The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-01-08
BEADING NEWS.
EDITED BY MARY De zEAN.

AOEsSAA1s - Az u
1t was Jalrus L Stratton instead of
James that was married to Miss Matte
]. Hultz, al the residence of the brides
father, Isaac Huliz of ArVonIs, on Christ
mas day.
The oldest child of W. q. Severy is
sick with dIphtheria.
DR.. and Mrs. A. d Edison expect t0
start next Saturday for New Orleans
They will take in the great opposition
and the south, returning about ih= frst
of March. There are others here that
would like firstrste to go, but
Eli PerkIns lectures. Ia Reading Mon
day night, JsnR1ry IL, 1885.
Frank Sslver IL visiting his uncle, j.
F. Wright. Frank live here a part OF
last year but went farther west to try it.
He says he found M place ahead OF this
valley for q man TO live in.
The Reading Union lnday school
swarmed, cold as ii has b 81 this winter,
lately and now tho Baptist chu Tcn holds
Sunday school Ia the school house at
10 O'Clock a. m Mrs. HELM Agrelines
is superintendent; Mrs George Corvdcn,
assisteDt superintendent; NJ iggie Cow.
den, secretary. and DAVID Hopkins,
treasurer.
The CongIegstionalists nov have a
Sunday school organized with Deacon
j. j. Swan, superintendent; Abel Reese,
sssistsnt superintendent; c. W. doug
lass. secretary; nsel Cox, treasurer.
Sunday school at 1 80 p. IN. every Sun
day.
The II. E. Sunday school elects its Of
ficers annually the first Sunday in jan
uary. Last Sunday under tbs dir ction
of ats president, ReY. A. L. Scott, the fol.
loving officers we're elected: NJ. w.
Strattun, superintendent; Arthur Plumb,
assistant superintendent; Miss Belle
Strstton, secretary; Matte Hults STRAIT,
ton, treasurer, also chorister; Miss Sa-
die Holmes. orgauist; John Jacobs. IL
brarian. Sunday school at 10 a. m.
every Sunday.
Geo. D. Patten starts tor Los Angeles.
Callfornis, Thursday morning, to be
gone come SIX weeks among friends and
relatives.
We are under obligations to the
station agent, Samuel TlIlippi for the
privilege OF ascertaining the amount OF
stock and hogs shipped from Reading
during the year 1884 viz. 3ls cars of
cattle shipped to Kansas City and Chi
csgo, and 10 cars of fat hogs. Aside
from this L. Ssvery s. Son and Patten
Brothers, drove their herds (num bering
1900 head or more) out of the county
and shipped them from other points.
Thus making some over 5000 steers that
were feed during last winter in the val
10y of the Maries des Cygne AMI its
tributaries. 1t is safe 10 estimate the
value of these fat steers at $40 apiece or
$500, 900. Still further, if all the steers
were bought (but some are rais-
ed here, still many are brought
in from Colorado at $42
apiece. 1t would cost $2s for feeding
and caring tor the same or 1924, COO
that really went into circulation.
AAOh INC 6CNCutJ-uIuC cars vi HCkS
could not have brought less than $50, 600
probably $50, O00-snd it is no wonder
we see substantial improvements made
on every hand. Some farmers are out
of debt, but many owe eIthtr for land or
the steers, or both. but on the whole the
farmers must be worth 100000 more
than they were one year ago, cOmpris-
ed In an area Of ten miles wide by twenty
miles long. Then there are hundreds of
farms within this range that are of 80,
100 and $40 acres where they raise young
sto0k and sell it when two years old to
the feeders or butchers.
There were only four cars of sheep
shipped from here, aud little or no corn
during 1884.
There we're during the months of Sep
TENDER, October and November, 1884.
$50 cars of Colorado steers shipped to
this station for feeders, up and down the
river, some being driven twenty to
twenty-five miles, many of which will
be shipped to market from stations
nearer Kansas City.