The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-05-10
AROUND TOWN.

tie river craft belle OF EmpOria,p
Saturday.
homogeneous carriage. factory was
connected with the central telephone Of
fee Saturday.
E. n. Lewis has put mp lemonade
stand in front of his restaurant ON Com
mercial street.
L.G. Wilcox is improving the interior
ofhis grocery by an application OF paint
and white-wash.
VIM. Carlow, the enterprising black
smith talks Of putting up g brick shop
In the near future.
Street Commissioner Hammond is
leyeliBg up the gravel filling on South
Commercial street.
.C.J. Fest has been permanently en-
gagged as organist at the Congregational
church, and he Is a good one.
A. 8. Smith turned his cattle onto the
range Friday. He has 159 head, which
average 1412 pounds IN weight.
Geo. De Camp received handsome
coupe and single buggy from Pitts
burg this week, by way of the Missouri
Pacific.
Work will be commenced on the new
A. n. E. church as soon as the brick for
that structure are burned by JOSIAH Ros-
enburY.
Grifith & Ewing put in wafer service
Friday for o. T. Trimble At his property
on West street, and for Alvin Smith, the
barber.
Jake Taylor stocked up for three cat
tie camps in the north part Of the county
at the Emporia Mercantile Association
Thursday.
A centiDede was found on the Verdi
girls one day last week, which is In pos
session of Prof. Frank Kizer, oftbe pub
lie schools.
The business place of G. F. Dynes at
No. 1913 Commercial street is receiving
- coat of black paint which will be re
lieved by red or gilt stripping.
"Pap" Hinkle says that in fifty years
he has never known a time that the
weather wasn't cold when the blackber-
ries bloomed. He says it is a sure rule.
The broom drill is being mastered by
the young ladies of the Congregational
church under the direction OF L. g.
Page who gives them instructions every
week.
Francis & Newton are turning out
sixty dozen bottles q day at their pop
ka fal oNr
orders for all the goods that they can
make.
Geo. Cooper, an engineer on the Santa
Fe, is going to take the first premium
for twins at the next News baby show.
They arrived Thursday night-a boy
and girl.
George Morehouse sold O Colorado
burro to T. J. Fleming Thursday for
$500. That's the cheapest piece of
horse nesh that has ever changed hands
In this market.
E. G. Edwards is improving his nice
little home on Merchants street by build
ing handsome picket fence around his
yard, setting out evergreens and making
an addition to his house.
The finishing touches are being put
ON the Santa Fe stock yards which were
recently removed from the junction to
the intersection of the Howard Branch
with the main line of the Santa Fe.
Bright red is now the fashionable col.
or tor dwelling houses. There are 9
I good many property owners who would
like to introduce this style IN Emporis
IL they had the courage of their convic.
tions.
H. E. Norton brought suit Friday tC
recover q commission on q land trade
from A. Jones and G. c. Barcalow, and
/ judgment was rendered by Justice
Payne in favor of the plaintiff In the
sum of $50.
4 Sixth avenue, between Commercial
and Union streets, Is one of the busiest
and most energetic quarters in the city
aud the different shops with which 1t is
lined are all full of work and doing a
fourishing trade.
HI. LOomis started Friday for Ma
coupin county, Illinois, to purchase I
carload Of short horn heiters for @. B
Ba;heller. who will place them ON ,
ranch which he contemplates purchas
eng in this county.
DIR. T. Arthur Wright, OF Americas
returned Friday from a meeting of eclet
4 tic physicians at Topeka, and report
the prospects of the establishment OF
medical college of that school at tn
capital, as quite encouraging.
{ Billy Jones, who shoes horses for w
/ Il. Hollandsworth says he has shod OF
on average, eight horses per day for tn
4 past three months. Business in ihi
line has been brisk at ali the shops sine
work began on the new railroad.
Street commissioner Hammond is Civ
ing his attention now to the city parks
repairing the fences and making othe
Improvements. With the necessary car
these could be made the most inviting
places In the city and we hope thar som
K effort toward beautiyfying them will b
/ made during the coming season.
The work of putting down the carpe
at the Second Congregational churc
was completed to-day by d. Thomas
Co., of whom it was purchased. 1t /
very neat and pretty, and adds great
90 the beauty of the auditorium. B
Sunday next, the date fixed for the de-
ication, the grading of the groupd
about the church will be completed, th
fence will be built, and nothing in cor
nection with the edi6ce will be left nj
( finished.
John Tschudi and ChAs. StcbbiI
haye formed CO partnership, under III
firm name of Tschudi & Stebbins, an
will open up shop in a few days o.
Fourth avenue, few doors east of tn
I loan agency OF s. b. Riggs. They wi
do all kinds OF plain and ornament
painting, paper hanging. etc, an
enough Is known of both members q
the firm to assure all who give them OF
ders that their work will be done
arst-class style.
There are now seventy five tons
flour in Soden's Wholesale room O
Commercial street, of various brand
and ranging in price from 81 To $3.i
per hundred. There are some of Il
0nest brands of flour represented the
Chat were ever turned out anywhere, an
Mr.. Soden has made great hit in ope
ing up a Wholesale house in the cit
His mills are kept busy almost day ~
i night, and are turning out vast amour
4 of breadstuff daily.
Mr.. A. Harley, superintendent
1 track-laying on the K. G. s. e, railroa
has lust completed q boarding train
eleven cars, including three sleepir