Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-01-27

L16 4 bullQlu2 anu LOuu AeSUCl1L4Ou IS
meeting with the general approval Of
our citizens 1t is a good movement.
Let it not fail.
The ladies NJ. Z Aid Society will
meet for the purpose of sewing, at the
residence of Mrs H. Harmon Thursday
Jan 81 at one o. clock. All are cor
daily invited to be present.
Il. Adkins, Of Big Bend, reports
that the Lawn View Literary Society is
flourishing. The young people take ia
lively interest in it and they have a
good attendance and good order.
Nearly three hundred deaths, this
winter, by freezing, in Dakota, Nebras-
ka, Minnesota and Iowa, and not one
so far reported in Kansas. That viii
be another big advertisement for Kan
sas.
N. W. Pyles has just received from
Ono a magnificent Diebold Safe IN
which to keep his jewelry. The retail
price of them is $3.50. This is the
third one he has purchased Of the
Dlebolds.
Sheriff Mcclure has been busy the
past few days at Long Island, taking
care Of a lot Of goods taken on attach
ment. The property attached belong
ed to w. S. Yerkes, general merchant
doing business al Long Island.
S. a. Staples, one of the good Il .
liens of this county, who resides near
Logan, writing this Office on business
among other things says ''The HER
AID is a good paper and is all o. k. on
temperance and repuoicanism."
Mitchell & Mccall have secured
Office rooms over the furniture store on
the west side of the public square and
will be ready for business IN their new
quarters as soon as the rooms can be
fitted up. The style of the firm will be
Mccall, Perrine & Co.
Last Saturday Rev. Bracken got a
telegram from Glasgow stating that his
mother was dangerously i'll. He lett
on the first train but arrived at Glas-
gov too late to see his aged mother
alive. She passed away soon after the
telegram was sent.
Miss Jennie Atchison, who has been
teaching about eight miles north of
town, became quite i'll last week. Her
home IS near Kirwin and she has many
friends in PhilHpsburg. A bus with
bed vas sent ont for her last Sunday
but she was too i'll to be removed. Her
mother and Jennie O'Conner are at her
bed side.
Committeeman Frank Strain Informs
US that the next Republican Congress
sional Convention will be held at Rus
sell the first Wednesday Of May, at
which a candidate for Congress will be
nominated; and the Convention to elect
delegates to the National Convention
will be held at Oberlin the third We'd
nesday in May.
Notice in another place the official
report of the State Agricultural Society
as to the amount Of corn raised by var
ions counties ia Northern and North
weatern Kansas. In 1887 this county
produced ], sos, 400 and in 1886 1000,
900 bushels. This is a very fine cOrr
and stock county-is in fact the best II
! Northern Kansas as has been abund
entity proven.
Mr.. TOOker, who has for severa
months kept a popular private board
ing house near the new Presbyterian
| Church, has rented a room OF DR.. Wal
lace on the north side of the square ant
is preparing TO open out a first clas
restaurant, Let the public remembe
this fact and give him q call. You cal
| get day board at bottom prices and
good square meal night or day.
-Thos. L. Knight who resides tel
miles north OF town, tells his experience
this winter raising chickens. Not LON
since he found that something was kill
j ing his fowls. Altogether he lost 45. H
set a trap and finally succeeded in cap
turing a mink. The rascally ''var
mint would catch the chicken by tn
neck and suck its blood, but would ca
none Of the flesh.
We note with pleasure the bushes
prosperity OF French & Johnston. SUD
SCISSORS 10 Huling & Anderson dealer
in hardware. They have enjoyed
/ splendid trade all winter and are NOR
than pleased that they located in Phil
4 Iipsburg. These gentlemen are relabl
r and competent business men, and [
that fact may in a great measure be a
tributed their large and inereasin
patronage.
p in a great many instances whei
j children were frozen TO death in ii
2 late storm in the northwest, they ha
been TO school and the teachers, whe
e they saw the bliEzard was upon then
: dismissed school ana started the chi
dren for home. They we're lost, al
persisted. The HERALD suggest tn
when a blizzard comes up suddenly
the teacher should not send the childr,
into the storm, but keep them in &
school house till the parents or othe
come to their rescue. II there is FL
II they would better remain al the scho
house all night for ard Is sure 10 con