People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-07-14
NO. A..
COUNTY CULLINGS.

Is this a "bluf?"
FOm the Star we chronicle the
death of VIM. r. COwen, aged thirty
six years, who resided with his fam
lily near Conway, on Monday, the 3rd.
Of typhoid fever.
VIM. Wykes Is down from Topeka
this week. He reports the general
condition Of the crops over the state
as very promising He has $ On no
spot which will compare with Sumner
county. however, and especially this
corner of it.-Caldwell Journal.
Conway may think she is up t.
snuff in some things, but when il
comes to base ball, she isn't in it with
Milan. The two towns locked horns
at Conway on the Fourth, and Milan
went home with Conway's scalp hang
ing at her belt to tn etuhe OF 80 to 20.
Rev. E. G. Pollard, Of Augusta.
preached the funeral of Harry Rue-
sell last Sunday morning. The chuicL
was crowded, many persons being un-
able 10 obtain seats. The MasOns at
tended in body and beautiful and
impressive exercises were held.-Mul-
yane Record.
The Belle Plaine News gives the
particulars Of buggy collision in
the darkness Saturday night week,
in which Mrs. Pirl was thrown over
the dashboard of the buggy in which
she and her husband were riding, and
had her arm broken in two places
just above the wrist.
ArgOnia Clipper: r. J. Tracy has
threshed part Of his wheat this week.
Nine acres Of sod land made 80 BUSH
els, and twenty-eight of his poorest
wheat made 81 bushels. He las 2iO
acres that is estimated will make
over twenty bushels per acre. Mr..
Tracy has one OF the finest bottom
farms in this country and he Is a
flrst-class farmer. He does his work
well and at the proper time.
We find the following items about
wheat in the Oxford Mockin! Dird:
Wheat is yielding much better than
farmers anticipated. W. Norris
threshed one piece he was ab iut "a
plow up In the spring and which he
thought, after harvested, would only
make ten bushels per acre and IL
made thirteen and a-half bushels.
Lon Reece threshed one piece that
made twenty-f0ur bushels and be
repeatedly declared that he would
take sixteen dollars for the crup
Charley Walden, prominent cattle
raiser and shipper Of near South Ha-
ven, has been afflicted with sickness
and few nights ago got up in his
sleep and wandered away with only
his pants, stockings and hat as wear
ing apparel. Citizens searched for him
for two days and his nephew finally
found him wandering about among
his stock in a pasture on the Peters
ranch near Drury. He was hungry
and almost famished for va
ter, with his feet lacerated and pants
torn. We CLEAN the facts from the
New Era.
Geo. R. Landers has purchased an
immense steam gang plow for use on
his wheat farm In the southwest part
Of the county. The gang uf
plows, consisting Of six l6-inch shares.
are manipulated entirely BY steam
power, and are capable OF turning
strip eight feet wide. Mr.. Lander>
expects to SOW 300 acres TO whpat this
fall, and will put headlight On .ur
engine and by using two sets Of hands
run the plow day and night. Only
two men are required TO operate tile
plow, which is capable Of stirring
thirty acres Of land per day. This j.
the first steam pl0w ever brought tn
the county and the success Of It's op.
erations will be watched with greaI
deal Of interest.-Anthony Repabli-
can.
The South Haven New Era speaks
Of the wheat yield as follows: The
wheat yield in this vicinity is much
larger than was thought possible
few weeks ago, and while some few
fields will not pay the expense Of har-
yesting, ETC., Others are making re-
markably good showing. r. H. Dod-
son, south Of town, has one field OF
soft wheat that yielded thirty-seyen
bushels to the acre and another OF
hard that went twenty.three and
One-half, the two making an average
of between twenty seven and twenty
eight bushels. G. G. Mack's field ad-
joining town on the southeast is said
to have averaged thirty bushels.
Considerable threshing is being done
from the shock, but we have not re-
ceiyed authentic reports from many
of the farmers yet, outside Of the
statement made above, that the gen.
eral yield is much better than e1-
pected. While the price is below the
profit mark, the fact that our crop Is
panning out fairly well, notwithstand-
ing the Encouragement we have un-
dergone this season, give renewed
confidence in this as an agricultural