The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-08-09
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day for repairs. Next
Tom Ladd Is spending Few days with
his family in this city.
| A long pull. strong pull and pull
altogether on the college.
4 Johnnie o'Toole has also vanished.
Let the good work go on.
The court house fountain has arrived
and was unlocked to-day.
The whiskyites are doing a great deal
of audible keeping Sill just now.
Ireland Bros. sold q watermelon to-
day that weighed 461E pounds.
! Pull on the tugs, and not on the back
straps. in the matter of the college.
Frank Maier will open mp the Fourth
Avenue meat market on Saturday.
We can have the college IL wa will
that 1t be located here. If not. not.
Water service is heing put in at the
court house yard for the fountain.
The firemen had a very satisfactory
practice on upper Commercial street to-
day.
BY this time next week we hope tn he
discussing the str Of the synodical COL
lege.
The whiskyites are now principally
engaged in trying tn pull themselves To
gether.
Hon. G. w. Hoss will lecture before
the teachers institute in this city Friday
night.
Mr. Abraham Moon brough: to this
Office this morning some very fine crab
apples.
Your neighbor can't do your work in
connection with the college. Bear that
in mind.
The young men are moving In the
matter of the college. This Is good
indication.
A brace of DRINKS resulted to-day in
reinforcing the city treasury to the tune
of SIS 90.
The Stretzel-Adams replevin cases
were compromised "a. day in tho court of
Justice Fletcher.
Street Commissioner Farrell Is grad
ing Merchants street between Third and
Fourth avenues.
The city council, in default of q
quorum, adjourned Monday night till
next Monday evening.
We can't understand how those horses
ever got away with such load of sand
as Stllman Smith.
The college soliciting committee, like
Josh Billings powders, are attending
strictly to business
The docket for the September term
of court, as it now stands, contains 1873
civil and 80 criminal cases.
Several of the Emporia gin-slingers
are still missing. IT they will only stay
away the past will be freely forgiven.
The committee are pulling with grand
results on the college scheme. All that
is wanted now is little water on the
ropes.
The college enterprise is moving. Let
every member ofthe community appoint
himself committee of one to add to its
momentum.
The preparations for the dancing par
ty at the Armory on Friday night are
going on and flrst-class time may be
expected.
C. Brown received a telegram Sat
urday evening announcing the sad news
of the death of his mother in Indiana, on
Thursday.
Talk about carrying Goals TO Newcas-
tie. Soden & Halleck shipped car
load of floor to Pittsburg, Pennsylvania,
Monday.
Our neiRhbors would never cease to
taunt US were we to fail to secure the
synOdical college. EmpOria could
never stand that.
The college soliciting Committee will
surely wait on you this week. We
serve this notice so that you may be pre-
pared to see them.
Mrs. burberry is preparing to build
cottage at the corner of Tenth avenue
and Exchange street tor which HeIdrick
is making plans.
You will never have as good a chance
to do good thing for yourself and the
town as is offered you by the college
soliciting committee.
The great object now is to reduce the
number of people who want the college
but who are willing to see other people
furnish the means to build it.
The committee earnestly desire to fin
ish up the college subscriptions this
week. Let every one aid this desirable
end to the extent Of their ability.
Two gentlemen from Kansas City have
rented the Thew s. Griffith store room
of II. D. Thomas, and will open up a
stock of boots and shoes in few days.
Woung Lee, our Chinese laundryman
is about to branch out in the CONNER
cial line in a small way. and will keep
tea, baking powder and Chinese notions.
Stillman Smith still continues TO hold
forth at the old stand. He says he beats
a corpse by big majority. and regards
himself as beng better looking than
Soden.
L. F. Pruyn purchased yesterday
fine span of iron gray horses which will
be driven in "dandy" bus, which will
probably be in tonight from Kansas
City. Look out for the street parade.
Jesse Northington, who was arrested
Saturday night for molesting a sick
woman in the neighborhood OF the round
house, paid into Justice Fletcher's
court $40 IN fine and costs.
The reputation of this town Fnr enter
prise and public spirit hangs on the
matter Of raising $35, 900 for great ln-
stitution of learning at this place. Can
we afford To sell it out for such sum /?
A. Bonrey- received letter yesterday
from his brother, stating that a valuable
horse belonging 10 the EmpnriI party
which Is travelling overland through
Colorado was recently struck by light
ming.
Sam Radges and w. Fl. Higgina came
down from Topeka Monday. Sam was SO
kind as TO leave at the News office q
copy of his new city directory OF TOpe-
ka, which. we assure him is duly ap
prcciated. "IIIg" is on the mend.
! The Temperance Band Of the Welsh
Presbyterian church Is preparing for i'll
quarterly meeting which promises 70 b
very interesting one. The band is un.
der the leadership of Misses Sarah H
D Evans and Lizzie A. Jones, and both ar,
working very hard
Pending the cnnslderatiOn of IL
Hoadley. Curtis case, court adiourne,