People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-06-08
KANSAS STATE MATTERS.
WHAT THE JAYHAWKeRS ARE
DOING TO-DAY.
Condensed News from All Parts OF
the Great Sunflower State-A Gen.
erai Summary of Kansas New.

There are several cases of scarlet
fever in Salina.
All of the old teachers in the Abb
lene schools have been reelected for
the coming year.
A larger acreage of corn has been
planted in Rawllns county this year
than ever before.
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.
DR.. W, A. Leigh of Stockton Is at last
formally announced as a candidate
for secretary of state.
Comanche county had between
$1,000 and 81 900 in the State National
bank of Wichita when it failed.
A 4S-dound catfish caught out of the
Nerdigris river, near Guilford, was on
exhibition in Fredonia the other day.
Elias Jordon. a colored boy who was
in the fight at Topeka Wednesday al
ternOon was arrested next day by
Officer Campbell.
General Sanders men are slowly de-
serting the army at LeavenWorth,
but the general says only the weak
kneed ones are going.
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.
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 a consideral amount of concen-
trated I've few days ago and cannot
live.
One hundred and five car loads of
grain were inspected by the official
state grain inspector at Kansas City,
Kan, on Monday, and 143 car loads on
Tuesday.
Butler county has more corn plant
ed, better stand, cleaner of weeds,
evener and better in every way than
it has been in ten years, says the Ell
Dorado Republican.
Since the first of Jsnuary the firm of
Marker & Orvis OF Centralia, Nemaha
county, have shipped twenty-nine car
loads Of horses to st. Louis and other
southern markets.
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 a 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 G.
5. L. Lambert and 7. ~ Snooks
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 chat the county
commissioners of Atchison county
may commence the erection of a new
court house next fall. Authority fol-
this move was granted several years
ago.
DR.. Eyth's creamery of this city
does a $1,000 business per month.
THE business last year amounted to
over $4,000. Butter is delivered tc
some of the state institutions. Enter.
Iprise Journal.
There is prospect that Leaven,
worth may soon have a first-class no.
tel. The st. Paul owners of the
Planters house have authorized the
expenditure of $4,000 in renovatinp
and rebuilding that hostelry.
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 petit
ton requesting the council to refuse
the issuance OF license. The license
was refused and the men left town.
Salina is having a lot of fun will
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 good
deal of a burden for the superintend
ent and board of Standardization
Reflector.
We talked with quite a number OF
farmers Saturday, and everyone spoke
, in terms that would seem to indicate
a feeling of satisfaction over the
. present prospects for crops. The far
mers got their corn planted in due
season, having ample opportunity "a
properly prepare the ground, and the
recent rains have pushed the corn rap
. idly forward. There is every indica
tion of a prosperous year. so far as
crops are concerned, and if the prices
are what they should be this fall
there will be prosperity in this portion
of the country for the coming -rinter
Seneca Tribune.