Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-03-23


this place is making arrangements to
come back and dwell with the good
people OF Speed again after making
his home temporarily during the past
year in and near Logan. We welcome
him back.
Herman Gebers is painting his no.
tel and livery stable which will ma
terially add to the appearance Of that
part Of town,
We are informed that there will be
a picnic at this place the 22nd Of next
August, Every body invited TO come.
DR. Chapman informs US that after
carefully examining Charley Summers
upper lip with a powerful microscope,
he is enabled to say positively that
there are ten whlskers on a side in
stead of nine as stated by the Frank
lin Bros. when they showed here.
q g Ford has added feed grinder
TO his blacksmith chop
If there is anyone IN the Meyers
nelghborhood aiming to get married
this week they failed to notify Us Of
fact in time to get it into our items
for publication this week.
The young people had a very en-
ioyable time at dance they were to
have at the town hall at this place
last Friday night We was the only
one WHO attended The best of order
WAS maintained through the entire
night. There were times when you
could have heard PIN drop when
the who'd would quit blowlng) We
left we'll pleased having acquitted
ourseIf to the satisfaction of the en-.
tire crowd Bs q dancer of no mean
ability,
Ye scribe and his better half .sited
Emmett Meyers and his estlmable
wife last Sunday MIR Meyer III aim
ing to farm the coming season on
more extensive scale than has been
his custom in the past. Wheat was
never looking better in that section
and Mr. Meyers said he knew of no
wheat that had been injured in the
least by the severe cold weather of the
past.
Master Elmer jackson was taken
quite sick Sunday with enterslgia,
nut was improving under treatment
The last report We had.
We understand Mr. Jones from
near Marvin has moved on the Jonas
smith farm recently vacated by Mr.
John Pool and owned at present by
! M mnn 10 Marvin
We ne rltn!y Informed tha Or
Is.n poctlee are umlng 10 do q title
III our village on oocr-
ilous 'ney wonid dsem profitable. W.
nav Il 7'd th4 .uch trac'lotsls like.
" ,eT 4u IDEAS us f. n. offend
~, # 'uca 1, tu' tac's W. hope we
D ". m'Sluf,rm,d LqlJr Gao
Or legaay oolalued for all ,eglMmb't
purposes in our town and lnebrit v
and boot.legging should be set down
IN by every respectable citizen and
we believe it will.
DR.. Olark's family has moved onto
the farm recently owned by Henry
BIackman. The place will be reftted
and improved by the present occu-
pants with the intention of making it
,helr permanent home. We welcome
cordially all such good people to
locate with or near us
Our town is on the verge of big
boom aud now is the time to locate IN
business at ibis place Watch our
items, We are goidg to tell you all
ato2t it IN the HERALD which is fast
becoming The Paper around Speed,
every copy that comes to this place
ls read and reread by so many that it
is worn out before the Dext ,ssue
reaches us
We ststed IN q previous srtic g in
this paper that we did not raise
enough wheat around Speed to inter-
a cat, We are happy to say thtt we
lacked information on that ONT.
There has been large acreage 'own
and ia IN the hest of condition, but
The corn acreage will, regardless Of
the wheat sown, be larger than ever
before. The farmers around this
place this season, we are beginning to
shake some of the moss of 70 ,mer
years # our backs aud heglnnirg TO
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