Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-07-13
County News,
Picked up by our Correspondents
and CLEANED from the County
Exchanges.


We have been silent SO long that
We feel almost ashamed to try to send
in the news from this place again.
But for the fact that we still have
wide awake, prosperous town strug-
Cling for recognition, we would give
up the business and go fishing.
Speed has decided to celebrate the
4th of July IN 1900. Everybody cor
daily invited to come and bring their
friends. Don't forget the date!
The skImming station Is doing
fine business. The Jensen Creamery
Go. of Beloit, the company operating
the station at this point, say their
expectations have been more than re-
allied and have classed this one
among their best paying stations.
Miss Lydia Staples is making her
home with DR. Chapman's family and
has taken up the study of pharmacy
in connection with day clerkship at
the Doctors drug store. Miss s says
she intends following the practice of
pharmacy for a livllhood as it is her
choice to become regular Knight of
the drug frateri.y.
The prospect for large corn crop
was never better than it is now in this
part of the county. The wheat is
good this year and most of it har-
vested; rye and barley are both ex-
cellent. so that some prosperity is
bound to strike Us at this place, and
we are not like the people who do
not appreciate such things. Keep
your eye on Speed and mark its
growth and progress which is bound
to come in the near future, for we
lave the best location and all the
natural resources for making the
largest town in Phillips county.
DR. Chapman lost control of his
temper the other day and shot Mr.
Ssnford's dog for biting his child
After the doctor became cool enough
to examine the child he found the
dog had done no serious injury. Then
he felt sorry for his rash act and still
feels so ashamed of that style of do
ing business that he would like the
loan of kicking machine for few
days. IF any reader owns machine
he can place the doctor under lasting
obligations to him by sending the
machine direct to Speed without
delay.
We hear rumors Of an up-to- date
general store coming to Speed in a
very short time. We are unable to
give the number of business men that
have visited this town in the past go
days for the purpose of locating and
each one has left thoroughly con-
WINGED that this place has the best
opening for store with a five or SIX
thousand dollar stock of goods of any
town in western Kansas, snd their
only reason for not locating has been
because Of their not desiring to build
a business house. Neither can one
buy out business here which Is evil
dence that this is the right place to
locate. Someone is going to reap
harvest in a business location here
before long. The skimming station
turns loose between $500 and $500 at
this place each month in cash among
the farmers who have got to spend
that amount with someone for the
necessaries of life, and someone is
going to gather that amount in, and
this represents a very small per cent
of the resources of this place. We
do not wish it understood from the
above that we have no merchants or
goods at this place. Those who are
business here are prospecting. but We
hsvn't the variety nor the facilities
for holding what trade belongs and
would come to This place if We could
handle their business as well here as
at other towns.
The postoffce at this place has
been raised to a money order Office
by the government; another evidence
of Speeds progress.
DR. Chapman has done away with
the old coal oil lamps in his store and
put in some of the new gasoline lamps
sold BY e o King & Go. which makes
light equal to electricity without
much expense after the lamps are
GO secured.