Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1903-05-07
Kansas Notes

When a Missouri Paelfic train ap-
proaches La Crosse the brakeman
calls out, Eve are now entering the
great wheat belt of Kansas"
Cove county is proud of the fact thai
its UNPAID debt is 5000, the smallest
of any county.
According to a local item in the
salina Union THE Zetagatheans,
whoever they are, gave an open door
program" whatever that is, "at the
Wesleyan" wherever that is.
A Missourian who has chewed Navy
plug all his life was in Atchison last
week and man offered him chew of
finecut. He spurned 1t. THAT stuff"
he declared sis fit only for women and
children"
An Oklahoma City poet sends some
stanzas entitled "The Kansas Nile" to
the Wichita Eagle, in which truth suf-
fers for the sake of sentiment. Refer
ring to the Arkansas river he sings.
Its waters are sometimes clear as
dew"
An old Methodist in Atchison was
prevailed upon, the Globe says, to 30
to the theater recently. He greatly
approved of particularly heroic
speech by the leading man and knew
OF but one way to express his approval
AT the close of a thrilling sentence,
the Methodist shouted Amen"
Esther Death of Blue Rapids mar
ried Willis Ray Lea recently. The
event has occasioned a number of
pleasantries the most popular Of
which is that the groom literally
courted Death"
A Topeka girl explained to friend
from the country that the initials A.
D. T. on the messenger boys caps
stand for "a Dry Town"
The Topeka BARRIERS have decided to
advance the price of shaves to fifteen
cents, ION account of the high price
of soap and other edibles"
The Nebraska, Kansas & Gulf rail,
road elected its first board of direc-
tors in Salina last week, and expects
to have a charter obtained and its an
nual passes in circulation in a few
weeks.
Park college has defeated Washburn
in a debate on the subject, Resolved,
That Strikes Are, On the Whole, Bene-
ficial." Washburn had the affirma-
tive, and the Strikers are left in an
embarrassing plight.
Governor Bailey has appointed Pan
coast Kidder of Topeka to his military
staff with the rank of captain of en-
gineers. He is an insurance man who
will look well in $500 worth of uni
form.
Mcpherson has been chosen for the
state encampment of the G. A. r. next
month
There has been so much inebriety
and bibulous conviviality in Holton
lately that one writer calls the town,
THE land of the spree and the home
of the grave"
The mother who leaves the bottle Of
carbolic acid within the baby's reach
was heard from in Osawatomie last
week; but this time the little one may
recover.
A Franklin county woman who was
married in 1916 brought suit for di-
vorce. She is past rs, and has been
married ffty-seyen years. 1t is hoped
it is only a lovers quarrel.
Pardon day." on the fifteenth of
each month, has been abolished by
Governor Bailey. Sad news for the
985 innocent convicts at Lansing.
Senator f. Dumont Smith of Kinsley
lectured on words" in Wichita a few
nights ago. He is for spelling reform,
and in advocating it in his lecture, said
he knew of only one argument in favor
of the old way and that was given by
an English bishop who declared that
the present method of spelling helped
the churches According to the bishop:
by the time you can make a boy
believe that Through spells
through that though spells
though, and tough spells tough
you can make him believe anything"
The Alrich family, of Cawker City,
protests because the printers always
make the name read Aldrlch. The
name, which Is pronounced All-rich,
carries with it an impression of prom
inence."
Maud Downey, on trial in Topeka
for grand larceny, testified that her
husband made her steal. A man who
is too lazy to do his own stealing
should not be tolerated in any COM
munity.
SaliEa is finding its Gamewell fire
alarm system a costly plaything 1t
has been out of repair for some time
and the council has hired an expert
electrician to find out what's the mat
ter with 1t.
The man who stabbed Pool Grim
stead in Wathena was sentenced to
two years in the penitentiary. 1t may
yet become safe for an editor to live
in Doniphan county.
According to Mankato paper, at
looks like some live, energetic man