The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-12-27
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The year 1883 has been one OF prosperity to
our community, As town, we border on
O.aRe county, and its people are part Of u.s.
in labor, trade ana interests. One section OF
Usage county composes pars Of our school dis
trics. Beading has two schools. the gram
mar or graded school taught By w. d FL
ros, and tAe primary department..
.nght by Miss Alice Smith. Of Aryo-
MIA. The school near Denis o'Aara's is
taught by james Pagan, Esq one OF the hrst
settlers in these parts, and man Of excellent
education the schools throughout tie
township are ali in session, and doing good
work. 30 We hear.
There are four church organizations here.
viz: cOBgregatiOnalists, with Rev. Henry
Smith. pastor: Methodist Episcopal. with
Rev. @. L. Norton. pastor; the Baptists and
Roman Catholics have no pastor. The Con-
gregationalists have just repIastered and
painted the inside OF their house and put in
pews ami pulpit at q cost Of ever $500
The s1- Z. church, organized in 1850, has
vyorshIpped IA the school house. but soon will
go into a new church they have erected dur
ing the past few months at = cost Of some
$500, The house is s4xss feet with tower
ska feet and 60 feet high. The church is to
be dedicated some time in January. 1854
The country about here Is fertile The
chief crop Is corn, and within radius Of six
miles Il Il safe to say there Wereten thousand
acres Of corn raised IN 1888. and IL Is excel
lent in quality, ranging from IS to IS bushels
per sore, and IL fed 70 cattle and bogs, most
~ on or near the premises. One lREge farm
is that OF L. seVery 4 Sons who own loo
acres Of bottom land and 1000 aeyes Of pasture.
They raised this year 1000 acres OF csrn and
viii iced Itont and buy thousands Of bushels
-. ana
thousand steers three and four years old. AID
IN the feed lots ass some go 70 900 hogs and
pigs They employ thirty to forty men.
The PaGten Brothers are extenslve farmers
and own some s,OO0. acres OF land, mostIy I'M
der fence, in Lyon and " Anhannsee counties.
Tbcy are feeding 800 steeEs this winter and
hogs without number.
David Nickel owns three sections OF land,
and had 200 acres OF corn. He is feeding over
Tour hundred steers. AIr. Nickel has
. nice farm with good buildings. but
during the past SPINNER he remed-
eled and bull onto his house on Usage street
and now lives in . house gOOd enough fOr
king, right in the center of the United
States, geographically. rs the Rev.
used to say.
n. j. Price has land and farms about here
to the amount OF six Thousand acres, all under
fence. He, too. gesds some of the best short
horn stock the country produces. Toe steers
he FaLsed weighed from 800 to 800 pounds
when shipped to market last summer.
VIM. II. Douglass, also owns three sections
of land and rents two more and he is feeding
500 steers and horses. Mr.. Douglass had
500 steers on his ranch during the summer
and also hfty hoFses and colts In his pasture.
He owns and deals in COED horses, and we
have few men in the county who like to draw
q rein over good horse better than Billy
Douglass. hr. D. has hne buildings, and the
past summer he built an ell TO his house thas
cost abQEt QRs thousand doliars-besLdes
other improvements.
10. Aiser has q farm OF no small dimen-
sions and raised 800 acres OF corn and $50
acres of millet this year. Then Spencer
Brothers. II. r. Holmes, Geraghty Brothers.
James MAsteFscn, TillmAp and John Swan,
Tommy Jones, II. w. Stratton and DIR. A.
K. Edison had little corn fields of one hun
dred acres or more, most of which is fed to
steers that go 70 help feed the people far and
near.
Beading has population Of some 900 peo-
pie, and during the past year has expended
nearly $40, 200 in the erection OF new build
ings and the repairing Of old ones. DIR. T.
c. Biddle has . neat residence on the corner
OF chestnut SIrocG anu GrOFe avenue. T0e
growth of the place Is solid, and the sur
rounding country is rich in agricultural
products, and really ought to build up a town
of 500 to 1000 people. in the next few years.
and not psy all its money to the towns
around 1t. but support stores and keep at
home the trade this valley is giving to other
places.
Reading shipped 2S7 car loads of cattle and
hogs to market since January LIST; said to be
the most of any station east of Dodge City.
There are the stores off. A. Sta alton, dry
goods, clothing, boots shoes and groceries,
and j. Steekly, dry goods and groceries, and
Swan = Consry, hardwarei drug store, hars
ness shop, shoe shop, blacksmith shop. etc. 4,
etc.
It Is one OF the best points for people to 10.
cate on the line of the A., T. & s. +. railroad,
and parties looking for q location, either for
mercantile business or farming will do well to
call on or write to NJ. W StrattOn, real estate
agent at Reading. Kansas. The place Is
steadily increasing In growth and wealth.