Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1905-04-06
Observation-Disclosures
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in the Garrett Journal and Garrett
Evening News.
Mr.. Sprig, an old resident Of Jar
balo, was thrown from his wagon and
killed in runaway recently.
Emporia Republicans expect their
nominee for mayor, o. B. Hardcastle,
. prove tower Of strength"
Conner Davies is now publishing
daily edition of his Kansan, thus CIV
ing Concordia two daily papers.
A. S. Hobart, for some years with
the Mail and Breeze, has bought an
interest in the Independent Journal
at Ottawa.
Arkansas City hopes to elect a sat.
lsfactory set of officials next month,
although there are only four tickets
in the field
A man named Shindle, while driv-
Ing team near Phillips5urg, was run
down by train and killed. His team
escaped injury.
A Topeka druggist is thinking Of
moving to Panan He has been told
that whisky sell. for fifty cents a
drink down there.
A car of Kansas eggs, 400 cases,
and the first car to be shipped this
season, were recently sent from OFT
ava to New York.
Harvey Ford brought suit for a
divorce from Martha Ford in Topeka
this week and neither one shows any
dispositinn to capitulate.
Otto Luck, of Whiting, was the vic
tim of runaway last week. Tlthough
the buggy and the harness were to-
tai wreck, Otto is doing well.
Item from Pleasanton Observer
The girls are playing basket ball every
night this week and getting in shape
for the big game with TT. Scott.
The political slate having been
pretty well cleaned off for this time +,
q number Of citizens Of Kansas will
soon get busy running for office in
1906.
One Third district paper has dis
covered that the Standard Oil
octopus" has a tail and that Con.
gresham Campbell is the man who
twisted it.
Robbers who broke into the Milton
State bank a few nights ago were
rewarded for several hours Of hard
and dangerous work by haul Of
fifty cents.
Lort coott v,,iobt bova lpoun Uhan
II nominated an undertaken for mayor
that a large number of paragraphs
about the deafness of the town would
be inevitable.
Closing the Joints" In Salina the
other day has already resulted In the
discontlnuance of the paid fire de-
partment, and stopped all street Inn
provements. 1t means loss OF $4,000
of revenue to the city.
At Pleasant Hill, while Mrs. William
Hendrix was burning the brush and
trash which had accumulate in the
yard during winter, her dress caught
fire and before it could be put out,
she was burned so badly that she died.
Governor Hoch announced yesterday
that the battle ship Kansas will be
christened with a bottle Of Kansas
crude oil. 1t would also be an appro-
pirate idea, in order to make the bot.
tie pop, to charge it with Kansas nat
ural gas.
Over 500 teachers attended the An.
nual Convention of the Northeastern
Kansas Teachers Association WEIGH
was held at the University of Kansas
last week. A number of interesting
papers were read and fully discussed,
much good being derived by the teach
ers.
w. H. Woodbury., farmer in Mitch
ell County, decided to move to town,
and sold his farm. When he came to
move, however, he could find no
house, so he simply moved the house
from his farm, a distance of three
miles. Three traction engines did the
work.
The richest 400-acre farm in the
world is said to be located near
Neodesha. Its value is nearly $1,000
90, and its annual output is about
IS, O00, 900, 1t belongs to the Standard
Oil company, and is covered with oil
tanks. Not a dollars worth of any.
thing else but oil is produced on the
farm.
A large number Of Kansas teachers
are planning to enter the spring
courses at the university, which are
open to teachers whose schools
close in April This enables them to
earn half a credit toward a degree
in each subject and also articulates
them with the work Of the summer
session.
Recently a party Of farmers near
LelOup, interposed with the laying
Of gas mains in that vicinity. The
gas company claims to have contracts
to cross the farms and the farmers
question the existance Of such con-
tracts. The farmers are now In ad.
and the mater will be settled
In court.
Disguised with Topeka and the re,
suit of her efforts to establish a rest
room" and school for w. c. T. U.
workers there. Mrs. Carrie Nation
has decided to pull out Of the wicked
Kansas capital. The property she
vacates is located at the corner OF
Twelfth street and Kansas avenue,
has been offered for sale. 1t is
valued at $500.
The cayotes in the sandhills south.
west Of Cimarron pricked up their
ears and got busy a few days ago