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

OuhSvloh ClJy 10 ccOuOIulLlnB III SCHOOL
expenditures, and compels the city
superintendent to also act as principal
of the high school,
Nine sturdy prisoners, adorned with
ball and chain, and each armed with
nice new hammer ornament Winfeld's
recently established rock pile.
Oxford gives every man a chance to
work out the tax on his dog on the
streets if he prefers that rather than
to pay the cash or have the purp slain.
John Simpson, Pueblo, Col, banker,
who died suddenly there Monday, had
lived nearly all his life in Bourbon
county, having gone from there few
years ago
A Topeka minister knows how sharp
er than serpent's thanks it is to have
toothless child. His boy has become
a reporter.
There is restaurant" in the good
town OF Lawrence where the proprietor
would fall dead if a guest should ask
for something to eat
Ewing Herbert and Sol Miller having
made faces at each other two weeks,
will now go to work on their spring
hossOtypes and photographs.
Of eleven blessed babies born on one
street in Topeka last month not one
was boy, which goes to show that the
coming woman" epoch is here.
Mayor Waggoner of Atchison, says
that city is shy So, 600, 900 to $4,000, 900
on what Ought to be its assessed valua-
ton.
Sixty days in jail and 5000 fine is
the way they vaccinate the unluclxy
Ottawa iointist when they get him in
quarantine.
Ex-Governor Humphrey and George
II. Peek are said to be stuck for several
thousand dollars on a bond which they
signed for friend some time ago.
The assessor in one of the townships
in Brown county has figured it out
that if all the taxable property were
equally divided among the 1879 in
habitants each one would have SAT
worth.
A big gray wolf out in Grant county
has killed more than 500 worth OF
stock recently. A reward of $40 il
offered for his scalp and the people are
going to tucn out in a body and do him
up.
Fort Scotts recently organized ath-
letic club must have overeXerted itself
at the start. 1t is suffering now from
an acute attack of paralysis, and there
is scarcely amy hope that it will sur
vive.
A new kind of mineral water has
been brought to Topeka. 1t comes
from well ten miles southeast Of
Topeka, and it is claimed will cure
nearly everything without having to
swear to anything.
Colonel LOomis of Winfield, recently
presented j. Ii. Mccall, grand master
of Kansas masons, Shriner's badge,
valued at 500. Nc. will hold on to
those claws like novice to the rope.
A prominent Summer county farmer,
who has Lived there since 1870, tells the
Wellington Mail that this is the hard
est year that the people of that vicinity
have seen during the entire quarter OF
century of his residence there.
Some advertising fallirs worked the
business men of Galena and 'Wier City
quite successfully on one of their
schemes recently, The Sun says the
Wier City contribution was about 500.
Snipe item from the Mcpherson Re-
publican: Mr. Ardery, of Hutchinson,
and Dr. Traus went on hunt to the
Chain lakes one afternoon and secured
over half a hundred snipes of number
of kinds in very short time.
Columbus Advocate: The mining in
dustry at Galena never was in better
condition than now. A great many
down there are wearing diamonds, who
sixty days ago could not rake up
enough money to pad crutch or wad
u shotgun
1t is said that the Kingman Demo
GRAFT will start up again. When Eaton
got the postoffice he dropped it. Tom
Leftwich, who has been running the
model Kansas country weekly for sew
enteen years, has pulled through al
) Larned without any postotflce.
Pap EclIert says sit is amusing some
times to listen to a conversation be
tween two girls" and old Mr.. Franz
Montgomery, who has Lawrence
record that dates back in the '7Os, adds
''it probably would be more interesting
to listen to conversation where fel
low is one of the girls"
The Rooney girls did the Trilby
dance in Atchison the other night, an(
the stern ascetic of the Globe observes
The sight was not as pleasing as i
they had worn tights. Their bar,
shanks looked cold and bony, and tn,
audience was constantly in fear tina
they would step on tack. If Trilb,
had feet like theirs, she had her nerv
with her to go barefooted."
Z. c. Case of Kansas City, one Of tn
brightest young men who has com
from the state university in recen
years, has been given fellowship il