Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-04-26
FRAMES AND TRI


A. Pratt, j. P.
Frank Mcbride, editor of the
Bogue Signal and son of w. ii, Nc !
Bride, of Kirwin. has been appointed I
railway mail agent, and assigned to +
the Central Branch.
"A Lodge Of knights of Pythias
was organized here on Wednesday +
night with about thirty members. !
They have an elegant hall over the
LIST National Bank.
Don't mortgage your property
till you have seen BisselI & IWitchen. /
They will give you loan at lowest !
possible rate. No delays Money
paid when papers are signed
j. D. Matteson has, the past
week, had his head wrapped up IN a
FELLOWSHIP or some other white cloth,
for the reason that he had the mumps.
His whole family were similarly af-i
ficted.
j. j. LeCain, residing a few
miles in the country, was very i'll a
few days last week. Last year he IN
jured his back by lifting and last week
he strained it again. He suffers Sc
verely.
Last week a correspondent re-
Quested us to publish the bill which
passed the Kansas legislature last
winter In relation to roads and high
ways. We have acceded to such re-
quest and give the law in full in this
HERALD in another place.
We have received an invitation
to the May party to be given by the
Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers at Go0dland, Thursday eve
ming, May I'd. Tickets $15O. All
are invited to attend. A Denver,
| Colorado, Band will furnish the music.
The Knights of Pythlas are fit
ting up as a lodge room the second
story of the First National Bank
! building. We looked in last Satur-
day and found it as handsome as a
/ bran new band-bOx Frank AIRING
ton did the papering and we pro
nounce it a nice job.
Conductor Gum, whose run is
from Phillipsburg to Colorado
Springs, and who resides in the latter
place, informs us that he spent three
years in Oklahoma and the Indian
territory. He had ague much Of the
time; the water is ''sOapy' and bad,
and he did not like it there at all.
He says this is a much better country
than that.
Married by Judge Polling on
Sunday, April 21st, '89, at the home
of the brides parents, Mr.. Charles
i @. Page to Miss Iona Adams, daugh-
ter of James and Malvina Adams,
late of Iowa. The HERALD acknOw-
! lodges the receipt of some of the we'd
ding cake which we pronounce good
May the young people live long and
happily.
The corner stone of the Norton
county court house will be laid April
3Oth with imposing ceremonies. The
) Deputy Grand Master Mason, of Kan
sas will conduct the ceremonies. All
Masonic lodges within a hundred
miles have been invited. So says the
= NelU Fro.
LATER Since the above was put in
type we are informed that owing to g
smallpox scare the ceremonies will be
! postponed to later date.
Monday, April 8th, at 1920 p. m,
John TOOker, Mrs. McBride's father
departed this life, at Akron, Ohio
! aged 81 years, 10 months and % days
Up to within the last ten years of his
life he scarcely knew what sickness
= was, being a large, robust and excep
! tiOnally strong constitutional man
r Mrs. Mcbride and her brother, VIM
II. TOOker, of Phillipsburg, arrived
y e-4 ~
, and thirty minuets before his spirit
, took its flight, but, beng unconscious
he was ignorant Of their presence
Father TOoker was a good, uprigh
= man, and in his younger days, a mar
S of correct, competent, energetic bust
ness qualities.-CGlcker city Times.
IS. J. Hartman. the first of th,
e week, drove across the country from
d PhiIlipsburg to Logan, a distance o
). about eighteen miles. He says h
never saw such d splendid prOspec
for good crops of small grain at thi
. time Of year as he saw on this trip
! Corn is being planted rapidly and tn
+ ground IS IN fine condition. MT
Hartman saw new houses, barns
fences, and other improvements
- which show that the country is de
+ veIoping at a very satisfactory rate
y 1t has been two years since he made
this trip and he sees a grea
improvement in that time. Two 0
: three years ago the wagon road RAJ
u diagOnally much of the way betweel
: Philipsburg and Logan. Now larg
l. amounts of land are fenced and tn
traveller has to turn a great man
S. square corners.
e The Drummer Boy Of Shiloh
/ gave two exhibitions this week i