People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1898-08-25
LOCAL EVENTS.

trip to Paola Thursday.
Miss Ollie Meeker Of Russell county
is visiting the family Of 5. E. Rush.
Miss Louie Rogers Of Wichita, i
visiting the family of Judge Chapman
Mrs. W. E Wood returned Thursday
night from visit to relatives al
Conway Springs.
Miss Lulu jenkins returned Thur
day morning from pleasantvisit with
friends in Oxford.
George L. Freeman, the author o.
the bloody history of Caldwell, was
the city Thursday.
Mrs. W. T. Mcbride and daughter
Blanche, returned Thuriday from
Manitou Springs, Col.
]. A. Purdy and T. E. Purdy, Jr.,
went to Medicine Lodge Thursday
morning to visit relatives.
Prof. J. ]. Ansell and Cy Price went
to Medford, O. T., Thursday to helE
the Medford band out in a concert.
The annual account of Matte j,
Sherwood, guardian Of Grace E. and
Nellie Balm has been fled in probate
court.
S.H. Horner, receiver Of the Cald
we'll waterworks, has served notice
that the works will be shut down
September |.
Mrs. R. V. Cobean Of Mayfeld, left
over the Rock Island from this place
Thursday for Ohio, called by the
death OF a brother.
A cake walk was given at Caldwell
Tuesday night for the benefit OF the
sick and wounded soldiers. The
affair netted $3.50.
Mrs. c. E. Elliott, who has been
spending vacation at ManltOu
Springs, COL, has gone to Salt Lake
City to visit friends.
Mrs. E. F. Wyatt returned Thurs
day night from Oklahoma City, OF,
where she had been spending the
summer with relatives.
Chas. +. Martin and wife returned
from Mulvane and Belle Plaine Thurs
day. Miss Edna Martin went from
Belle Plaine to her home at Whitman.
Miss Clara Thomson left WedneS'
day for Great Bend, where she will
visit for awhile. From there she will
90 to her new home in Rock Island
III.
Jessie l. Bennett, guardian Of Ed
ward T. Bennett, has filed her annua
account in probate court, showing
the balance due her ward to bt
S47O.SO.
The foreign will Of William L
Thompson, late Of Worcester county
Massachusetts, has been admitted Il
record in the probate court Of thi
county.
Miner Langford, a former yelling
tonian, arrived from Winchester, Ill,
Wednesday, and will probably agail
locate here. Mr.. Langford left her
in the sos.
ThOs. Taylor OF Belle Plaine, Wa
in Wednesday with load of luSciou
watermelons, grown on his father
farm near that place, The melon
are extra fine.
Oliver Berger, formerly bOokkeepe
for the Southern Kansas Mortgage ca
Of this city, was here Wednesday OF
business and visiting old friends. B,
lives at Hutchinson.
Mr.. Stearns of Columbus, O., an,
Mr.. Long of Indiana, are here looking
at Sumner county real estate. The
are in the country today with W. A
Rem and W. S. Longman.
A writer in the Hilsboro I'll,
News-Herald pays a neat cOmplilneD
10 E. F. Higgins aud Ansell'S ban,
boys for the hospitality shown hin
upon the occasion of his recent yisi
here.
The school board has ordered Trea:
urer Mclean to pay off $1,000 OF 6 pc
cent bonds, issued in 1888 for tn
erection OF the old First ward schoC
building. These bonds are held b
the state school fund and are not du
until 1903.
Chas. f. Martin went to Mulyan
Wednesday on business. His wifi
and sister, Miss Edna Martin, VIII
has been visiting in the city, accom-
panied him as far as Belle Plain,
VIII ere they are visited.
The horse belonging to VIM. Rint
hart, which was supposed to hay
been stolen from hitchrack in frOr
Of Henry Konrad's restaurant Thur
day night, was found yesterday afte