Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1886-08-28

Dog days ? and doggoned hot TOO.
Haying is now the business in hand
A good quantity of a fine quality is
being put mp now.
Chinch bugs are damaging late mil
let to some extent. Oh for a cold rain
to stop their practice in the process OF
multiplication
From the amount of stone that is be-
ing Quarried, We conclude that q large
amount OF improvement is being done
Mr.. Sliuker is fencing 8 pasture.
This locality begins to look ike a 'peHt
mp Utica, so to speak.
G.. w. Adams, assisted by AIessrs
Slinker, BOughuOn and Smith, recently
put down q well ut the Church. Water
supply limited.
j. W. Brady has purchased Johnnie
SansOn's so acre farm, the considers
tion being $3.50. How does that seem
for increase in value of land MIR.
Brady now owns 200 acres Of Mound
township land, and is glad he came.
Ed. Clark has his house completed,
and the palace of the Bishop now
looms up to the south east of the sod
church. Mr. Bishops residence is a
neat looking frame of three rooms
Mr.. b. seems to have lots of push
about him, and has, with the aid of his
two sons, broke out about so acres of
land the present season. besides raising
a fine crop.
Mr.. Selbe recently dug a well for
Karl Mckay. A few years ago it was
impossible TO obtain water except in
the draws. Now a goodly number OF
wells can be found on the uplandss IN
which water has been found at a depth
OF less than 90 feet, Springs have bro
ken out in many places and creeks
that were wont to be dry three days af-
ter ram now run the greater part Of
the year. Trees grow where they for
merly died out the first year, and the
long wished for blue stem grass is rap
idly superseding the buffalo grass, thus
ensuring good pastures Tor many
months of the year, so that, instead of
having to feed the milk COWS this hot
weather, as we formerly did farmers
have the satisfaction of seeing their
stock look fat and sleek
Mr.. SHnker had the misfortune to
fall, last Saturday, in such way as TO
dislocate her shoulder. DIR. Wallace
was summoned and soon had the dis
location reduced. He also wanted 10
find some game. Can't say whether
he succeeded or not. Don't think tho
that Doc. can shoot much.
The Ash Creek nine were engaged in
a game Of base ball last Saturday and
somehow the DR.. heard of it and he
chuckled to himself as he thought of
the broken bones and bruised hands of
the green horn players. So he put in
n few bottles of arnica and a few extra
splints, and was on hands with his ban
dages and anRstheUics, &c, but as the
came went on, and Mr.. Her and Mr..
Pratt rolled over each other q number
of times without so much as dislocating
Fred's tschaw of hacker" his cOunts-
nance fell and he shook his head and
said: 4" dOggOn 'em, they don't hurt
themselves any playing ball, and the
climbed into his buggy and droYe of a
WISER if not a richer man.
School district No. 68 will have a
bond election soon. We wish to rise
to remark, that the road to a successful
election for bonds, in a rural district
is MP hill all the way and full of ruts
and stones. We hope our neighbOr will
succeed and build a good house. This
district (75) will soon renew the strug-
gle on the same question.
By the time this article appears, the
Brush Creek S. S. picnic will have
cone and gone and we will venture the
assertion that it will have been a good
one, notwithstanding the fact that the
S. S. at this place decided not to go af-
ter deciding to so. We know the PEG
pie on Brushy, (BloOdy Brushy it used
TO bel and we know that all who go
among them will be well treale J.
Some of Phillips cOuuty's cleverest PEG
pie live in that neighbOrhood, and they
raise some of the latest chickens and
make some OF the best cakes and pies
and-O don't you wish yOu had gone.
Keep on the lookout for the notice Of
improvements in this locality. The
boom is on US, and we're bound TO rise
triumphant over all opposition. PED.