People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1896-09-17
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etc. The company was then forced to
have this land condemned and acquire
title by regular procedure TO obtain
right of way. The point at issue will
Re to determine what price the COM
pany shall pay the bank for that mile
Of railroad, etc., which the bank now
absolutely owns. W. W. Schwinn
was the attorney for the bank 10 this
case.
Miss Vivian Scott met with an un-
fortunate accident Monday night, She
was riding a wheel down hill on Eighth
street north of the residence Of w. A.
Rem. She was going pretty rapidly
and tried to make turn to avoid a
wagon meeting her. She fell against
the wagon and broke a rib. She was
taken home by her friends and a ply
stefan called, which developed the in
jury as stated. She is resting well and
the VOICE hopes will soon be out again.
Otherwise she was net bruised.
A rather exciting accident occurred
at Milan Monday night. Dan MunsOn
was unloading load Of corn near the
depot when d stock train pulled in.
His team started and ran. -Four lit.
tie girls were playing in the middle OF
the street. Three Of them were for
tunate enough to get out Of the track Of
therunaway team. The fourth wasrun
over but happened to be squarely in
the middle between the horses and
came out uninjured beyond a few
bruises. The child was that Of the
new barber out there whose name we
could not learn.
A telegram from c. E. Hitchcock at
Kansas City received Tuesday a. m.
announces the death Of Miss Jennie
Remission. DR.. Splitter, who assisted
in the operation, returned that morn
ing. but Miss Remission died after he
left. Miss Remission has been sick
for long time and her strength was
unequal to the operation to which she
was compelled to submit. Mr.. Hitch
cock had just arrived there from his
trip east, and Mrs. Hitchcock had
gone up with Miss Remission and DR..
Splitter. They arrived here with her
remains Wednesday morning.
Lee Hedrick received a postal card
from A. P. Carr at Whitestown, Ind,
stating that his wife died at that
place September lst, the very day he
and the children arrived. AS our
readers will remember, Mr.. Carr sent
his wife back east early last spring
and at that time it was hardly
expected that she would survive the
journey, and Mr.. Carr remarked that
he never expected to see her alive
again. Mr.. Carr and the children
followed overland, starting from here
on the 18th day Of July and arriving
there on the date above named.-
Conway Star.
An apology is due the Friends in
Council" from the editor of the VOICE.
He accepted their very kind invita-
tion to eat picnic supper with them
at the Gypsy camp near the water
works, two weeks ago, and enjoyed
1t fully as much as any Methodist
preacher could have done, then came
of and got so much engrOssed in poll
tics that we neglected to acknowledge
the favor In the Voice. The Friends
10 Council" are all right and the next
time we picnic with them we shall
give them whole column. Zone Of
the ladies says "the next time you eat
picnic supper with US you won't eat
it.")
s. Crane, Of the Wellington Book
s. News Co., takes exception to one
Of the statements made By the young
man who made affidavit 10 GER
tain facts about Mexico published
10 Mondays daily. Ee says that on
two or three occasions while he was
travelling In that country last year he
made purchases there, rendered pay.
ment in American money and re-
ceived change 10 Mexican silver on
the basis CT 81 to 81. He says this
practice does not extend out Of the
larger cities, that in the interior
points Mexican money is the only
thing you can traffic with on any
basis. In Cuba, American money is
not recognized. At one point be