Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1904-01-14
KANSAS NOTES

February 20.
While the grand jury is in session
in Kansas City, Kan, the saloons are
constructively closed and clandestine.
ly open.
Mr.. Natter, who really ought to be
engaged in selling gents furnish
ings," is in the grocery business in
Neodesha instead.
C. B. Hoffman of Enterprise recent
ly bought twenty-five Of the A. ]. Poor
grain elevators throughout Central
Kansas. 1t is, as far as known, the
only Poor investment Mr.. Hoffman
ever made.
A flip travelling man asked one OF
the young women at the depot lunch
room in lola why they all dressed in
black, and was told that they were In
mourning for the late trains.
The scramble among the Topeka I'm.
dertakers after the Rock Island wreck
for the possession Of the dead victims
served as a reminder that the snitch
is not the most despicable creature in
the world.
An Ottawa man made affidavit to
the tax assessor few months ago
that his personal property did not ex.
coed $500. He died since, and the APP
praisers of his estate have found $751;
900 worth of personal property, most
of it cash or available as such.
In Gaylord the fire department re-
sponded to an alarm. The fire was In
the garnet of a house and could be
reached only by baking hole in the
roof. The fireman to whom this task
was assigned, in the confusion, chop
ped huge hole in the roof Of the
wrong house.
An Abilene man obtained several
sheets Of ney money fresh from
Washington, at one of the banks and
pasted the bills together so that he
had a sheet of greenbacks six feet
long. Then he went shopping, and aft
err each purchase he would clip off a
bill and offer it in poyment Without
exception the merchants refused to
accept the money, and one man re-
fused to give $1.50 for the whole
sheet.
Arthur Farwell, editor Of the Wa
Wan Press and club women's idol,
was entertained in Topeka and Kins-
ley recently. He is touring the West
ern states-a sort of Farwell tour 2
DR.. Snow reported that last month
was much warmer than the Deem
Der average; but January starts out
with the evident determination to re-
store the mean temperature back to
the normal.
The Parsons postoffice causes more
trouble in Washington than any other
half dozen postoffices in the state.
Parsons might be cured of the "affl-
davit" habit by being required to go
to Oswego or Chetopa for its mail for
a brief while.
Fort Riley Is reported to have four
times as many officers as any army
post in the country, which the Ottawa
Herald constructs as proof that the
Kansas instinct Of office holding pre-
walls even in the army.
Another Of the Martindale lawsuits
one Of the Emporia banks fifty.
seven varieties-will be tried in the
supreme court this week. The Drinci-
pal purpose of these cases is to make
as much trouble as possible for Mar
tindale and to embitter his declining
years. The whole business is an out
growth of the Town Row in En-
poria.
Bent Murdoch pretends to agree
with the Chicago professor who has
declared that bathing is unhealthful.
IF" he says, you want to have ton
sllitis, bronchitis, meningitis, hippoti-
tbs or any other kind of tits, take hot
baths. If you are anxious to die, battle
every day. II you wish to make a
sewer of your skin, battle early and
often. Water kills its thousands every
year. If you will only soak yourself
in water often enough, you will take
every kind Of disease that comes
along. One can keep perfectly clean
with a very little water, and the less
water you use inside or out the longer
you will live"
A Seneca han has taken his family
to California for the winter, al
though there is enough winter in the
vicinity of Seneca to satisfy anyone.
Stafford county also puts forward
a claim for the Meanest Man. A
local paper relates that he put a
porcelain egg in the nest Of an am
bilious hen, and found that the eggs
she laid were of increased size. Then
he put goose egg in the nest; the
aforesaid hen laid an egg just as
large. He was so pleased with the
scheme that he put a whitewashed
foot ball in the nest and awaited re-
suits. When he went the next time
to search for eggs he found one as
high as a foot ball, but no hen in
sight Securing the egg he saw me-