People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1898-01-06

summer county. Slmllar SkeICueS
have appeared in the VOICE on the
following dates:
Avon township, June "a, 1897.
Seventy-Six July p, 1897.
Harmon August 10, 1897.
Jackson " September 9, 1897.
Guelph November 4, 1897.
The sketches will continue to ap-
pear at intervals in the VOICE until
all the t0wushipS-thirty in number
have been sketched. The matter Is
being stereotyped and when we have
completed the work all will be thrown
together, supplemented with sketch
Of Sumner county and much other in
teresting matter and issued in a large
single edition on heavy book paper in
pamphlet form. 1t will be the most
elaborate newspaper ever issued from
Sumner county. The VOICE Solieits
the encouragement of the people in
this enterprise. Those parties who
have kindly promised to aid US IN pre-
pairing the sketches Of their re-
spective townships are reminded that
we will soon be calling IN them for a
redemption Of their pledges.
ORGANIZATION.
About the time that Horace Greeley
was prOclaiming to the people WEST.
ward the star Of empire takes its
way" Kansas was peeping up above
the horizon, just beginning to shed her
refulgent light across the hills and
plains Of Missouri, to the praiTies OF
Illinois, and on 10 irregular but pen
etrating rays to the Atlantic sea
board. From every state came the
people, each state sending its most
vigorous and enterprising representa-
tiyeS-the young and active blood of
all the old commonwealth.
Oxford township came into existence
in 1871, Avon year later, and in
1877 Osborn hOisted the banner Of a
municipal township. The order of
the board of county commissioner,
creating it was made January 3,
1877 aud appears Uu the county rec
Ords Us follows:
And now comes A. L. Prunty and
sixty-tive others by petition praying
that new municipal township be Or
gained and set off to comprise con-
gresSiOnal township 81 range2 west.
The requirements Ol the law being
complied with tO-wit, lst that the
said proposed new municipal town
ship contains an area Of thirty-siX
square miles: I'd, that within the
limits thereof there are more than twC
hundred bona tide inhabitants: thai
the aforesaid petition is signed by
more than fifty qualified electors resi-
dent within its proposed territorial
limits.
at is therefore ordered bv the
board that tie municipal township OF
Osborn be and the same is hereby or
ganized and set off, bounded and de-
scribed as follows; tU.wit: COmmenc'
ing at the northeast corner Of section
No. one ~ township No. thirty.twc
(32) south range two ~ west, thence
running west six miles to northwest
corner of section No. six same town
ship and range, thence south six miles
to southwest corner OF section No.
thirty-one (3l) same township and
range, thence east six miles tn south
east corner Of section No thirty-si2
1861 same township and range, thence
north to place Of beginning. And
Monday. the Goth day of January. A,
d. 1877 is hereby set for the election
of township officers for the said town
ship Of Osborn"
The first election held in Osborr
township occurred January 20 at the
residence Of Simon Walton, mile
east OF the present site Of Maydeld
The vote cast was as follows, tue
parties elected being named first
Trustee. Fl. Parker, II, C. w
Walton l6; clerk-Wm. Berry 20, Let
Evans 6, Edwin Brass 4, ]. H. Parker
|, Fl. S. Houck l, G. Hutchinson |, -
Milne |; treasurer-F. L, Pitcher 81
VIM. Medhurst 1; justice Of the peace
(2l- H. S. Houck 20, J H. Lucky II
G. Hauul Il, c, R. Jordan IA; constable
j. Lewallen go, c. W. Walton l6, G
M. Snyder 4, VIM. Medhurst >, ]. D
Prunty l, CIV. Walton |, jill Parke
lib. Cice l, VanDarland |. At the IA,
election the township gave Albert H
Horton rep for Justice of Suprem,
court % aud W. R. Wagstaff Dem.
II votes.
The township was named in homo
Of Governor Thos. A. Osborn who wa
just retiring from q successful fnu
years administration as governor O
Kansas.
Some confusion exists about th
spelling OF the name; a good man