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PHILLIPS COUNTY, KANSAS NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
MAYBE GRANDAD WENT TO THIS FINE SALE Farmers of Morgan county are familiar with the type of goods usually offered at farm sales in Morgan county. They pratically always list a few horses, a tractor perhaps and most certainly some kind of machinery or other. Here is a copy of a farm sale that was printed in the Adams County, Iowa, Union Republican advertising a public sale that took place on September 26, 1850. Having sold my farm and intending to move to Missouri, I will sell at public sale, 1 mile west and 4 miles south of Harrison, Ky., on Saturday, September 26, 1850, the following described property to wit: one buck nigger, 25 years old, weight 225 lbs; 4 nigger wenches from 18 to 24 years old, 3 nigger boys six years old; 13 nigger hoes; 1 fine sled; six yoke of oxen, well broke; 10 ox yokes with hickory bows; 2 ox carts with six inch tires; 1 saddle; 3 double shovels; 2 stump plows; 10 and 12 inch; 15 one gallon whiskey jugs; 100 gallons of apple cider; 1 barrel of good sorgham; 2 barrels of soap; 2 barrels of kraut; 1 extra good nigger whip; 2 tons of tobacco, 2 years old. Sale will start at 10:30 o'clock sharp. Terms cash. I need the money. Col. H. W. Johnson, auctioneer. Bill Crawford, clerk Joe Corley, Owner - Fort Morgan Herald. (Submitted by Linda Outhet Chang) RELICS OF THE PAST The following clipping was handed to us for publication by Sidney Pitt and no doubt will stir the memory of many of our oldtime readers: Mrs. Michael Schallmo, 440 North Topeka, Friday received a clipping from the Republican, Watonga, Okla., paper, which carried the following sale bill issued in Kentucky before the Civil War. Having sold my farm and am leaving for Oregon territory by oxen teams March 1, 1849, I will sell all my personal property except two oxem teams. Buck and Ben, and Lon and Jerry. The sale consists of the following: two milk cows, one gray mare and colt, one pair oxen, one yoke and one baby yoke, two ox carts, one iron plow, 800 feet of poplar weather boards, 1,000 three-foot clap boards, 1,500 ten-foot fence rails, one 60-gallon soap kettle, 85 sugar troughs, made of white ash timber, 10 gallons of maple syrup, two spinning wheels, 30 barrels mutton tallow, one large loom made by Jerry Wilson, 300 poles, 100 split hoops, 100 empty barrels, one 32 gallon barrel of Johnson Miller whiskey, 7 years old; 20 gallons apple brandy; one 40-gallon copper still; four sides of oak tanned leather; one dozen wooden pitchforks, a one half interest in the tan years; 32 caliber rifle, bullet rounds and powder horn; rifle made by Ben Miller, 50 gallons of soft soap, hams, bacon, and lard, 40 gallons of sorghum molasses; six head of fox hounds, all soft mouthed but one. At same time I will sell my six negro slaves - two men, 35 and 50; two boys, 12 and 18 years old; two mulatto wenches, 30 and 40 years old. Will sell all together to same party as I will not separate them. Terms of sale, Cash in hand or note to draw 4 per cent interest with Buckston Allen security. My house is two miles south of Bowling Green, Ky., on the Allen's Ferry Pike. Sale starts at 8 a.m. Plenty eat and drink. (Submitted by Linda Outhet Chang) FRANK SIMS SHOOTS JAMES DODGE On Monday of last week Frank Sims shot and killed James Dodge in Logan, Phillips County. The two men had had trouble but the Phillipsburg Herald regards the murder as cold blooded and adds that the feeling in Logan against the murderer was so intense that it was feared for a time he would be mobbed. He was lodged in jail at Phillipsburg. (Western Kansas World, August 8, 1885) GEO. LOWE BURNS POCKET BOOK Geo. Lowe, of Phillipsburg, while fixing the fire one night last week, burned a opcket book containing $40, which had fallen into the coal scuttle. (Western Kansas World, February 19, 1887) IRVING ROGERS GUEST AT WEDDING Irving Rogers, teller in a Phillipsburg bank, was a guest at the Shackleford-Zimmerman wedding. (Thomas County Cat, December 12, 1889) Fatal Encounter Between a Constable and Farmer in Kansas Atchison, Kan., May 29 - Edward Hageman, a constable went to the farm of Cyrus Aldrich in Norton County, about 300 miles west of here to take possession of some mortgaged horses. He made known the object of his visit to Aldrich, who warned him not to touch the animals, and at the same time commanded his son and daughter to run the officer off the place. The boy hurled a heavy stone at Hageman and Aldrich drew a revolver and fired. Hageman also drew a revolver and the two men engaged in a deadly duel until they had exhausted their weapons. When the Battle Ended Hageman received a ball in the hand and one in the abdomen. The shot in the abdomen brought him to the ground and was the last fired by Aldrich. The ball cut through the man's bowels and he died in great agony at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon. Aldrich was also brought down to the ground with three bullets in his shoulder and breast. He is still alive, but his death is hourly expected. When the fight began the men were thirty feet apart, but they advanced toward each other as the battle progressed and when they fell they were almost within arm's length. (Bay City Times, May 29, 1891, page 2) STORM VICTIM IN KANSAS PHILLIPSBURG, Kan., June 29. Eight persons were killed in the farming country north of Phillipsburg by a violent storm late yesterday. The dead: Daniel Weaver, farmer; Mrs. Alexander and two daughters; Mr. Morgan, farmer; Morgan's hired man; Elmer Lamb; unknown woman. The houses of C. B. and M. Carwell were destroyed and members of the families buried. The body of Elmer Lamb was found in the ruins of his home. (Date: 1905-06-30; Paper: Morning Olympian, submitted by Barbara Ziegenmeyer) KANSAS GIRL COMMITS SUICIDE Logan, Kan., July 17---A sad case
of self destruction occurred July 14 about eight miles south of Logan. A young woman, aged 20 years, daughter of
John Scott, a prosperous farmer, took her life by drowning herself. The family were absent from home attending
a funeral at a neighbor's house, when the deceased proposed to her two younger sisters to take a ride over the
farm to see the cattle. She had arrayed herself in her best clothes and had made preparations for the event. Arriving
at a pond in one of the draws, about ten feet deep, she adjusted a flour sack about her head, walked into the water
and deliberately took her life. The sisters, who were young and unable to render any assistance, sat upon the bank
crying, where they were found by the parents on their return from the funeral. The cause of the suicide is unknown. CARY, SAMUEL Accidentally Shot Himself----Samuel
Cary, a 20-year-old farmer living four miles northeast of Phillipsburg, accidentally shot himself through the forehead
with a heavy rifle.
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