Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-08-17

All school books at Spaulding &
butchers are sold cheap, but for cash
only.
- Lighting struck Al. Whites
house and barn Wednesday night
killing a horse.
Prof. Loar and VIM. Morton
nave engaged as statesmen at Fisher
q Co.'S. drug store,
-ElwoOd Dean writes from Oregon
to his father that his catarrh is cured.
He IS pleased with Oregon.
The depot building at Agra was
destroyed by fire on Tuesday night.
The cause Of the cOnfagratiOn is IN
known.
"A @. K. & n. railroad man in
forms US that the r. R. company now
employ about one hundred men at
Phillipsburg.
N. B. Mccormick will speak in
Crystal township on Tuesday evening
Aug. 2lst, at which time a Club will
be organized.
When our new hotel is finished
Phillipsburg will have one of the
best IN northern Kansas-in fact it
Will be the largest one.
e. B. Seweu, the new merchant.
Is having a suit Of rooms fitted up for
a dwelling in the second story Of the
Bisseu Block over his store room.
james Martin, clerk in a drug
store stabbed Joseph n. Nixon a
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Tuesday. 1t is believed that Nixon
will die
The Baptist society has en-
PlOyed Rev. w. A. Simmons as Pas
tor the ensuing rear. Services every
alternate Sunday in the old Presby-
terrain church.
The brick walls are now rapidly
going up In the new brick block on
the northwest corner of the square.
the work was delayed a while await
ing the cut stone from the east.
There will be a Republican eau
Gus at the Lee School House, Deer
Greek Township, Saturday Aug. 18th,
at p. m. to select 4 delegates to the
Republican County Convention.
COMMITTEE.
Rev. w. A. Simmons will give a
bible reading on the subject of Bapt-
ism next Sunday in Hahnenkratt's
grove, at 3 o'clock p. NJ, after which
two candidates for baptism will be
immersed.
R. NJ. Handy has received a let
ter from Colorado Springs announc-
ing that his father, r. A Handy, has
been quite i'll from Mountain Fever.
He is better but confined yet to his
bed.
W. H. Nichols, of Greenwood
Township, left some sample stalks of
corn at this Office a few days ago.
They are fine specimens. He has 80
acres planted which he thinks will go
40 bushels to the acre.
John Bissel and John Hahnen-
kraft deserve the appreciation of the
people Of Phillipsburg for the enter
prising spirit they are manifesting
in putting their money in that SPLEEN
did new $4,000 hotel.
Mr.. Kivette, a farmer who re-
sided few miles north of town, died
from disease Of the spinal cord a few
days ago and his remains were in
TERED IN the Phillspsburg cemetery.
He leaves a wife and one child.
Geo. NJ. Paul, a successful farmer
of Smith county, says: The Kansas
farmers plant their corn too thick,
that is one cause of its drying up so.
4. f. Hughes, Of this county, says the
same thing and so do other farmers.
DR.. Lindley says he made a con
tract, Thursday, for 300 bushels of
good, merchantable corn at 20 cents
per bushel, to be delivered in this city
by January 1st, next. He viii get
that corn cheap enough.-LOng Is
land Inter Ocean.
Judge Shurtz, of Belmont town
ship, heretofore a leading Union La
Dor man has declared his intention to
vote for Harrison and Morton and the
entire Republican ticket. We know Of
several others but do not feel at liberty
to print their names.
The dry streak, in which it Is our
misfortune to be, embraces a large
portion of Mitchell and Osborne
counties, she south half Of Smith,
the south third Of Jewell and a slice
of the west side of Cloud All
around the territory described the
corn Is equal to the good crops Of
''ye Olden times. '-JereU ReDubh-
can.