe between
Emporia and Florence.
W. F. Ewing is making improve
ments on the property recently pur-
chased by him of Mrs. Plat.
Our farmers have been doing a good
deal of blowing. and made other prepa-
rations for the campaign of 'Ss.
The train dispatcher's Office of the
Santa Fe and the city telegraph Office
are to be connected by telephone.
Mrs. Kidder has reprinted her mil
linery rooms and made other improve
ments which add greatly to their APP
pearance.
A connecting line from Manhattan to
Camden, on the old NJ, K s. T. railroad,
(now Missouri Pacifc), distance of
thirty miles, is talked of.
Mr. 1. E. Porley was at Florence and
Cottonwood Friday paying off L. W.
Lewis men. He went up to Phillips
yesterday for the same purpose.
Misses Katie and Mamie Davidson
entertained large party of their young
friends at the family residence on Con.
stitution street Friday evening.
The Randolph boys are lying awake
of nights fretting about the failure of
the ice crop. They have two thousand
tons in store OF last winters crop.
There is beginning to be very per
ceptible revival in trade. The town
yesterday was full of people, and our
merchants were kept quite busy waiting
on customers.
The Council Grove dramatic compa.
ny will have an orchestra led by Miss
Mantey, who was here last winter with
Miss Litts, and they can promise their
audiences fine music.
The A. o. U. w. held sociable al
Viewers hall on Thursday evening. A
fine supper was served by the ladies. and
the evening was enjoyed to the fullest
extent by those in attendance.
Mr.. A. Swan, roadmaster, and E. w
Grant and L. w. Conrad, engineers on
the Emporia division of the Santa Fe
are established in their new Office north
of the depot on Merchants street.
THE NEWS has always been paper
of 'great moral ideas,'' and it is in &C
cordance with the fitness of things tina
it should become a regular Sunday Wis
itor in the homes of all our readers.
j The Philomathian society rendered 6
very interesting program at the higt
school on Friday afternoon. The exer
cises consisted of essays, declarations, {
debate, and some excellent music on thu
French harp by n. r. Fleetwood.
State Senator Al Greene, the able cor
respondent of the Kansas City Journal
will soon deliver his lecture on "Ancien
and Modern New Mexico" before thu
Normal literary societies. Our people
can prepare for an entertaining intellec
tual feast.
Sterling Bulletin: The Santa Fe road
talks strongly of building road from
Topeka to Marion Center. so as t.
shorten their line, and have practically
double track from Topeka to Ellin
wood by connecting at Marion Center
with the Marion s. Mcpherson branch
While the expenses Of our Office have
been increased two thousand dollars {
year by changing to morning paper, WI
are determined to furnish THE DAILY
to subscribers at the lowest living rate
and while most of the morning paper
ask from rs cents to a dollar a month
our charge will be but sixty cents pc
month delivered by carrier to any par
of the city.
Register clocks were put in Saturda.
at the Wilcox corner at the intersection
of Seventh avenue and Commercia
street, at the First National bank, at tn
Emporia National bank and at DI
Armor's feed store on Commercial street
BY regulation of the city council tn
night-watchman is required to registe
at these points once every hour through
the night, unless his duties should cal
him elsewhere.
The residence of John Alder, at III
corner of Mechanics street and Twelfth
avenue, caught fire at an early hour Fri
day morning, from defective fue
and before the flames were arrested
hole was burned in the roof and the sid
of the house. Mrs. Alder, who was con
fined to her bed by sickness was wrap
ped in bed-clothes and carried to tn
house of neighbor where she will re
main until the damage is repaired.
We return our sincere thanks to thu
patrons of THE NEWS for the many
words of approval and encouragement
with which our enterprise in furnishing
them with morning daily has been al
ready rewarded. We hope to merit th'
Communications which have been so free
ly bestowed by our friends, and will
their support we will endeavor to keel
pace with and even anticipate the de
mands of our beautiful and enterprisinl