People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-12-20
Belle Plaine.
Grandpa Mears is quite sick.

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Mrs. James Kirby is still very sick.
Mrs. T. q. Andrews was in Wichita
Friday.
Grandpa Burchaeld is convalescing
at present.
7. q. Andrews is taking orders for
alfalfa seed.
The infant daughter of VIM. Per-
gum is very sick.
DR.. Hufpan's son is some better at
present writing.
Benjamin Hatfield and wife we're in
Wellington Tuesday.
The jurors from this vicinity we're
home Monday and Tuesday.
j. Byron Cain and Will Welton
drove to Mulvaue Friday evening.
NJ. T. Funk is having an aeremotor
windmill erected near his hotel.
vSenatOr FOrney, wife and daughter
and Miss Ida COrnwell drove to Wich-
ita Friday.
Ed Cornell and wife. of NeWkirk.
are visiting the parents of the latter.
James Kirby's
Charles LOngsides is undergoing a
siege of typhoid feyer-Dr Sippey is
in attendance.
Jee Dull has fixed up a mill for
grinding hog feed in front of Alex
\ KnOtt's scales.
The Republicans have moved their
headquarters from ]. W. Forney's Of
flee to Tom LOOper's shoe store.
Misses Bertha Hilbert and May
I Brown, of Mulyane. paid the News
force pleasant call Saturday after
noon.
DR.. Ross, of Ell Dorado and his
brother, a doctor from Iowa, visited
Miss Clara Ross and NJ. 7. Funk's
family the first of the week.
f. D. COburn, of Topeka, sent us a
book treating the subject of alfalfa
growing. Anyone can get COPY by
sending 20 the above address.
George Hebbard and Charles Carter,
OF Salem, Indiana, arrived Tuesday
and will visit Milton Hebbard and G.
M. Carter, son and Step-sOn Of the
former.
Senator PETER wants 100 cents on
the dollar as security from bankers in
taking government money. Secretary
Carlisle only wants 30 cents and he |
don't want Uncle Sam to have very |
much to say about it either.
W. Il. H. Martin met with pain
fnl accident, killing hog. He struck
at the hog with an axe, when 1t seems
the axe cOllided with the limb of
tree, causing it to fall upon his own !
mead, cutting an ugly wound.
The TransmisSissippi congress passed |
resolutions that they would not SUD-
post any man for Office who is not in
favor OF the restoration of silver to
where it was prior to '73, or in other
words, who will net vote for the free
coinage of silver.
We are informed that some of our
Democratic friends are still on the
fence, not knowing where to light.
We give you a cordial welcome, boys
to jump into our corral and help rs
Tor the present whet our teeth for the
pie counter in 1896.
Don't let the other fellows scare
you by saying the Peoples party is
dead, Remember we had lO6 900
votes in 1872 and 11S,OOO in '94. Even
the K. {. Star admits that we are TO-
600 ahead in Kansas. Rather a lively /
corpse, is it not?
We demand the free and unlimited
coinage Of silver at the ratio of l6 to
|. Keep this ever before the people.
We denOunce a monetary system that
allows bankers to draw gold from the
U. 5. treasury with which to buv
bonds that are issued in times of |
peace.
Owing to the sickness of Grandma
Burchteld, j. W Allen was unable to
attend the executive meeting in Wei.
lingtOn last Saturday. He expects to
be there the 22nd inst, and with his
fellow workers start the wagon that
Will run over everything that is not
loaded with free silver. Look out for
us, boys.
we, like most Of people, have read
the president message and find that
with an exception or two we are on
speaking terms with all the nations
with whom we do business. As is
customary with Mr.. Cleveland when I
|ee writes long letter to congress he
sel favnrs laws that will benefit the ,
most Of the American people and
when he sends his letter to Congress
and gets down to business. then il is
something else. He is also in favor
Of taking all the power of issuing
money away from Uncle Sam and giy.
ing it to the banks. He does not say
much about Queen Lii, {