People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-11-01
Burlingame is to have electric lights

42 cents for wheat.
The bank of Jennings, Decatur
county, has resumed.
The Eagle Says that Wichita is full
of thieves and burglars.
Kansas City, Kansas, is flooded
with green goods" circulars
] The registration in Leavenworth
was j,379-379 more than in 1892.
Poles are being set for the new Har-
rison telephone system at Salina.
\ rescue home for fallen women is
to be established in Wichita at once.
A Graham county farmer is adver-
tislng his sheep FOR sale at 81 head.
independence is after branch Of
the Fort Scott sugar works and paper
mill.
Burglars gathered in $50 worth of
clothing from D. Puterbaugh's store at
Newton.
There is a L. S. Grant at Horton and
he has named his new boy William
Mckinley.
A Republican club has been organic
ed at the state soldiers home at
Dodge City.
The Populist club of the State uni
versity has challenged the Republican
club to joint debate.
Anew telephone company has been
organized at Leavenworth and will
put in an exchange.
The 10Th annual session of the Kan
sas Cniversalists convention is in SEES
sion at Junction City.
Mrs, Scammon of Kansas City, will
deliver her lecture on Christ on Art"
at Newton This week.
1t is said that Goodland sports lost
$500 on the result of the recent cours-
ing meet at that place.
MRS. Ollie I. Royce. wife of the edi-
tor of the Phillipsburg Dispatch, is
making suffrage speeches.
Henry Watterson Of the Louisville
Courier-Jourual own farm near Eu-
reka, Greenwood county.
;"0ld Clock Works" is the pet name
given by the editor of the Oakley
Graphic to a rival publisher.
Neil Burgess County Fair will be
put on at Fort Scott this week, but
Neil Burgess will not be in it.
There was big sham battle at the
X. n. e. camp at Newton Thursday
and another one at the Ottawa camp.
James A. Liver married Miss Anna
White in Gray county last week. Their
children are sure to be white-l ivered.
Dandy o. started at the recent Rus.
sci race meeting to lower his record of
@;l%5s but failed to clip anything off.
A collection of more than 5000 for
foreign missions was taken up in the
Methodist church last Sunday at New
ton.
P. A. 0lston, an Axtell, Marshall
county, merchant, committed suicide
at Home City Sunday by taking ar
senic.
The net profits of a Catholic fair
held at st. Benedict's church in Doni-
phan county recently were more than
800.
The contract for the addition to the
Girls Industrial school at Beloit has
been let and work will be commenced
at once.
s In spite of Police Commissioner Jan.
sens !cud-mouthed threats, there was
another prize fight at Leavenworth
Thursday night.
Two Wichita men, W. NJ. Levy and
l.. 4. Walton, were present at Comp
troller Eckels' banquet at Chicago
Saturday night,
Twenty-Five lodges were in ATTIC I'd.
ance at the celebration of the twenty.
sixth anniversary of the A. O. L. w.
at Wellington Tuesday.
Another good flow of gas has bee n
struck near Parsons and it is expected
that that city will be lighted and
heated by the product within a few
weeks.
The latest advertisement that the
Peerless Princes has put out is the
statement that former Wichitan is
living in the room in which Poe wrote
The Raven"
The Wyandotte county divorce mill
gound out a job lot Of nineteen legal
separations Friday--and wasn't in op-
Grafton but two hours and thrice.
minutes either.
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.
A man in Walnut township has %
acres of apple orchard. He sold the
crop for enough money to buy the best
i6O acres in the township, and still
has 81, 90 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 encourag-