Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1904-05-26
KANSAS NOTES

last week, and the editors put IN al
most the whole day trying to decid
what is the plural for circuses.
The skeleton Of a mastodon wa
found in Ottawa this week, and If the!
will dig little deeper they may fint
evidences Of the movement" to BULL
hotel.
A celebrated hydzopathist" in For
Scott has mineral water that is guar
anteed to cure liver, kidney and stom
ach troubles, nervous prostration, st
Vitus's dance and granulated lids.
| Abilene is another town which
played a good joke on the Santa Fl
officials who were touring the state II
order to get into closer touch with the
patrons and shippers. Abilene didn'
ask for anything.
A Lawrence editor protests against
tho custom Of opening political conven
tons with prayer. The protest is es
pecially well founded in the Second dis
trict, where a candidate is regarded
as Loot.
Henry Allen has been appointed one
of the Kansas delegates to the national
convention Of charities and corrections
and 1t Is not thought that Mr.. Bower.
sock will send any contesting delega.
ton.
Miss Flossie Butin of Fredonia Is
third in the newspaper contest which
is to send a Beautiful Young Lady to
the st. Louis exposition. 1t would not
be much use to try to keep a young
woman Of that name out of the com.
petition.
The spring may be somewhat back.
ward, and the corn and wheat pros.
poets may not be the best, and the
fruit and vegetable outlook may not
be any too flattering, but it Is noticed
that the baccalaureate sermons prom.
Use to yield at least cdop and a
half.
One of the Franklin county candi.
dates was so occupied with politics a
few days before the convention that
he drove into town, hitched his team,
jollied the voters all day and rode
home witt neighbor, never thinking
of his own rig. He went back after 1t
he next day.
Just as golf was beginning to make
Independence feel proud of itself, Cof-
feyville springs coup by organizing
polo club.
Judge ]. T. Dickerson Of Marion,
recently made a federal Judge for In.
dian territory, seems to be consider.
able of success, Notwithstanding the
fact that one winter he drove hack
in Emporia.
Governor Bailey is to be one Of the
players In the base ball game between
the statehouse employees and the To-
peka newspaper men. II he ever gets
as far as third base the bleachers
will sing, won't You Come Homer" 2
Who" asks the lola Register, us
more gallant than newspaper man?
The Topeka Capital, under the cap
ton, Brave Kansas Girl Prevents a
Bank Robbery relates hlw a girl at
Dexter saw robbers In the bank. She
screamed and the robbers fled. Brave
girl"
The Ottawa Herald throws out this
theological suggestion: III the Meth.
odist church carries out Its proposal
to lift the ban on dancing, card play.
ing and theater.going, 1t will have
given the highest sort Of an indorse-
ment to the wisdom Of the man who
told his dog to 90 under the bed, find.
ing that he intended to 90 there any
how"
The best Ottawa was able to say
about Its street fair last week was
that iG was superior to the wealth.
err"
1.-THE Mlkado" is to be given by anna
tours In Concordia, but 1t will be a
to those who think 1t
is a war drama.
The Holton board Of education has
elected as superintendent man who
is described as "2S years old, unmar-
rled, and SINGLE"
Howard is a good town to avoid for
a week or two. The Courant admits
that "all the boys are whistllng Nav.
ajo,' the new coon song"
An Elk county man who gave his
wife a 16.plece Havlland fish set
some time ago complains that he is
getting tired Of steady diet of canned
salmon.
G.. A. Booze OF lie Loup, who has
sued the Santa Fe for $3.50 damages
Tor a delayed cattle shipment, is not
he famous Kansas outlaw OF the same
name.
Leavenworth thinks sufficient prom.
nence has not been given to the his.
.orlcal fact that soon after the Civil
var Henry NJ. Stanley was a reporter
n that city.
The new railroad map Of Kansas
will show a lot Of new towns, most Of
which have sprung up in response to
ocal Industrial conditions rather than
o the false visions Of real promot-
RS.
Few people," observes the sedg.
vick Paragraph. realize how cheap