Annals of Emporia and Lyon County . mporia. This knocked the cele-bration galley-west, because, eventhen, peoples enthusiasm was nomore disposed to monkey with thesmall-pox than now. ANNALS OF EMIORIA AND COUNTY. The first railroad meeting everheld in the Neoslio valley convenedhere on the twenty-first of July,1S57. Col. C. K. Holiday, of To-peka, spoke for a road from Topeka,and John O. Wattles one iTom theeast near JeflFerson City, viaMoneku. Thus it will be seenthat the original itleas for railroadlines for this section were close towhat was finally adopted in therailroad system of th
Annals of Emporia and Lyon County . mporia. This knocked the cele-bration galley-west, because, eventhen, peoples enthusiasm was nomore disposed to monkey with thesmall-pox than now. ANNALS OF EMIORIA AND COUNTY. The first railroad meeting everheld in the Neoslio valley convenedhere on the twenty-first of July,1S57. Col. C. K. Holiday, of To-peka, spoke for a road from Topeka,and John O. Wattles one iTom theeast near JeflFerson City, viaMoneku. Thus it will be seenthat the original itleas for railroadlines for this section were close towhat was finally adopted in therailroad system of the state. At this time the government ran iiands. A weekly hack line to thatcity was established, leaving hereevery Monday and returning evervFriday. It took four full days tomake the round trip, and one day torest at Lawrence. The fare for theround trip was about fifteen dollars. Official Literature. There was a good deal of politic-al excitement during the summer of1S57, and mass meetings and con-ventions for various purposes were. RESIDENCE OF MRS. P. B. PLUMB. a mail from Westport, Missouri,out on the Santa Fe trail to Coun-cil Grove, and thence to would not do the wide-awakeEmporians at all. They hatedeverything pro-slavery and insteadof patronizing this route they tooksteps to have their mail sent by wayof Lawrence. They had box fivehundred in Lawrence from whencethe mail was brought by private of frequent occurrence. Sometimesludicrous scenes appeared upon thesurface. They were usually enact-ed by longhaired and wild-eyedpersons on either side. Sometimesa little fellow would come aroundwith loud voice, armed to the teeth,who was going to right things inshort order. There was quite a de-sire among this class of free-statemen to even attack the United i6 OF EMPORIA AND COUNTY, States troops, from a distance,whenever opportunity offered, butthey never attacked anything moreharmful than free meals, thatwe ever heard of. A letter of thisbeligerent c
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