People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1896-06-11
People, S Voice.
By LYMAN NAUGLE.

tion. 25c.
Dave Leahy thinks that if Caldwell
Wants to make it real hot for the
Santa Fe it should purchase wheels
and pedal out of town whenever il
goes.
A cloud burst west Of Newton Sat
urday night flooded the country with
six inches Of rain in ten minutes.
More or less damage was done to all
kinds Of vegetation.
Are you one OF those unhappy people
suffering with weak nerves? Remem-
Der that the nerves may be made
strong by Hoods Sarsaparilla, which
feeds them upon pure blood.
The Wichita Eagle says 1.-THE start
ling announcement is made at this
time that the man who sold the lum-
Der for the ScaffOld on which Bill
Taylor was Hanged used to live in Ar
gOnia."
Kansas City has recently passed an
ordinance that a Curfew bell Of rather,
whistle, shall sound the 9 O'cick hour,
at which time all children under the
age Of fifteen must be at home OF SUI
fer the consequences.
The thing has simmered itself
down TO whether you prefer going IN
der ground of your own volition before
the cyclone strikes you or by aid Of
mourning friends atterwards.-Reg'
lister.
Milky. The question is whether
you 60 up or down.
Rev. Joseph H. Smith, one of the
leaders of the Wichita Holiness camp
meeting delivered sermon Friday
In which he took fashion for his
theme and scored the ladies' big
sleeves. And the ladies up there
smiled and made no reply.
1t is reported that an insect resem'
bling the army worm is doing eOnSid-
cradle damage in the country south.
west Of the city. Its rayages seen
TO be confined to strip of territory
through which the rainfall this spring
has been light.-Windeld Courier.
The Arkansas City Star gets off the
following; "a Wellington husband
who is trying to preserve his wife's
nerves, reads the daily paper care
fully through before his wife is per-
mitted 10 see it. If there is an &C
count Of a cyclone, he destOys the
paper
The Rock Island rain maker, c. B
Jewell, who formerly Travelled over
the country in a palatial chemical
labratOry, manufactured from an
tout Of order caboose, is now work
ing in this part Of the state with a
magic lantern outfit showing pictures
OF the flood and kindred subjects.
At Winfield dog ran out from a
livery barn and nearly chewed a boy
to pieces, and the Courier merely sug.
gestS that the dog be tied up. Well,
we should Sayl and the other end OF
a ten-foOt rope tied to the top of a
twenty-foOt telegraph pole; that's the
way we'd tie the dog up over here.
The st. Mary's Journal Office at Wa.
mego, KanS., was sacked day before
last Friday morning, the cases COM
pletely wrecked and the type thrown
In the river. The editor had been
scoring an official who collected Ii.
cense from saloons. The man who
did the mischief is under arrest and
cannot secure $1,000 bond,
We see by the Pratt County UuIon
that the soap fakirs who attempted
to work this town few weeks ago
and were made to give up the money
they had obtained under false pre-
fences, have reaped harvest in that
section. Why don't the papers pass
such scOundrels around, and give the
reading public, at least, a chance to
avoid being imposed upon.
II we were young and fOotloose We
would take day of and 90 to Galens
and marry the best looking one of two
girls down there. One is Mae Smith
and the other is Nellie Broadley, anC
the two are being talked about NOR.
than even the A. P. A. Each is thu
lucky pOssessor of a lead mine which
promises to yield fabulous sums, anC
each sort Of stumbled into the forum,
BY investing few dollars before tn,
mines were known to be rich. w,
rather incline to the Broadley girl
because We always were prejudicet
against girl who would call hersel
Mae.-TOpeka Mail and Breeze.
Why, Man alive. Miss Broadle
used to live here and she spells he
name Nellye.
The senate has passed the file
cheese bill just as it came from tn
house. This measure is analogous {:
the oleOmargarine law. The bill d,
fines filed cheese as embracing "a