The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-10

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Leavenworth county has shipped
over 900 barrels of apples during
the season.
Noble Prentis lectured Saturday
night at Cherryvale on 1.-The last bat
tie of the war.
Hutchinson boasts of spending So
800. 600 last year in Buildings, and WITCH
tia 81, SOC, goo.
Theo. Decker resists the occupation
tax at Hutchinson. The case will go
to the district court.
The north west is booming Walrond
against Booth for speaker. Booth will
get there, however.
An old negress in Topeka, with
prophetic vision, forecasts fine wealth
er tor all this month.
CAPTAIN Couch is throwing cold
water on the Pawnee BIN proposed in
vasion of Oki.Auiust.
Divilbiss is the euphonious name of a
gentleman who will teach penmanship
in Hartford next week.
The Concordia Daylight has changed
ownership and politics. 1t will now
support the dominant party,
Malls meat market in Topeka was
burned Thursday night. Loss, 81 GOO.
Supposed to be the work of firebugs.
Calvin Harvey, of California this
county, has pinned his faith to the
goose bone. He is fattening % geese
for market.
Hotel boarders are happy over their
steaks at Great Bend. A steer was
butchered there few days ago that
weighed :, ZOO pounds.
. Hope is proud of her record. She
holds her own bravely. There were
81 burials in her cemetery in 1888 and
the same number in 1887.
In Shawnee county last year sos
marriages took place and 80 persons
asked for a divorce. The number of
divorces granted is not given.
G. w. Graham of Ottumwa, Coffey
county. a grandfather and a leader in
church matters. fled The county, having
ruined two young girls under fourteen
years Of age.
The farmers of Kingman county will
hold convention in Kingman Janu-
airy 10th, to devise some plan for Sc
curing good seed corn and cheap trans
pOrtation therefor.
1t was not known how delightful a
place the Topeka Jail is to dwell in,
until female prisoner was placed
therein who sings continually Nearer
My God, to Thee"
The inducement held out by the Sa-
lima Republican to its subscribers to
attend church is that lit does not cost
anything" Its cheapness makes it
valuable, so to speak.
Postmaster Shelley of Kansas City
was bounced yesterday and Judge r. S.
Adkins was appointed to the vacancy.
ShRflnVlQ nYnII faynn q viz for.
ODgressman-elect TarSney.
The church announcements in the
EMPoRIA NEWS are indexed. 1t will
take more than this pointing out of the
churches in Emporia to draw crowd
tor the preachers Wichita Journal.
Five hundred dozen eggs were receiv-
ed in three days of last week in W. c..
Miners store at Hartford. There can
he no egg trust in Lyon county as long
as the hens keep up that sort of enter
prise.
Experiments made at the State Agri-
cultural college show that the use of
salt on wheat fields will greatly in
crease the yield. Spring is regarded
as the most favorable time in which to
SOW it.
An Atchison paper reminds us that
Minnie Hauk, the prima donna, lived
once in Atchison county. where her
father was a carpenter. and her mother
kept boarders, while Minnie waited on
the guests.
A JetmOre lady worked and scrimped
for weeks to have some money with
which to get her family some Christ
mas presents. The first thing that
happened when she went to buy them
was to lose her money.
S. b. Riggs, of Emporia, grand dicta-
tor of the Knights of Honor for Kan
sas, will install the officers of Washing
ton lodge No. 7S7, of this city. this
evening Every member should be
present. Journal.
Tomlinson of the Topeka Democrat
/ calls Vandergrift of the Atchison
Globe "a bum local'' while the latter
calls the Democrat editor ''TOdy Tom
linson." This squares accounts and
both are supposed to be happy.
Tomorrow evening five young men
| of Washburn College, Messrs Brewster.
Donell, Taylor, Stone and Mayer will
engage in an oratOrical contest to de-
termine who shall represent Washburn
at the intercollegiate contest at EN-
poria in February.
The Eureka Republican charges II.
| G. Marshall with acting in a suspicious
manner in the collection of subscriD-
| tions for the destitute people of Mead
county. The intimation is that Mar
shall is knocking down." since he re-
fuses to allow the names of contribu-
| tors and the amounts given to be pub
| lished.
| Four female organizations in Wich-
| tia, the Equal Suffrage. the Hypatia,
the WOman's Council and the w. G. T.
| o., have united in a letter to Governor
| Martin, asking that women be appoint
ed as part of the Kansas delegation
that will attend the centennial oele-
bration of the Inauguration of George
Washington, April 80.
A move is on foot among the old sol
diers Of Kansas looking to the passing
of an act of congress authorizing the
| erection OF a suitable granite monu-
ment upon every battlefield of the late
war. The matter will be urged upon
the attention of the next congress, and
| the Fort Scott posts of the q. A. Il.
are asked to co-eperate.-Fort Scott
Monitor.
Topeka is getting itself in shape to
receive the legislative Soions who are
already beginning to appear at the cap
ital. AS the state pays them but SIS a
day they can not afford TO patronize
the best hotels. Consequently Rooms
to Rent" viii appear in every quarter
Restaurants will be scrubbed, and pro-
vided with new oil table covers. and
every precantion taken to make life as
pleasant for the Law makers as posi-
ble
James O'Toole has received word
from his son jim that the latter has
sold the New Jersey farm for $4,000
cash. When he shall have disposed OF
the dairy property and other person
atty there on, Mr. ORIOLES inter
ests viii have disappeared and he win
be once more and for good Kansan.