People's voice., 1900-04-19
LOCAL AND
PERSONAL


sale. Price, $50 a head. c. Beattie,
Anson, Kansas.
County Clerk W. E. Wood went TO
Great Bend Monday to attend the
fusion congressional convention.
Hiram Berger has bought a 16O acre
farm in Creek township OF Levi He'd
rick. The price paid was $1,000.
Gilmore & Randolph sold J. NJ.
and Yves Readys farm near Mayfeld
to c. Ash Monday morning, for 2,75O.
have 200 bushels Of frst-class home
grown Orange cane seed for sale. Call
and see R.F Plummer, Wellington, Kan.
J. NJ. Harper has been appointed
director Of the Conway Springs school
district, to succeed Rev. E. j. Brown,
resigned.
An ole saying is, "Rain on Easter
Sunday, rain seven Sundays" 1t
rained for several hours yesterday, at
times furiously.
Mrs. Hall, who formerly lived north
west Of Wellington, but who is now a
member Of the firm of Hall & Jewel,
general merchandise dealers at Mar
din, OF, was in the city on business.
Monday,
Real estate transactions: G. C.I
Share has bought seven lots in Oxford
of Cal Collins for $500. . .Theo Geile
has bought lot in Oxford of L. H.
Stewart.
Mrs. ADise COVell, formerly of this
county, is guest at the home of D.
A. Espy for week. She is on her
way from her present home in Marion,
o, to California.
Something unusual: a sawmill
passed through town this afternoon.
1t was being hauled in wagons from
ArgOnia to Oxford. The sawmill be-
longs to Jim Blizzard of Oxford.
Call to the officers of the Old Settlers
Association: You are hereby requested
to meet at ]. K. Dodsons grove on Sat
urday, April 20, 1900, at o'clock pm,
for the purpose of making arrangements
for the picnic to be held May 23rd.-C. F.
Russell, secretary.
Mr.. aud Mrs. c. E. Hitchcock left
Sunday night for Houston, Tex, to
attend the ans.Mississippi conven-
tiOn. Mr.. Hitchcock is one of the
delegates appointed by Governor Stan
ley to the convention.
The S.W,K. college Of Winfield,
won in the Oratorical contest with
FairmOuht college at Wichita Fri
day. II. L. Woods and Prof. T. W.
Butcher of Wellington, were two OF
the judges in the contest.
Real estate deals: V. V. Macy has
bought the Sims property in God.
frey's addition to Wellington. for
$3.50. "A. L. Cross has bought a
house and lot in Conway Springs Of c.
F. Tipler for S275, and sold it to ].
Ross for 1925.
Nellie NJ. Robinson of Mulvane, has
sued her husband, Thos. E. Robinson,
for divorce, alleging cruelty, habitual
drunkenness, failure to support, and
desertion. They we're married in
Denver, COL, in October, 1889, and
lived together until a year ago last
March.
Conway Springs Star: There is one
thing that can be said OF Wellington
which cannot be said of all towns
she has two of the most accommodate.
ing and thorough gentlemen railroad
station agents we have ever met up
with. They always have a civil
answer for stranger as we'll as a
friend.
A collection was taken up Saturday
afternoon TO pay for marriage license
for G. W. Burnett and Mary Bell, the
Hunnewell runaways, and to pay the
costs of Burnett's arrest. One man
who refused to contribute, did so be.
cause he thought Burnett should be
compelled to work out his costs on a
rockpile.
South Haven New Era: Jack Jewett
the Wellington horsemau vas down
last Friday on business. He says good
n0rSeS are getting nlgner tnan mad
cats back, and buyers from the east
are there most Of the time swiplng up
everything available for the market.
Jim Ready sold his driving horse for
sl65 and got ticket to Philadelphia
thrown in.
Fifteen per cent Of the states entire
wheat area is in the central third OF
the state, comprising the counties Of
Sumner, Barton, Mcpherson, Rice,
Rush, Ellis, Pawnee, Russell, Sedg.
wick, Saline, Stafford, Reno, Mitchell,
Ellsworth and Harper, named accord
inn m THAR rank in aproaua Cunonar