People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-08-18
KANSAS MATTERS.
Items Of Interest Condensed for Hurried
Readers.


There, are thirty-six men in McPher-
son county by the name of Olson.
Salt is being used as a paving mater
ial on some of the Hutchinson streets.
The old settlers of Harvey county
will give picnic August 10 at Hal
stead.
A lady in Jewel City claims to be
the first person to discover the new
comet.
Four ladies have held the Office of
county superintendent of schools in
Reno county.
A resident of Wellington is proud of
a 500 mastiff pup presented to him by
an Omaha man.
Ex-Governor Humphrey has gained
forty pounds in flesh since he left the
gubernatorial chair.
Salina is expecting visit from DR..
D. {. Miner and some of their joints
are beginning to crack.
A new town called Hebron has been
started near the Bethel college grounds
two miles from Newton.
Enough people get off the trains at
Atchison to enable fifteen hackmen to
make living in that place.
The public school at Tonganoxie
employs four teachers at an aggre-
gate salary Of Sls5 per month.
Winfield Courier: A good water
melon sells for enough to buy wheat
to bread family for half month.
The city council al Newton is consid-
ering the ACCESSIBILITY of cutting the
fees of the police judge to about half.
A blind expert chess player inter-
ested some of the citizens of Newton
last week with his skill at the game.
Manchester, Dickinson county, had
an addition of three citizens last week
and held meeting to talk up Gene
terry.
The president of the independence
council signs Tom" Harrison to an
ordinance, just as if that was his
name.
Maxy B., Kansas horse, is cam
paigning in Missouri and winning
laurels for himself and shekels for his
owner.
One commission merchant in Par
sons has already shipped forty ear
loads of hay to Memphis, Tenn, this
season.
Coffeyville wants to know if there
IS another city in the state than can
produce mother 80 years old with
nine children.
Greeley county has voted on the
proposition of placing bounty on
coyotes and rabbits, and it carried by
a good majority.
The commissioners of Wallace coun-
ty are paying out over 81, 200 a week
bounty for gopher scalps, and the sup
ply has not diminished.
Hascall Skinner, the first man who
took homestead west of Beloit, died
July 16. He had resided in the
Solomon valley since 1869.
Within the last twenty-seven
years the Kansas Orphan asylum at
Leavenworth has placed 1,547 orphan
children in good homes.
Railroad Commissioner John Hall
has recently purchased flock of 800
sheep in Greenwood county and taken
them to his farm in NeOsha county.
The women of Hiawatha are raising
funds to send all of the drunkards of
that town to the Kelley cure, and ex-
pect to make money by the operation.
There are still some people in Kan
sas young and old, who have no more
sense than to try to beat the man
with the shell game that follows the
circus.
Kansas is sending missionaries to
West Virginia. L. J. Allen of Oswego
has recently gone to Parkersburg to
engage in Sunday school missionary
work.
Another Newspaper in Kansas is I'M
der the management of lady. Miss
Hazel Holt has become editor and
p Oprietor of the Fort Scott Dis
patch.
Hodgman county has received $685.
90 from the A. I. & S. f. railro ad
company. for damages done to the
poor farm by the prairie fire last
spring.
If reports are true the Kansas
board of charities is doing a thing for
which they should be heartily COM
mended-and that is the teaching Of
some of the deaf mutes at 0lathe the
barber business. Just think of get
ting shave without word said.
Two Woodston gentlemen went TO
Stockton and drew out their deposit,
amounting to 5000 from the Exchange
bank. The express train the same
evening took it back for deposit.
THE CHEROKEE STRIP BUSINESS
EXCHANGE AND PROTECTIVE
ASSOCIATION. WINFIELD,
KANSAS.
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Shares $500 ca n. Send TO Secretary
for full information.
Two real estate capitalists of Hi
nois last week purchased 1000 acres
of land in Marion county, paying
therefor $780, cash. The Record
says it is the largest deal that has
been made in that county for some
time.
Noting the circumstance that Col