People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-03-07

| MI. duu MIS-. y. u, COX, living on the
east side, died suddenly Saturday
afternoon Of spinal trouble. 1t was
buried Sunday. The funeral SER
vice was held at the house. The Cox
family recently came from Missouri.
MI. Cox is employed by j. NJ. Mckee.
With the proceeds Of the Mldwinter
fair, the band has paid every cent it
owes, including Prof. Ansell's salary,
and has about $50 in the treasury.
The band boys are deeply grateful 10
the public for its generous patronage.
They hope to soon be able to pur-
chase new uniforms, which will cost
$500 or $500.
Mrs. Chance, mother-in-law Of Con-
ductOr Geo. E. Flanders, formerly of
this city, died in Kansas City last
Wednesday and was brought to
Wellington Friday morning for burial
beside the remains of her husband,
who died several years ago. The body
was accompanied by Mr.. Flanders. A
number Of railroad meR met the re-
mains at the depot and accompanied
them to the cemetery. The funeral
services over the body were held in
Kansas City Thursday.
Mayor Brown resents with some
indignation the talk that his appoint.
ment of N. II. Kirk as city assessor
was influenced in any way by the fact
that Kirk bought the lumber for his
new house of the Rock Island Lumber
Co., and argues that if he desired to
mix business with politics he would
have looked around and found a man
for assessor who contemplated build
ing house: that Kirk had already
bought his lumber and paid for it.
Mayor Brown says he appointed Kirk
because he thought Kirk was the
right man for the place and would
assess everybody fairly and without
favor.
]. j. Eldredge and wife, and sons
and daughters, with their families,
forty people in all, have arrived in
sunny Kansas from Illinois, and have
located on 1000 acres of land, just re.
Gently purchased, nine miles east OF
Mulvane. They left behind them a
large body of good Illinois land, free
of debt. and came to Kansas because
they thought they could make more
money and make it easier, and because
they knew they would enjoy life bet.
ter by leaving that cold and muddy
state. They will all live In one neigh.
borhood and the children will all
attend the same school. The resi-.
dents Of that neighborhood will well
come them and we hope their venture
may prove successful one, which it
undoubtedly will.-Mulvane Record.
Elsewhere in this issue OF the
VOICE will be found an article
written by County Clerk MILFORD E.
Wood, giving a brief history of the
construction of bridges in Sumner
county. The information 10 the
article required months hard work
TO obtain. 1t is compiled from over a
thousand pages Of the records 10 the
archives Of the Office and is very i'm
portant and is worth preserving
There has never been any great
attempt on the part Of county clerks
to keep anything like a complete rec
ord of bridges built 10 the county,
until Mr.. Wood went into office, when
he saw the necessity of a complete
bridge record and decided to search
the archives for information bear
Ing on them. ID certain instances
there was no record whatever OF
bridges built by the county, aud the
only way TO throw any light upon
them was to hunt up the bills Of the
bridge companies and secure what in
formation it was possible 20 obtain
therefrom. Mr.. Wood has started a
Irecord' book Of bridges, giving the