Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1885-11-21
LONG ISLAND ITEMS.



LONG ISLAND, Ks, Nov. 18th, '85.
Editors Herald.
Ones thinking machinery frequently
jumps q cog and becomes incorrigible,
refusing TO grind out a single think or a
common place Lbunk. Such is our pres
ent depIorable condition. Innumerable
subjects bObbing up serenely on every
hard subjects awaiting the slightest
touch of the literary brush TO make
them sparkle and scintilate with q
wealth OF neWseY and readable gems.
But alas! the thinker with its vast
machinery, remains idle, stubbOrnlv re-
fusing to bulge an inch. MANS past
and future is a verihcatIOn Of the Un-
certainty of the thinker" At times
the mental machinery whirls on with
The elocity OF lightning and at every
revolution sentences are thrown of,
which the mildeW Of ages can never ef-
feet. Sentences REDUNDANT with the
very. essence OF wisdom and moral
worth Now there IS II sudden halt.
The thinker, which yesterday manu-
featured the prOfOundeSt lore with ap-
parent ease and sent forth into the realm
OF thought the brightest literary jewels,
eleclrify ING the world and setting aolaze
a confiagratiOn of public opinion IN be-
half OF the fortunate pOssessOr OF such q
profound thinker" stops short OFF, alb
sOlutsly refusing to t,trn wheel, To
simplify a striAe has been inaugurated.
The wOrkmen have lett The looms an d
the Warps and wo0fs of great literary
production can not be woven.
Long Island is the same bright bust
ling town as OF yOre. Old Activity
stalks abroad, keeping new enterprises
Just a humming.
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US with the force OF a cyclone and the
rapidItV with which the WOrkmen are
constructing sidewalks is, to say the
least, a caution.
Ii. S. Montgomery and family. form
erly of BeIlWOod, Neb., have taken up
their residence here. II. 5. succeeds
TO the management Of the q. +. Harris
8 Co IS grain business here. He is q
brother Of w h. Montgomery.
Cheek & Co. have succeeded to the
hardware business of O. i. johnson.
Billie Cheek by name but as modest and
unassuming as a dimpled maiden bios
sOming into the sweet sixteen period by
nature
A coy NJ. E. Parsonage is going up
with a rush.
w. Dimick has traded his farm of
32O acres Tor the billiard room of w.
I Il
an elegant granger
The genial Hartman, County Clerk
elect, was in town last week.
School has closed for a fortnight, so
we are informed.
II. z Hllyard has bought Grandpa
Weeds property and will embark in
business here.
MIR, Hardy, our affable r. r agent,
departed last Monday for the elite east
/ We surmise that a ''life partner will
/ return with Mr.. H. A MIR. Bartholomew,
of Republican City, occupies the posi-
/ ton made temporarily vacant Dy Mr.
| Hardy's absence.
/ Mr.. Sherman's new store building is
/ occupied by Cross & Co. with a nam
moth furniture and hardware stock.
AS a fitting perOratiOn to this bundle
| Of paragraphs we submit one on the
weather. Travorce the broad uni
verse from pole to pole in quest OF a
purer, finer, grander ard more invigOr-
/ ating climate than is found in Kansas
and your search will have been fruit
I less. To-day, as we battle and Oask in
IS mellow sunshine as ever rippled III
/ heavens azure vault and breathe the
health promoting properties of this
salubriOus and balmy Kansas air, we
| verify believe that we have been trans
! ported to the elysium fields beyond,
MAJOR 30 SLATH ERHEAD,