The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-02-28
Churches on the hill
No saloons in the valley;
Buy your whtskey at the 10
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No saloons in the valley;
Buy your whiskey at the joint
And drink It in the alley.
There was an evening last week on
which there was no church sociable at
Emporia, but such thing is not liable
to happen again for the next twenty
yearS.-ButtS.
An AtchIson merchant proves to be
mind reader able to rival Lena Loeb
and Mcleod. That old town is devel-
Oping number of curiOsities animate
and inaminate.
Lawrence society has just received a
shock. a young business man of that
town who was supposed to be bache-
lor, has revealed the fact that he was
married three years ago.
Senator Plumb has an Uncle resid-
ing in Philips county over 81 years old,
who walks on an average of fifteen
miles per day, so report goes. The
old gentleman is vigorous, hale and
hearty.
Seibert Carroll aged 10 while trying
to rescue two younger brothers Yester-
day morning at Marion, was drowned
in the Cottonwood. They were all
skating at the time and broke through
the ice.
The Leavenworth police walked up
AAN1y cll4 cIA1C0CCu 1DOuO d OOL-
Gn crooks who have been burglariZing
and breaking safes open for some
weeks in that city. They are for the
most parts ex-cOnvicts.
A pork combine was formed by
Elias Rich and John Lee of COffey
county to carry off the fat hogs of their
neighbOrs. They had succeeded in
stealing about sixty when they were
arrested and the combine came to
grief.
Near McLouth; Miss Kimball was
accidentally shot and terribly disfig
ured by a young man named Gable,
who was cleaning and loading a shot
gun. Miss Kimball's jaw was broken,
an eye put out and her hand so terri
bly, lacerated that amputation was nee
essary.
The Legislature has refused to make
an appropriation for the benefit of the
state board of health, though it did
not forget TO provide for the live stock
sanitary commission. The legislators
seem to imagine that the health of the
| jackasseS is more important than the
health of their constituents.-Atch
Globe.
High rate interest has been the
| curse of Kansas ever since Kansas has
! been a state. Four per cent. a month
| has ruined more men. broken up more
homes, separated more families OF
children, made more paupers and lee
to more crimes than all other agencies
combined. The people have cried
halt! Let the legislature beware
Four per cent? a month has kept more
people of moderate means from seek
ing homes in Kansas than hot winds
drouth and grasshopers combined
Down with the law that allows this
curse to remain.-Clay Center Dis
patch.
A woman living near Parsons lost a
fur collar last month, and although
search was made for the missing arti
Gle, it was never found. Last weel
her husband dreamed that it was con
cealed under stump in the lot neal
the barn. The third time the dream
was repeated. At last, actuated more
by curiosity than by faith, the maj
visited the lot and found the stump
Brushing away the leaves he discov
4 cred hole, and placing bis hand in it
to his surprise his hand came in con
tact with furry substance which h,
proceeded to pull out. Then he wen
home. The skunk escaped.-Parson'
Sun.