Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-05-25

the depot viii cost $4,000.
The Phillipsburg cornet band
viii before long give a festival
DR.. Houck reports new boy at
the residence of Mr.. and Mrs. Mel
Kincade.
S. B. Weeks has just received
his pension for being In the Mexican
War. He gets $500 per month
The cheapest money furnished
in the shortest time by D. Mcdonald
& Co.
Capt. n. Polling is improving the
appearance Of his residence very
much by adding two pOrches to it.
The recent frequent rains are
making green things boom. Crop
prospects are fine.
The stone foundation for Vim.
BisselPs fine brick business house is
nearly done.
Mr.. and Mrs. Irwin Mcdowell
have a new girl baby who arrived on
Sunday last.
The labor on the mammoth we'll
at the depot IS going on. The well IS
a feet in diameter. It will be about
55 feet deep.
Mr.. and Mrs. Abe Bennett lost a
little boy yesterday from measles
aged about two years. They reside
four miles north of town.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. T. Balls child
died on Saturday last from diptheria,
aged five or six years. They reside
on the old Poor Farm"
Married, on May 23d, by Judge
Cole, Mr.. George Rodgers to Miss
Mary L. Edwards all of Phillips
county.
Mrs. Scott Barker, who has been
sick, at her residence in Plum
township, since May 16, died Monday,
the q inst. She leaves an infant
only few days old.
John G. Gebhart intends to heat
his fine brick business house by
steam: he proposes to finish it up in
elegant style with all modern i'm
prOvements. It will be Is feet from
floor to ceiling In lower story.
G A. Spaulding's little girl
Maude, was very i'll from diptheria
last Monday. For about twenty-fOur
hours her recovery was regarded as
very doubtful. She is happily very
much better now.
That there may be no misunder-
standing we call attention to the fact
that there are to be Memorial services
on Sunday and the Decoration cere-
monies on Wednesday the Both in
stant.
Judge Cole, on Tuesday, issued
certificates authorizing the marriage
Of OTIS Witham to Mary j. Triggs, of
Plum township Also Herman +.
Snyder to Miss Stella M. Tallman, Of
Logan.
Mr.. A. E. Ryan, who came here
from Clay Center last autumn, and
who purchased o. w. BickfOrd's gen
eral stock of goods, has had his prop
| erty attached for debt and has re-
turned to his former home. His liza
bilites are said to be about $1,000.
We have received the initial num-
Der of Ira A Kelley's new paper, the
Colby Tribune. 1t is Just such a pa
per as might be expected from the
press Of a practical printer and exper-
fenced editor, as Kelley is. It is a
handsome sheet. We wish it abund-
ant success.
The Norton Ministerial AssOcia-
ton Of the NJ Z. Church is now in
session at this place. The first meet
ing was on Tuesday evening. Morn
ing and evening meetings have been
held since that time. We learn that
the meetings are very interesting to
those who are attending.
VIM. H. Scott who recently To-
Gated here and who came from Wat
terville where they raise blue grass,
suggests that our public square
should now be plOwed and sowed to
timothy thus killing the sunfOwers
and other weeds, and put in shape
for blue grass.
Mrs Matte E. Pearson has fin
ished making a complete map of
/ Phillips county for use in the County
! Clerks Office. We have looked il
over and pronounce it a first-class
Job. Mr.. Hartman Is much pleased
with the work. On this plat appears
the names Of all owners Of lands with
the assessed value Of the reaI-estate
ID. Mcdonald has been for sew
eral days driving into the country IN
company with a distinguished looking
stranger. That man we learn wants
to buy a large amount OF Phillips
IcOunty lands Mcdonald Is a rustlel
and if he cannot sell the stranger
what he wants, we are not a gOOC
l guesser-