Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-07-21

lipsburg today.
j. M. RlCkey has moved his Office
to over the postofiicp.
Smith Center has fixed it's rate
for school levy at twenty mills.
Mrs. O, B. Lane goes to Omaha
Saturday to attend the wedding Of a
brother.
-Elwood Douglass was at Colby
yesterday with view to purchasing
a gasoline engine.
DIR. Robertson is back for a day
or two. He seems to be we'll pleased
with his new location at Cedarvllle.
Prof. Coffmsn has been called to
Emporia by the severe sickness of his
father, who is not expected to live.
"A soldiers reunion will be held
at Republican City on August 49, DR..
Wallace Of this city will be one of the
speakers.
j. B. Woods has rented M. Beck
ley's house, and has brought Joshua
Adee in for treatment by our local
physicians.
Last Sunday Mrs Cannon's stock
of millinery at Belleville was destroy.
ed by fire, smoke and water Loss
covered by insurance.
Lewis Rhoads has sued the Rock
Island Railway Company for $4,000
for personal damages received by him
while in the employ Of the company.
William Chestnut of Rushville
was arrested up complaint OF Will
lam Pruett, charged with disorderly
conduct. He is now in jail awaiting
trial.
Last week lamp OF Dsmpsy
Smiths exploded and set the room
on fire. Early discovery and quick
work stopped serious coDAagratlon
with but little loss.
Will Peck came to town Saturday
and took home with him bran new
buggy, and as it was the first one he
ever owned he is very much pleased
with the way it rides.
i. FL. Mcdowell was down in the
Harrington district this week, and
comes home well pleased with this
part OF Kansas, as corn is very poor
in some sections he visited.
The ice cream social at the court
yard, Friday night was attended by
a crowd that wiped the pIatters clean
and left behind q nice sum of
money for the hospital store.
Come to the Stockton Normal
School at the opening Sept. IL, 1898.
Your car fare paid both ways, il we
do not do as we say. Address, Stock
ton Normal Co. Stockton, Kan.
New wheat IS coming to market
The first sold for So cents, the price
however going down to 81 cents on
Saturday. The quality is good, and
the yield from twenty to thirty bush.
els to the acre.
The central committee Of the
Peoples party held a meeting in this
city Tuesday and fixed on Tuesday,
Aug. 9th as the date of the county
convention. The call for tho convsn-
ton is published elsewhere.
There will be a grove meeting in
J. M.Rumbaugh'S grove near Plum.
mer school house, commencing on
August 10Th at 8 o'clock P. M, and
lasting over the 18th, by Ed. Slack.
Every body is cordially invited.
The Presiding Elder, Rev. L. D. |
Housed of Beloit, Kan, desires to |
meet the members Of the NJ. E. Church |
of this city at the Methodist church |
next Saturday at s p. m. Important
business demands your presence.
The Missouri Pacific has pur-
chashed the Central Branch, which it
has been operating under lease, from
Atchison to Waterville, and in all
probability will after January become
the owner of the balance of the lines.
Among the visitors at the SSsoc-
lation is one who is we'll known here,
Rev. o. L. Smith Of Wellington. He
looks as though ministerial life agreed
with him and is having a hearty re-