People's voice., 1897-02-25
OVER THE COUNTY.

The Belle PLANE base ball club is
getting ready to reorganize.
A revival at Hunnewell mas been
closed on account of bad colds.
There is some talk of the Corbin
roller mills being removed to Perth.
The dry goods firm of G. NJ. Foster
& Son will remove from South Haven
to Blackwell, OF.
Distemper is said to have broken
out among the horses in the vicinity
of Conway Springs.
Belle Plaine has an "Oracle" lodge,
an auxiliary tn :ne WOOdmen. This
is the only lodge of the kind in the
county.
The Belle Plaine candidates for the
pOstOtfice have nobody to advise them
and they are going right along hunt
ing up Signers to petitions.
The Caldwell Advance has run out
of coal and threatens to begin burn
ing some of the mayOralty timber
lying around loose down there.
Rev. Kalb, who is holding revival
services at Conway Springs, is an
old newspaper man. He worked for
Luke Herring on the Sumner County
STANDARD several years ago.
The Conway Springs Star has a
grave dug ready to receive the man.
gled remains of some of the boys up
there who are in the habit of jump
ing on and off moving trains.
Rev, Ransom failed to keep an ap.
pointment at South Haven last week,
and Editor Branscombe's religion
gave way to wrath to such an extent
that he roasted the reverend gentle
man.
Uncle Jimmy Brinson says he open
ed several peach buds from different
trees the other day and did not find a
bad one; not so many buds on the trees
this year, but they are all right.-Con-
way Springs Star.
The Belle Plaine Defender, after
eulOgizing Prof. Bears lecture at that
place on John: His Folks and His
Teacher, remarks that il is mystery
why Prof. Bear isn't invited to deliv-
er his lecture before a Wellington
audience.
The Belle Plaine lecture club and
the Rebekah entertainment last week
ClaShed dates and the club cOmpro-
mised with the lodge by furnishing
them tickets and the lodge enter.
Gainment was postponed until after
the lecture.
n. SOneS, the Conway Springs mer-
chant who has been running a page
sd in the Star, has had such an in
crease in business that he has bought
two adjoining buildings which he is
tearing down and will reconstruct to
suit his purpose.
u. A. Swartzel, the Caldwell grocer,
who, it is said, was forced to the wall
as a result of the Sell-Out of young
Percy SimOns in an important law
suit last summer, has located 10 AL
buQuerQue, n. NJ, where he will en-
deavor to recover part of his lost
fortune.
Editor Macdonald of Oxford, is a
single-taxer. He bubbled over with
sympathy last week for Lapath, the
Belle Plaine Vag who is now languish-
ing in the county Jail for refusing to
work out his pCll tax last summer.
Macdonald says: "The poll tax is an
Infamous device-unfair, uncOnstitu-
tionai if the income tax scheme is
and provides an excellent Opportun.
ity for dishonest men to rob.the pub
lie with impunity. 1t is not a poll
TAX, because many are exempt; it is
not suffrage tax for the same reason.
1t is only bull-dozing game, and
only a successful one because the
amount is sO small that it is cheaper
to pay than fight. Every day appears
to bring more aud more to the sur.
face our need of some such scheme for
taxation as that advocated by the
single-taxerS.