Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-09-01
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

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talks.
A B. Wilder, founder of the Scandia
Journal, died at Bonner Springs. No.
last week. Since 1872 he had been a res
ident OF Republic county.
The Riley County Fair association
has decided to postpone the holding of
the fair at Riley until September 81, %,
% and 80.
The officers of the First regiment
Wilson county veterans met at Fredonia
and appointed October 2, and as the
time for holding the annual reunion at
that city.
ingalls, Union: Several of the large
stringers on the bridge at this place
were badly cracked last week by the
heavy threshing outfits which crossed
over.
The ninth annual reunion of the De-
partment of Kansas G. A. R. opened at
Wichita with the largest attendance
ing there were fully 1000 veterans in
camp.
The Southwestern Dental association
held its thirteenth annual session at
Pittsburg. Parts of the states of Kan
sas, Missouri, Arkansas and the Indian
territory are embraced in this associa-
ton.
Gypsum Advocate: School Director
Q. B. Manning informs us that the
board has concluded to build an addi-
ton of brick veneer on the north side of
the present structure, 28x36, two stories
high.
North Topeka note: A young lady
from the south side fell into Soldier
creek while at the boat landing at Gar
field park with a party of young
friends. She received thorough soak
ing before being fshed out of the
water.
Salina Republican,: It is reported
that a large majority of the eighty
seven school districts of Saline county
have already employed their teachers
for the coming year. The custom of
employing teachers early in the summer
is growing and is to be commended.
Mrs. s. F. Grubb, president of the
Kansas Woman's Christian Temperance
union, has spoken eighty-eignt times in
her own state and held ten conventions
since she was made president last year,
and has never omitted to treat the spe-
cial subject of temperance work by
farmers wives.
Dodge City Globe-Republican Rev.
McAffee, of Topeka, state lecturer of
the Temperance union, was here last
Sunday, the guest of S. Mullendore, a
former neighbor in Carroll county, In
diana. They had not met before for
forty-two years. The reverend gentle
man was en- route for the Masonic con-
clave at Denver.
The Consolidated Barb Wire company
of Lawrence, the only one of it's kind in
Kansas and one of the largest in the
United States, has decided to erect new
buildings and put in a wire nail mill.
The power will be furnished from the
dam, two wheels of 800 horse power
each being used. The new mill will
have a capacity of fifty tons of wire and
200 kegs Of nails day, and in the be-
ginning will employ fifty men.
Salina Republican: An attorney of
this city has brought foreclosures upon
three farm mortgages held by two men
who have been working for the Carnegie
Steel company for several years. One
of these parties is leader of the strik-
ers. These three farms are occupied by
the mortgagors as homes-two of them
were taken as homesteads- a re-
ceiver has been appointed to take charge
of one of the farms for the reason that
it is insufficient to pay the mortgage
Indebtedness.
Correspondence of AtchiEon Cham
pion: The Phillipsburg people have
Sertainly done themselves proud in dec
Grating the depot with the products of
the farms of Phillips county. The depot
is literally covered with wheat, corn,
oats, alfalfa, and other products OF this
years growth, and as the special trains
over the Rock Island are returning from
the Colorado excursion, hundreds of
eastern people look with establishment
at Phillips county's cereals. Besides
specimens Of this years crop have been
carried east by hundreds. It is a good
advertisement for Phillipsburg and
Phillips county. Besides our board of
trade issued 10000 folders and are
widely circulating them in every train.
Dodge City Globe-Republican: Al
fred Porter, superintendent of the state
forestry station at Ogallalla, came
through in a carriage, distance of 10
miles. He says they saw many fields
with stacks of headed wheat of very
superior quality, a large proportion of
which had no sign eff habitation. These
fields are seeded by residents of the
towns and cities, who hire the seeding
done in the fall. pay no more attention
to it till harvest time, when harvesters
are sent out to gather in the golden
grain. The trees at this station have
made splendid growth this season,
though situated on a high ridge. He
has had remarkable success with black
walnut tree culture, seed planted last
fall having sent up sprouts which show
twelve to fifteen inches growth, and
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