Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-11-26
Kausas Notes.

Dillon has new cheese factory.
Weir City Catholics had fair last
week and cleared $4,000.
Hamilton county's cattle product is
valued ut SIS, 900.
Haskell county produced good crop
Of peanuts this year.
Ais well at lola. Gas wells, mostly.
Mr.. Sherman Of Osborne county
ought TO engage in the cattle business
Ex-senator John ]. ingalls, wants to
be minister to England.
Wichita wants Normal school es-
tablished there, and there are others.
Arkansas City will petition the legis-
asylum.
lieutenant Governor Elect A. M.
Harvey and Miss Belle Cone Of Topeka
will be married December 10.
Salt Creek township, down in Reno
county, ought to be u popular resort
this year
Luck isn't entirely against Kansas
Republicans. In Haskell county there
was tic between the candidates for
probate Judge and in the drawing OF
lots the Republicans won.
Dudley township, Haskell county,
will pass into fame as the only town
ship in Kansas which gave John M.
Palmer a majority for President
j. G. Armitage and family Of Abilene,
who went to Honduras to get rich,
have returned to Kansas in search OF
good health.
"What," sadly remarks the Sterling
Bulletin, as 1t discovers the Populist
paper will have majority on the
board, "does it profit to gain Presi'
dent and lose the county commits
sioner?'
A Washington county man claims the
championship belt because he husked
sixty bushels of corn in five hours one
day last week.
Ed Howe's idea Of we'll trained wife
Is one who always laughs ut her hus-
bands Jokes, no matter how often she
has heard them.
The Kansas newspapers demand that
the election laws be changed 30 that
men can vote their ticket straight and
that the tickets be counted as they are
voted,
A certain club in this city, which is
composed of young ladies, has been Or
ganized eleven weeks, and in that Time
has changed its bylaws and constitu-
ton just ten times One week they
failed to have meeting. hutchinson
News.
An Arkansas city girl who lost a peck
Of peanuts on the election has had her
revenge. A provision Of the wager was
that the winner had to eat them all at
one sitting.
The general conference OF Mennon-
ties at Alexanderwohl closed Its SEES
sion last week. Delegates were pres
emit from all portions of the United
States and the attendance was very
large. A large delegation drove from
Bethel college ut this place in the big
band wagon. Sixty churches were
represented with 1856 delegates.
m ton KanSan.
lt Burlingame is Boosting OF lady
oil who is the daughter Of King, the wife
he Of Lord and the mother OF an Earl
e. these being the names of her father,
I'd husband and son.
oil Mention has frequently been made OF
nd The fact that Mrs. Jerry Simpson is an
al invalid, but the story of how she came
a. to lose her health has never been told.
During the terrible winter of 1885
Jerry was engaged in the cattle busi-
ness in Barber county. Along with
many Of his neighbor ranchers lie lost
the greater portion of his herd in the
- billiards. which came so frequently
VI that wear, and pretty much all he saved
TO we're the hides of the frozen animals.
he IN the work Of skinning these frozen
lr- animals Mrs. Simpson assisted her hus-
ar band. and more than once that winter
or the spent hours out in the cold and
bo snow. The exposure resulted in an
~ illness from which the brave little wo-
-, man has never entirely recovered. TX.
- Q. journal.
d. When the official returns have been
Ir- complied It will be discovered that
re Jerry Botkin has received q greater
re majority than any other candidate on
ed the Populist state ticket. This is &C.
Irs counted for by the fact that he was in
~ dorsed by one Of the Prohibition state
~. conventions,
ilS Squire Winslow told his wife the
re- other day that he would make her
he nice present as he was to marry 9
rs, couple in the evening and she should
he have the fee. The squire performed
he the ceremony as only the King O.
Padonia knows how. Then he received
a large cabbage head for his pay
Brown County World.
Twenty years ago ]. w. Gleed, nov
general attorney for the Frisco rail
IT. road, went broke in Russell county
int and at Bunker Hill was arrested for |
oh tramp. .rhe marshal let him go upor
IA a promise to make tracks out of town
% Mr.. Gleed walked from Russell Il
H. Lawrence, sleeping in house onll
90 three times on the trip. He was to-
W. proud to ask help, and lived on one
meal day, for which he paid by doing
odd jobs.-Kansas City Times
100 Nellie PETER, daughter of Senate
or PETER, is engaged TO be married to J
ty s. McIlhenny, superintendent OF tn
Washington gas company.