People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-08-10
LOCAL EVENTS.

WI UuC uOuUCSU WSdbIlcI lOI Ouc lOGu
OF this month.
DR.. j. C. Robinson and wife of Cald-
ell were in the city Monday on
their return from the north.
I'D Rogers of Greene township,
was seriously i'll Sunday with heart
disease. Mrs. Rogers is sick with
malaria.
G. W. Tooley has bought lot 3,
block 26, Wellington, of VIM. A.
Thatcher of Berkeley county, West
Virginia.
George Newell and sister, Miss
Laura, of Wichita, are here visiting
the family of W. E. Wood. They are
cousins OF Mrs. Wood,
Billy Quinlan, a prominent cattle
man, was in the city Sunday Cd
his way from Kansas City to CurtiSs,
OF, to look after his cattle ranct
near Curtiss.
The current issue of the Topeka
Mail and Breeze contains pictures Of
the seven census supervisors for Kan
sas. Orie Morse's picture looks as
natural as life.
Mrs. Geo. Adams went to Yelling
ton last evening in response to a tele-
gram announcing the serious illness
>uf her daughter. Mrs. ABS Martin,
nee Ollie Adam. Winfield Courier.
Mrs. c. V. Fetter0ff and her daugh
fer, Mrs. Noel Wilder, returned to
Roswell N. NJ. Monday morning. Mrs.
Fetteroff has almost completely re-
covered from her illness.
There are 1O9,O96 pensioners on the
rolls of the Topeka agency, scattered
over ffty-one state and territories
They were paid $l5,O27. 300 Il during
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1899.
J.E. Krecht o: Blackwell, OF, has
rented the old Bone property on the
east side, and will move his family to
Wellington 10 a few days. Mr. Krecht
is connected with an implement com
pany.
G. H. CALI of Greene township,
whose wife died Sunday morning,
received telegram bearing the sad
intelligence of the death OF sister,
Mrs. Adelaine Carlin, in New York
City Saturday evening.
Mrs. H. 0. Harrison and baby ar
rived from independence Sunday
morning, cqlled by the illness of her
mother, Mrs. J. Q. A. Beal, who
is threatened with typhoid fever.
Mrs. Beal is much better.
Washington, Ang S.-lO:45 am
Telegraphic communication cut off
east of Santiago, Cuba. Hurricane
center apparently moving towards
Porto Rico.-H. E. Williams, Acting
Chief Q. S. Weather Bureau.
1 Lieutenant Phillips, the recruiting
Nofiicer for the Thirty.spcOnd infantry
volunteers, Bassed through Yelling
ton Monday on his way to Leav-
enworth from Caldwell, having been
called in. He enlisted no recruits at
Caldwell.
Henry Konrad took advantage Of
the excursion to Blackwell Sunday
81 own fifty feet of ground in Wei
lingson," Henry said today, land l
wouldn't give it for the whole main
street Of Blackwell. That town is too
rotten for me-"
Mrs Julia Quick and Mrs Alice
Randall and Pro-. Fred Moeser of
Freeburg, H., who have been visiting
the family Of Geo. Owen, left over
the Rock Island Mondays for their
home. Willard Owen accompanied
them, for visit in the east.
There is an old law in this state
which provides that persons addicted
to the excessive use of intoxicants may
be confined and treated in the state
insane aSylums, but the law has
been obsolete so long that many
people have forgotten its existence.
The Few Santa Fe resident engi-
neer, H, Purd0n, of Fort Madison, Ia,
arrived yesterday. He will move bis
family to Wellington as soon as he
can secure a suitable house. Mr..
PdrdOn is a brother of the chief en-
g-neer Of the Santa Fe.
The families of Geo. Sommerville,
4, A. Licbtenberqer, NJ, B. Wilson,
and Mrs. Gertie Whitehill aud Miss
Gertie Whtehill of KaGSas City,
spent the Gay Sunday picnicking on
the Minnesota near Mike Troutman's
place. They had an enjoyable trip.
]. L. Murray has been appointed
administrator Of the estate Of Chas
G. Shoup, late Of Caldwell, and has
fled a boad ia the sum of $1,000. H.
c. Keeling, David Sayres and l. N.
Horton have been appointed apprais-