Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1904-07-28
KANSAS ITEMS

Congressman Charles F. Scott uses
Il am told" in alleging that 81 bot
tie is charged for beer on the st. Louis
Pike.
The old-fashioned man who still in
sist upon having tag at the base Of
his shirt front has been located in Sa-
lima.
Henry Drum, the Republican nomi-
nee for county attorney of Bourbon
county, can scarcely complain If he is
beaten.
why Not Dykes" headline in
Topeka paper, referring to the river
problem and not to the Sixth district
congressional situation.
1t is regarded as "unprofessionap
for dentists to advertise, but one in
Erie uses picture of a set of false
teeth that is simply irresistible.
The Chanute Blade is so intensely
Democratic that it refers to Walter
Roscoe Stubs, the Republican chair
man, in quotation marks" Stubs"
II often wonder" says Don Wells
in the Erie Record, what becomes Of
these continual town knockers when
they die" But they never die.
w. Y. Morgan is taking chances on
General Bells bull pen and is writing
war" correspondence for the Hutchin-
son News from Cripple Creek.
Ex-Governor E. N Morrill, is having
a family monument placed in the Hia-
watha cemetery. The granite was
brought from Vermont and is fifteen
feet high and weighs $4,000 pounds.
The Frenchmen in Emporia who
usually go out to the edge of town each
year and celebrate the fall of the Bas-
tile with much alcoholic ardor, were
scared out this year.
Great excitement" prevails in In
dependence by reason of landlord
who voluntarily reduced a tenants
rent.
A Salina merchant is so stingy that
he keeps his awning down all night so
as to get his moneys worth out Of
1t.
In Hutchinson the police have taken
to searching all the bootleggers since
Brandy lake disappeared the other
day.
1t is only fair to explain that no
knockout drops are used at the dream
parties" which have become social
fad in Burlington.
The Westmoreland girl who poked
her fingers into lawn mower to see
how it worked will have to do her
knitting by proxy -enceforth.
The Arkansas City man who con-
tracted to bore a well 1880 feet
down" is trying to collect. He bored
shallow well 1900 feet down the
river.
A preacher in Great Bend, the Trib-
une. says, goes ahead fearlessly and
denounces Mormonism, because the
Mormons haven't friend in town." 3
The hatpin as a weapon of defense
has been outdone by man in Coffey-
vile who put footpad to flight by
using the lighted end of cigar. 3
Some sarcastic wretches in Topeka
got up banquet lin honor" of the
Topeka base ball team, which has won
nineteen games this season and lost
forty-seven.
While the editor Of the Clifton News
does not know who the outrageous
person was who entered his prlntshop
last week and pied" sevral columns
of reading matter, he brands him ed
itorlally as a "diabolical, low-flung,
knock-kneed, plgeon-toed, inslgnifl-
cant, bigoted little varmint."
The Negro Ledger makes mention
of the case of a negro In Mississippi
who made speech just before being
lynched, in which he advised all col
ored men mot to monkey around a
white mans house when the white
man is at home" The Ledger sneers
at the advice, saying it is worthless.
How in name Of Cod" 1t asks, does
a man know when another man is not
at homer? 2
The Paola Spirit prints a proud list
of several dozen things that Paola
Has" among which are these:
A society woman who wears No. "a
shoes.
A lodge man who has 1913 different
badges.
A black man who was in the Con-
federate army with General Price.
A woman who always eats the let
tuce leaf on which salad is served at a
party.
Four young girls, just turned into
long dresses, who CAD the streets
twelve to fifteen hours a day.
Forty girls who were never taught
to single file when in crowd on the
street to let others pass.
Twelve young black men who will
not work and who monopolize the
park seats-especially when the band
Ilays.
A very rich man who never provides
over forty cents worth Of meat a week
for his family and always buys stale
because cheaper.
D. w. Blaine of Plat is also accused
of plagiarism. It is claimed that his
scheme IN dig n canal from Dakota IN