Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1903-04-02

week, making fourteen. There are
three more to be appointed. 1t al
lows four janitors for each wing of
the building and one "at large"
The executive council recently paid
$4,000 for the recently completed iron
stairways in the statehouse. The work
was to have been finished last sum-
mer, and the contract called for a for
felt of $40 a day for each day it re-
manned unfinished after the time spec
flied. This forfeit, amounting now to
$500, was magnanimously waived by
the council.
President Roosevelt may have heard
that the average Topeka man belongs
to fifty secret societies, and gave out
the misunderstanding order to keep the
fifty varieties of grips" from doing ir-
reparable damage to the Presidential
palm.
Kansas has broken into the New
York Four Hundred. Mrs. Aida Walker,
colored. the wife of George Walker OF
the Vaudeville team of Williams and
Walker. lives in Lawrence. She dined
with the milionaires at Delmonico's
as a guest of honor.
The Eldorado Republican tells OF
little girl from town who was visiting
in the country. She soon became ia
miliar with the cows, pigs and chick
ems, and knew where the butter, and
ham and eggs came from. One day a
piece of comb honey was placed on the
table. 81 see" the town girl remarked
coyly, chat you keep bee"
Judge Hazen of Shawnee county has
granted a new trial in the case OF John
C.. Lowe. who killed his wife. He ex-
planned that he made an erroneous
ruling in the former trial when he adj
mitted as evidence statement made
by the defendants father in the pres
ence of others than the defendant"
A man in Peabody has a scheme to
have the battleship Kansas christened
with buttermilk by one of the buxom
damsels in the senior class of the State
Agricultural college.
An Abilene woman who had been
given a Judgment for $500 for breach
of promise has married the defendant.
1t will take her a long time to collect
the judgment at the rate most hus-
bands dole out pin money to their
wives.
Notice is served by Ewing Herbert
that those High school graduates who
and Kansas City. One was the bill
vote to buy their graduating pro-
grammes away from home must expect
70 get their fattering newspaper no
tees at the same place.
According to the Abilene Reflector,
S. e. White. Dickinson county farm
err has met with great success in rails
ing sugar beets.
Hodgman county finds that its coun-
ty boundary lines have been obiterat-
ed by sand drifts. and the commission
ers are uncertain where their jurisdic-
ton begins and ends. If the commits
sionerss will consult the official map
they will see that Hodgman county is
of a grayish color, while the adjoining
counties are either buff, green or
yellow.
The district court in Emporia de-
clded the library site litigation satur-
day in favor of the Plumb site, and
the West side faction announces 1t
will appeal to the supreme court.
A Weir City drug store has been
robbed three times since the first OF
the year. The fragrance OF Kansas
liauor sometimes acts as a powerful
magnet.
farmer near Westmoreland, G.. A.
WhEehurst, sold his farm recently for
what he thought was a big price and
spent several weeks looking for an
other good place. Finally he returned
and gave the purchaser $3.50 bonus to
sell back.
Both Senator Lang and Senator Bur-
ton will accompany President Roose-
welt on his Kansas trip.
It is noted by 81 Republic county pa,
per that John Konovalsh and Mollie
Levandofski have committed matri-
manyski in a neighboring villageski.
County Attorney Mold Of Nemaha
county was not caught mapping by the
liquor sellers. He has closed a series
OF prosecutions that put practically
all Of them out Of business.
John TrzecIakvwski took out his
first naturalization papers in Leaven-
worth last week. Leavenworth ought
to take a man with such a name into
full nedged citizenship without fur
Their red tape.