Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-04-19
STATE NEWS.

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The assessors returns indicate that
Parsons has increased in population con
siderably during the past year.
Hartford has had $4,000 fire. It
is a town OF 1000 population. There
is practically not business house now
standing.
Atchison Globe; George Hoyt and
Gus Smith have caught 600 muslrats
at Mud Lake. Tho skins were sold at
s cents each. They accordingly made
S4S for their work.
Russell mulcted A fakir is reaping
n golden harvest in northwestern Kan
sas towns selling corn salve and brass
watches. He mulcted Russell citizens
OF $75 in n single night recently.
Miss Harriet Adams, daughter of
Judge +, G. Adams, secretary OF the
State Historical society has graduated
from the Kansas Medical college at
Topeka. She graduated in surgery
and took the prize given for the best
examination.
Phillipsburg is going to have an opera
house, Two public spirited citizens,
owning adjoining blocks, agree to tear
out the dividing wall above the first
story and transform tho second into a
large opera house, this on payment Of a
$3.50 bonus, which has been promised.
At Colony Rev. M. U. Ramsburg, the
new Methodist minister, upon counting
his progeny after landing there found a
four-year-old missing. He ascertaned
by telegraph that the youngster was
still on the train sleeping and entirely
unconscious of separation from his
parents,
The last will and testament Of Mary
A. Harris, wife of Congressman-at-La
W. A. Harris, who died last January,
has been admitted to probate in Leaven-
worth county. The deceased left all
property of whatever kind she died
possessed to her husband. Colonel Har-
ris is also named as executor The will
was made in July, 1893
Nortonville special: Freddie Derrin-
ger, the II year old son of John Derrin-
ger, Of this place, committed suicide by
hanging himself. He had been cut
ting up in the house and his father gave
him couple Of lashes with whip. The
boy at this ran up stairs and no one
followed. Two hours afterward his
folks went up and found him hanging
to rafter.
j, A, Moore, representing the Troy
Oil company of Pitts5urg, visited Fort
Scott. Excepting the Standard Oil com
pany these are the most extensive ope-
rators in America. Drills have been
put to work at Uniontown and next
week the county will be spotted with
them. This is the second Pennsylvania
company to enter this field and the
hotels are filing up with prospectors.
A serious mishap occurred at the
Leavenworth Soldiers home which came
near resulting fatally. Workmen were
engaged in erecting the handsome
bronze fountain, which was presented by
the Anheuser- Busch Brewing company,
when the scaJolding gave way and pre-
cipitated theS fountain to the ground,
shattering it badly. Several of the work.
men had narrow escape from being
crushed.
Paola Republican,; The grocerymen
of Paola purchased Of the farmers and
poultry raisers of Miami county in one
day over 100 cases Of eggs. Each case
contains thirty dozen, making total of
nearly 5000 dozen, which, at cents a
dozen, brought about $500. 1t is quite
evident there are a great many hens in
Miami county and that they are very in
dustrious, also, quite source of profit.
Moline Republican: Miss Emma
Snider, living four miles northwest of
Moline, is the champion chicken raiser
of Wild Cat township. Last season she
sold nearly 5000 worth of eggs and
poultry and did not give the business
any special attention either Let's see,
girls, this is about 81 per week for the en-
tire year. Better than working at the
hotel or by the week for private families.
The Topeka board Of education met
in adjourned session and let the contract
for seats for the new high school to the
Grand Rapids School Furniture compa-
ny, represented in Topeka by Josiah
Jordan. The desks are to be single with
automatic seats. The room will hold
about 400, but for assembly purposes
the seats can comfortably be occupied
by two persons of average size. The
bids for opera chairs for the gallery
were all rejected and the board will prob
ably put in pew seats that will be much
cheaper and hold many more. The to-
tai capacity for assembly purposes of the
main room will be 1900.
A Lawrence correspondent writes
A smooth fruit tree fakir is at work in
the western part of Douglas and the
eastern part of Shawnee counties. He
takes orders for fifty peach trees at fifty
cents apiece, and, getting his 1913 in adj
vance, promises to send the farmer 100
trees, the trees to be peaches budded on
Canada Beech stocks, and therefore very
hardy. The agent agrees to take the
third crop from the orchard in payment
for the fifty trees which he gives with
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