Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-02-15
The HERALD and Goldthwait's Geo.
Magazine for 81 so.

doing business in this city the first Of
the week.
Superintendent Frank H. Baker
was in this city on business the first OF
the week
The silvery jingle of the sleigh
bells has been familiar sound for sew.
eral days,
There will be no preaching at the
Baptist church next Sunday, morning
or night
Misses Eflie and Matte Kingery and
Nellie Beauvais spent Saturday and
Sunday visiting friends at Prairieview.
Mr.. Pearson Of Lawrence is in the
city this week visiting with his son, A.
II. Pearson, and daughter, Mrs W. D,
Granger.
The fine fall of snow made, as Aug
ust Veeh puts it, good cuttering" for
few days and helped out the small
grain crop,
Sheriff Utter left Tuesday evening
for Topeka with Mrs. A. f. Stevens of
Marvin, who will he placed in the in.
sane asylum at that place.
Police Judge Scott and City Clerk
Countryman have removed their offices
from over Young & Co.'s, to the base
ment of the Phillips County Bank.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Will
Hanson, Sunday evening, February II,
a son. Charlie is around distributing
the cigars and receiving the congratula-
tions of his friends.
The Dispatch Office has real live
poet concealed somewhere in the depths
of its recesses. Last week he came to
the front with an undying effusion en-
titled "Molly to Lewelling" Verify
the world do move.
H. D. Cheseldine, formerly Phil
lipsburg boy, was in the city this week
representing the Leavenworth Bag
Manufacturing Co. Dent" as he was
Familiarity called, has many friends in
this city who are always glad to see
him return.
III. r. Wintersteen of Lovewell,
Jewell county, Kansas, and former
resident of this county, is visiting with
his uncle, W. II. Phillips, and family,
who lives few miles north of town.
Mr. Wintersteen was pleasant caller
at this Office last Thursday.
j. A. Conn was made full-hedged
"knight" last Thursday evening at the
K. of P. lodge. Also Arthur Goddard
and James Moncrief were introduced
into the mysteries of the initiatory rank
of Page. The lodge is in good working
order and is securing some excellent
new members
H. G. Gebhart left last Saturday for
his old home in Pennsylvania, where he
goes after his family to bring them to
this city, where they will make their
future home. The HERALD welcomes
them to our city and hopes they may
find the surroundings as pleasant as in
their eastern home
Rex Wilcox has purchased an inter-
est in the land-law business of Major
Don Carlos of Phillipsburg and will be
located at Colby, where he will go as
soon as his school closes r. V. is a
steady young man of industrious habits
and we predict for him successful fu-
ture. Hill City Reveille.
The people of Belleville have had
their city water analysed and find that
they are drinking silica and insoluble
matter, Aluminium and iron oxides, cal
cium oxide, magnesium oxide, sodium
oxide, chlorine, sulfuric anhydride, car
bonic anhydride, potassium oxide, nit
rous anhydride, and the chemist says
that not any of them are especially in
furious.
The recent snow storm was one tof
the severest in several years. Railroad
traffic was blocked everywhere west of
the Alleghanies. At Chicago and St
Louis the storm was the worst known
in many years, and business was en-
tirely suspended for two days. Even as
far south as Guthrie, Oklahoma, a
heavy snow fell and several perscn ms
were frozen to death.
Secretary f. D. Coburn of the State
Board of Agriculture has compiled from
the assessors returns list of the cities
and towns of Kansas having popula.
ton of more than 500 There are in his
list 176 cities above 500, 1902 above 1000,
| fifty cities of the second class and seven
of the first class The figures COM
pared with those Of the year previous
indicate that of 81 cities and towns in
Kansas then having a population of
1000 or more, 81 made gan.
The heavy snow Friday, Saturday
and Sunday drifted so as TO fill com
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