Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1904-09-01


has attacked the iron castings of the
wells in the Eastern Kansas oil dis
trict. and oil and gas stocks are
slumping.
A man in Winfield has approached
the water works company with
scheme to supply the city with catfish
and deliver them through the water
mains.
In Lawrence, the World says, COM
mission man was almost made bank
rupt because his berry pickers filled
the bottom side of his berry boxes in
stead of the top side.
A man approached E. w. Hbch a
few days ago and made an offer to buy
the Marion Record. Mr. Hoch is re-
ported to have answered him in one
word, to-wit Huh.
The Marion Headlight admits SUBJ
hitting to an operation and having it's
patent insides removed. 1t is now all
home print.
hO w SOllC6C hCNlCW luuSI
have a large circulation if all the ed
itors and assistant editors are bona
fide subscribers.
A few years ago Eldorado was the
nineteenth town in Kansas in point
of population; now it is thirty.first
The Commercial club has decided that
it is up to us to begin to get ready
to do something"
The lightning rod agents have been
given new lease Of Inc out in Mitch.
ell county. More people have been
struck by lightning, and more cattle
killed and property destroyed by light
ming this year than ever before. The
papers hint that it is because the old
reliable lightning rod had fallen into
disuse.
The Parsons Sun is nothing If not
superfluous. She is a young 15-year-
old girl and the daughter of widow
woman" it alleges in reporting story
and concludes with these remarkable
allegations: "The punishment for the
attempt, If found guilty, is one-half
had he succeeded" and, "she asks that
the law protect her against any fur
Their exposure to such as she claims
the young man to be-"
In Concordia forty young women are
saving railroad fare and travelling ex-
penses by renting house and fixing
it up as a summer resort. The house
has seven rooms, a dining room in a
tent, dancing pavilion under anoth-
er tent, and numerous small tents are
scattered around for the overflow.
Tennis courts, hammocks, a creek and
plenty of shade have converted the
place into the next thing to a seaside
resort. Half a dozen mothers chap
eron the young women, and their
meals are cooked by an ex-dining car
chef and served by an ex-dining car
waiter.
Another Thought" that came to p.
w. Hoch of the Marion Record: TOO
many people throw stones at others
when they are alive and flowers at
them when they are dead. If those
who have passed from earth can look
down from the spirit world and wit
ness the scenes of time they must
view with pity and contempt the sniv-
cling creatures who never had kind
word for them while they were strug-
Cling with life's vicissitudes, but
shower tears and flowers upon their
bier when such things can do no good.
One tiny flower dropped upon the
grave by a real friend is worth a
wagonload of blossoms put there by
hands that were extended in friendly
favor when they were needed"
Thomas Benton Murdoch, who was
in Topeka recently, was greatly i'm
pressed with the flower beds in the
stabe house square. They FILL" he
says, "the nostrils of the overworked
sons of toll who have been grated
into tie public service to toll and
MOL for the public good at salaries
wholly inadequate for the service rem
dered; and as we tramped for an hour
this morning worshipplng at the
shrine of flowers-lovely flowers
startled at every turn at some new
landscape design, from God Bless Our
Hoome,' so delicately worked in block
letters in front of the governors Of
flee. to the more significant close
clipped motto, BE Virtuous and You
Will Be Happy. under Tie window Of
the state treasurer. we went back to
the cold, clammy four walls of Cope
land county In the belief that the peo-
pie OF this state will never appreciate
what the executive council has done
to make the capitol grounds the most
attractive spot in the city"
Pictures Of one of the Miami county
oil wells show "a derrick that is gush-
ing printers ink over everything with
in a radius Of three-quarters of a
mile.
Monday was the day-August 22-
when II was permissible under the
Kansas game laws to go forth and
shoot prairie chickens, II there were
any.
Also, there is desire to know II |
Mr.. ]. Bridegroom. the president Of
the First State bank Of Norton, is any