People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-06-01
KANSAS STATE MATTERS.
WHAT THE JAYHAWKERS ARE
DOING TO-DAY.
Condensed News from All l.ar,s of
the Great sunflower State-A Cen
eral Summary of Kansas New.

SUMMARY OF Kansas New.
The Altoona Journal has been sold
to George B. Sipe.
All Of the old teachers in the Abb
lene schools have been reelected for
the coming year.
A Seneca physlan has the contract
of caring for the Atchison smallpox
patients at SIS day.
The old soldiers of Anderson county
will hold their annual reunion at Gar
nett, August 1918.
DIR. W. A. Leigh of Stockton Is at last
formally announced as a candidate
for secretary of state.
COmanche county had between
$1,000 and $1,000 in the State National
bank of Wichita when it failed.
A 4S-dound catfish caught out of the
Nerdigrls river, near Guilford, was on
exhibition in Fredonia the other day.
n. H. Pixley of Wamego raises
sweet potato plants by the million
and ships them to all points from Il
linois to Texas. NJ
The Atchison county high school at
Efingam will issue an 'anual" this
spring, the first school annual ever
compiled in Kansas.
General Sanders men are Slowly de-
sorting the army at LeavenWorth,
but the general says only the weak
kneed ones are going. ..r...-.
Out of the sixty-eight Smith county
teachers who took the recent uniform
state examination. only ten passed
and received certificates.
The Uncle Toms Cabin company
that started out from Wichita recent
ly stranded in Missouri before it had
been on the road two weeks. VI
Thirteen Barber county townships
that had population of 4,O99 in 1898,
have this year according to the asses
sors' returns, but 2,99S.
The l4-months-old child of Mr.. and
Mrs. Howe Hamilton of Augusta
drank cOnsideral amount of concen-
trated I've few days ago and cannot
live.
There has never been boy valedic.
torian among any of the graduates of
the Atchison high school. The race
for the honor this year was very close
between boy and girl, and the girl
won.
About fifteen teachers in the Law
renee public schools will attend the
convention of the National Teachers
association which will be held at As
bury Park, N. j., the week beginning
July 6.
: S. L. Lambert and T. II Shocks
were arrested at Arkansas City Satur-
day for forgery. They had cashed DO
gus checks on the Home National
bank to the aggregate amount of
nearly 500,
The Globe thinks that the county
commissioners of Atchison county
may commence the erection of new
court house next fall. Authority for
this move was granted several wears
ago. .t.'.
Some Rocks county farmers are be-
coming alarmed because of the pres
ence OF chinch bugs in large numbers
IN their wheat fields. 1t seems that
there is little danger of damage to the
wheat, however. ECr e-f
B. f. Smith, the Lawrence "straw.
berry king" will have 1000 crates of
strawberries for market this year. He
will ship mainly to Colorado Springs
and Omaha. Some shipments will be
made to Topeka. 0...a..
During the seven days ending Satur-
day, 1he product, sale and shipment of
three Lawrence industries was as fol-
lows: Bowersock Milling Co., flour
100000 pounds; Consolidated Barb
Wire Co., wire and nails, 100000
pounds; Lawrence Paper Co., straw
paper, 100000 pounds.
Scranton Gazette; For the first
time in years there will be plenty of
fruit in tie country. Late apples will
be abundant; cherries will be plenti-
full, and everything except the real
early variety of fruit which was killed
by the cold snap in the early part of
April, will be'a good crop.
There IS prospect that Leaven-
worth may soon have a frst-class ho-
tel. The st. Paul owners of the
Planters house have authorized the
expenditure of $4,000 in renovating
anu rebuilding that hosiery.
George Brown of Larkin. Jackson
county, while sitting in front of a
store at that place, picked up what he
Supposed was an empty cartridge and
began picking at it with his knife. 1t
was dynamite cap and went off in
HAS HohVo' SoAl lug VIII III part OF
his thumb and fore finger and iniur.
ing one eve.
Salina is having a lot of fun with
its graduating class of the high school.
Seven members out of the eighteen in
the class were refused diplomas last
week on account OF deficiency in one
study in their class work, and their
parents have been making life a good
deal of burden for the superintend-
ent and board of education.-Abilene
Reflector.
Two men went to Meriden last week
with the intention of running a shoot
ing gallery. The citizens, realizing
that it would take money out of the
town unnecessarily and without leav-
ing an equivalent, circulated a peti.
ton requesting the council to refuse
the issuance OF license, The license