The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-04-12
THE KANSAS NEWS.
p. b. Plumb. Proprietor and Editor.
EMPORIA, KANSAS.
Saturday. July 4, 1857.


The issue is No. of Vol. 1. There
were at the time Senator Plumb
launched his venture three or four
houses in Emporia. One of the local
items is the following.
"Can not a school be started this
summer? There are quite a number
Of children in this vicinity, and we have
several good teachers who would prove
competent to the task. Something
ought to be DONE"
Here is another which will be appre-
ciated by those who know the thrifty
city of Emporia as probably the best
built place of 10000 inhabitants in the
west:
''Mr. Storrs has purchased the hotel
from the town company and intends
furnishing it handsomely and enlarg-
ing it by adding twenty-four feet for
kitchen purposes, and the erection of
east sides of the building. We say
success to him, for his enterprise and
| energy deserve it,
The senator has eXerted himself man
| fully the past winter to obtain much
needed improvements in the railway
mail service OF Kansas. In 1857, as it
appears from this copy of the News, he
was hammering the postofice depart
ment to get mail route established to
Emporia, which then had no postoffice.
Most of the people were sending to
Lawrence for their mail. I'VE have
population enough to warrant the es-
tablishment of semi-Weekly mail, -
says the NEWS, ''but the postoffice de-
partment does not see fit to aecommo-
date u.s."
BIG CROP OF ONIONS.
The gentleman who sends the re-
minder of old times to this Senator is
Dir. w. G.. Larrabee, Of Larrabee's
Point, Vermont. Mr.. Plumb says he
remembers this Mr.. Larrabee of thirty
years ago very well. The young mar
came out from Vermont with the free
soil colonists and took up aquarter of 9
section of land near Emporia. There
wasn't very much inducement to till
the soil in those perilous times, anC
: young Larrabee had an indulgent
father in Vermont who RENTED tx
him when he got hard up. At ont
time the elder Larrabee got into hii
head that the son wasn't making al
much of his opportunities as he might
, and he wrote him in reply to request
for money, wanting to know what ht
was doing in the way of farming. Al
that time wild onions grew in great
abundance on the prairies of Eastern
= Kansas. Young Larrabee wrote back
Dear Father. You asked how TIT
farm is doing. l have got $50 acres O
; onions that look splendidly," etc.
: The return mail brought the desired
remittance.
One of the most interesting things il
the paper is the advice given a yOun:
man who asked Washington clerk
: ship of Hon. Tom Corwin while tn
latter was a member of the cabinet
Mr.. Plumb quotes it in the NEWS ap
provingly. This is what Mr.. Corwil
said:
MY young friends go to the north
west; buy $50 acres of government LAM
, or, if you have no money to purchase
squat on it; get you an axe and a mat
7 took; put up log cabin for a habita
ton, and raise little corn and pota
+ toes: keep your conscience clear ant
, live like freeman; your own master
no one to give YOU orders, and Withou
|, dependence on anybody. Do that, an
YOU will become honored, respected
influential and rich. But accept
+ clerkship here, and you sink at once a.
> independence. Your energies becom
: relaxed, and you are untitled in a fey
: years for any other independent posi-
. ton. may give you place to-day
J. and | can kick you out tomorrow. An
+, there is a man over at the White Hous
who can kick me out. And the pee
9 pie by and by can kick him out. An
so we go. Buff you own an acre O
: land, it is your kingdom, and you
J cabin is your castle. You are a SOY
! ereign and you will feel it in ever
! throbbing of your pulse, and every da
thanks for having thus advised you"