Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-10-01

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enrolment of 246.
The sample paper pavement at To-
peka was not a success.
Donlphan Democrats and Populists
have fused on the county ticket.
The Cove County Gazette thinks q
community is judged by the roads it
keeps.
Coffeyvlle has followed Leaven-
worth in adopting vertical writing ia
the schools,
Democrats and Populists of Leaveu-
worth county have fused on the
county ticket.
The Presbyterians of Newton will
further the cause of salvation by erect
ing new church.
The Clay Center creamery distrib-
utes $40, 900 a month among the farm
ers OF that vicinity.
Palmer Oil company has struck oil
four miles west OF lola and the field
promises better than the Neodesha
field.
The Kansas Wesleyan university
has opened the school year with the
largest attendance in the history OF
the school.
Logan County bank at Russell
Springs and Peoples Savings bank Of
Fort Scott, have gone into voluntary
liquidation.
The annual session of the grand
lodge of Kansas Odd Fellows will be
held in Leavenworth this year, open
ing Monday, October 10.
Farmers about Abilene collect $20,-
900 cash monthly from the creameries.
Belle Springs creamery alone paid out
S14, 500 for milk in August.
The Belle Springs creamery, a
Dickinson county institution, paid the
farmers of that vicinity $l4, 500 in cash
for milk furnished last month.
Rev. E, NJ. Randall, the we'll known
Methodist minister at Leavenworth,
is likely to accept recently rendered
call to $500 position in Seattle,
Wash.
Potatoes from Eastern Kansas are
being shipped to Lincoln and sell at
40 cents bushel. just how much Of
the price is made by freight rates is
not told.
A Wichita man thinks 500, 900 is
about the right figure for the aliena-
ton of his wife's affections, and has
sued the party of the second part for
that amount.
coolest inhabitants" in various
parts of Kansas are being quoted to
the effect that the season of 90 has
been the rainiest known in the State
for thirty years.
Columbus Advocate: Farmers and
stock raisers of this county to the
number of about 100 met in the court
yard at IL a. M, to-day and organized
the Cherokee County Live Stock as
ISOLATION.
According to the MCPHERSON Repub-
lican, the attendance at Bethany col
lege promises to be the largest in the
history of the college. The fifteenth
anniversary of Bethany will be cele-
brated on October 10.
Mrs Martha G. Harris, grandmother
of John A. Martin, died at Atchison,
aged 100 years. Mrs. Harris had
never been sick until her last illness,
which lasted three weeks She had
lived in Atchison since 1865.
Charles Jones, an Atchison well dig
ger, while being lifted from fifty foot
well in a bucket, lost his balance and
fell to the bottom, breaking his neck.
Death was instantaneous. Jones
leaves widow and one child.
Some time ago Herbert Newman,
says the Atchison Champion, pur-
chased horse from an emigrant out
1T for So cents He fed the animal up
we'll and it is now one of the finest
driving horses in South Atchison, The
horse is said to be worth $s5.
Governor Morrill, has appointed p
L. McWiliams of St. John as sheriff
of Stafford county to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Sheriff Fl. 7.
Dykes. He has agreed to turn over
to the widow of his predecessor one
half the fees earned during his term
Of office, although this was not con-
sideration of the appointment.
John Worth of Atchison county,
who scratched his arm with a rusty
nail, has had the member amputated.
Blood poisoning set in, and his life
was endangered.
1t is noted as something Of coinci-
dence that the enrolment in the In
dependence public schools Monday
was s22, identically the same number
TO unit as on the corresponding day
last year.
During reunion of old soldiers in
Wilson county sixty persons, members
Of sixteen different families, and all
related to each other, met unexpect-
edly one day and sat down to dinner
together.