People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-01-28
RAILROAD NOTES.
Conductor Waynick is sick.

Brakeman COnners' baby is about
well.
Charlie Winger is reported much
better.
Mrs, George CoOns is reported quite
sick today.
George Hamblin laid of Sunday.
Harry Combs worked in his place.
Walt Amlck has quite a class in
guitar instruction at Woodward.
George Hilton will move from Wood
ward TO this place 10 very few days.
A little child Of Mr.. and Mrs. Sner-
man Lupher is sick with catarrhal
fever.
Mike Veith is working as day hos
tier, while Joe Busch takes the night |
shift.
Andy ZOOk is sick at Woodward,
and is unable to hold down his run as
fireman.
Tom Sargent was called to Grenola
Saturday by the illness Of his sister,
who died Monday.
Conductor Fleming will soon leave
on a thirty days trip to St. Louis and
other eastern points.
The tearing up Of the Wichita s.
Western road between Pratt Center
and Mullinville has been stopped by
an injunction.
Geo. B. Dunno, general travelling
freight agent for the C.B. & O., was
in the city yesterday on business.
He went south last night.
A Wellington railroad man arises
every midnight and cooks himself a
meal. 1t is his principal repast.
having finished it he goes to bed
again.-Eagle.
A petition is being circulated for
signerS among the railrOaders at
this place protesting against any
possible state legislation reducing
freight or passenger rates.
About three inches of snow fell
west OF Woodward yesterday. There
was no wind to drift it, or blOckades
would be in vogue today. The snow
was very fine and light, and would
have drifted easily.
Oxford Register: The Missouri
Pacific has unlOaded a car Of large
sewer pipe in their yards here and
will at once replace the broken down,
wooden culvert that crosses the depot
ground, with them.
Employees OF the Rock Island and
Missouri Pacific railroads mad a large
meeting at Herington Sunday even.
ing to discuss railroad legislation.
Petitions were prepared asking that
no radical railway laws be adopted,
lest business and employees interests
should suffer A committee will
present them to the legislature.
Several of the railroad families at
| Woodward met together last Sunday
evening and organized a society.
They named it the Merry Circle.
Mrs. Pryor was elected president;
Mrs. George Hilton, vice-president,
Miss Ora Landreth, secretary; and
Mrs. ZoOk, treasurer. The society is
for the benefit of the young folks, and
will meet every Thursday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Glamann, Lloyd
Benson, W. H. Kirk, Mike Burns, w.
II. Dawson, r. E. Dowell and Hon.
Gustavus Hamel, superintendent Of
the Hunnewell railroad, were among
the railroad people who were enjoying
, the fine skating en- Slate creek last
, night. An "extra" train was run
down to the dam about 10 o'clock with
another party of railroaders who ex-
perienced pleasant time skating and
cayorting.
A Wellington railroad man pre-
} diets the weather for January, Feb
ruary and March, as follows: The
weather for the first day in January
shows how January will be; the sec.
ond day Is for February, and the third
7 day is for March. January first, this
: year, was an ideal day, meaning that
+ January weather would be fine. jan
uary was a stormy day, meaning
that February would be stormy.
! January was very windy, which
means that March win be very blus-
, teroas. He says he has noted these
7 signs for twenty years and has never
known them to fail.
Captain King, chief editorial writer
for the Globe-DemOcrat, has been ap-
pointed 10 succeed the late ]. B. Nc
! Cullagh as managing editor. Captain
, Kinu has heen nracticallv in charoo