People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-09-29
Abilene is to have a steam laundry.

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The enrolment Of scholars in the
independence schools the first week
was IT'S.
The city and county officials have
united at Parsons to enforce the pro-
hibition law.
Free Coinage, the phenomenal Kan
'as 5-year-old PAGER, has lowered his
record to 2:11%.
The latest perverted Kansas appe-
lite reported is owned by Topeka
calf that eats chickens.
Farmers in the vicinity OF Garden
Clty have realized as high as s49,5O
per acre from alfalfa seed.
DR.. W. A. Phillips, OF Salina, a son
Of the ex-eongressman, made the run
into the Strip and got homestead
near Kildare.
The sugar works at Sterling are
turning out 500 gallons of syrup day
They expect to keep up this lick for
three or four weeks.
A man by the name of Barndollar
puts some of his silver dollars in circu-
lation by doing judicious advertising
in the Coffeyville papers.
Kansas farm lands are still worth
little bit. A half section sold last
weeks in Phillips county for $40, 900, or
a fraction over $31 per acre.
A firm Of grain dealers at Parsons
lately received check for 81, 600 from
Chicago, the net proceeds from the
sale of car load of Labette county
blue grass seed.
Notwithstanding all the good ad-
vice and wise sayings of Ed Howe,
there are twenty-five divorce cases on
the docket of the Atchison district
court for the present term.
Representative John Seaton, We'd
nesday purchased Prices opera house
at Topeka. He will at once begin a
series of improvements which will
continue until the house is strictly
Odd as it may seem, the 5000 Kan
sas Odd Fellows who attended the re-
union of the worlds fair the past
week, were the least odd of the 49,
900 sunhowers that blowed there dur
ing that time.
The Newton daily Kansan gives no.
tice that it has lost $1,000 il the
business in six years, and
that unless the business men of the
city come to the front they will have
to pull up stakes.
Topeka has a new inspiration. Rev.
enue Collector Morris remarked,
while in that town a few days ago,
that if another story was added to the
government building there he would
make his headquarters in that city.
The drought that is prevailing
throughout the state is getting quite
serious and if it continues for another
week, as indications promise, it will
give the people some idea of what
central Illinois has suffered for
months.
The Hutchinson News suggests that
if some of the farmers of the western
part of the state will go to Reno
county they can soon earn enough
money to buy all the seed wheat they
want. 1t is reported that the farmers
in that country are finding difficulty
in securing help to gather their crops.
The board of public works has ad-
vertised for bids for the new wing al
the state normal school at Emporia, a
steam plant at the agricultural col
lege at Manhattan, and an electric
plant at the deaf and dumb asylum al
Olathe. The contracts are to be lei
on October Q.
The Minneapolis Messenger, whose
editor is confirmed bachelor-o1
what account it doesn't matter-de-
clares that "when woman goes
away for visit she always asks hel
best woman friend to watch her hus.
band during her absence" 1t is in
tended as joke, but there is just a
whisper of doubt behind it. As if he
knows anything about such matters
Some one has asked "Why home
seekers should be forced to the strir
when there are thousands of good va.
cant acres in Kansas" Bless your
dear honest heart, they aren't and
don't need to go if they don't want tc
better claims can be secured any
day in the week, and at less cost oil
time, labor and money than can be
had with weeks searching of the
strip.
An extraordinary legal situation was
developed at Lawrence last week as 9
result of a prosecution under the pro.
hibition law. A woman was arrested
and tried before the police Judge and
found gsllty of violation of the law.
She took an appeal to the district
court, and her attorney, being the
county prosecutor, then became the
counsel on the other side of the case.
The auction sale of all the remain.
ing assets of the defunct First Ma,
tiOnal bank of Abilene ended last
evening. Receiver Rogers realized
about $500 out of assets of face
value of over s15O,OOO. Everything
was sold but the bank building for
which no bid urder 81, COO would be
considered. There were some curious
values put on some of the judgments
bought on account of old boom time
speculation Indebtedness, Accounts
of 200 to $4,000 went for IS and So,
some men bidding IN judgment against
themselves and so clearing up old
debts easily. The amount received
added to the funds already in the re-