Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1903-09-10
Kansas Notes

sensational headline on the first page
of the Newton Kansan-Republican.
Fort Scott has need of Don't Do
That club. 1t is to vote soon on the
proposition for public ownership of
water works.
The corn reports are all soflattering
that Atchison puts in all its spare time
regreting that it decided in an evil
moment to have no Corn carnival this
year.
This is the way the Hutchinson News
expresses it: There are 800 places
in Kansas which have paid revenue to
Uncle Sam to violate the state pro-
hibitory law"
DR.. Shows report shows there were
ten foggy mornings during August in
Lawrence. This is one of the penal
ties OF being situated near great body
of water.
Sam Forsha, the Reno county polti.
clan and wheat king" has bought the
biggest pillow ever brought into Kan.
Sas. 1t is twenty-four horse power, and
turns sixteen burrows at a time.
There's no reason why all the Kan
sas girls should not be at the height
of the fashion in the matter of mil.
linery. Mrs. Herman Oelrichs of New
York is wearing sunflowers on her
toques.
george w. Martin, who is writing a
history of the dead towns" of Kan.
las, may have some difficulty in de.
riding just where to draw the line.
There are so many Kansas towns that
are dead, but won't admit it.
Speaking of Twigg, the maniac who
look several shots at the Winfield band
and killed nine persons, the Dodge
City Globe-Republican remarks: 1--WE
ran't afford to waste our ammunition
IN bandmen until we get the orators
killed Of"
Haskell county has a couple of pris'
pners in its Jail for the first time in
dozen years, They are horsethieves
from the Indian territory.
Hoisngton has quit trying to sub.
due Strong Drink entirely, and is now
engaged in trying to induce the gin
mills to close at II p. m.
l.. NJ. Crawford, who has much to
answer for, has a splendid chance to
square himself by refusing to bill Car.
rie Nations company for the Kerosene
circuit.
A Clay Center man is supposed to
have inherited $4,000 estate in
England, but it is noticed that the
newspapers know lot more about
it than the local bankers.
Kansas is making more progress
than Missouri in some ways. For in.
stance, a Chanute man was sent to
jail for ten days and fined so for
stealing half dozen eggs.
The Claflin Clarion is going to lot
of superfluous trouble by figuring out
how much this years wheat crop was
worth to "every man, woman an5
child in Barton county"
For several seasons the women have
been wearing birds on their hats. This
fall, according to Deacon House, who
has seen the new styles, the women
are going to wear hats on their birds.
An Elk county man who sent an i'm.
proper letter through the mails finds
himself in serious trouble. Uncle Sam
enforce5 the postal regulations to the
letter.
Another thing which renders i'm
practical the scheme to borrow money
from Andrew Carnegie for the flood
sufferers is Mr.. Carnegies disinclina
ton to loan it.
The Lawrence boy who is preparing
to enter the School of Journalism by
learning to carry pencil behind his
ear has also bought a note book
bound in red morocco.
Don't-Do-That clubs are being or
ganized in New York. The members
should be notified that the organiza
ton is bogus unless written authority
can be shown from Edgar Watson
Howe.
The Pratt Republican has a printer
who refuses to get figures correct
He makes the paper say that Tom
Noftzger will receive about 100000
as fees and allowances as the re.
ceiver for an irrigation company. He
also sets IL up that a harvest hand
"decamped with 5000"
Since Thursdays raid by five mask
ed highwaymen Mcfarland is able for
the first time, to turn up its nose at
Coffeyville.
A Lawrence boy who intends to en-.
ter the Pulitzer school Of journalism
this fall is alretady practlcing carry.
ing a pencil behind his ear
Marion's Town Joker met Ed Hocb
the other day and asked him why
Uncle Sam is like an orphan. The
answer is (glggle here) that he "has
neither Panama"
Since Ottawa society ceased revolv.
ing like a merry.go-round the Herald
has changed the name of its depart.
rnapt from ssTn Social Circles" TO or