Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1903-10-22
Kansas Notes

tions for the papers.
This seasons broom corn crop in
Central Kansas was almost a total
failure, but what was saved finds an
eager market at 500 ton.
Public ownership of the board of ed
ucation is likely to be the paramount
issue at the next municipal election in
Kansas City, Kas.
Two Salina young men who have in
vented an airship are having some
difficulty in deciding what to do with
the $780, prize offered by the St.
Louis exposition.
Coal mining operations are tc be
resumed in Jewell county next week,
and the community for miles around
is glad. A coal mine is thing which
the railroads are unable to confiscate
''in transit"
There seems to be no reason why
school teachers should continue to
worry along in Kansas on an average
salary of $36 month when the insular
bureau wants $50 teachers to go to
Manila at once, at 5000 and $1,000 a
year.
Ten years ago ]. H. Todd, then labor
commissioner under Lewelling, COM
piled large report of 600 pages to
prove that farming in Kansas was I'M
profitable. Since then Mr.. Todd has
disappeared which he should have
done before compiling that report
A young woman aiighted from the
katy" train at LaCygne few morn
ings ago, and after the train had gone
she asked the station agent where she
could get a train west for Horton,
Kas. He told her she should have re-
manned on the Flyer" and changed
cars at Kansas City. why, isn't this
Kansas City," the young lady inno-
Gently replied. THE brakeman came
through the train calling X. c." The
young lady had mistaken La Cygne"
for *. c." She was given a pass to
Kansas City and left on the afternoon
train.
Medicine Lodge makes the boast
that it is the only town anywhere
along the kerosene circuit where the
opera house stairs are kept clean. 2
The ben Hur" company stopped in
Abilene several hours on it's way to
Denver, and an enterprising man,
local paper says, entertained a few of
his friends at "box party" on top of
box car.
Coffey county's courthouse will soon
be defended by Spanish cannon
placed in the front yard, although
there is nothing in the recent achieve
ments of Spanish cannon TO warrant
any sense OF increased security.
Atchison is able to "claim" B. F.
Winchell, the new third vice president
of the Rock Island system at $4,000
a year. Back in 1875 he was the chief
clerk in the Missouri Pacific's passen-
ger department there.
General ]. W. F. Hughes of Topeka,
the fearless and respondent leader of
the Kansas National guard, feels that
he has not lived his forty-some years
in vain. He will command brigade
at the army maneuvers at Fort
Riley.
A couple of years ago BILLY" Nor.
gan built new home in Hutchinson.
He provided the funds and let Mrs.
Morgan arrange the plans and details
to suit herself. Deacon House tells
this story: Three months or so af-
ter they had moved into the new
house Bill went rushing into the liv-
ing room one evening My dear he
said to his wife, L wish you'd come
out and show me where the back
stairs are; | want to take some things
ND that way The location of the
back stairs having been pointed out to
him. things moved along smoothly for
three or four months longer. Then,
one day, he went home to dinner, APP
parently much perturbed Say he
said to Mrs. Morgan as they sat down,
have we a cellar under our house?
Mrs. Smith asked me to-day and l
had to tell her that didn't know" 2
The Clay Center young man who
made run of POP consecutive billiards
must be eligible to start out as a pro-
fesslonal nurse.
Six Kansas counties-Greeley, Nor
ton, Stevens, Stanton, Haskell and
Grant-are without banks. But the in
habitants of those counties have cat
tie on a thousand hills, which suits
them just as well, and is fully as Sc
cure.
A flour mill in Manhattan sent sew
eral carloads of flour to Minneapolis,
Mimi, last week, right while its press
agent was watching.
Assurance is given, although some
what needlessly, that the Salina wo-
man who lost a chatelaine containing
upwards of 500 is prominent"
George A. Clark takes a hopefu
view of Chancellor Strong's school OF
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