Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-07-13

/ We have a number of customers
that want farms with % to 40 acres
of alfalfa now growing. If you have
such farm for sale call at the office
of J. o. Lowe s. Sons, north side of
the square and they will dispose of it
for you..
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Green went
out to COLORADO the first of the week.
Mrs. Green went from there to Cali
fornia to spend the summer. Walter
spent few days in the Springs and
returned home yesterday. He says it
is much cooler and more pleasant in
the Springs than here.
Under Sheriff Harry. White left
Thursday night for a weeks visit to
Atchison, Hiawatha and other points
in northeast Kansas. His mother
lives at HiaV7atha, and of course he
will go see her first. Harry has been
pretty busy for a good while and de-
serves little rest and recuperation.
While threshing wheat for Mr..
Chelf last Wednesday Elmer Moore
was overcome with heat and came
near dying. Drs. Haggard and Wal
lace were summoned and they soon
had him on the improve The case
was a very severe one, a close call, and
it will doubtless be some weeks before
he fully RECEIVERS.
The Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany of New York with upwards of
1925, 100000 assets is SO years old, and
the largest monied Institution in the
! world, issues all the up to date poll
cies furnishing absolute protection
and good investment. Call and see
R. A. Porter, special agt., Phillips
county for information.
DR.. Loo B. Van FosSen, of Kansas
City, Mo-, wishes to inform the people
that she will remain in the city of
Phi1lipsburg until the first of August
and will be glad to see any one who
is sick. The doctor makes speciality
of diseases of women, but treats all
other diseases. Her Office is: room q,
second floor, Hotel Sanderson.
The commissioners in their session
of Wednesday afternoon turned Gus
Stockman loose on condition that he
enter into an agreement not to engage
in the business of selling intoxicantS
in the county for a period of three
years. Gus had been in the jail al
most six months, and he was the last
one of the violators of the prohibitory
law to be liberated.
The county commissioners were at
work at the court house Monday even
ing when County Clerk Thiel excused
himself and went home giving the
commissioners instructions to lock
the door when they come out. When
they got ready to adjourn they could
not find the keys, SO Commissioners
Blue and Cotherman, rather than
leave the Office unlocked over night,
slept in the Office all night.-CoIby
Free Press.
A Mrs. DR.. G. NJ. Alt, of Baltimore,
Ohio, died on the train between
Bellevil1e and this city early yester-
day morning. They telegraphed ahead
and secured Undertaken Woods to
take charge of the body and prepare
it for burial. Mrs. Alt was suffering
from consumption and her husband
: was taking her to Denver for her
] health. With the assistance of Mr..
( Tucker, Mr.. Woods embalmbed the
body and it was sent back to their
Il n
B. F. Parsons, the Phillips county
boarder known as Jack Rabbit, +" who
was released from Jail few days age
I by the commissioners on condition
that he leave the county, violated his
agreement and settled down at Pra.
n irie View again. So Sheriff Yerton
+ went up Wednesday, secured the de-
linquent, brought him back and 1odg
ed him in jail again. Parsons pleaded
It that he went to Prairie View only tt
IS pack up his goods, therefore the com
d misSiOnerS turned him loose again
r He may possibly leave this time.
e The county commissioners refused
,. to allow County Health afieer Fishel
IS any more than $500 for his services il
the smallpox cases last winter. SO TIL
: doctor proposes to bring suit for tn
= amount of bis contract which was TO
: SIS per day, amounting to somethin;
? like s., 400 or 81, 500. The commission
= ers claim the contract was for limit
ed number Of DAYS walls the aacta
aaRtepds that Il covered the entir
= period of the epidemic. He has EN-
pl0Fed Hon. G. A. Lewis and suit vii
prQbably be commenced u 8 fen days