Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-12-03
The Abilene Reflection snns.

dairy county Of Kansas and has fifteen
creameries in actual operationJ located
at the following places; Belle Spring,
Abilene, Dillon, Holland, Talmadge,
Navarro, Enterprise, Woodbine, Aro-
ma, Ramona, Hope, Manchester, In
dustry, Chapman, and Solomon City.
In addition to the creameries there
are several cheese factories operated
and owned by the Rinehart Cheese
Company, which hes factories at Her
rington and Rinehayt, and is now
putting in another plant at Dillon
The newer factories are each to have
three watts. This company is quite
successful and has no difficulty in dis
posing Of the product at fair prices.
AZ present they are paying 10 cents
per pound for butter fat, which aver
ages 3S to AZ pounds per 100 pounds
Of milk. For the month of October
the variation for 100 pounds of milk
was from 842 to 1854 pounds Of
cheese.
The creamefies and cheese factories
Of Dickenson county have been the
salvation of hundreds Of our farmers
during the successive crop failures.
IL these creameries are a good in.
vestment for Dickenson county farm
ers, why may they not be for those Of
Phillips county?
-Last Sunday about $40 worth OF
hogs were stolen from Aud. Kachel-
ries of Alma, by two men named
Larse Wood and John Moraines.
They Took tbe hogs to Naponee
where they were sold A constable
followed them and caught them bpt
they blqffed HIM off and got away.
kilograms were sent out, one Of which
reached Sheriff Cowan. Tuesday eve
ming Deputy Matteson arrested two
men who answered the description
and held them for the Nebraska
sheriff. Wednesday afternoon j. d.
Reneau Of Alma, came down and said
the suspects were not his men, and
they were released. These Young
men felt very much injured and will
bring suit for damages against the
sherffs, in which there will be much
cry but little wool
"A strange, and what came near
beng a serious accident, occurred at
tho entertainment in the M. Il. church
Thursday evening. A celluloid comb
in the hair Of Mrs T. W. Whitcomb
caught fire from the heat Of the stove
andit took some pretty lively work to
extract the comb from her hair before
her hair caught also. The dangerous
frebrand. was remQged, however, be-
fore much mischief was done and
without anyone being seriously iniur-
ed.-Long Island Leoder.
4, N. Pepper dug 800 bushels Of
sugar beets from a half acre OF ground
under the Stockton ditch. The result
Of this years experiments will be pub
lished soon. Next year Mr.. Pepper
will EXPERIMENT. with other crops and
vegetables. We suggest that he raise
a large quantity Of celery. The Stock
ton market has never been supplied
with this article and the surrounding
towns would readily take all that be
could raise. STOCKTON Record.
Tho sheriff took Charley FulIer
to the asylum at Lincoln Monday
where 1T is hoped he will ,be benefited
by treatment. Ever since his wlfe's
death his mind has been affected and
while he has been considered harm
less it was thought best that he should
be taken there for time at least
F'airbwy GdSstte !, ~ .,,
Mr.. Fuller was a Rock Island en-
gineer, and is we'll konwn by.many
people Of this Blaze.
j. O. Mitchelps fine stock sale was
not es successful as we hoped, Thor
oughbred COWS sold for $35 and $40.
One COW sold as high as $50 Young
bulls sold forS3O and they were bet
ter than many that sell in Iowa for
$500, Only a few OF the hogs sold,
male pigs being slow sale stS10. The
stock however were fine and would
have done credit to any county
Republican Gin Democrat.
The elevator at Woodruff was
sold for three years taxes Tuesday,
bringing $3.50 As the taxes and
costs only amount TO $105, the cues,