Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1905-01-26

| thlrty-tnree grandchildren. Who can
boast Of re?-Westmoreland Rec
ord.
In the whole Union there are only
seven states in which there is more
mail delivered by rural carriers than
in Kansas.
The Jewell Republican thinks that
If Mrs. Chadwick ever gets good
chance at the judge and jury which
are to try her, they will not have
enough left to buy a breakfast.
Cowley county claims to have made
good record in her domestic life dur
ing the year just closed. She had 1862
marriages and only seventy-one suits
for divorce.-Kansas City Journal.
Every editor is threatened by some
one with horsewhipping by the ladies
if he is a man; if real young girl the
subscribers threaten to give her a
spanking Westmoreland Signal.
The good Methodist town of Bald.
win was shocked by young man who
went to Galena during the holidays
and returned this week wearing an
Elks' emblem.-Kansas City Star.
A. R. Alexander, editor of the Lead.
err, has been selected as superintend-
ent of the Plattsburg public schools to
fill the vacancy caused by the death
Of P. H.. Crafton.-Kidder Independ-
ent.
The editor Of the Cawker City Rec
ord, after trying to put all of his hol
iday advertisements next to reading
mater, knows how politician feels
when he tries to place 100 people in
twenty-five jobs.-Kansas City Star.
Corn is unusually heavy this year,
as is evidenced by the fact that when
load is taken from the shelter to the
elevators the farmers usually have
from three to four bushels more on
the wagon than the shelters were paid
for cleaning.
A Scandal woman who ordered a
cloak from mail order house is out
So express so far and has no cloak
either. If she had ordered through
the local merchant and the goods
were not as represented she would
have recourse without any EXPENSE
Journal.
The longest root we have seen
shown in long time was being ex.
hibited by Ed Tarvin last Saturday,
1t was parsnip, the root of which
was forty inches long and the top
twenty-four inches. 1t was grown in
hard clay soil on the high PRAIRIE
Marshall County News.
A Smith county boy who didn't lose
any time in reading the local papers,
saw an ad in a novel lately stating
that for 81 an Eastern concern would
send a plan for preventing shot from
scattering. The boy bit and by return
mail received this reply: use one
shot. Morton Champion.
Mrs. John Reidy, Clyde woman,
was thrown from a carriage in run.
away one day last week, and being
struck on the head by one of the
horses feet received a bad scalp
wound. Two children were in the
buggy with her but escaped without
injury.-Concordia Press.
From what farmers have told us we
believe that an ice house properly
filled, Is an economy on the farm
Many farmers, who pay no attention
to such matters could be convenienced
| by building and maintaining an ice
house, Think it over; build the house
and profit thereby.-Westmoreland
Signal.
Steve De Young. formerly editor Of
the Cawker City Free Press, went to
farming in Decatur a good many years
ago. and is still at it. The OberllD
Eye says: "Steve is busy husking
corn, which he has nearly completed,
His corn this year is exceptionally
fine and some of 1t is yielding over
fifty bushels an acre.-The Public
Record.
Manhattan institute held its annual
meeting for the election of officers re
Gently. The following were elected:
President, w. S. Elliot; vice president
j. Q. A. Sheldon; secretary, L. ~
Flint; treasurer, Challen Ewing; trus
tees, DR.. Little, Mrs. Briggs and Mr.
Wharton. Committee on arrange
ments, Mesdames Young, Purcell and
Greeley.-Manhatta Nationalist.
There Is a queer state OF affairs In
the little town of Lanham, Washing
ton county, Kas. The main street OF
the town is the line between Nebras
ka and Kansas. The north side Of the
street is in Nebraska and the south
side is in Kansas. Nebraska has Q
high license law; Kansas, prohibition
On the north side of the street there
is no saloon; on the south or Kansas
| side ere ara four -Oshorna Farmar