Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-05-14
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LOCAL MENTION
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Best -four at Feed Mill $500 cwt.
See TackwelI before ordering your
wall paper.
Bran and shorts at the Feed Mill
$1.2O cwt.
EEr. and Mrs. G. A. Lewis are in
Topeka visiting friends this week.
Frank Daggett is helping out at
Reynolds & Reads for few days.
If you want good job get Tack
well the painter and paper hanger.
j. n. Hickey was doing some in
surance business in the vicinity of
Prairie View Monday.
Another good shower of rain fell
Monday evening to encourage the
farmers for week or two longer.
Mrs. c. Tadlock leaves tomorrow
for Plover, Iowa. where she will spend
the summer visiting with a daughter.
The Dispatch has removed it old
engine and put in a gasoline engine.
That was the proper thing to do for
safety.
Archie Viers and wife are enjoying
visit from Mr.. Vier's mother who
came down from Norton Monday
morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Shelton came
over from Long Island last Sunday
for few days visit with their daugh-
! ter, Mrs. Melvin Spaulding.
Services at the Methodist church
next Sunday as usual. Sunday school
at 10 a. M, preaching at II, and Juni-
or League at p. m. and preaching at
p. m.
R. f. Howard, representing the To
peka Advocate, was in the city Tues
+, day looking up the interests of his
paper. This Office acknowledges a
pleasant call.
Adrian Gephart has secured posi-
tion with j. L-McCormick & Co. to
assist in their store. Adrian is a
bright boy and will doubtless make
an excellent clerk.
Newton Bracken left yesterday
morning for Oklahoma where he goes
to hold down his claim. He thinks
he has one OF the finest farms in that
of the country and it will be well
worth his time to go and prove up on
it.
J. D. Couch will pay $500 per dozen
for broilers. This is good price for
chickens and Mr.. Couch wants all he
can get at the above price. Don't
keep your chickens until they get
aged. Take them to Couch and get
the cash.
C. r. Robbins was up Tuesday and
tells US that oil and gas have been
found in well on his place. at Aledo.
He bored 195 feet. A company is
being organized to go deeper and see
whether there is oil or gas in paying
quantities.
Miss Lille Allen and Mrs. Lydia
O'Brien, of Agra, two of the very
popular teachers of the county were
brief callers at this Office Monday,
Miss Allen expects to spend the sum-
mer with friends at Abilene, and
ordered her Herald sent to that place.
The Methodist Ministerial Associ-
alton of the Norton District convenes
here on the 10Th This meeting will
doubtless be a large one in numbers.
1t has been some time since this city
had meeting of this kind, our To-
cation being in the extreme eastern
end of the district. Let everybody
attend.
! John Hahnenkratt returned the
latter =. e of last week from a two
or three weeks trip through the north
eastern part of the state. While out
he visited his son Henry, at Washing
ton and son-in-law Lee French at
Holton. Both are doing we'll. He
says it is as dry there as here and in
the counties between it was much
dryer.
This paper is in receipt of the
: twenty-third annual announcement
of the Normal Institute of Phillips
county. Superintendent Thomas viii
conduct, while the instructors will be
F. H. Baker, W. r. Arthur, Ida Case
and Ollie Thomas. The corps of in
structors is a good one and ought tC
give Mr.. Thomas a first class normal.
, it begins Monday June 2, 1902
e At the Peoples Party caucus hello
. in the courthouse Saturday afternoon
William Kingery was elected chair
man and Cowden Moore secretary
The following were chosen delegate;
and alternates to the county conven
tion: Delegates, Cowden Moore
8 Michael Rooney, John Mitchell, J. NJ
Tadlock. VIM. Kingery, E. o. Order
: alternates, Elliot Clark, J. W. Ed
: wards, Ernest Blanchard,J. r. Break
ey. Jacob Wagner, G, NJ. Arnold.