Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-06-20
KANSAS NEWS.

The assessors returns show popu-
lation of 1850 in Concordia
Cy Leland is said 10 have hit tho
market for $4,000 on the recent raise
In wheat.
Beloits fire department viii handle
the Fourth of July celebration in that
city.
Sixty-four names have been signed
to petition for militia company in
Manhattan.
The editor of the Brown County
World owns up that he would really
like to have an office.
Fort SCOTS society minstrels made
grea hit. The net receipts of the
two entertainments were $780,
A Paola man has the contract for
furnishing IT'S, 900 of brick to be used
in the government building ut Kan
sas City,
Frank Perry Of Humboldt, is making
trip to California on his bicycle. HO
covered the distance to La Junta, $50
miles, in Ave days,
The Sterling Bulletin man has been
presented with box of irrigation
grown Strawberries so large that thir-
ty-four berries filed the box.
The Topeka Dressing club is tho
name of a new enterprise which for
81. so a month cleans, scours and pressea
dudes pants, suits and overcoats.
Orator j. V. Beelman of Winfield
tackled Wall street, jeff Davis and Bob
Ingersoll in three speeches last week
and quit winner at every sitting.
Abilene has Merry Wives" club,
and when their husbands kick on cold
grub after meeting, the MERRY
Wives" raise merry something else.
"Trust in God and keep your powder
dry" was all right for 177G, but We
should paraphrase 1t for Kansas In
1895: "Trust in God and irrigate."
Rev. A. w. Bishop, who was for seven
years pastor Of the 0lathe CongregR-
tional church, has accepted call to
Parsons,
Ht announcement R0hANb
from Neosho Falls, by way of the Post,
that "new potatoes are big enough to
grabble,"
The Atwood Citizen says the big
rain of last week was by far the heav-
lest and most beneficial that has fallen
in that part of the state since 1891.
Employees of the Missouri, Kansas
and Texas railway in Parsons are go
ing to establish library and reading
room for their own benefit.
l. N. Temple, one of Mitchell couu-
tvs best citizens, and an old veteran
with splendid war record, died in
Beloit Decoration day,
Columbian wheelmen are figuring on
ten or twelve days outing, during
which they expect to cover 600 to 900
miles Of territory.
Farmer Childs of Riley county,
challenges anybody to show the equal
Of some corn, four feet two inches in
height, that he left at the Manhattan
Nationalist Office the other day
The real bright man, when he goes
TO Topeka, pins some sort OF q badge
to the lapel of his coat, and then the
people of that city, in pure absent
mindedness, treat him yer y cordially
, Newton is suffering from an attack
, of the lady bicycler A club Of thirty
:, has just been organized and the rail-
road people cut just as much ice as the
) old SETTLERS in the club
, The Post asserts that not only ia
Galena now the best bushes center,
; but within a year it will have the
b greatest population Of any town in the
:. entire mineral belt.
John Dice Of Neosho Falls, says he
has discovered The entire skeleton OF
= n buffalo thirty feet under the ground
If John was loaded this throw doesn't
count.
Misfortunes never come singly. Ar
f amateur dramatic club from Hoising
, ton played "Ten Nights in a Barroom'
, in Great Bend the same week that the
= hot winds blew SO awfully.
r The falsir who sells gold" watches
for a dollar and throws in cash prizC
reaped harvest in 0scaloosa the otheI
day. The watches would be dear at Z
dime each, and the prize was q copper
cent.
The auburn haired cynic Of the Clay
e Center Times has recently become the
e uncle of brand new nephew, whC
starts out handicapped for life undel
= the ponderous cognomen OF Delber
Arenas Valentine.
Miss Hutchinson OF Cherryvale, liter
10 ally drew blanket in the lottery o
matrimony when she married maj
l. from Galena the other day. That
n her husbands name. However, Mr.
Kidd united them in the holy bonds.
1t The recent trial of Angel Matthew
It son in Parsons, on the charge Of hav
ing received deposits when his banl
IS was known to be insolvent, and which
q resulted in his acquittal, is said Il
have cost Labette county $4,000.
/ Baxter Springs is already energet
d ically engaged in the preliminar,
work in anticipation of the fourteenth
II annual reunion OF the old soldiers, t
: be held there in September. TIL
enterprising citizens are determined
= to make it the most memorable even
of the entire series.
e Mr.. Grant Shaw, who used to rul
r, the Wilson county Sun, has bought tn