Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1903-04-23
Kansas Notes

The negroes IN Saline held hap
tizing" few days ago, and very prop
erly it took place in the Smoky.
An Atchison woman was anxious to
do something to alleviate the suffer-
ing of a sick man next door, so she
sent him over q, teaspoonful of
whisky.
Robert Pigg, accused of selling
liquor and maintaining nuisance,
was acquitted last week. 1t was hoped
he might be sent to the pen" ),
Dame Rumor," busy old soul who
has wide acquaintance throughout
the state, is quoted as the authority
for a large number of matriconial
stories in Salina this spring.
The regents of the University of
Kansas recently increased the salaries
of the professors 5000 a year. Kan
sas has been losing several of its
most useful educators and the 5000 is
gratifying recognition
n man WCnJ lulO TlGuOlld IGCtullJ
and organized clothes-pressing club
and collected 81 each from fifty meb-
bers. Then he moved on to the next
town and has neglected to come back.
In the meantime the Fredonia trous-
ers are becoming hopelessly baggy. 2
An Atchison woman whose husband
makes $3.50 a. month does her own
housework and the town is arguing
whether she ought not to devote her
time to music, literature and looking
pretty. The women hold this latter
theory, but the men all argue for the
woman who helps.
A Cherryvale boy who was visiting
Italy made a trip to Pompeii recently
and wrote his folks about it. He
speaks Of the many beautiful Stat
utes" which he saw there and then
tells of triumphal arch (which l
could see by the inscription it was
dedicated to Nero Caeser."
Kansas will be glad to hear of the
good fortune which has fallen to
George R. Peck Of Chicago, who is still
a Kansas man at heart. He became
grandfather last week by the birth of
a daughter to Mr.. and Mrs. George
Earling of Milwaukee. Mrs. EsTling
was Miss Ethel Peck.
A man out in Dighton was married
a few days ago to the woman from
whom he had been divorced less than
two months. He explained that he
had been too busy with his spring
blowing to get acquainted with an
other woman.
The showing that every person in
Kansas has an average of $50 in the
bank is highly gratifying to every
one except the farmers, who have
so much more than that.
A clergyman's son was convicted of
manslaughter in Minneapolis recently
and Ottawa county is full of people
who "allus knew preachers sons wuz
worse'n anybody else" in the commun-
ity.
At the editorial meeting in Beloit
last week addresses were made by d.
A. Valentine OF Clay Center, Conner
T. Davies of Concordia, S. A. Dodge
of Beloit, John Q. Royce of Phillips
burg, L. L. Kiene of Topeka and A.
j. Basye of Belleville.
A city girl is visiting in Great Bend,
and the other day the hostess re-
marked that her husband was out in
the yard pruning some of the trees.
"Oh, do you really raise your own
prunes? My, how lovely" was the
astonishing reply. 1t took the Great
Bend woman some time to realize that
the city girl was in earnest.
They play baseball for keeps in
Southern Kansas. Sundays game be-
tween Southwestern college of Win
field and Fairmount college of Wichita,
required fifteen innings and Winfield
won by the score of l to 0.
Posses are searching for "Par'
Grove in the neighborhood of Wa
thena, Doniphan county across the
river from st. Joseph, with good pros
poets for finding him. When letters
began to arrive from Grove with South
African postmarks, 1t was a good sign
he was close to home.
This time the Meanest Man has actu-
ally been located. A widow consulted
her husbands chum as to the advis-
ability of buying some lots which were
for sale cheap. He advised her to
wait, because they would be cheaper
in few weeks. Then he bought the
lots himself
George A. Clark, who will become the
state printer on June 80, will refuse
to occupy the old brick print shop on
East Eighth street which has been
used by all the state printers since
T. Dwight Thachers time. c. j. Dew
lin will put up new building for the
purpose nearer the state house.
An Arkansas City paper relates that
an elderly man rushed up to middle
aged woman on the depot platform,
embraced her with much enthusiasm
and kissed her before he discovered
that she wasn't the woman he was
looking for. with flashing eyes,"
the paper continues, "she turned and