People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-11-08

SallnaS registration fell on lOO TINS
year and is now 1895.
Kansas City, Kansas, is flooded
with green goods circulars.
The registration in Leavenworth
was 5, 379-379 more han in 1892.
A church service for deaf mutes will
be held in Trinity church at Lawrence
soon.
There is L. S. Grant at Horton and
he has named his new boy William
Mckinley.
Frank Holmes had his leg broken in
two place while playing football in
Winfield Saturday.
The Atchison electric line is nearly
completed. 1t is expected that it
will be in operation by November 20.
The contract for the addition to the
Girls Industrial school at Beloit has
been let and work will be commenced
at once.
G. w. Brown of Newton has already
sold 5000 bushels Of apples from his
orchard near town, and has many yet
to dispose of.
Cam Clawson of Ellsworth threshed
out twenty-five bushels of alfalfa seed
the other day, the first ever raised in
Ellsworth county.
Nine convicts were taken from
Hutchinson to the state penitentiary
Monday morning. Three of them
were sent up for horsestealing.
The Oxford club at Atchison is pre-
pairing to put on a minstrel show that
will cost $3.50. An offer of $500 has
been offered for the gross receipts
A min AZURE Midway, in which the
streets ofCario and "Goody-bum-bum"
figured conspicuously, cleared $500 for
church society at Hutchinson last
week.
j. B. Watkins, receiver OF the j. B.
Watkins Land Mortgage company at
Lawrence. has been discharged by
Judge Foster, who appointed him in
April
Another good flow of gas has been
struck near Parsons and it is expected
that that city will be lighted and
heated by the product within few
weeks.
James Fahey, an old pioneer of
Cowley county, having come to that
locality in an early day, dropped dead
in the st. James Hotel Tuesday night
at Winfield.
North Dickinson county farmers
who made flying trip north to buy
cattle at SO head came back without
any. There were no SO cattle.-Abi-
lene reflector.
The X. U. Glee and Banjo club will
go to Parsons, Kansas, under the au-
spices Of the |. +. f. club, Il feel for
lorn club club of forty young ladies.
Lawrence Gazette.
The Kansas City, Kansas, stock
yards have been catching cattle from
Old Mexico. The stock is of the same
quality and sells in competition with
that from Texas.
An attempt was made the other day
to 0urn the high school building at
Cherokee, the supposed purpose being
to create excitement which would
make robbery easy.
A franchise has been granted Guffy
& Galley to pipe natural gas into Neo-
desha and that city will soon be heat
ed and lighted by the product of the
wells In that vicinity.
There was a novel church enter
tainment at Kingman Wednesday
evening, which Melted nearly 5000.
The price of admission was l cent for
each year of persons age.
A man in Walnut township has 90
acres of apple orchard. He sold the
crop for enough money to buy the best
i6O acres in the township, and still
has 81, 1000 left-Atchison Globe.
The latest from the Junction City,
Fort Rily electric road is that the ma
terial has been purchased. That is
farther along than the scheme has
over been before, which is eneourag.
ing.
The largest pension granted to resi-
dents Of this county, So far as we
know, was granted last week to five
heirs Of W. j. Rasor, deceased, of
whom T. c. Ballinger is the guardian,
1t amounts to s4,700.-Burlington Re-
publican.
Apple growers will try to get bill
through the next legislature prescrib-
ing eleven pecks as the size of the
standard barrel, and forty-eight
pounds as the standard weight of
bushel Fifty pounds is the standard
weight now. Senator Taylor of Ed
wardsville will have charge of the
bill.
An Abilene youth wrote letter to
his best girl in Solomon, who was
practicing bicycle riding, that he had
sent pair of boomers by mail. She
was mad enough 20 bite him in two,
until the package came and she found
in it a couple of choice roses from the
Abilene green house.-Solomon Senti-
mel.