People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-06-17

hope Sumner county people will come
generously to its aid. 1t is one of our
best exchanges and worthy of heip.
Brace it up, brothers, for the papers
sake and for the sake of the cause,
Standard: The Standard sincerely
sympathizeS with Campbell & Hood
OF the MOnitOr-PreSs and LYMAN
Naugle of the VOICE. Their offices
are completely wrecked. Nohope can
be entertained of saving from their
wrecked places of business anything
OF value. But both papers will issue
this week. Campbell & Hood and
Naugle possess too much enterprise
to cry long over their losses. The
Standard stands ready to lend them
helping hand at any time and in
any manner possible. That their
losses may be lighter than at first ap-
pretended is our sincere wish.
Wichita, Kansas, COmmoner: Ell.
Cline, city editor Of the PEOPLES
VOICE of Wellington, was at the A.
n. Kellogg Newspaper Office this
week getting out a cyclone edition of
the VOICE, the office, press, etc. of
which was destroyed by the recent
tornado at our bereaved sister city of
wellington. Such grit is commend
able, and should be encouraged by a
large demand for his edition and lib
eral support in the future.
NOncOnfOrmist: Last Friday night
one of those devastating cyclones
that have been frequent in the west
this year visited the cities of Harper
and Wellington, two of the principal
county seats in Southern Kansas,
nearly Wiping them from the earth.
Upwards of score of lives were lost
at the latter town, while at Harper
the list of dead and mOrtally wound
ed reach near a dozen. In yelling
ton every newspaper Office, five in
number, and no finer offices existed
In the state, were totally wrecked.
Among them, the PEOPLES VOICE.
one u the foremost of Kansas reform
papers. 1t is easy to predict the
early re-eStablishment of the VOICE,
Tor Kansas grit is not destroyed if
the homes and materials are, but
words cannot portray the extent of
such calamity as this is upon the
community thus visited. Ten blocks
right in the heart of a vigorous city
of 5000, totally wrecked and all their
valuable stocks of goods, in these
times of life and death struggles.
even without adversely, is terrible to
contemplate. Sympathy is hollow.
for when the great masses reach into
their pockets for that which can en-
phasize their expressions, they reach
in vain. viii it always be thus.
Marion, (Ind.,) Independent: Our
surprise at getting the Wellington,
Kas.,l VOICE. as usual, in spite of
their wreck in the fearful cyclone, was
considerable. The VOICE is a first
rate paper, its publisher is full of
grit, and we predict deserved success
for them
Belle Plaine News: The Yelling
ton papers shows the pluck again of
a Kansas newspaper man, by not
missing an issue.
Kansas Star: The PEOPLES VOICE
and the Wellington Monitor were
both Issued last week as usual. not
withStanding both offices were COM
pletely annihilated in the recent cy-
clone. The newspaper boys of Kan
SaS are hard to down.
Milan Press: The MOnitor-Press
and the PEOPLES VOICE, of Yelling
ton, were out on time last week.
despite the fact that their plants
were both wiped out of exist
ence by the merciless cyclone. The
enterprise and pluck displayed by
the editors of those sheets under
such trying circumstances. is GER
tainly cOmmmendable and should
serve as an object lesson to the young
and rising generation