People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-03-30
A brand new piano new o-namsbts I
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lodging at the Lawrence calabooSe
Monday night
The young lady pupils Of the Frank
fort high school have organized base
ball club.
4 A detachment of the Salvation Army
has begun operations in Waterville,
Marshall county.
The people of Nemaha county paw
taxes at the rate of $3.50 per capita,
almost hslf of which is for school pur-
poses.
A Marshall county man lost nine
head of horses last week from what
he supposed was excessive consump-
ton of smut.
The high wind of last week Is re-
ported to have done some injury 10
wheat in some Southeastern Kansas
counties.
The kangaroo court" a time hon.
Ored institution at the Leavenworth
county jail, has been abolished by or
der of the new sheriff.
Lawrence has a musical organiza-
tion which is called The Fat Mans
Quartette." The combined weight of
the members is OPS pounds.
Miss Kate Stephens, late of South
America, will deliver lecture on the
Legal Status of Women" at the law
school of the state university.
An ordinance prohibiting printing
houses from printing lottery tickets
and advertising matter, has been in.
troduced in the Kansas City council.
A harmless stranger almost created
a panic in Blackwell one day last
week. Somebody pointed him out
and said he was one of the Dalton
gang.
a Harper county man insists by all
that is hoy that he made six porkers
weigh 225 pounds each at six months
old by feeding them on nothing but
ground wheat.
Lew Zimmerman and Joseph Schnei-
der, one 81 and The other Is years of
age. have been sentenced at Atchison
to six years each in 1.-THE peniteniary
for burglary.
Scranton people are so provokingly
healthy and so little inclined to take
the inevitable journey that the GEM
terry company has been constrained to
offer premium for FASTENED demise.
in the guise of threat that the price
OF cemetery lots will be advanced s.. 50
after June /.
At a recent teachers meeting in
Washington county those present in.
dulged IN a spelling contest. One
hundred words in every day use were
pronounced, of which the winner of
the contest missed fourteen. The
teacher coming off second best missed
twenty-seven.
j. 5. Christensen, who buys large
quantities OF eggs along the line of
the Central Branch road for KircL-
braun Il Son of Colts, who shipped in
car load lots direct to the New York
market, informs the Bee that he took
in and shipped from Frankfort last
Friday PIG cases; G,4sO dozen, of eggs,
The farmers say the ground never
was in better condition for working
this tine Of year, There has been Just
enough rain and now the weather is
exec lent for farm work. Most of the
farmers have their oats sowed, and
some have begun to plant corr. 1t
has been the experience of the oldest
farmers that when they can get their
corn planted by the last OF March or
the first of April, they invariably have
good crops.
William Blake of Eureka, aged Is
years, was run over by a Missouri
Pacific passenger train at Toronto,
Woodson county, Tuesday afternoon.
and both of his legs were crushed lust
below the body. Young Blake had
been tramping and attempted to steal
a ride. He had been put off the train
by a porter and then attempted to get
on the brake beam of the moving bag.
gage car, but lost his hold and fell un-
der the wheels.
The farm house of W. A. Birch, liv.
ing five miles northeast of Abilene,
was destroyed by fire the other morn
ing, involving loss OF 5000. The fire
caught from a defective hue and was
first discovered about $50 a. m. II
was, as the family supposed, ex.
tinguished, but still lurked among the
timbers, and in the afternoon broke
out again, destroying the building
and its contents.
j. Hanna & Co., have Just shipped q
quantity of the best grade of sorghum
seed, grown in this vicinity, to the
Is and of Malaga, IN the Mediterran.
can sea. II is no uncommon thing foi
Hanna & Co.. to ship cane seed to Aus.
tralia and other places over the sea.
Kansas products are in demand the
world over.-Sterling Bulletin.
An eastern outfit wants to ship 5000
babies to Kansas. You may bring
your jewels and prescious stones from
the Orient TO Kansas, your purple and
fine linen. your frankincense and
myrrh, your mahogany and marble
but babies-they grow wild in Kansas.
without cultivation; just spring up
around the doors of the farm houses,
and in the yards of the city homes
like dandelions in spring. Kansas Is
the babies own country. -Kansas City
Star.
The way in which farms arc chang.
ing hands this spring begins to look
like old times. All our real estate
agents report a livelier inquiry for
land than there has been for years,
and most of our corresnondente 70