People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-08-03
LOCAL EVENTS.

divided One-half interest OF Joseph Z.
Nudd in six lots ln Corbin, for $500.
Mrs. E. B. Winner of this city is at
the bedside OF her mother, Mrs. C. H.
GalIl, In Greene township, WHO'S very
sick.
Commissioner J. W. Lockman came
up from South Haven Tuesday
with his boy, who is % his way Ia
Denver.
Mrs. Lyman Naugle is packing her
household goods today for shipment
to Topeka, where she and her son Roy
will so 10 a few days to live.
The trustees of the County High
school have made the tax levy for The
ensuing year. 1t is II mills. This is
one-fOnrth mill lower than the levy
for last year.
The VanAusdall public sale seven
miles west Of Wellington yesterday
was fairly well attended and every
thing brought good prices. LATE Ber-
ger cried the sale.
Forest Barton writes his mother
from Manila that the Twentieth
Kansas band will tour the United
States, giving concerts, upon their
arrival from the Philippines,
Frank Brooks, husband of Kate
Br0GkSJ a we'll known Kansas equal
Suffragist shd wOman's rights scream
er, killed hlmeelf in Hutchinson last
night after his wife had given him a
jawing,
Rev. DR.. Clutz, president Of the
Midland college at Atcbison, will be
in Wellington Sunday and will con.
duct the services at the Lutheran
church in the morning. He will
preach at Perth in the evening. DR..
ClutZ is one Jf the noted men in tbs
Lutheran church In America.
Through passengers from Kansas
City and points north Of Newton on
The Santa Fe, are not compelled to
change cars at Newton anymore. Al
CHAIR car is put on at Kansas City,
which goes through to Galveston, Tex.
Returning the Cdr is taken off the
Train from the south and added TO the
train going North from Newton.
W. M. RayphOltz and Jas. H. Will
liams, members of the school board
Of district No. lS5, are up from Drury
today looking up the law with County
Superintendent Massey 10 regard to
changing the school site. The schOul
is now One-fOurth Of mile northeast
Ut Drury, and it is desired u move it
10 Drury.
Twenty-Five recruits from Alva, 0. |
l., Tor the Thirty Second infantry, |
passed through Wellington Monday |
for LeaveuwOrth. they were all
husky looking fellows, and will make
good soldiers. They were 10 charge
Of W. L. Peters, one of Recruiting
officer Phillips clerks. The soldiers
ate their supper in the depot here.
David ADken Of Davenport, Ia, |
arrived in Wellington this morning,
called by the serious illness of his
sister, Mrs. Cali, of Greene township. !
Charles CALI will arrive from New
York City this evening. Mrs. Cali is |
still very low, and the physicians have
given up hope of her recovery. Her
illness commenced with inflam matOry |
rheumatism, and has developed intoa |
complication of diseases
A live graSshJpper will eat dead |
yrasShOpper, A farmer near Pratt |
mixed paris green and bran together |
md let grasshopper eat it. He died. /
twenty ate him up. They died. -Four
hundred ate those twenty and they |
lied. Eight thousand ate those four
hundred and they died. A hundred
Ind sixty Thousand ate those eighty
thousand and died, and the farmer
VAS troubled no more.
An order Of adoption little out of
he ordinary was made in the probate
curt yesterday. MIS- Au6elle jar
EFT cOnveyes her two children, Perrin
md Eugene Pennypaekerr Il and s
'eaSS OF age respectively, to G. s. aid
Au6elle Jarrett. Mrs. Audelle Jar.
EFT was formerly Mrs. PenBypacker.
lie postmistress at RODe. e. s. Jar
EFT, the Santa Pe agens at Hume
veil, is her husband. They were
married about q month ago The
.doptien was made in order that the
might become the legal heirs
f then step-father.
The question is frequently asked,
What is the city council dSi8g about
he water question: Railroad men.
u view Of the bright future ia store
or Wellington, are exceedingly inter.
,sted iu the question, as Dscii in :he
way OF local Santa Be improvements
depends upon the water supply. The
)ublis will probably be made fully
acquainted with the sltHatiOa within
he next thirty or sixty days ASsur-
lnce is given that much is being done
" the council looking To a permanent
solution Of the question. Ihe talking
5 abont all over, and the next step
will be to act. There need he no an
,rehension about the future water
upply OF Wellington.