Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1903-06-25
Kansas Notes

OF BaptlSC cnurcn IN fOrJ WOrIn,
Tex, where immersion is optional and
not compulsory.
Ellis county alone sends out call
for 1900 harvest hands. AS Ellis
county's total vote last fall was about
one thousand eight hundred, it is sur
missed the farmers bit off more than
they can harvest.
E. w. Thompson, general passenger
agent of the Rock Island for the lines
west of the Missouri river, has re-
signed, putting several hundred Kan
sas editors to the inconvenience of get
ting acquainted with new pass man. l
Hutchinson, where the property loss
by the overlooking of Cow creek is
estimated to be between and 2 mil
lion dollars, is getting lot Of conso'
lation out Of the annual Kansas Must
cal Jubilee. which is singing away just
as if nothing had happened.
No one in Abilene ever sneers at the
efforts Of the club women. They are
raising more money for the flood suf'
ferers than anybody, and few years
ago they pitched in and established
an adequate public library without
waiting to hear from Carnegie.
Prof. George C. Wakefield, who
teaches one of the language classes
in the Sumner county High school,
called on a pupil to define an "lmpera-
tive sentence" The correct answer
was given. He then asked a boy to
give an illustration of an imperative
sentence. The first hoy couldn't do
It. The next one called on rose to
his feet and said: prof. Wakefield.
go away back and sit down"
In mentioning recent Kansas events,
1t is equally popular to say "since the
flood and "since the Dewey-Berry af-
fray"
And. while the Kansas legislature
is in extra session, it might also make
an appropriation for the drough-strick-
en- East.
There Is some inclination to dispute
A. A. Godards assertion that no grass
hoppers have been seen in Kansas for
twentyyears.
Judged from the number of eye wit
nesses who are rushing into print with
descriptions of the great flood" the
population Of Kansas in 1874 was fully
IL millions.
Secretary Coburn seems to be SO
busy with the Louisiana Purchase ex-
position that he is allowing the United
State Department of Agriculture tc
scoop him on the crop bulletins.
Bill Nye was not far from right
when he interpreted B. P. o. f. to
mean BEST People on Earth" One
third of all the money raised for the
relief fund in Topeka has come from
| the Elks.
Henry Allen evidently intends to be-
come a newspaper "magnate." lie
bought the Parsons Sun recently fol
$3.50. He already owns the Ottawa
Herald and the Salina Journal-both
good papers.
Warden McCloughry, Of the federal
penitentiary, is telling the reporters
in Washington how badly Kansas
needs financial assistance flood in
Kansas is so unusual that some OF
its citizens seem determined to make
the most of it. They are like the
boy at the Sunday school picnic who
swept all the tarts from the plate. say
ing: THE time to get tarts is when
they are being passed"
Judge Adna P. Gristlebone, chief IN
spector at Sharon Springs of the Gin
der beetle quarantine, took up a col
lection and raised $40 for the flood
sufferers. He foolishly placed the
money. which was in gold coin. unde
his pillow. During the night the Gin
der beetles scented the coin and multi
ated it so that 1t is no longer accepta-
BILE as legal tender Judge Gristlebone
is afraid that before the Treasury de-
partment is able to redeem his half
eaten currency Kansas will have more
relief than it really needs.
A girl in Jewell City was offered
$50 by her father If she would gradu
ate in a calico dress. She called the
bluff, but she rugged up the dress nm.
I'll 10 one would have detected its real
texture.
AS additional evidence d1at the