Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1904-09-15
KANSAS ITEMS

One may judge how busy Editor
Hoch of Marion was last wees by the
fact that the Record contained no
Thoughts We've Been Thinking"
rs the sense of smell being lost to
civilized man? inquiries the Wichita
Beacon. Civilized man can almost in
variably tell when he is approaching
Wichita.
Emperor Williams sister says that
every man should have as many wives
as he wants, and the Ottawa Herald,
which is nothing If not gallant, says
that most men have"
Deacon House Is unable to under
stand Paul Morton's rapid rise. He
did not start his railroad career as q
brakeman, nor did he ever carry wa
ter for the section gang.
Judge and Mrs. Samuel 9. Kingman
of Topeka will celebrate their sixtieth
wedding anniversary October 30.
Judge Kingman was chief justice Of
the supreme court from 1866 to 1876.
Senator Fairbanks sat on Ed Hoch's
lawn to see the parade go by at Ma
rlon, and Henry Allen expects that
by this time the Kansas chigger has
broken down the barrier Of the SEN
ator's cold reserve.
This society note Is taken from the
Harrington Sun: Dave Longhofer car
ries Mary Thom's milk bucket for her
these nice pleasant evenings and Shoes
the flies while she does the milk
ing"
The Kansas delegates to the Amerl
can Pharmaceutical association in
Kansas City this week are expected to
bn disappointed. There is nothing on
the program dealing with the subject
of homemade whisky.
Wichita's boom Of fifteen years ago
was almost insignificant compared
with the boom that is in progress at
Lao Yang.
William Swlndt was fined SIS for
theft in Emporia this week. He be-
gan his Swindtling career early, as he
is not yet 81.
Ottawa has a climatic expert who
contends that intermltten rains &C.
companied by shifting winds and the
approach Of the equinox, indicate UNI
settled weather."
Harry Bone is offering odds Of so
to 1 that his home ball team, the Ash
land Colts, will defeat the Topeka
Boss Busters. BY so to 1 he means
fifty cents to one dollar.
Grasshoppers are said to have done
considerable damage to the Rocky
Ford" melon crop, between Syracuse
and LalSln.
1t Is surmlsed that the two negro
janitors at the state house who were
discharged for "insubordlnatlon" few
days ago must have violated all prece-
dent by taking brooms and going to
work.
Rather than see the harvest hand
famine go by default this year, Reno
county has decided to ask for 1000
men to pick its apple crop.
Ottawa's belief that 1t is within the
Kansas oil and gas belt is so firm that
the papers have started departments
of "Oil and Gas News"
A Chanute man has a gun that was
carried through the Revolutionary war.
He thinks 1t isn't loaded, but he is
afraid to investigate.
Before you accept favor" moral
ICES the editor of the Clmarron Jack
sonian, who recently was defeated for
the legislature} at is well to look for
the string
Catfish are so large in lie Solomon
river this season that the Mitchell
county farmers find the ordinary hook
and line too small, and are capturing
them with pltchforks.
The fellows who have flour to sell
hear Of an advance In wheat by tele-
graph, the Jewell City Republican has
noticed, but the news Of a decline in
wheat reaches them by freight.
The Eureka Messenger has dlscov-
cred that the Usage county Repub-
llcan convention adopted resolutions
congratulating the party upon the
nomination Of the Hon. Charles s.
Fairchilds for vice president.
According to the literary critic Of
the Clay Center Times, II novelist
wants to make decided hit with the
Kansas summer girl, he should come
forward with description Of how the
beautiful heroine held the roasting ear
in her dainty bejeweled hands while
her pearly teeth ploughed furrow
along its side without getting any but
ter smeared on her face.
Some one recently sent 800 to the
states conscience fund, but none Of
the state school fund commissioners
is suspected.
The report that John d. Rockefeller
is buying salt properties is not calcu'
lated to create a feeling Of calm and
undisturbed repose in Hutchinson.
Indignant society note from Brown
county paper: INERT Neff says that
the guy who found his coat and who
failed to return II is dead beat. The
coat and vest cost Merit s1S and he
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