People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1898-01-13
ORGANIZATION,


which was organized January 3, 1877,
came Illinois township. The order of
the board of county commissioners
creating Illinois township was made
May7, 1877, and appears on the county
records as follows:
I'm the matter Of the petition of c.
ii. Harrison and eighty-twO Others
presented at the April meeting pray
Ing for the organization OF a new
municipal township to be composed
OF c0ngresSlOnal!L ownShipS thirty 1901
south range two ~ west, 30 south
range 3west and 30 south ranged west.
All OF the requirements Of law having
0een complied with, to.wit: lst that
the said proposed new municipal town.
snip contains an area Of more than
thirty square miles; End that within
the limits there are more than two
hundred bOndtide residents; Bird that
the aforesaid petition is signed by
more than fifty qualified electors resi-
dent within its proposed territorial
limits.
" 1t is therefore ordered by the
board that The municipal township of
Illinois be and the same is hereby Or
gained and set off, bounded and de-
scrlbed as follows tO-wit: Beginning
at the northeast corner of section No.
one ~ township No. thirty 1907 south
I of range No. two ~ west, Sumner
county, Kansas; thence running west
on the county line between the counties
OF Sedgwick and Sumner to the north.
west quarter OF section No. six Is
township No. thirty (3O)south of range
No. four al west, thence south on the
county line between the counties OF
Harper and Sumner to the southwest
corner Of section No. thirty.one 81
township and range last mentioned
thence east on the township line be-
tween townships 80 south and 81 south
to the southeast corner of section No
thirty.SiX 1867 township No. thirty 100
south of range No. two ~ west thence
north on range line between ranges
one ~ and two ~ west to the place
OF beginning. The above and foregoing
order will not take effect until tht
first day Of October A. D. 1878. AnC
it is futhered ordered that an election
be held at school house in District
No. go in said township on Tuesday
the 9Th dav Of November A. D. 1877
for the purpose Of electing township
officers for said township.
AS will be seen from above Illinois
township first included all of Conwa,
and Eden townships. The latter wa
fganized in 1878 and Conway in 1870
which cut Illinois township down t
its present limits.
At the first election, in November
the following vote was cast. TIL
officer elected is named first in eacl
case: Trustee-P. M. Ellis 81, Ton
StrattOn %; clerk. NJ. Blankenshil
"a, H. Hunt 25; Treasurer-J.H. Holli
day 80, VIM. Mitchell %; justices o
the peace. 1.-TWO elected ID. ]. Down
ing IS, j. McKibben 80, G. Crowder 25
D. johnson %; cOnstableS-C. H
Harrison 81, c. F. Dounelly 81, D
Beaton "a, J. A. Leach IS; road over
seers, District No. 1-F. S. Bodle %
A. H. Melrose "a, j H. HansbergerlG
District No. 2-P. R. Allen "a. Oh
the state ticket, the township CAV
Albert H. Horton Rep So and W.,R
WagStaff % 'votes-fOr justice OF tn
supreme court.
To Charley Harrison belongs tn
honor Of having christened the town
ship Illinois. He was from i
linois, as well as a large number O
his neighbors, and wha; with grass
hoppers and drouths in those earl
times is it any wonder they occasion
j ally longed for the old home i
I" Suckerd0m," and there being n
Z streams on which they could foa
back and walking being unhealth
aud many Of them having as con
panions in misery their wives folk
ever present-the only palliatio
was tocall their lew home Illinois an
let 1t 60 at that.