People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-08-03
KANSAS STATE MATTERS.
WHAT THE JAYHAWKERS ARE
DOING TO-DAY.
Condensed News from All Parts of
the Great Sunfiower State-A Gen.
eral Summary OF Kansas New.
Emporia has an Z. T. c. club.


Emporia has an E. T. c. club.
Lecompton is to have q creamery.
Girard wants the Santa Fe to build
new brick depot.
The Anthony salt works will resume
operations in September.
Lawrence has a society called the
Christian Society Of Metaphysics.
The News wants 4 mile track and
racing association at Hutchinson.
A movement is on foot among Sa.
Una women to otracize female cyclists
The school population of Hiawatha
IS l,OSl-twenty-fve less than year
ago.
An Abilene minister preached the
ether day on Dirt, Debt and the
Devil"
Wichita has thirty-one churches
eight colleges and twenty-thr sa-
looms.
Good horses sold on the streets Of
Great Bend one day last week for sl3
ahead.
John Robiuson's circus one of the
oldest on the read, is doing southern
Kansas.
Forepaugh's circus is coming to Kan
sas. 1t is billed at Leavenworth for
July %.
The population of Chase county de-
creased 533 during the year ending
March l, 1894.
Apples are being shipped from
Leavenworth at the rate of twenty
five barrels day.
The Coffey County Fair Association
has levied an assessment tax of 10 per
cent on the stockholders.
The Labor Record, an organ of or
ganized labor, has made its appear.
ance i'll Kansas City, Kan.
Emporia's Fourth of July celebra.
ton put its perpetrators $3.50 in the
hole. The entire expense was 500.
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Of ninety applicants for teachers
certificates at the Wilson county ex
animation the other day, only fourteen
failed.
j. NJ, Lands, of the Labette county
Democrat, has decided to abandon
Kansas Journalism and will move hi
plant to Gillette, Ark.
There is only one daily paper pub
lished west of the center of the state
That one is the Evening News pub
lished at Great Bend.
L. B. Lambert, Hutchinson labor
ing man, narrowly escaped lynchinI
Sunday. He is under arrest for Grim
inally assaulting l3-year old girl.
1t is reported that the corn aroun
Nickerson is in fine condition an
that the general outlook for goo
crops is excellent in that part of tn
state.
The Wichita local union secured on
If twenty-five medals given by the
international Society of Christ n Ell
deavors at its recent Cleveland NEE
ing for good work done,
Thursday about 100 OF the striker
received their checks for MAY an
June work and were formally diI
charged from the services Of the Sar
"a Fe.-Emporia Gazette.
The Frankfort Fair ASSOCIATION ha
changed the date of its fair to Septen
Der 4, 5, and Z, so as not to conflic
with the old soldiers reunion a
Marysvillc, September IS, 10 and 20.
Three Italian highwaymen, name
Pete Daley, Ed Hayne and Mel Mul
len are under arrest at Pittsburg fo
holding up another peddler name
Mike Frances, at Chicopee the othe
night and robbed him Of his wares.
A party OF excursionists let Logan
Phillip county, last Saturday for tn
San Luis valley in Colorado, wher
they went with the view of seekin
locations. The land that is propose
to settle on are under irrigation.
/! Out of ninety-eight applicants 10
teachers certificates at the recent e1
animation In Riley county seventee
received second grade certificates AM
forty-nine received third grade certif
Gates, making total of sixty-six VIII
passed, and thirty-two who failed.
Some time this week a co-operativ
daily paper will be issued in WIGHT
by number of local printers. 1t vii
be published seven days in the wee
and will appear in the evening.
will be principally devoted 10 tn
gathering and compiling of local new
and all of the work will be done b
pnion printers.
The first load of Finney count
wheat was delivered to the Gardel
City roller mills Tuesday by VIM
Goddard, five and half miles north
west of the city. The grain was o
good quality, testing ffty-nine AM
one-half pounds to the bushel. Mr.
Goddard's yield will be in the neigh
borhood of 500 bushels Forty cent
was the price paid by Mr.. Norton o