People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-06-17
ADDITIONAL LOCAL.

L. ). Hubbard OF Geneva, n. Y, is
in the city looking after loan interests
here.
Mrs. NJ. r. Jackson is being visited
by her sister, Mrs. Il. Bartlett Of
Ohio.
Gus Glaman has put all his ice
wagons out aud is now running full
blast.
Prof. H. F. NJ. Bear will deliver a
Fourth Of July grafton at Mulyane on
the third.
Mrs. Charles Cox and son went to
Argonia last Saturday to visit a week
with Mrs. COx's parents.
J. G. TrOutman and daughter, Miss
Brace, went to Wichita last Saturday
to visit awhile with friends.
Mrs, n. C. Garfield and daughter,
Nora, were IN town Saturday visiting
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Garland.
Beryl Wisehart was in Perth Fri
day a-bike. He says Emory Jacobs
was painting his house yellow and red.
W.. NewbOld was in the vicinity
of Portland Friday. He has moth
ing but good report for the wheat
crop,
John Peniwell and ]. T. Messick
were'in Conway Springs Friday on
business for the Peniwell Marble
works.
Jack Rodney of Guthrie, has &C
cepted position with the Racket as
hardware clerk, succeeding Leroy
Shinliver.
Mr.. and Mrs. P. Bennett of Men,
phis, Mo-, arrived In the city Friday
night on visit to the family of E. G.
Trowbridge.
j. L. KIse moved into the Talmage
property on South Washington ave-
nue. last Friday. Mr.. Kise has pur-
chased this property.
W. NJ. Ferguson returned from
Woodward Friday night with a small
shipment of cattle for Osborne &
Hucklebridge Of Eureka.
VIII PuryiS left over the Santa Fe
last Saturday for Ottawa to attend
the ChautauQua assembly and visit at
his home near that place.
The commercial and industrial eli
max of the Victorian age is the
Trust. 1t is close copy of the Eng
iish monopoly" 1t is rapacity re-
duced to an exact science, and in con-
junction with the modern depart
ment store is doing away with COM
mercial INTERCHANGEABLE TIL
bune.
The Independence Star and Kansan
says country merchant recently
came to that city and bought from a
dollar Store table castor. He then
placed a cost tag of $l4 upon the
trinket and made present of it to
the preacher whose church his family
attended. A few DAYS later the
preacher came to his store ard said
That the castor was too expensive an
article to have place on his frugal
table, and that if the merchant had
no objections he would like to trade it
for Sl4 worth of groceries. There are
lessons enough in this to start a cate
ChiSm.
F. NJ. Shore and ], T SappeDaeld
nave been putting their inventive
genius to work and have succeeded in
lnventins new and useful device in
the shape OF tag or label holder,
which is the best thing of the kind
we have yet seen. The invention con-
SlstS Of disk or circular shaped tag
adapted to be provided with two or
more addresses and especially de-
signed for application TO returnable
crates, cases, kegs, boxes or other arti.
Gies, and in which either of the adj
dresses may be exposed to view. as
desired, while the other will be con.
'cealed' The device Is very simple in
construction, easily and quickly ap-
pied aud is always ready for USE
The inventors have forwarded their
application for letters patent and the
same will no doubt be granted as soon
as the case can be reached.-Milan
Press.
mo wonder the people Of Kansas
and Nebraska are kicking" said Com.
missioner j, B. Denisou of the Calves
ton freight bureau, yesterday, and be
handed the News representative slim
of Taper he had been doing some fig
airing upon, showing the rates on corn
to New Orleans from points along the
Illinois Central, together with the
rates on the same product from Kan
saS, Oklahoma, Indian territory and
Nebraska points to Galveston. The
showing was startling, especially on
corn for export. Centralia, ILL.,, is
$50 miles from New Orleans IN tho