Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1904-10-20
KANSAS ITEMS

North Topeka this week and was ar
rested for stealing Stop barrels.
So many eccentric people live along
one street in Atchison that the peo
pie are beginning to call it the Pike.
Clyde voted $4,000 this week for q
municipal water plant. The sum is
enough to provide a windmill and O
new bucket.
There would be less objection to
the 100 dogs in Potter if they did
something better than scratch fleas
all day and bark all night.
In Lawrence the foremost town loaf
ers have petitioned the management
Of the Bowersock bank to place cush-
ions on its stone steps.
The Wichita Eagle charges that
Mercury, the unclad youth who poses
at the top of the Topeka Herald
editorial page, is in reality an Igor.
rote.
Protest is made because walls of
Corn" has not been printed yet this
fall. "The Frost Is On the Pumpkin"
and Paw Paws Ripe" are also lack
ing.
Silver is quoted at sixty-seven cents
an ounce and wheat is beyond 81 a
bushel. "This reminds us of some
thing" says the Jewell City Repub.
lican, "but We cannot think what it
is"
Although Kansas City's fall festivi-
ties are in honor of Pallas Athene,
the lola Register has noticed that
most of the young men who come from
that town prefer to worship at the
shrine of Bacchus.
"Bill Langan has steel-gray colt
which he believes is threatened with
speed" says the Atchison Globe.
Next thing: Bill will buy a ky
and drive the colt around the race
track every Sunday morning. Then he
will hire a man to train the colt at
the track. Then he will enter 1t at
races, and lose his money. Then he
will throw away the knee pads and
hitch the colt to the grocery wagon
with a mule, where he belongs. The
colt has been pampered so much that
1t is already necessary to drive him
with kicking strap"
One might think, from reading the
Salina papers, that Harry Mcmillan
was running for president.
Representative Reeder and Repre-
sentative Murdoch continue to make
speeches daily in their districts, un.
mindful Of the scheme to cede the
western half Of their districts to Colo
RADIO.
D. r. Anthony's automobile is in
a Topeka repair shop. He should
have known better than to take an
lanti-Curtis machine into Topeka.
A farmer near Logan raised more
than 100000 pounds of cabbage on
27-acre tract, and expects to feed his
cattle cold slaw all winter.
While the authorities in Clay Cen.
ter were trying to decide to whom
the crop Of walnuts in the court house
square belonged, some small boys
solved the question.
AS the newly appointed sheriff OF
Teller county, Colorado, lived In Has.
kell county Kansas, during the coun.
ty seat wars, there can be no reason.
able doubt concerning his qualifica.
tions.
Bison Is also drilling for oil. The
Bee is so hopeful that 1t declares the
well already Smells oily" The New.
ton Journal suggests that perhaps the
drillers have been oiling the machin.
cry.
Protest from the Erie Record: Last
Saturday on Main street we ran into
a bunch of half dozen or more
spoons who were plying their trade
well. Now, We don't object to spool.
ing, but there should be a time and
place for all things"
For the time being Mr. Hoch's Ma.
rion Record is containing no Thoughts
We've Been Thinking, but last week
1t had something almost as good. 1t
prefaced clipping: These beauti.
full thoughts from the pen OF Orison
Sweet Marsdoen are worthy OF place
In the Record columns. There is
something grander in this world than
he mere getting of money"
The Marion Record tells how II oc.
CURED. 1t says: "A very serious &C.
cldent happened near Florence last
Tuesday evening. about 1880 o'clock.
Three men, who reported that they
had been camping alongside the rail.
Dad and were making a fire Of some
ties, were injured by an ex.
Dloslon Of dynamite which was in one
" the ties they threw on the fire. One
nan had leg and arm terribly LAGER.
tied by the force of the explosion, one
lrm so badly that amputation was
necessary. One was wounded about
he head and back of the neck. The
,ther escaped injury but was placed
inder arrest. They tell conflicting
tories about the affair, and were prob.
IDLY planning some mischief, which