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PERSONAL.
Miss Cora Pierson remained at home the past summer, much to the pleasure of the friends who enjoyed her hospitality.
Frank Hutchins of '83 has been acting with considerable success as "local" on the Daily Journal during the past summer.
—Walter Finkler, one of Hiawatha's delegation in 1880, is doing well in a lumber yard of that place.
-Victor Linley spent his mid-summer holidays with an uncle at Minneapolis, Minn. Present weight 297 lbs. $ 9 \frac{1}{4} $ ozs.
Miss Ella Kempthorne, Normal of '82 spent June and July in Iowa. She holds her last year's certificate in the Beloit schools.
—S. M. Smith, '79, who has been connected with the Emporia Merchantile Co., has sold out his shares with a view of engaging in Mexican mining stock.
—L. M. Luscher is winning a high reputation in Kansas City as surgeon. He is a partner of Dr. Halley, one of the foremost surgeons of the United States.
—Miss Kittie Smith is at Chautauqua, N.Y., pursuing the course of study laid down by the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific circle.
-G. N. Goss, who used to scare his boarding mistress nearly to death by a skeleton hid under his bed, is following his natural predilections in the Kansas City medical college.
The Topeka Capital informs us W. S. Kinnear (who don't know Kinnear?) stopped a week with relatives in Topeka, on his way west to join a corps of A., T. & S.F. surveyors.
—Fannie Pratt was "at home" to her friends this summer, and many friends has she.
Albert Perry, known only to old University students as the jolliest, wildest and most enthusiastic of their number, has sobered down as a solemn "professor." He will act as principal of the Lyon public schools this year, at a salary of eighty dollars per month.
The irrepressible Nelson Beardsley has left Hiawatha, Kansas, and now lives in Michigan with his mother.
Will Lawrence, who made his debut in University society in 1880, now pitches goods across his father's store in Hiawatha.
—Jas. L. Meade brings with him to the University this fall, his sister Lizzie, who will follow in the studious path of her brother.
—Rumor says that C. C. Dart was seen in the vicinity of Cottonwood Falls this summer, but we are willing to swear that it was another man.
—Hugh Richards and his wife, formerly Miss Lizzie Miller, have their home at Hermosillo, Mexico, where they form most popular members of the social circle.
—Miss Lina E. Gano, Normal of '83, will teach this year in the Topeka schools. Her many friends here will be pleased to hear that she starts out thus auspiciously.
—J. S. West and J. M. Humphrey, formerly of the class of '82, are associated as "West & Humphrey, Attorneys at Law, Fort Scott," at least, so says the sign board.
—C, C. Surber has been engaged in the drug business at Perry, Kan., since last May. He re-enters the Kansas City Medical College this fall to hatch out into a mysterious M.D. next spring.
—One by one the "daisies" fade. Miss Ida Osmond, well known in University circles, was married on the 15th inst. to Mr. N.B.Holbrook.N.B.-Hol-brook full of happiness do we wish her.
Robt. L. Ball, who used to wear one of those flap-jack mortar-boards and cast side long glances at the '84 girls, is studying law in Galveston, Texas, with T. M. Spencer, one of the most prominent attorneys of that state.