Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1903-10-08

Lawrence mas ntty clllZeHS Whos\
wealth. exceeds $4,000 each, thus
proving the error of the assumption
that Mr.. Bowersock had all of the
real and personal property OF that
town cornered.
During the month of September the
Kansas wind blew a total of 1854
miles, according to DR.. Shows obser-
vations. This is 2,34S miles below
normal. The average wind was a
fraction over ten miles an hour.
Superintendent DayhOff estimates
that ia schools in Kansas are closed
because there are no teachers avail
able. Either the Normal schools
should increase their output or the
new truancy law will became dead
letter.
Since 1900 there has been a gain o..
1906 in the number of state banks
During that time there have been only
three failures. But twenty-one banks
have gone into voluntary liquidation
because they were full of money and
nobody wanted to borrow.
An Illinois man has arisen TO die
pute Colonel D. R. Anthony's title as
dean of the newspaper profession in
the United States. Colonel Anthony
has been the editor and publisher OF
a newspaper continuously for more
than fifty years. William Osman, OF
the Ottawa, Ill.,. Free Trader, is the
claimant. and he was discovered by
William f. Curtis, the Chicago CORE
spondent. Mr. Osman is "a and has
been the editor OF the Free Trader
almost continuously since the first OF
August. 1910. period of more than
sixty.three years. Even now he goes
to the office daily and does his full
share of the work.
According to Billy Morgan the feel
ing between Bulgaria and Turkey can
only be understood by those who UNI
derstand the feeling which exists be-
tween Garden City and Dodge City.
Another deplorable feature of the
open gambling in Kansas City, Kan
sas. is that it is the home of j. X.
Cubbison, the author of the law OF
1895 which makes gambling felony in
Kansas.
The silt deposited by the flood has
greatly enriched the land in the Kaw
valley and the tributary valleys.
Nevertheless, the farmers much pre-
fer to buy less violent fertilizers and
pay for them.
The newest style in writing paper,
which comes in sheets about a foot
long and three inches wide, has reach
ed Fredonia, and John Gilmore says:
1T is now possible to write long
letter with few words"
Kansas Wesleyan university of Sa
lima is able to turn up its nose at
Baker Washburn and the other de-
nominational colleges. 1t received
from Cove county this week the skele'
ton OF a xiphactinus, fourteen feet in
length.
w. J. Black w. A. L. Thompson
and other Topeka men who are drill
ing for petroleum in Ellis county have
encountered eight varieties of water
in going down $50 feet, including salt
water, artesian water, soda water
boiled water, rain water settler and
Hunyad.
The suits against the Coal trust
appear to have been dropped as ali
ruptly as they were begun.
A girl in Great Bend INDUCED in
lamentations last week because she
could not attend the state fair in
Hutchinson. She said she Just loved
to be in a big city
It has become fashionable in Me
Pherson county to say cannot in
stead of cant" The Lindsborg
Record affirms, however. that better
than either one is to learn to say
can"
A woman in Ruch county received
a letter of 264 pages a few days ago
which manifestly must have been an
"open letter" intended for one of the
La Crosse papers. and probably from
a Christian Scientist.
Topeka has no reason to blush this
season for the record of its only con
tribution to the National league. Dick
Cooley. the center fielder for Boston
Charles S. Gleed of Topeka says he
was offered the United States senator
ship in 1901, and refused it. He does
not explain which reporter offered il
to him.
The Preston correspondent for the
Pratt Republican relates that at a
dance recently in his neighborhood a
mother whispered to her daughter: "A
little more animation, Evangeline,'
when the daughter replied: why. dc
you think. mother, am going to shake
out my bangs for an old married
man."
Sheriff Roodhouse Of Fort Scott Il
entitled to three cheers. He received
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