People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-08-18
Wilson county is having large crops
Of peaches and apples.

- N''ASy
A Merrill jeweler devotes half his
time to giving music lessons.
The Ramona creamery handles over
G,OOO pounds Of milk daily.
Checkers and chess have given away
to high five in WaKeeney.
There are fourteen district Judges.
to be elected in Kansas this year,
Sumner county editors are arrang
ing for picnic among themselves.
Liberal draughts of milk saved two
Leavenworth boys from poisoning
caused by eating ,sardines that had
stood open in the can.
One Of the agricultural phenomena
OF Kansas this year is blooming sweet
potato vines, which are reported from
various sections of the state.
The Salina paper mill was shut
down on account of a scarcity of coal
and not on account OF hard times, as
reported in the Abilene Chronicle.
Chief Skiff. of the mining exhibit,
keeps "open house" oftener than any
other official connected with the fair.
He always did have a leaning that
way.
COursing week will be the next i'm
portant outing event at Great Bend.
II will be held from October "a to IS,
and a large attendance is expected as
usual.
Lawrence Gazette; Among the
men let out of the Santa Fe shops at
Topeka was one who had not missed
a single pay check for twenty-five
years.
Ex-Bank Commissioner Charles f.
johnson had shipped a car load of
Shetland ponies from the Shetland
islands to his farm in jefferson
county.
The Acme Cement Hasler company
has just completed a big mill in Mar
ion county which which is said to be
the most complete cement mill ever
erected.
The school teachers of Americas re-
Gently went on strike against a re-
duction in their salaries and were sue
cessful in having them left at the old
figures.
j. c. Little OF Columbus is the own
er of the 2-year-old colt u. C. L."
that won first money, $500, in the
2-year-old-old mile trot at Knoxville,
Ia, on Tuesday.
! Two enterprising citizens of Winfield
raised 5,4OO bushels, eleven carloads,of
early potatoes near that town this
spring and expect to have 10000 bush
els of late potatoes.
Dickinson county has the right kind
of board of county commissioners.
They have just made a tax levy of thir-
teen mills, a reduction of nearly five
mills over last year.
The demand upon the city of Par
sons for charity has grown so great in
recent years that Mayor Gregory has
decided 10 establish a relief fund for
the deserving poor of the city.
New wheat sells for 80 cents a
bushel at Mcpherson, while oats only
bring from IL to l6 cents. One bushel
of potatoes will exchange for two and
and quarter bushels of wheat.
AS evidence that they are becoming
civilized it is stated that it requires
twenty gallons of ice cream to satisfy
the Indian boys and girls of Haskell
institute when they go to a picnic.
Charles E. WATSON, formerly con-
nected with the Ulysses Tribune, has
started suit in the district court of
Grant county asking that receiver
he appointed to take charge of that
paper.
VIM. Crotty Of Cofiey county last
Monday shipped to Kansas City $50
fat steers, the average weight of
which was l,450 pounds when deliver
ed at tina yards. They brought the
top price on the market.
An old mother snake was recently
killed near Lawrence, and safely hid
den within her were lis young snakes
which had been swallowed at the APP
proach of danger. This story is told
by the World Of that city.
The creamery at Meriden has rece.
ived 100000 pounds of milk since
March 81, and paid for same IS, $50.
There are ninety-two patrons and 400
cows represented, and from 1000 TO
5000 pounds of milk received d.ily.
The TT. Scott Monitor says as a spe-
cial inducement and in order to give
the people chance to ride of the Fer
ris wheel, would it not be good idea
TO offer free license to the managers
of that concern TO visit our fair this
fall.
The local papers say the ceremonies
Of Labor day in Topeka this year
promise to be more imposing, the pro-
gram more attractive and the festi-
vities more enjoyable than at any pre-
vious time since the observance OF
this anniversary began.
Oxford has developed full-Aedged
board of trade and grain is bought
and sold on change" Last Monday
w. NJ. Copeland sold to ". ]. Norris
4. 900 bushels of corn to be delivered
between November Is and January Is,
on board cars her, for 25 cents.
The old veterans of the Eighteenth
senatorial district will hold reunion
at Centralia, October 3, and 5. Forty
tents have been engaged and no pains
will be spared to make the occasion
memorable one in the history Of the
Grand Army of the Republic.
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