Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-09-19


There are nineteen churches and
thirty-one secret societies in Ottawa,
Harper county farmers are shipping
in stock hogs from Nebraska.
The new prohibition daily at Wich-
tia is to be started November l.
The first new wheat sold at st. Fran
els, Cheyenne county at forty-three
cents bushel.
A carload Of crude petroleum was
shipped from Neodesha to refinery
ut Coreapolis, Pa.
A new $500 telescope has been added
to the astronomical facilities Of she
normal school at Emporia.
Hon. A. G. Sherman is trying to or
ganize an elevator company to build a
81, 1000 elevator in Rossville.
The three separators now used ut
the Meriden creamery have total ca
pacity of 5000 pounds Of milk per
hour.
The cost of maintaining WinfeldB
crack baseball team for the season
was 81, S12 and the receipts were with
in $50 of this amount.
Superintendent Morse has made
Friday visitors day Mt the Hutchinson
reformatory. They will be admitted
from 10 a. m. to 4 p. m.
Pittsburg is figuring on the propri.
ETY. of requiring license for all fess
rivals, suppers, etc, given by churches,
lodges and similar organizations.
Parsons is to have a new elevator
with capacity Of 200 cars, and
grain shelter which is said 10 be the
largest ever placed in an elevator.
Topeka is bracing up and trying to
be good. The recorded liquor sales
there during August only numbered
5,136, considerable decrease from
last month.
Charles C. Kerr Of Burlington, aged
about 80, committed suicide at Hart
ford by taking morphine. Despera-
ton caused by drink is probably the
cause Of the deed.
A single pumpkin vine on Mrs. M.
A. Lees lot in Fredonia covers one
fourth of an acre, nourishes seventy
four large pumpkins and has 225 bios
SONS that will do business until frost.
Coal shipments out of Weir City over
the Frisco road averaged fifty cars
day during the month OF August, and
the cash paid to the miners in the
same length Of time for digging this
coal amounted to $1,000.
At Fort Scott Charles East and Bes-
sic Lawer, an clipping couple from
Clinton, Mo-, were married. They in
formed Probate Judge Scoville that
the girls parents opposed the marriage
aud whipped her for going with her
lover. The young woman swore she
was IS years Of age
Governor Morrill, has addressed
letter to the board Of directors of the
te penitertiary requesting that the
officers of the prison be directed 10
make monthly reports to the auditor
of state showing the quantity OF pro-
visions and other property purchased,
consumed and on hand.
Joseph Hausenfritz of Atchison is
under arrest in Germany for viola ting
the army regulations Of that country.
He left Atkinson to visit his old homo
near Straussburg in July. He evaded
the military requirements of that
country by coming to America when
young. The penalty for this offense
is severe.
The Missouri Pacific recently hauled
out of the Central Branch country for
one firm forty-elght cars of corn, or
1, 02O, 900 pounds. The firm was three
days loading IL. 1t was corn the
farmers had held in store from the
crops of 1893 and 1898.
Some one has found out how far a
farmer has to walk to put in and at
tend forty acres Of corn. To pillow the
ground with sixteen inch pillow, he
walks $50 miles, to harrow it thor
oughly before planting he walks fifty
miles and to cultivate it afterwards he
will have to traysi 300 miles, making a
grand total of 90 miles besides gath
ering'