Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1886-01-02
The HERALD.
PHILLIPSB BURG, KANSAS
The new buildings Of .. ". Biokford
ahd Z e. GebEart are progressing


cures the complaint
Dir. Williams, of Marvin, buried
child last week which is said to have
d led with diptheria-
The mite society held at Rev. Mr.
Bracken's residence last Wednesday
evening was we'll attended.
Rev. B. r. Turner will preach at the
NJ. E. Church next Sunday evening.
Text: 'sWhat is your life?' All are
cordially invited
Christmas Eve and New Years night
were both celebrated with a ball at
Marvin. which were said to be very
pleasant affairs.
School commences again next Mon
day, and after the two weeks recreation
the children viii undoubtedly get down
to good work.
Miss Myrtle Bostetter, who has been
teaching school up in Nebraska, came
down to spend the Holidays with her
friends in this city.
AS a rem dy for coughs and colds,
Ayers Cherry PectoraI has never been
equalled. It's name is q household word
throughout the world.
The Kirwin Independant says that
Caldwell of the Beloit Courier is the
most honest appearing villain it has ever
seen. We always supposed that the
Independent was destitute of a mirror
and now we are certain of it.
Rev. B. R. Turner will lecture at the
n. f. Church next Wednesday evening
upon the subject ''True to Nature, or a
Sentimental Journey Admission, 10
cts, The Elder has given some thought
to this lecture and everybody should
turn out and here him.
This week we printed some letter
heads and envelopes marked ''W. H
Pratt, Attorney at Law After four
years, this kind of stationery locks
strangely familiar, and we predict that
the Judge will Immediately step into a
lucrative practice.
The fourth quarterly meeting of the
M. Z. Church will be held at Phillips
burg Jan. 9th and 10th. Preaching at
two o'clock P. NJ. Saturday. Con
ference at half past three All are
cordially invited to attend. A full at
tendance of the official members is
especially requested
New Years Eve, about the hour of
midnight, the kids of town, impregnat-
ed with tinge of romance, paraded the
city, serenading our citizens, ringing
the church bells, and making the quiet
pight resonant with s'innOcent merri-
ment',,. Ayaunt, thou hobgoblins of the
departed year!
The climate here is certainly excep-
tIonally fine. On New Years day farm
ers are blowing, and even now men are
seen on the street corners in their shirt
sleeves discussing the best varieties of
wheat for spring sowing; while the
fashionable mIllinors are deploring the
fact Of having laid in any winter styles
at all.
Mr.. Seth Stinson, father of our towns
man G. w. Stinson, died athis home near
Marion, Iowa, Saturday Dec. 18th, 1885.
He was born in n. Y 1909, spent sew
eral years of middle life in Ohio, but
emigrated to his last home in 1915. He
was among the oldest settlers of the
country He had been suffering since
the winter of 1882 from a stroke of
paralysis, a second stroke of which is
supposed to have been the cause Of bis
death.
Judge Spaulding, being in very
facetious mood the other morning,
pointed derisiYely at cur last years hat,
siIvered with cobwebs and bespangled
with molecules accumulated during the
year 1885, and did then and there, de-
liberately, and with malice and fore
Thought present US with neat hand
brush, surmOunted in a gilt frame, and
he hoped we would use It with equal
pleasure to ourselves and honor to the
fraternity.
Ever since June 1882, the old stone
building which was wrecked in the
storm of that time, has stood IN its
dilapidated condition. 1t has been an
eyesore to the town, inasmuch as the
owner would neither rent it or fix it up.
Finally Judge Pratt has succeeded in
getting title to il, and has already com
menced 70 repair it. He win build it
up in q good substantial manner, and
use the entire upper part for law OF
fee, and rent the lower part for a bust
ness room.
This week we had the misfortune to
break one Of the important pieces of
machinery in our press. and at first we