Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-07-04

Don't forget it.
The NJ e. congregation will hold
! public services at the Court House /
again next Sunday at the usual time,
] owing to the fact that the church Is
undergoing repairs.
Last Saturday a nice colt belong
! ing to Simpson Hodge, q few miles
north Of town, was running from
dog and ran into a barbed wire fence
and was SO badly cut up that it soon
died
The hail last Saturday did con
siderable damage to crops in Glen
wood township. We learn that John
Hull lost nice crops of small grain
also the three Hunt families. Corn
was badly cut down.
A hundred children were poison
ed by drinking lemonade with acids
at Wichita, by an ignorant vender
who made a mistake in the proper
tiOns. Several of the children have
died.
Judge Polling has within the past
week issued license to we'd to the fol-
lowing named persons: James TrIb-
| les to Mary j. Davis, all of Sumner
township. Evidently the matrimonial
market is dull lately.
"A number of prominent eastern
gentlemen were in town yesterday to
bid on our Water Works. Messrs.
Hackett of Kansas City, Ashcroft Of
Chicago, Sherlock of Dodge City, and
others being among the number.
-Plainville, Rocks county, is after
another railroad The surveyors of
the Omaha, Superior and Southwest
ern line have been there several days,
surveying from there to Ellis, with a
good prospect Of adopting the route
For the benefit of eastern read
ers we announce that Kansas IS get
ting plenty of rain now, or at least
the northwestern portion of it. We
have lately had fine soaking rains in
this county and corn looks splendidly-
OFFICE OF COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT,
u PhilHpsburg Kan, June %, 80.
There will be an examination of
q teachers held at the school house, in
, Phillipsburg, Kansas, on Monday and
. Tuesday, July 9TH and 8th.
W. w. COLBY, Supt.
: There was quite a commotion
among the hOrse-racers last Saturday
or a race between a horse owned by
r Sheriff Lee Scrivener and ex-Sherift
+ Mcclure. The contest came off at
the Fair grounds, and McGuire's
4 horse was victorious.
Il Mr.. Leonard Bach who resided
south of Stuttgart in this county
r. dropped dead from heart disease or
n last Tuesday while working about his
farm. His age was 40 years and be
leaves a family. He was a German
/ farmer and was we'll respected.
This community seems to be af
fiicted by chicken thieves. Last Sat
K urday night Faubion Bros. had TWEEN
-e ty-six chickens stolen from the COO
u and on Tuesday night E. II. Evan
e. lost eighteen and the coop in which
" they were confined disappeared also
p Every Fourth of July from
y dozen to fifty people are killed o
wounded by explosions of guns an
le fireworks in different parts Of th
xt country, while numerous destructiV
m fires are caused by fire-crackers. LIE
great care be taken to avoid acc
dents.
is The Evolutionary and AIusica
at entertainment given at the Presby
terian Church last Monday evening
by the Republican City troupe o
O. young people, under the auspices O
d the Normal Institute, was we'll al
NV tended and we believe gave good sal
isfaction.
ly VIM. Stanton, who escaped fror
'P jail last week, was re-captured nea
v Logan, where it is said he went It
see his best girl" and he has bee
e locked up again. When he got OF
g but Is days more remained for hi
~ to serve hence he acted indIscreetl
y to break out and thus do another VI
lawful act.
tiI o The people in and around Phi
1D lipsburg are building a cheese fa
VA tory. This is a move in the rigI
direction. We have frequently Gale
OF the attention of farmers in this viciI
lr- ity to the fact that there is MOI
y money in cheese making than thel
is in raising grain. a cheese factor
,s- is not an expensive plant to put i
Ta or an expensive factory to OPERA
w after it is completed. The farme
.ar of the east frequently allude to
cheese factory as ''the great mOrtgag
litter. - CedarUjIJe Globe
r. r. The Normal Institute in sessIC
- at Phillipsburg has an enrolment
IL over 100 teachers of Phillips count
T. j. Loar is conductor, assisted /
County superintendent Colby an
zee wife, and Professors Paine, of HutcI
81, insOn. and Pratt, of Kirwin. Or
hs day last week some fifty or more
ne them spent a day and night picnic
ing on the Solomon, near Marvin.
re- was a most pleasant gathering, az
of one, too, that will long be remembe