Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1905-03-09
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lnSlStS tnaL the snow is DeautlIul is
at work on the Wetmore Enterprise.
In the city Of Argentine the Board
Of Education have arranged with the
City Council to occupy the City Hall
as High School.
The State Temperance Union,
which met in Topeka last week, is
entitled to be known as the Zemsky
Sober Of Kansas.
Valley Center Is being made good
place to live In by its discriminating
city council, which has not met since
the middle of November.
According to the Washington Rep
ublican the reason girls do not talk
In their sleep is that they tell all they
know while they are awake.
Senator Fitzpatric adds to his own
renown by telegraphing to the news
papers In his district every time an
anti-Standard Oil bill is passed.
A Franklin county paper announ.
ces that District Attorney Jerome X.
Jerome of New York" will address
the Ottawa ChautauQua next July.
Two shows "An --merican Gentle.
man," and Beware of Men," are
booked for the same night in Atchi-
son-at least Atchison is being made
to think so.
Kent Robb has received 26,33S
votes as the most popular" street
car conductor in Topeka. His name
suggests that the company is also
working in his behalf.
The fact that he is mayor of the
town did not prevent man in Green
leaf whose name Is withheld, being
fined 81 for leaving his horse hitched
out of doors all night.
A. P. Shaw has bought D. e. Nc
Colloms intrest in the Usage City
Public Opinion, and is now the sole
owner again. He has one of the best
weekly papers In the state.
Congressman Phil" Campbell Of
the Third district awoke the other
morning and found himself the most
renowned member of the Kansas leg.
islature-and also the busiest.
Citizens along the Central Branch
want a clause in the new railroad
law requiring each line to maintain
a snow pillow. They are tired of walt
ing for the man behind the shower.
George S. Gray, trusty at the Kansas
penitentiary escaped recently. He was
working at the home of DR.. Grigsby
and 1t Is reported that an ex-convict
furnished him with a suit of clothes.
Downs, in Osborne county, is able
to brag that it has had only two d.
vorce cases in ten years. Nothing
ever happens at Downs, as matter
Of fact, except the celebration each
year of its anniversary.
Out in Jewell county, the Repub.
iican says, they never call a man q
liar any more no matter how many
rabbits he claims to have killed, or
how many degrees below zero his
thermometer registered.
Ten warrents we're issued in Olpe,
Lyon county, this week for persons
who had stolen old ties from the
Santa Fe railroad. The company is
only human and objects to having old
ties ruthlessly broken up.
Reports of the terrible effects OF
the cold and stormy weather upon
live stock come from all sections OF
the state. Near Ashland it is said that
of a herd of 1000 head, over 200
persisted from cold and hunger.
The Cowley county farmer who
recently dug a grave for himself and
then curled up in it and died was
not" says the Clay Center Dispatch,
unlike the Kansas politicians who
are on the Standard Oil side of the
controversy.
They are joshing a Robinson man,
the Index says who is the father of
young baby, because he attended
dinner party recently and absent.
mindely folded his napkin three-cor'
ner shaped instead Of the conven.
tional way.
Some Howard women took the
Courant's suggestion seriously when
II advised selling their votes at the
spring election as a means Of raising |
funds for the church. One woman
asked: How much do the corrupt |
politicians usually pay for a voter"
Just as a train was about to pull
out of Hiawatha, the Democrat says,
a woman shouted frantically: wait
until | get my clothes on" Every
man on the car rubbered to have
look" It was poor washer woman
trying to get basket Of clothes on
the car.
DR.. ]. P. Hamme, state senator from
the Chase-M orris-Marion district, was
permanently excused from the senate
to enter hospital in Kansas City for
treatment. He is suffering from nerv.
GUS trouble resulting from his hard
for the office Of state sena
tor.
Governor Hoch signed the bill max.
Ing pipelines common carriers and es.
rate for transporting oil
given distances. He signed also the
bill urged by the State Federation OF
Labor, providing that parallel tunnels
In mines shall be kept open and in
use.
A denial in the Eldorado Repub.
Iican: The Wichita Eagle says the
editor Of this paper prints his own
picture on the occasion OF his own
This is incorrect. The editor
Is to modest to print his own picture
and during HIS absence from the CITY