Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-09-10
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

wrote seventy poems in thirty days.
Fort Scott, Nevada, Mo-, and Par.
sons are talking about piping lola gas.
Mrs Lease told New York news
paper that she was AZ years old
Mrs. J. Il. Brownscf Malta has 1000
little chickens Matched by an even LOG
hens,
Mrs George T. Anthony will proba.
bly, mako her homo in Chicago with
her son. t.tI
M. M. Beck, editor OF the Holton
Recorder, has son on the Chicago
Tribune.
A young woman named Luckey was
killed by lightning at Oawker City the
other day.
Jewell county papers claim that the
corn crop Of that county will be 49,
900, 900 bushels,
Citizens OF Riley and adjoining
counties are arranging for u corn car
nival in Leonardville.
The Parsons Loan and Trust COM
pany of Parsons has been incorpor-
Rted with q capital OF $780, 900.
The state tournament of the Kan
sas Firemen's Association will be held
at Topeka during the reunion festival
week.
The school board OF Baxter Springs
is short of money and will get along
with four months term OF school
this year.
Butler county farmers are gathering
their corn. One extensive grower
there has twenty-five men at work in
his fields,
An Atchison doctor tells the Globe
that the essence of cinnamon scattered
around in room will drive the mos
quitoes away.
The late Joshua Wheelero OF Norton
vile was u continuous subscriber to
the New York Weekly Tribune for
over forty years.
An Emporla man sawed the air With
his arms while arguing the money
question and broke window glass
that cost him 81.
A New York man who formerly re.
sided at Meade has presented that
city with sufficient books to establish
u free public library.
The famous Paramount apple or.
chard, in Leavenworth county, this
year will have very light crop. II
produced too heavily last year.
The Walker building, a Ave-story
brick structure adjoining the National
hotel, ON Kansas avenue in Topeka,
was sold by the sheriff for $4,000
The state fair grounds at Topeka,
which will be occupied by the old sol.
dlers during the reunion festival, will
be known as Camp Nelson A. Miles"
The law failing to accomplish the
purpose, the people of Atchison county
have adopted the shotgun method Of
stopping the practice of SEEMING in the
lakes.
"The Sooner Spoon Gang" is the
naaae Of an organization OF young
women in Eldorado who don't like
the exertion of bicycle riding or lawn
tennis.
Rev. I. NJ Ross, the we'll known
Congregational minister ut Leaven.
worth, has been compelled to resign
his charge on account OF continued Ill
! health.
The 1000 or so OF Veterans at the
Leavenworth Soldiers home who
draw pensions have about $780, 900 d.
vided among them every three
months.
Having acquired oil the other acces
series that tend to make life worth
living, Eldorado is now figuring on a
scheme for telephone connection With
Wichita.
improvements have commenced on
| the new government penitentiary
property at Leavenworth. The found,
atoms OF the parsonage are nearly
completed.
Potato growers Of the Kaw valley
agreed to raise the price OF potatoes To
twenty-three cents per bushel on car
load lots and twenty-five cents per
bushel in sacks.
The Wichita liar has a rival in To.
peka, or else the only original was
there on a visit A Chicago paper
prints dispatch from Topeka to the
effect that o passenger train was re-
Gently stopped near there by shower
Of toads,
Mamie Beers lives in Wichita. An
heuser. Busch and Pabst beers are
popularity supposed to be residents OF
Wichita also Arkansas City Trav'
eler.
A. Wright and Miss Ida N. Todd
were married at Emporia last week.
Wright has been associate editor OF
the Emporia Republican for the past
four years. He was formerly tele.
graph editor on the Leavenworth
Times, and has been connected with
various other Kansas papers.
Elk. Consul John L. Waller is at the
head of scheme to build an indus
trial college for the training of col
ored men and women. The associa.
ton has been chartered, and is known
as the "Afro- American Industrial
College" Six thousand acres of tim
Der land are owned by the associa-
ton. The land is situated ON the
Arkansas river in Cowley county, close
to the southern boundary line of the
State, and Is said to be an appropriate
location for an Industrial college. The
promoters of the enterprise are en-
thusiastic over their scheme, and they
expect to have fourishing college
located on the land before many
months, where the young Afro-Amer-
leans can be trained and taught the
trades.