People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-02-21
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university. He clearly showed the y
wisdom Of establishing such an attri-
butte to all successful education.
Assistant state superintendent of I
public instruction, G. P. Benton, a i
brother of Clarence Benton of this O
city, came down Sunday from To- 0
peka and spent part of the day visit t
ing his relatives here. v
The Rock Island eating house at a
Caldwell was totally destroyed by fire =
Tuesday am. The origin of the fire !
is reported to have been an accident
in starting the kitchen fire. The loss
is fully covered by insurance. t
In
Otto Jones who has been confined =
in jail on a sentence imposed by JUS =
tice Goble Of Conway Springs, for !,
wheat stealing, completed his SEN
tence, paid the costs of the case and -"
was released from Jail Sunday. :
DR.. Parkhurst's first article to Z
woman in The Ladies' Home Journal +
has proved so popular that the entire q
huge edition of the February issue of .
the magazine was exhausted within h
ten days, and a second edition of 45, 900 b
copies has been printed. (
Much Of life's misery is due to in y
for who can be happy with
a pain in his stomach? As a correc- t
tive and strengthener of the aliment- d
ary organs, Ayers Pills are invalu- o
able, their use being always attended '
with marked benefit. U
w. H. WhiteSell end Miss Cloa Ann =
Jacobs, both of Osborne, O. T., were =
united in marriage Thursday after
noon at the NJ. E. parsonage, by Rev.
K. l.. McNabb, in the presence OF
several of their friends who had come !
up from Oklahoma with them.
Bacteria do not occur in the blood |
or in the tissues of healthy living /
body, either of man or the lover {
animals" So says the celebrated DR.. T
Koch. Other doctors say that the r
best medicine to render the blood per- r
fectly pure and healthy is Ayers Sar-
saparilla.
Miss Stella Anderson, who is teach r
ing school about fifteen miles south r
east OF the city, and whose parents Q
reside here, was called home very !
suddenly Saturday night by the ser ]
iOuS illness of her mother, Mrs. John 7
|, Anderson. Mrs. Anderson is still {
very sick. y
n. j. George a respected citizen of S
Home Valley died Tuesday just be- {
fore midnight Of pneumonia, aged 5S (
years and days. Funeral services
were held at the Presbyterian
church Wednesday afternoon at 200
O'Clock. Sermon by Rev. E. c. Jacka;
burial in Prairie Lawn cemetery.
The taffy pull given under the au-
spices of the W,R.C. Saturday evening
was a success both financially and so.
cially. The ladies cleared apOut sl2.OO
with which to purchase the flag which
will be placed over the High School
building. A good social time was en-
jOyed by many Of the old veterans and
their younger friends.
William Parry and wife of Parry n.
j., relatives of Sumner Whitson came
in Monday from California where ,
they had been attending the meeting
of the fruit growers association.
They have interests in this state.
Mr.. Parry is an extensive fruit grow
er and owns fruit farm of about four
hundred acres near Philadelphia.
William Harris, living one and one
half miles north of South Haven, was
in this city on Valentine day and
drove home on load of coal. When
near home he fell from his wagon and
the wheel passing over him broke and
crushed his leg. He is a hearty man
OF Y years. One of our Wellington
joints doubtless has a share of
responsibility in this accident.
A wicked travelling man ''took in"
several of our nice young men Friday
morning. He had lung tester"
1t consisted of a liGtle bottle in big
bottle Squeezing the big bottle
caused the little one to sink to the
bottom of the big one. He had a
rubber tube in the cork of the big
bottle, but it didn't go through it,
only into it. The victim was induced {
to test his lung powers by blowing
into this tube. OF course when the