Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-08-16

4 nllupSDurg yesterday Win drove OF
ponies on their way to Bloomington.
Go to the Post Office for legal blanks.
Last Saturday morning before we
came to our office someone had left a
fine specimen of wheat in the hal, which
we add to our agricultural collection.
Frank Strain left at This office some
fine specimens of the Early Ohio and
Snowflake potatoes raised on his ground
in The south part of town. They are
hard to beat.
John Guy who has been in the east
ern part of the state for two years re-
turned to his farm in Phillips county
last spring and now has fine crop of
grain growing.
On account of the storm the meeting
of the Phillipsburg Sewing Society was
postponed from August 18th to the DIST,
when it will meet at the residence of DR..
Houck, as appointed. Everybody is in
Vited. Mrs. GEO. w. YOUNG, Sec.
H. G. Spaulding, at the Post Office
has full stock Of legal blanks on hand.
Lester Copeland, of Doniphan county,
Kas., made the HERALD pleasant call.
Saturday. He has been spending a few
days in Northwest Kansas. He says
that after he left Cawker the people
commenced telling him there was moth
ing west of Kirwin, but to his surprise
he found crops growing better and bet
ter as he went west, and as good in the
upper part of Phillips county as he saw
anywhere on his trip.
THE PARAGON is the strongest school
desk manufactured. For sale by,
n31-3m A. P. McELROY.
The schedule has been changed on
the Phillipsburg and Alma mail route,
leaving Alma in the morning arriving
hele at noon, and leaving Phillipsburg
at p. m, returning to Alma on Mon
day, Wednesday and Friday of each
week. This will enable us to deliver the
HERALD in better season in the North
west part of the county, and if the mail
on the Long Island route could be chan
ged so as to have the mail get there on
Friday instead of Saturday the day their
principal mail now goes from here it
seems to us it would be a great conven-
fence. The people who 90 to Long Is
land to trade and desire to get their
mail Saturday have to wait until night
for it, while if it went out on Mondays,
Wednesdays and Fridays instead of a
day later it seems to US it would suit all,
and the numerous readers of the HER
AID of that locality would get their pa
pers in better season. What say you
''Vox" and ''Major," and all interested?
Dallas Harmon's hack makes regular
trips to Marvin and makes connections
with all train. Express and passenger
charges reasonable.
The central and southwestern part of
this county was visited by the most de-
structive hail, wind and rain storm last
Tuesday morning ever occurring in the
memory of the ''oldest inhabitant. -
The storm seems to have gathered force
about miles northwest of here, sweep
ing down in irregular course parallel
with Deer Creek, covering a strip of
country from to 10 miles wide3 the
greatest fall of hail being about four
miles north of Phillipsburg, where it fell
to depth of four to six inches, and laid
in drifts that could be seen from the high
er buildings in town for hours after the
storm, looking like great snow drifts.
The damage to the growing crops is
great. Thousands of acres of corn Just
in roasting ears in splendid condition in
the morning, and that would have yield
ed from 40 to 10 bushels per acre, has
are left-scarcely stalk left standing
intact: 4. H. Morton had a horse kill
ed by lightning; @. w. Caswen had &
stack of wheat struck and set on fire,
but by hard work succeeded in putting
it out and saving his stack yard contain
about 1000 bushels of grain. Thos.
Mcdonald lost horse by running over
bank. The cases of loss of crops and
windows are too numerous to mention,
all in track suffering more or less. In
Philipsburg all unprotected windows
on the west, and some on the north,
side of buildings were broken by the
hail. The HERALD office lost 81 lights,
also about the same number out of the
court house; the Central House suffered
to the extent of % lights; 10 in the
county asylum, and an aggregate ofnot
less than 1000 lights in and about the