Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1903-08-20
Kansas Notes


next thing Is to keep disease germs
and politics out of it.
"Canton's new band" paper says,
sis doing good work." but 1t is hoped
1t is not following the policy Of all
work and no play.
In Oswego the mayors office is in a
barber shop. The mayor, Joe" Brad
ley, is barber, who does not charge
extra for neck shaves.
Not even fifty injunctions issued on
application of the prohibitionists are
sufficient to interrupt the jointists'
open door policy in Kansas City, Kan.
The editor of the Jewell County
Monitor is candid, and confesses that
he doesn't know which is correct In
referring to a wreck-"head end" or
head on"
There amt no hell, eh?" cried Far
mer Doolittle Of the Wichita Eagle.
well, what Is going to be done with
the fellow who stuffs paper in the
spittoon, them"
A note of discord in the hallelujah
crop chorus comes from Cloud county,
where poultry ralsers give it out that
the cold and wet weather has spoiled
the turkey crop.
One editor, whose patience is ex.
hausted, threatens to complain to the
state board of health about the awful
quality of sour paste used in the mail
ing rooms of its contemporaries.
When an old negro in Emporia was
told that a member Of his race had
been legally hanged in Georgia this
week he exclaimed, fervently: "Thanlt
Gawd, the black man am gittin' his
just desserts at last"
Leavenworth and Atchlson though,
are not close enough together to cause
any interference between the Lie-in-
the Hammock and-D club OF the
first named city and the Don't.Do-That
club of the latter town.
Furthermore Topeka's gas franz
chlse scandal Is not to be made
light of.
Chautauqua has no National guard
organizations, but 1t has what is just
as ood-fifty.two drilling outfits
The only thing the matter with the
department of "Quips and Cranks" In
the Hutchinson News Is its name
The Rev. j. p. II. believers Kaye OF
Topeka has sufficient influence with
the Topeka Capital to get his poems
published
A Lawrence paper opposes the prop
ositlon to vote bonds for the park sys-
TEN in Kansas City because beer Is
sold in the parks.
A man was killed In Kansas City,
Kas., Joint" this week. And It hap
pened at time when the Joints" are
none too popular.
The probate Judge of Allen county
announces his determination to refuse
marriage licenses to persons "who
may inherit insanity
Mr.. Lawyer Campbell Of Wyandotte,
who put his abuse of the supreme
court In pamphlet form, acts like
man who has $500 in the bank.
The North Topeka man who is suing
the city for the property lost In the
food is proceeding on the theory that
the city violated section / of the Act
OF God.
The edltorof the Stockton News sold
out because all his printers drank SO
much whiskey. HE ought" says the
Salina Journal, ito have had II under
lock and key, or hid 1t where they
couldn't find It.
Charles Kirkland, the attendant In
the Topeka asylum for the insane, who
has been arrested for brutally beating
an aged patient. may be expected to
offer the defense that he committed
only conventional crime"
In Wichita Druggist has been ar
rested for selling cocaine, morphine
and other poIsons to children under
10 years OF age. Wichita has theory
that no person should become addicted
to the use OF drugs until attaining the
age OF IA.
The Leayenworth Times, which Is
conducting a voting contest to deter
mine who is the most popular young
lady In Leavenworth," might have OBJ
tained a verdict much more simply by
referring the matter to the lleutenants
out at the post.
An Atchison man who once bought
stock in one, describes a gold mine
as "a hole in the ground, owned by a
liar"
Kansas City, Kas., will make q great
mistake II 1t doesn't settle its prohi-
billion row before It becomes down
right "Topeky."
Saving human lives is thsnkless bus
lness down in Sumner county. A trav-
cling man is under arrest in ATgonIa
for giving away drink OF whisky.
There is fear in the Wichita Eagle
sanctum that old Geronimo may forget
himself some night at meeting and
give warwhoop when he ought to
give an amen"
The crop statlstIclans evidently be-
gan on Rocks county first this year.
mi tkok a.. $4,000. g.. A..