Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-07-31

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Water has been secured for the CITY
for the past few days by means of lay
ing pipe from the pumping station
to the we'll which cayed in recently.
1t isn't likely that the water viii hold
out long, but it serves for temporary
supply and the quality of the water
is far better thana any we have had FOL
long time.
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Mrs. ]. F. Rambo was made happy
Tuesday morning by the arrival of
her brother, +. w. Hickok, from Hon
olulu. He was a delegate to the Ep-
worth League convention held at San
Francisco last week and came on to
Kansas to visit with his sister in this
city. He will also visit his parents
in Nebraska and return home about
Sept. 1.
A. A. Green, who is 76 years old,
challenges any one as old as he is to a
foot race, to run a distance of so rods,
or to walk $50 rods, for purse of $40,
race to come off on the last day of the
jubilee. One half of all side money
put up to go to the winner of the race.
Mr.. Green's challenge includes either
one or both of the above races. Logan
Republican.
Ollie Gates and wife, of Beaver
township, were in the city yesterday.
Ollie thinks Providence is against him
this year as the big rain of Saturday
missed him entirely, but rained hard
just east and west of his place. He
says the corn in his vicinity is doing
remarkably well however, considering
that no rain ofany consequence has
fallen since April.
A. F. Walker, Robert Thomas and
John Decker, three prominent citizens
and business men of Prairie View,
were in Logan Tuesday and made this
office pleasant call. Mr.. Walker is
postmaster at Prairie View and also
handles grain, live stock and farm i'm
plementS. Mr.. Decker is in the mer-
camille business and Mr.. Thomas has
a fine stock farm adjoining the town
and is one of the Oldest settlers of the
place. July %.
The big drawing for the govern
ment land in Oklahoma began Mon
day. The first name drawn from the
big box for the Lawton district was
James r. Wood, of Weatherford, Ok;
the second name was that of woman,
Matte r. Beals, of Wichita, Kans.
These two will choose sections ad join
Lawton townSite, valued at about $40,
600 each. In the Ell Reno district
Stephen A. Holcomb, of Paul's Val
ley, I. T. and Leonard Lamb, of Au-
guSta, Ok, were the first two drawn.
Supt. Thomas tells a good joke on
some of the Prairie View people.
Last Sunday evening the government
fish commissioner sent some fish to
Prairie View to stock some ponds IN
that vicinity. Some of the citizens
heard the fish were to arrive on that
train and they lined up about fifty
strong to see the great strings of fish.
1t was amusing to see their looks of
when a few little cans
containing the spawn we're set off on
the platform. They enjoyed the joke
though as well as anybody.
An old man from the country would
not believe that he could hear his
wife talk distance of fifteen miles by
telephone. His wife went to neigh
boring city one day and the old man
went to satisfy himself by experiment
with the telephone. He went to the
telephone exchange Office and told
them he wanted to talk to his wife.
They told him how to operate the
phone and the old gentleman walked
bravely up and exclaimed Hello Jane
At that instant lightning struck the
telephone wire and knocked the old
gentleman down, and as he scrambled
to his feet excitedly cried, That's
Jane, by gosh. lex.
It's happened at last! The people
of our sister town, Almena, have been
long expecting to get the Rock Island
division, and now since the recent
cave in of our new well they have &C
tual1y been getting the ground ready.
And well they may for the removal
has begun. Dempsey Smith. ir., who
cnnrot G11nda " in this oitu bag Lnn I'd