People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-08-25

- using great deal OF Kansas corn.
Wamego held public meetings to dis.
euss water works and electric lights.
The delinquent tax list of Trego
county is lighter than for many years.
The Salvation Army musters a pro-
eeSsion block long at Arkansas City
now.
The Pleasanton postofiice has been
made an international money order
Office.
The Leavenworth commercial ex-
change will meet to consider the m in
erS' strike.
There is a man in Atkinson who
wants to run for office, but he doesn't
know which party to run with, and is
in great distress.
washbum COLLEGE, Topeka. Kansas. for
both sexes Fine grounds, six buildings.
Preparatory. Normal and Collegiate courses.
One Of the best colleges in the West Fall
dent.
The fire department is in another
w.angle. In Florence the fire depart
ment takes precedence over the city
council in matters Of that kind.
The seventeen-year locust has put
IN appearance in Douglas county. 1t
was due this year, but it is not likely
there will be any great number of
them.
A Lawrence seed house has lately
shipped two carloads of seed to Aus
tralia, but this must not be taken as
IN indication that the town has all
gone to seed.
The New Albany lind. Wooden Mills
Company has filed chattel mortgage
for S9l0,C0O. This step is taken to pro-
tect creditors, attachment suits hav-
ing been fled.
The Union Pacific is using ground
rock salt to kill the weeds on the sid
ings in their various yards, They
claim it is cheaper and better than to
hire the weeds cut.
a. Dobson, of the Bank of Ottawa,
has possession of the boot and shoe
store of John r. Barnett, of Ottawa,
Kansas, and will sell C stock to sat
isfy chattel mortgage.
Wichita is kicking on the shabbv
condition of her United States mail
wagon. Better be glad you've got one
at all. TOpeka's mail is still taken to
the train on the bus or ON top of the
trunks.
Everett Veatch leased Reub Play
ford's CarbOndalian year ago and at
the end of the year he and Playford
had row. Neatch has started the
Usage Courier, which gives Carbondale
two newspapers.
The Ottawa Republican SAYS that
when the ladies vote they should bring
their fans in warm weather as the coop
required by the new law will doubt
less be a sweater" No provision for
ice water is made BY law.
The commissioners of Pottawatomie
county have called Il special election
for September to vote on the ipca
ton of county high school at Louis
vile. 4 majority Of all votes cast will
be necessary to locate the school.
Carpets cleaned, grease spots re-
moved and put back again." is the
sign which adorns a building on Kan
saS avenue, Topeka. 1t is hardly
necessary to remark that the sign
does not belong TO a Chinaman.
Superintendent Hinze says the Med
icine Lodge sugar mill expects to make
full run this season. To the sugar
maker the cane looks all right, and
there will be enough to keep the mill
running the eutire sugar season.
The citizens of Clifton got up a spe-
cial informal election of their own
last week to decide upon the man to
be recommended for postmaster.
About $40 votes were cast and a
straight democrat, Charles Berner, was
selected.
Atchison and Lawrence have both
boosted of being well laid out. This
has occassioned the remark from rival
towns that they ought TO be, they
have been dead so long. But Just now
these two towns seem to be rivalinp
each other as t. which can claim the
least number of empty houses and the
greatest prosperity.
The Kansas City Mail. charges that
the Commercial club OF that town
spends great deal of time in coaxing
people to Kansas City, and then deserts
them as soon as they arrive. II points
that the Marshall Chemical works,
OF Lawrence, was promised all sorts of
help if it would remove to Kansas
City, but that the help was not given,
and that the institution failed.
Friday was the thirty-second ami
versary of the battle of Wilson's creek,
where SO many Kansas soldiers lost
their lives. The battle of Wilson'S
creek occurred about three weeks af-
ter that of Bull Run, and later in the
season came the surrender of Nulligan
at Lexington. Missouri was at that
time at the mercy of gangs of rebel
bushwhackers or of squads recruiting
and marching to join Prices army.
The canning factory at Emporia is
now running in full blast canning
corn, and they are consuming great
amount of it The factory creates a
good market for the farmer of that
vicinity. He get Sc per ton for his
corn with the husks on. This nets
him from SlS to S94 per acre for his
crop, or from 81 cents to 40 cents per
bushels should he wait until it is ripe.
The commissioners of Stevens coun-
ty have decided To fund ALI of the ont.