People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-08-17
A. R. TAYLOR, President,
EnporiA, Kan.

Ah0 hlhlSIerS OF PARSONS nave f0rm-
ed Pastors alliance.
There are 2.S26 children of school
age in Emporia-lO5 more than a year
ago.
There will be several political"
days at the Lawrence fair in Septem.
Der.
A petition is being circulated asking
for the empanelling of a Grand jury
at Emporia.
Eve is the name of new postoffice
that has just been established in Bour.
bon county.
A lodge of the Womens Relief
Corps will be organized at Sharon
Springs shortly.
An excursion party of fifteen per-
sons started for Texas from McPher.
son Monday Morning.
A twenty-five pound turtle was cap.
tured in Mulberry Creek, Salina coun.
ty, few days ago.
= There will be reunion of the 18th
Kansas Infantry at Forest Park, Otta.
wa, August II and IS.
Moran, Allen county, has organized
a Gas, Fuel and Prospecting company
with capital stock of $4,000.
The Lawrence canning factory has
just received three car loads of cans
to be filled with corn and tomatoes.
The State University Library at
Lawrence will be moved into the new
sl9p,O Spooner building next weels
The Fort Scott sugar works began
receiving sugar cane Wednesday. Only
molasses will be made for a week or
ten days.
The new catalogue of Lane Univer-
sity at LecOmpton shows that the en-.
rollment in that institution last year
was 9O4.
The paper mill at Lawrence has
shut down because its ware houses
will mold no mere of the mauufactur.
ed product.
Concordia officials are after the crap
shooters. Seven rollers of the bones
were rounded up this week and fined
s. and costs each.
The failure of crops in Sumner
county will probably result in We'll
lington's reconsidering the resolution
to build new city hall this season.
A Newton man proposes to put in
a Touring mill of l9j barrels daily ca.
pacity at Wichita. The only bonus
that he asks is 10000 bushels of wheat.
The Northwest Kansas Medical as.
ISOLATION met in Ellis Wednesday. The
attendance was not large, but several
interesting and valuable papers were
read.
The state missionary board of the
Christian church of Kansas, with sew.
enteen evangelists in the field, reports
in the past ten months of the mission
airy year an addition to the church OF
5000 members.
The Central Baptist association o.
Kansas, composed of thirty-six color
ed Baptist churches in the state, will
hold its annual meeting in Kansa.
City, Kansas, beginning next Thurs
day and continuing till Sunday.
Nearly everyone spells it Kearney
when referring to one of the best O
the Seventh district counties. Tit
correct spelling is Kearny. The sec
ond re" was knocked out by legisla
ture enactment few years ago.
1t is proposed to arrange for an ex
cursion of Wallace county farmers Il
60 to Garden City, Rocky Ford anC
other southwestern irrigation center
to inspect systems, methods and re
suits of irrigating. The Sherman
county people, who have just returned
from such a "trip, were very mucl
pleased with what they saw.
Conrad Hoffman, a Russian liyinl
near Walker, Russell county, wa
working with threshing machin,
crew last week. He attempted I.
slide from grain sack to the feet
board Of the machine, but slipped, in
stead, into the cylinder. Both of hi
limbs were horribly mangled an,
were soon after amputated. The in
jured man died few hours later.
James Headly, living in the Sappi
country, went TO Norton the other da,
and drew $500 from the bank. Tha
night he slept with his trousers, con
tang the money, under his pillow
During the night some one broke tn
window with a club, gr-bbed tn
trousers and skipped out. The trous
ers were found the next morning bu
:he cash and the thief were gone.
Atchison is paying per cent inter
est on nearly s2OC, 900 worth OF munic
ipal bonds.
The street car lines in Kansas CITY
Kan, refused the other day to carr
letter carriers free. Arrangement
have now been made whereby the
are 20 receive SEQ year for the serv
Ice.
Daisy Harris beat Doc. Brown at tn
swell colored cake walk at Leaven
worth "Wednesday nipht BROW,