Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-07-06

very Ill.
~ The Phillipsburg Band made
music for Kirwin the 4th.
-Hammocks for sale at S. S. Fish
er & Co.'S.
1t was red hot July 4th, being
LOG IN the shade in Phillipsburg.
Bargains in picture frames at the
photo car.
-Phiilipsburg ought to have a
new School House.
j. S. Barnes has been ON the sick
list within a week.
The County Commissioners meet
IN regular session next Monday.
Mrs. Saunders is building an eat
ing house near the depot.
District Court sets in Phillips
burg on the fourth Monday of this
month or July 23d.
We lost the College but we Sc
cured the large hotel and the grain
elevator.
The PhilliDsburg postofice has
been raised from a fourth to a third
class Office.
Preserve this HERALD so that you
may have the Republican platform to
refer to.
The Rock Island now runs four
passenger trains each day through
Phillipsburg
The Teachers Normal Institute
closes this week. It has been a sue
cessful one.
1t is reported that there were
several cases of sun stroke at Logan
the 4th.
-Phillipsburg people were nearly
all out Of town the 4th, attending eel
ebratiOns in other places.
Just received a new lot of knit
summer shaWls at the Chicago Fair
well worth $1.OO for so cents a piece.
See the call for County Conven-
ton in another place. The township
.caucuses will be Saturday, July IA
The school election held last
Thursday resulted in the election of
James Woods as Secretary which is a
good selection.
-Grasshoppers in alarming num-
bers have appeared in Minnesota and
fears are entertained that they may
destroy the crops.
The ladies of the Presbyterian
Church will give an ice-cream festi-
val on Thursday evening July 18th.
Everybody invited.
The waterwOrks proposition at
Oberlin carried week before last by a
vote of 131 to 80. Amount Of bonds,
$4,000, so says the Eye.
Zimmerman, Mckee Bros. and
Irving Rogers sang for the Kirwin
celebration the 4th and we learn de
lighted the audience. They are good
singers.
We have received the initial
number of the Norton Nelr Era. bv
Hlles q Cole. 1t is a nicely printed
newsy sheet and Democratic in pol
itics.
Sheriff Mcclure sold the A. e.
Ryan stock of goods at Sheriffs sale
last Monday. The purchaser was
Lyons ~ Co, eastern wholesale
dealers.
Why not tender what was raised
for the Christian College to some
other denomination, or establish a
Normal School or a High School.
Now IS the time to strike.
The next thing that PhiIlipsburg
needs as badly as anything else, is a
public hall or an Opera House. Can
not some means be devised by which
We can secure one?
Charles Tracy, of Prairie town
ship, was a soldier under Gen. Ben
Harrison and he Is tickled all over at
the nomination Of his old commander
for President He says Harrison is
one Of the best men In the Republic.
j. B. Starr, of Concordia. who Is
a commercial man travelling all over
the country says that Phillipsburg is
keeping pace with the best of western
towns, and that our growth is healthy
and substantial.
The Christian Ladies' Aid Socie-
~ e9A u4S1t many Il6lCLS TO accept
their thanks for the hberality and
favOrs extended in making their fes-
tlval such a complete success Re
celpts OF the evening were $3.50.
w. H Nelson has sold his inter
est IN the Smith Center Pioneer to
Mr.. Beacon, his former partner. We
are sorry to see Mr.. Nelson retire
from the profession He is a good
newspaper man Success to him and
to Mr.. Beacon under whose manage
ment the Pioneer viii not deteriorafe.