Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1904-12-29
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| Jack.
The Coffeyville dynamiters SHOULD
be given treatment right away, be
fore they become addicted to hitting
the pipe.
According 10 the Official count of the
state canvassing board, the total vote
for governor this year was 2,40S
This is an increase of $4,000 over two
years ago. A Topeka man won al
automobile by guessing within two
votes of the total.
During the past two years there
have been eleven designations among
the professors in the Kansas state ag
ricultural college at Manhattan, anG
twelve among the assistants. Salaries
too small.
A man out in Kiowa county is re-
ported to have fractured his right
skull" by falling from load of hay. 2
The success of the penitentiary
Irvine plant has inspired the sugges.
tion Of building state oil refinery,
Editor Welter of the Belle PLANE
Defender sold his paper last week to
Byron Cain, heavyweight, who is ex.
pected to change its name to the Ag.
Gressor.
Montgomery county's pipe line dy'
namiters seem to have found a way to
make their cause as unpopular as pos.
sible.
If the Clay Center library has too
large a percentage Oh fiction it may
be attributed to the fact that Mrs.
Story is the librarian.
Seth Wells has reduced the name OF
the Erie Republican-Record to plain
Erie Record. The name Republican
was superfluous, especially as Mr..
Wells is the state auditor
Work was begun ON a new 8OO-foot
bridge across the Arkansas river south
of Ellinwood.
The Junction City Republic mum.
bers Marie Corelli" among it's staff
of country correspondents.
The Boston minister who declared
that Kansas is undoubtedly the most
Christian commonwealth in the world
probably got his information second.
hand.
State Superintendent Dayhoff be.
lieves that school officers in Kansas
should receive more pay, that the tax
limit should be made considerably
higher, and that the qualifications of
teachers should be raised.
The electric light company in Clay
Center will make its patrons Christ.
mas gift of one weeks use of the wires
free.
With ten automobiles already and
more coming, Wellington thinks it will
be necessary to pipe gasoline direct
from the oil regions.
The Greenleaf Sentinel takes issue
with the New York judge who decid.
ed recently that sandwich is not
meal. I'VE" says the Sentinel, mean
ing itself, have seen the time when
it was"
An old-fashioned singing school"
has been discovered in Chase county,
not far from Cottonwood Falls.
Emporlas town row, which has been
paramount factor in Lyon county
social life and politics for thirty years,
is now spreading over into Usage
county.
Garnett's sausage factory was de.
stroyed by fire last week. 1t is wise
fire department that can discriminate
when to extinguish a blaze and when
to let 'er burn.
"The days are getting so short"
complains the foreman of the Sedg.
wick Paragraph, that here is hardly
time to distribute type before the
next paper comes out"
Most of the weekly papers managed
to squeeze into twelve pages last week.
although some required sixteen, and
the Delphos Republican was over
crowded in twenty-four.
Now that John Q. Royce has an.
nounced that Congressman Reeder Of
the Sixth district will be a candidate
again in 1906, Craftsmanship is quite
safe in rolling over and taking an
other snOoZe.
Topeka's Commercial Club has Of
fered a bonus of $4,000 to the first
discoverer of natural gas in or about
Topeka.
The Coolidge Enterprise declares
that that town is running wide open"
and as proof cites the case of a bill
lard hall which stays open till 8
o'clock at night and sells lemonade
and root beer.
Washburn athletes now feel, no
doubt, like the man who has to pay
for a dead horse. They are trying to
raise the money with which to pay a
debt of $3.50 incurred in order to run
through the past season.
The Central Kansas Fair association
held its annual election of officers at
Hutchinson recently with the follow
ing results: President, T. ]. Templer,
Hutchinson: second vice president,
John r. Price. Turon; third vice presi-
dent. II. Hilliard. Haven; fourth vice
president. d. ]. Fair, Sterling; secre-
tary. A. l.. Sponsler. Hutchinson;