Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1904-04-21
KANSAS NOTES


The trading stamp evil has reached
q point in Hutchinson where every.
body gives them except the Harvey
"eating house."
1t is amusing" says the Syracuse
News, ito see the passengers get off
No. while she hesitates fifteen min
utes for lunch, and hike up town look.
Ing for booze parlor. They pay no
attention to the first native who tells
them we are a dry town., but rush
along to the next, and the next, until
they find they are in Carrie Nations
state"
1.-THE News does job work" is par
agraph kept standing in the Hutchin-
son News. That's what the Reno
county Boss Busters have persisteutly
claimed.
A Macksville firm is preparing to
move it's business to Wichita, and the
Argus makes this meek comment:
"While this firm has ever joined forces
against the perpetuity and prosperity
of the Argus, yet we congratulate them
upon having accumulated sufficient
wealth to branch out into larger enter
prise"
Down in the southern part of the
state a couple of men are working a
swindling scheme on some of the farm
ers. A stranger appears on the road
diligently searching for lost diamond
ring and offers reward of 500 for its
recovery. He goes away without find
ing the ring and shortly afterward a
tramp picks up a ring. The farmer
who is to be the victim offers the
tramp $25 for the ring, expecting to
get the 500 reward. The tramp ac-
cepts it and leaves. When the farmer
cannot find the stranger he grows sus'
picious and has a ieweler examine the
ring. 1t is generally pronounced to be
worth about fifteen cents.
A lawyer in Macksville advertises:
"If your neighbor tries to do you, come
to me and I'll do him."
The Ottawa Herald comes right out
and accuses the snow shovel of linger-
Ing in the lap of the lawnmower.
1t is taken for granted that the new
ly organized boat club of the Univer-
sity of Kansas is also being instructed
in the gentle art of lifesavng.
The Troy Chief, which has lately
formed the habit Of changing owners
on the slightest provocation, should re-
member the Atchison Champion.
A clothing dealer in lola arises and
turns so as to reveal his profile, lifts
his left hand solemnly, and adopts
the advertising catch.line, 81 Am For
Men,"
General Fred Funston will be In
Kansas next month. He will attend
the marriage of his sister. Miss Ella
Funston, to DR.. Frank Eckdall, Of Em-
poria.
Last weeks most sensational de-
velopment in Concordia was the dis
covery of young woman who receives
DuuCu VI AulSllCdh DCauty iOSSS
by express about three times a week. 2
Many of Mike Thompson's patrons
in Topeka are willing to testify that
he does not run what is commonly
called a gambling resort. Deacon
House declares it is little more than
Successful collection agency"
Replying to the accusation that VIII
liam Allen White pads his calves with
wet elm sawdust. the Eldorado Re-
publican says, Bills calves are all
right. He was fed on Butler county
corn bread and buttermilk; and he
sides, he inherited a substantial pair
of shanks. We have known Bill Allen
for many years and are ready to de-
clare that he is all right in head, heart,
gizzard and sbanks."
An awning company is Tola's recent
acquisition, and it expects to put all
the other industries in the shade.
A little girl in Lindsborg got hold
of her mothers box of liver pills and
planted them, mistaking them for
sweet peas.
The young woman in Pratt who
poked her finger in a double-action
cigar cutter ito see how It worked" is
prepared to write a treaties on the
subject.
At Senator Burton's request most OF
the letters which he wrote to the Rial
to Grain Company were destroyed.
Perhaps they were also too sacred
for any eyes but yours"
George Weyler, of Emporia, has been
notified of his appointment to the
naval academy as the result Of re-
cent competitive examination. The
"middies" at Annapolis will not do
much to a newcomer with name Ike
Weyler.
Southeastern Kansas has no desire
to appear boastful, or to exaggerate
its capabilities, but It claims 1t will be
able to astonlsh the world with It's
oil wells just as soon as the Standard
Oil Company grows to be big enough
to handle the output.
A Fort Scott girl who has spent sew
eral years completing her musical
education in Paris returned last week
and gave recital. She had reason to
expect something flattering in the To-