People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1898-06-30

week OF and 60 down and hunt and
tsh and talk politics with L. J. Peuny-
packer provided be saws come.
Pennypacker's wheat IS a picture.
He has an even guar er section that
LOOKS as pretty as anyboIy's brussels
carret-aCd Il car toad Of old wheat In
the bin.
James Movies has one of The
prettiest homes IN South Haven town.
ship. Everything looked trim and
neat. Mr.. aud Mrs. Movies were both
away from home when We called.
There are so many pretty places in
South Haven township That an
attempt to engrave them all would
bankrupt our institution.
We drove up to A. NJ. B. Watcher.
just at noon and found Mr.. Watcher
laying foundation for a new house.
D. l.. Whittsn, F. R. May and
Emanuel Wynn, the latter his father
in'law, were helping. He is building
large story .and-a-half house in front
of his old dwelling. We stopped for
dinner and Jared splendidly.
John Goodman had carpenters at
work building a new addition to his
house-2Ox22 story.and-a-halt ]. W.
WheTritt was doing tie work. Mr..
Goodman has 24O acres Of land anG
has 200 Of it in wheat that promises
thirty-dvs bushels to the acre. He
bought new harvester OF G. X. Nc.
Proud the day We were there.
Only three county officers have
ever emanated from South Haven
township. ]. W. Hamilton was elected
county commissioner 10 1873,
Stacy B. Douglass county clerk in
1874 and Charles Sadler, TO the same
office in 1892. All are at the present
time ncn-residents Of the county.
Douglass is in San Diego, Calf. aud
Sadler is in Kansas City.
J. q. Traylor was giving ear to an
Oklahoma gentleman. He stopped
long enough to impart much valuable
Information to the VOICE rambler.
We watered our horse from a well less
than twelve feet in depth, and the
water was almost as soft as rain
water. Mr.. Traylor prides himself on
having the best well water in Sumner
county and he is not far from it.
We ate dinner at John W. Parks.
Mr.. Parks had three men at work
listing corn. He has $50 acres of
wheat and is putting 10 135 acres of
corn. He farms on a big scale and
has been quite fortunate. He has re-
Gently put up a new twelve foot Aer-
motorwith which heruns a feedgrinder
and corn shelter. The wind was blow.
ing hurricane the day we were there
April ~ and he had a good deal Of
power to spare.
We met Eph. Love enroute to Wei
lington; and he was the first South
Havenite we tackled. OF course be
subscribed for the VOICE. 1t seem:
odd to see Love way down in South
Haven township; Sumner township is
their stamping ground. Mr.. Love
bought the southwest quarter Of sec.
tiOn 2, opposite the Llngenfeltel
farm, this spring. He looked al
winter for satisfactory location and
thinks he got the best "buy" in th,
county.
| We have Travelled up and down ;
good many miles of the highways O
Sumner county, passed by scores o
school houses, standing by the road
side half baked In the summers SUI
or wrenched from their Foundation
by winters winds, looking anythin,
but the picture Of cheer and comfort
Star school house on section seven il
the lower part Of South Haven town
ship is the first one we have seer
surrounded by a grove. The trees ar
young but thrifty and are CAREFUL