People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-07-06

nan, has been appointed messenger
at the war department.
Oswego is to have a new laundry
Just as white shirts are TO be superse.
ded by the neglige.
The funston element of the Neosho
county democracy controlled the coun
ty convention at Erie last week.
Mr.. James TOPPER was recently
married in western Rocks county.
Probably the first born will be twins.
A Barber county ground squirrel
mas developed an abnormal appetite
isfy.
Abe Coles clothing store at Newton
was closed by the sheriff under six
ehattel mortgages aggregating IS, 3Os,-
IS last week.
Evangelist Updike is gathering the
sinners into the fold at Newton at the
rate OF half dozen a day in spite of
the hot weather.
The Fort Scott Paper Company adj.
vertises that it will give $1,000 for
gas well on its premises that
will run its boiler plant.
One of the attractions of the Pitts
burg Fourth of July celebration will
be public wedding. The ceremony
Will be performed in the street.
a Lawrence woman went TO call on
an old acquaintance the other day and
learned for the first time that she died
four months ago. The caller has been
IN town all the time. Gazette.
A government architect is working
on plans for public building at Sa-
INA and the possibility is growing
that an appropriation for such build
ing may be made by the present con-
gress.
The scheme to have a fair at Bis
marck grove, Lawrence, next fall has
hzzled out Two thousand dollars
was needed to pull the thing through
and only fourth of that amount was
raised.
Ihh financial troubles caused by the
failure of the bank at Enterprise are
disappearing since it has been an
nounced that the bank will pay out in
1ull with prospect of its resuming
business.
Coal has been found on G. W. Coles
farm near Horton. This reminds us
that coal was found on Ben Sprague's
farm near Hiawatha more than fifteen
years ago and Ben nearly went broke
trying to mine it-Hiawatha News.
The "white cap" affair in Chase
county was not so bad as first reported. |
Bielman and his wife were not seri-
ously hurt, and the men under arrest |
are out on their own recognizance.
They are all prominent and respected
farmers.
Joseph G. Baker, received notice the
last of the week that he would have
to furnish new evidence or be dropped |
from the pension rolls, said evidence
to be furnished within thirty days
from the receipt of notice. Stafford |
Republican.
An excursion will be run from Cen
trail and Eastern Kansas points to Gar
den City some time next month tor the
purpose of giving large number of
interested farmers an opportunity to
see the workings of irrigation in the
Arkansas valley,
A new telephone exchange is being
organized in Salina. The Harrison
automatic system will be put in. 1t
is the intention, If sufficient number
of subscribers can be obtained, to ex-
tend the service to all the surround
ing villages in the county,
Harper is so alive to the advantages
of "a higo school that it has offered the
county commissioners the use of o
bnilding free for all time if they will
establish and maintain a county high
school in that city. A petition to that
effect is being circulated in the coun'
try.
There is a GOODNESS between General
Sanders and the commonwealers that
he formerly commanded. The rank
and file do believe that Sanders
has not treated them right and
they have utterly repudiated his lead
ership-or will as soon as they get out
of jail.
Ed Little is to be one of the grooms-
men at swell Kansas City wedding
soon-the bride and groom being
wealthy people whom he met in
Egypt. Eds friends continue to won.
der when they will have the pleasure
of being present at his wedding
lene Reflector.
. The proprietor of an Abilene hotel
keeps a pile of wood on hand to keep
tramps from begging a meal from
him. When one of the idle gentry APP
pears he points to the wood pile and
informs him that it requires an hours
work on that pile to secure a meal al
that house if he has no cash.
The Barton County Irrigation and
Farmers institute has been organized
by the election of W. W. Stewards,
president; L. Baldwin, vice president; |
NJ. B. Fits, secretary; w. B. Cornell,
treasurer. Steps will be taken at
at once to interest every man in the
county in the work of organization.
Prof. E. Haworth and some of the |
natural history students of Kansas
University will begin this week geo.
detic survey of different parts of Kan.
sas. This is preliminary to the geo.
logical survey it is proposed to make |
under Prof. Haworth's direction and |
is following the first steps taken last |
year in this same line.-Lawrence
Journal.