Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-02-19
:. COUNTY NEWS "
Walnut.

def6 we are again. MI. EuIGOE. OO
not think however. that we are snow
ed in or our roads rendered impaSs-
able. We have few eminences or
small hills that prelude above the
snow drifts.
There is just enough wheat in this
| township TO make our farmers feel
mighty good on account of the snow
blanket which now hides the modesty
of the earth.
The way the price of seed corn is
soaring will make some of our corn
raiSerS wish when planting time comes
that some of their land had wheat on
it.
A fool cow belonging to Rob Fogle-
man got on the wrong side of his COW
shed 1.-THE top side) and in attempt
ing to adjust herself TO normal con-
dition of affairs, lost her equilibrium,
and being unable to find it again, the
shock was SO great to her that she
never recovered. Rob has her hide
and it makes him one less critter to
pump water for-no loss without some
gain.
Chas. Haley'S sale of thoroughbred
stock was we'll attended and things
sold we'll, considering.
Walnut school with Miss Bertha
Hickman as teacher makes start
with some thirty volumes. These
libraries are the next best thing to
consolidation for the country schools.
Say, "Goode Friend" we are glad
to hear you indorSe what we said
about paying the preacher; another
friend patted US on the back for what
we wrote about "big babies" going
out in time of meeting, and our Lo-
gan friend spilled a little oil on our
troubled waters" that we're ruffied
by those whom our first dig scratch
ed. Say, we appreciate sympathy for
we have been jumped upon and tramp
ed so hard for what we have written,
that word of commentator is like
court plaster to sore, holding our
shattered feelings together.
Strange, isn't it, how little item
in a paper which mentions no names
will happen to stir up the very person
that the writer has in mind?
It is reported that Fred Borrell has
sold his fodder that he raised on his
old homestead last summer. He had
the most good feed we ever saw raised
on one quarter section of land. There
was scarcely room to shock it on the
ground where it grew.
Clyde BorreI went to Oklahoma to
see about his government claim. His
private claim here says he got through
alright for she heard from him.
Mrs. Jno. McKown visited with
Mrs. Ira White last Friday. They
had good time for neither one of the
old men were hanging around even at
dinner time. No one there but them
and the babies.
The McKown boys and Rob Alex
ander felled a cottonwood on the
Walter Faubion'S place that was IA
feet in diameter. Say, that sounds
too big for this country. Let's say a
feet in circumference and not risk
our reputation for truthfulness.
Mandus Mende is like unto Job of
old in one respect. He hath been
turned over unto the power of the
one who afflicted mankind with sore
boils. We believe that it will take
more than boils, yea, even than
carbuncle to divert Mandus from the
paths Of right and socialism; but the
| present condition worketh a great
hardship for his wife cause splitting
wood, carrying water, extracting the
tactical fluid from the kline, and
throwing nouriShment to the swine,
verify all this and much more falleth
to her unhappy lot.
The church social held at Spring
Greek for the benefit of the benevo-
lences Of the Phillipsburg circuit of
the NJ. E. meetin' house, Melted the
snug sum Of S17.O0.
Long have we searched and delved
to find high-sounding non-de-plume.
| We have pored over volumes OF an
Gent and forgotten love, looking for
it but found nothing suitable to the
dignity of the average country cor
respondent that has not already been
appropriated. We thought of assum-
ing Herodotus, Diogenes, or Pericles,
or MagiSter, Discipulus, Serious, or
Virgil, but it was left for the goode
reverned to give US name which
just fills the bill. So hereafter we
are yours truly, THE SQUIRE.