Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1885-01-10

School district No. Sc Ia Arcade
township, IS preparing to build new
school house.
Mrs +. c. JohnsOn's father is visit
ing his daughter at the Mound, where
A1r- johnson is teaching school.
Several Phillipsburg gentlemen viii
take their departure for Topeka ttur-
day evdning, TO witness the inaugural
ceremonies.
With district court, commissioners
court, corporation elections and busi-
ness genei ally, last Monday was a busy
day in Phillip burg
The Holland settlement in Prairie
View township is having lily access
sions To their numbers and IS getting
70 be one Of the most important in the
county.
John Gebhart seems to be having a
fine trade in his line. We doubt wheih-
er there is q grocery store in the
county that sells more goods than he
does.
Parties having books belonging to the
public library are requested to bring
them in Immediately, SO that the new
superintendent can start with a COM
/ plete list OF books.
I
! ness. During his absence the handsome
clerk, Edwards, will dish out cluthes-
/ pins and Goldfish with ais ehal actsristic
/ grace and urbAniJy.
/ The finishing touches are being put
On our new church by Messrs Mellow
ell and Dickey, the Pew~ are on The way,
! the new bell about ready TO ring, and
/ the whole ready for use.
Judging from the bened iction we
/ should say that Elder Holman preached
an able sermon last Sabbath at the Pre-
| byterian church, but as we were rather
! late we could not speak from actual OBJ
servatIOp.
MIR. Mallick, the man who was ad-
| judi ed insane and sent to the asylum at
/ Topeka, last summer, made his escape
| f ON t'at institution lately. and came
/ To his home IN Crystal township, this
county, Mr. j D. MattesOn was over
here on Tuesday to arrange for his
keeping.
Last Sunday. S. Q. Cummings turv ed
one of his horses loose in a corral at
The west end OF his barn. and it had
hardly taken one turn about the yard
until MIR. cummings heard a shot fired
and the horse came back to the barn
with the blood streaming out of a bullet
hole ia the flank just alb we its right
| hind leg. There seem TO be a mystery
about the affair. 1t was either done on
purpose by some vindICtive and malic-
/ iOuS scOundrel, or else it was an acct
dental shot,. Ii it was the former. il |
u as certainly a daStaTdly trick, and the
culprit should be brought TO justice. II
it was the latter, the one who fired the
accidental shot should have the moral |
courage to acknowledge the act, and
repair the damage. We wait further
developments.
The different bids for superentend-
lug the poor farm on the salary princi- !
pals, we're as follows; +. n. Glider /
for q salary of S275; Thomas Mize $24C !
A. Il. Kelley, $500, and Benjamin D. |
Randolph, S@65. j, w. Lowe put in a /
bid IN sub>t nc as follows - He to sub /
erintend the poor farm from the second !
MOrday in January 1885, to the Fl Of /
March 1886. The county To furnish /
Team implements, seed necessary feed |
shed ng and cOrralls for county stock. |
Lowe TO farm the place in q good and !
wOrkmanlike manner, TO plant the farm
into crops as may be agreed upon. and /
70 deliver one half of all produce raised /
upon the place in the crib and granery
upOn the farm Lowe 10 reserve for |
raised on the farm, also all of the pro /
duce raised IN one acre for usual gar
den supplies. Lowe is to feed and |
TAX cafe of all the county stock in a /
sui able manner and to have the use of
the COWS that may belong to ,he Iunty.
He will board all paupers at $500, per
week exec, ting wh'.m they are bed fast
then he to have "a 90, per week Lowe /
is Ia furnish all supplies for the house, I
This bid of Mr.. loves was accepted /
by the commissioners and the county
attorney ordered to draw q contract in
accordance Herewith.
We have hsard several rumors around
the edges that MIR. j. N. McIlvain.
township trustee of Philibsburg town
ship, assessed his own farm much lower
in proportion, than the farms of other
. eOple in the township. This impress
sion probably grew out of an error
made in the county clerks office, as
will be shown by a certificate at the
county clerk given below. In justice 10
Mr.. McIlvain, we must say that he has
made q gOud trustee His books will
compare favorably with those of his
predecessors, and his accounts are &C
curate and neatly kept.
Office Of County Clerk,
Phillips County, Kas,. Jan. 8, 1884. /
State of Kansas,
Phillips County.
I, J. w. Lowe. County Clerk of the
county and state aforesaid, do hereby
certify that j. n McIlvain, assessor Of
Philhpshurg township for the year 1881.
d d assess his own farm at the sum of
$500, and through an error made in this
Office Mr.. McIlvain's farm was placed
GA the tax rolls at $500. Since then
S2nO has been placed on the tax rolls
against said farm. In Justice to Mr..