People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-07-22
OVER THE COUNTY.


never INDUCES.
Mulvane will not have new post
master until 1898.
The camp meeting at Oxford is be-
ing largely attended.
Mr.. Newhouse Of Caldwell, has just
built one with five rooms.
The jack rabbits have ran all the
dogs out Of Springdale township.
Wheat in the vicinity Of Milan is
yielding from ID to IS bushels to the
acre.
The frog market at Caldwell is ser.
iously interfering with the meat bus
iness.
A brass band has been organized at
Caldwell. No restraints have been
put upon it.
The silken.haired religious of Con-
way Springs call their places Of wor-
ship "manses."
A spider web social at Geuda
Springs caught the fly dudes for all
their spare change.
Harvest is about over and the
farmers are thinking up new plans Of
salvation for the country.
South HavenS boom must be bona
tide. The New EraS advertising COL
umns show evidence If it.
A binder near Cleardale took off a
hand for fellow the other day and
bound it neatly in sheaf.
The Record claims that eighty out
of every hundred residents Of Mulvane
own the houses they live in.
j. L. BOwdish, once editor of the
Oxford MOcking Bird, is now travel
ing for a st. Louis shoe house.
If the effort to revive the Conway
Springs college is successful, it will
open for work about September 5.
With 100000 bushels of old corn
stored away, Conway township is not
worrying any over short corn crop.
Conway Springs thought Griswold's
production Of "Uncle Toms Cabin"
was about what Harriet Beecher
Stowe ordered.
Lightning set fire to wheat stack
belonging to D, Williams, near Cald-
well, recently and burned up consid-
cradle wheat.
The EpwOrth Leaguers are looking
forward to a great time at the con-
VentlOn which meets at Conway
Springs August and 5.
A couple of Illinois capitalists have
bought the old Campbell elevator at
Conway Springs and propose to make
money OUT of it this year.
Mysterious item in the Caldwell
Advance: "The fishing parties that
go from here to the river at Drury.
have caught large number of pulex
penetraus.
The editor CT the Conway Springs
Star is opposed to all kinds of holiday
dissertations. The editor of the Star
carries around with him piety bump
as large as a baseball.
Wheat blowing has commenced. A
sight often witnessed in the county is
binder running in one part Of the
wheat fields while plOwmen are turn
ing up the stubble in another part.
Ed Stephens, who used to live in
Conway Springs, is the only formerly
Of-Sumner county man to capture an
Oklahoma pOstOtfice. Ed was recently
appointed postmaster at Pond Creek.
The Belle PLANE Defender doesn't
know whether to regard the large
number of strangers to be seen IN
that town as evidence of a returning
boom or just an influx of harvest
hands.
The Belle PLANE council has made
a nine mill personal property tax levy
Tor current expense. A levy of four
mills was made on real estate for the
purpose of making street improve
mentS.
Due apology by the Oxford Register:
In last weeks issue we stated that
the joint that was running here the
30 was also open Sunday morning
We were informed from a reliable
party that such was the case; but we
were convinced this week that it was
closed on that day and has been ever
since, and here make the correction.'
A Threshing Engine ExpIodes.
a threshing engine belonging to
Farmer NOtesteine, living six miles
south and one and a half miles west
of Oxford, blew up Thursday morn
IL.