Annals of Emporia and Lyon County . usand dollars worth ofcattle were sold in Emporia andvicinity this year. In the fall of 1867 we were visit-ed by grasshoppers which came toolate to do much damage, but theydeposited millions of eggs. We had $40,000 worth of schoolhouses. On the 24th of April the townand county were well shaken andfrightened by shocks of an earth-quake. On the first of May a meetingwas held in Emporia to talk of theprospects of the Topeka and Em-poria railroad, afterwards the A., S. F. railroad. Wheat this year reached the enor-mous figure of $ per bushel;flour, $
Annals of Emporia and Lyon County . usand dollars worth ofcattle were sold in Emporia andvicinity this year. In the fall of 1867 we were visit-ed by grasshoppers which came toolate to do much damage, but theydeposited millions of eggs. We had $40,000 worth of schoolhouses. On the 24th of April the townand county were well shaken andfrightened by shocks of an earth-quake. On the first of May a meetingwas held in Emporia to talk of theprospects of the Topeka and Em-poria railroad, afterwards the A., S. F. railroad. Wheat this year reached the enor-mous figure of $ per bushel;flour, $ per 100; corn, $ was owing to the visitation ofthe grasshoppers the fall before,which prevented the sowing ofwheat, and the expectation that thebillions of eggs would hatch andefiectually destroy the crops thisseason. In the latter expectationthe peojile were happily disappoint-ed, as the spring was cold, wet andbackward, and the insects disap-peared without doing serious dam-age. 64 ANNALS OF EMPORIA AND LYON COLLEGE OF EMPORIA. The Presbyterian church has alwaysbelieved in education, and the Presbyte-rians of Kansas are not behind in thismatter. For many years their synod inKansas had under consideration the es-tablishment of a college central in loca-tion and thorough in curriculum andequipment. Various committees wereappointed to devise plans and secureoffers of a site suitable for founding sucha college. These efforts finally culminat-ed in the acceptance by the synod, in1S82, of the offer of the citizens of Em-poria of thirty-eight acres of land andforty thousand dollars in money. Manynames might be mentioned of the citi-zens of Emporia who labored earnestlyto accomplish this result. Rev. J, , D. D., Rev. R. M. Overstreet,Hon. S. B. Riggs, Hon. O. D. Swan,Major Calvin Hood, and a score of othersassisted in this work. A board of trustees consisting of twen-ty-one members was elected by the synodof Kansas, one-third to be elected annu-ally and the
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