People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1896-04-09


county down there will hear the dis
cusSiOn.
The only new case fled in district
court Thursday was the Mutual Ben
eft Life Insurance Co., vs.. Thomas A.
Hubbard. ct al, involving the fore
closure Of a section ofland 10 jackson
township, and calling for Judgment
for $4,000.
Charley Pofleton was in the city
Friday for the purpose Of buying fruit
trees for his claim in the Strip. He
says that nearly every farmer in his
part Of Oklahoma is planting trees.
He reports wheat looking well and
that the farmers are planting corn.
Mrs. Nellie S. Tilton and son. of
Oxford, have sold their stock Of gen.
eral merchandise to E, E. GOodnO,
who will continue the business. Mrs.
TiltOn will remain in Oxford. As the
Register says, the business firms Of
Kansas are taking a grand change all
around.
Mrs. VIM. GelinO cnaneronpd q CAV
crowd of young folks on a picnic
Iaunt to point six miles southeast
Of town Saturday. Extra space in the
long wagon was utilized for the stow
age of the regulation picnic lunch.
and the jolly time sought was un-
doubtedly found.
The Cyclone Cycle club met in their
club house on West Harvey Thursday
and decided to make practical use of
the grounds adjoining by preparing a
small track and a tennis court. They
also intend setting out plants, ETC., in
order to beautify as well as improve
their headquarters.
The Oxford Register brings the sad
intelligence that the wife Of Benz.
MisSildine, one Of the prominent
farmers Of Oxford township, died
Thursday night. The funeral Oc-
Cured Saturday morning. The family
home is four miles south of Oxford on
the road to Geuda Springs.
Summer must be here despite the
testimony of cold fingers. A full
grown and lively mosquito was ruth
lesSly murdered the other day.
Whether it was a product of this
years life-giving elements, or had
only emerged from warm alternating
quarters, must forever remain a mys-
terry.
Henry f. Smith met with another
accident Saturday while out working
with his colt. He was in front of his
residence and had the colt hitched to
a driving cart. As he picked up the
lines to drive off the colt suddenly
wheeled, breaking one of the shafts.
Mr.. Smith soon had the colt under
control.
Complaints have been made about
the careless manner in which some
people start fires in rubbish piles
around town when the wind is blow
ing. Fire in pile of rubbish in this
country is always dangerous, for there
is no telling, especially at this time
of the year, how quickly gale will
spring up,
MrS,Ida Gray Dunlap and Mrs. Mary
Gray Strider, daughters of Anderson
Gray who is serving a life sentence in
the state prison on a charge Of muir
der, were in the city Monday and
Tuesday circulating a petition to
secure the release of their father.
They met with browning success.
Belle PLANE Defender.
The number Of lady bicyclists in
Wellington is gradually increasing.
Heretofore very few Of our ladies rode
wheels, but now it is nothing unusal
to see them upon our streets, and we
are glad it is so. Bicycling is pleas
ant and healthful recreation, and the
fine roads in and about Wellington,
make it especially desirable.
j. N. McDavitt and his wheel had
an experience Thursday on one Of our
principal streets. The wheel struck
rock, Nc. lost control and it ran
toward hitching post to which was
tied a mule, When the mule saw the
wheel headed his way he naturally
SHE'D, endeavoring to avoid it.
Nc did not run over the mule, but he
did hit the post, which unseated him,
and wheel and rider both sought the
ground. During this time the boys
say the mule brayed with all its
might, Nc says it was making fun Of
him.
The Oxford Register has a two
column contribution from its junket-
ing editor. Mac tells about his wife
aud little Dot getting seasick in about
the same fashion that an April fool
vlStim relates how some one else was