Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1904-12-15
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The Atehison Globe has decided to
keep its new type face. There was a
good deal of criticism and Atchison
was considerably stirred up by the
question, but Edward w Box has
written letter indorsing the change. 2
A young boy in Eldorado played
hockey from school last week and awk-
wardly forged his mothers name to an
excuse" He wrote; Dear Teacher
Tommy was kept at home. The rea-
son | couldn't come to school was
tore my pants"-and signed his moth
er's name.
Justice Clark A. Smith of the SUI
preme court has appointed his son,
Homer, to be his stenographer the
salary being 800 a month.
The Twenty-fifth battery of field ar
tillery has returned to Fort Riley aft
err taking a 200-mile Trip around over
the country, which began about two
weeks ago.
Marshall county has three new OPP
era houses erected within the past
year. The one at Maryville cost $12,-
900, the one at Waterville $4,000, and
the one at Beattie $1,000.
G. F. Whitlock of Wichita is a can
didate for secretary of the State La
Dor society to succeed w. L. Johnson,
who is also a candidate to succeed
himself. The society elects officers in
February.
T. C. Honnell of Everest announces
yield of 1000 bushels of corn from
eighty acres, and asks who can beat
it. It is thought that no one can beat
it in Brown county, and possibly no
one in Kansas.
After diphtheria had ragged for some
time among the children of scnool dis
trict No. 4S, Lyons county, the board
of directors decided to clean out the
well. They found only twelve dead
rabbits in it.
The Kansas building at the worlds
fair has been sold to State Senator
Samuel Crum of Garnett for $3.50. 1t
will be shipped to Garnett, restored,
and used as a club headquarters, a
public library, and a meeting place for
the Y M. C. A.
Each week the Marion Record re-
produces local news from the CORE
spending week thirty-one years ago.
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This week it starts off:
"Grasshoppers.
More Grasshoppers.
Most grasshoppers.
Did you ever see so many?
At least 1O0,OOO,0O0,O 900 900, 000,0 900
grasshoppers passed this place last
Thursday evening. We won't come
down a single grasshopper.
Owing to the destruction Of the
shade by grasshoppers, the second
quarterly meeting of the Marion Cen
ire charge will be held in the Pres
byterian church in connection with a
basket meeting, commencing Friday,
August IA. Both saint and sinner are
cordially invited to attend.
The old.fashioned Irishman who is
quoted at calling people "spalpeens"
has been found out in Republic
county.
AS January falls on Sunday, Eu-
gene Ware will not resume the prac-
tice of law and poetry" in Topeka UNI
til the 2nd.
The Saina Journal had two full-page
advertisements last Friday and the
Journals pages are somewhat larger
than the side of a skating rink.
The Presbyterian bazaar in Fredonia
this week is making a speciality of
neckwear, and advertises to suit all,
whether the necks are long, short or
elastic.
when a man gets ornery enough to
spit tobacco on a church floor he
ought to try rat biscuit" is the
judgment of Deason w. c. Palmer Of
Jewell City.
Complaints come from Hutchinson
because there is not vacant store
room in town" Surely Hutchinson
does not want a lot of vacant store
rooms?
Superintendent of Street Sweeping
e. Nelson manages to get his title into
the Leavenworth papers and Assistant
Superintendent of Gutter Flushing w.
Jones has homes.
President Roosevelt deserves much
credit, OF course, for the result OF the
election, but some of the Republican
papers in Kansas are still trembling
to think what might have happened
but for the efforts of Dave Mhlvane.
The Jewell County Republican
quotes one of Mart Kings stories"
An Irishman went to consult The doc
Tor. The doctor told him that there
were no two ways about It, If he didn't
stop drinking whisky he would go
blind. The Irish weighed both pos
sibilities in his mind and came to this
decision: will, I'm siventy-two wears
old now, and | believe I've seen about
livery thing that's worth seein'."
The Humboldt Herald prints a car
toon representing the Mysterious
Stranger trying to kidnap a little
child named Natural Gas"
A Washington dispatch quotes Com.
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