The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-07-12
AROUND TOWN.

AhUUND TUWN.
This will be good year for farmera.
Business in our local courts continues
good.
We judge peaches viii be rather
scarce here:
What could be more delightful than
our cool nightss
The district court has adjourned
until the 9th Of August.
The pulse of the candidate for county
Office is beginning to beat little faster.
A large number Of Emporiaas attend
ed the camp meeting At Bakers Ford
Sunday.
/ The postofice viii have large new
safe, the result Of the visit OF Maj
CrOwell the other day.
Green apples were selling from Wag-
Ons Wednesday st 81 Per bushel.
They seem TO be plenty.
The fall politician is blooming quite
numeTously. A large number Of him
feels better than he will four months
hence.
The btmOnthly election of officers of
the Young Peoples society will take
place at the IL. Z. church this evening.
Prohibition may be an issue In our
fail campaign. II anybody wants 1t that
way We guess they can be accommodate
ed.
Must those piles Of gravel on Com.
mercial street continue to hold down
the franchise of the EmpOria street rail-
wayl
The work OF excaVatTng for the new
Christian church has commenced
and the building will be pushed
right along to completion.
&Richard HOwe's new twO-story frame
house on the corner OF Merchants and
Ninth, is nearly completed and will be
a very desirable residence.
There wa. AN addition TO the Christian
church yesterday, Miss Minnie Frost
uniting by profession, and receiving the
ordinance of baptism by immersion.
Take ride oyer the hills north Of the
city, stop and look At the picture pre-
sented by . view of the Cottonwood
valley and the town, and tell US where g
handsomer landscape can be found.
B. Furman packed up the residue
of his stock OF boots and shoes Monday
and shipped them to Topeka. Our
i rAadaro nil. 10 aas.,, 60 haze NJ R,,r
man leave the community, but all will
Join IN Wishing him success and hAppi-
ness wherever he goes.
Was there ever a burglar caught In
EmpOrIaf We believe not. Will there
ever be one caught? The burglars don't
seem TO trouble themselves about this
question. Suppose the business men
should raise q pure and offer II a. 9
premium for the first burglar caught.
What do you say.
Jones i Barr, Well-known here, who
not long since established a store on the
Lebo river, tWentY.three miles down
the K. c. & E. road, have started town
there to be called LebO. The enterprise
promises TO be success, a fact that we
art very glad to note.
Out of the great army of dogs In Em
| pOria, licenses have been taken out tor
but nine. City Clerk Forde says q dog
pound is to be established in a day or
two when there will be q general
slaughter lnaugurated among the limo
cents unless they are muzzled and IL
censed.
Surveyor Milliken completed survey
ing a tOrty-acre tract for Col. David
Taylor, east of the city, Monday. The
land was DIVIDED up into acre lots
which will become valuable prop
erty in a very short time. He surveyed
and divided up into regular city lots .
ten acre tract on the west side OF the
city, also.
There is new determination on the
part of the temperance men Of Emporia
that the prohibition law shall be en-
forced. VIOlators might as we'll stare
this fact in the face. If the officers
show . lack Of backbone, or let the
whiskyites and their attorneys play It
on them, they will shear q racket" that
will not be pleasant to them before they
are much older. The law has been en-
forced here and it must be again.
DIR, Parr, Sunday afternoon, removed
a tumor from the middle finger of the
left hand of A J. Spangler's little FIVE
year old son. The operation was a de-
cidelly painful one, but the little fellow
bore it with remarkable f0rtitude. The
excrescence had been on the child's
hand since his birth, and was becoming
very annoying, and its successful re-
moval is source of cOngratulatIon to
all parties concerned.
We acknowledge pleasant call Mon
day from Mr.. F. A. Brogan, son Of
Francis Brogan, of Hartford. Mr.. Bro
gan has just completed a five years
course of study at Georgetown college,
near Washington, receiving his bachel.
lor's degree with high hOnOrs. He ex-
poets TO return to Washington in OctO-
Der and read law with attorney Mer-
rick. He is young man Of fine
promise, and The News wishes him
success.
Hon. w. W. Pagan, one Of the boys
who helped build the Santa Fe road
from Topeka 10 EmpOriA and on west,
and who was general favOrits "ali
along the lins," has been promoted
again. For son.e time he has been su-
perIntendent OF the Central Branch,
running west from Atchlson, and now
he is also made superintendent of the
} Omaha extension OF the Missouri PACT
fic. Upon learning this the people of
Atchison, his place Of residence, gave
him q banquet at the OTIS house. There
, Is no one who knows MT Pagan bat
that will rejoice at his continued pros
perlty. He has worked his way up
from the bottom of the ladder of his
, chosen business to his present exalted
position.
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