Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-03-08

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BAXTER SPRINGS, G
Rev. A. r Miller will leave for con-
ference next Monday. :,
Jack Horner Pie ut the city hall this
Saturday evening. 1
DR.. Gregg still holds the fort with !
calm, unruffied cOuntenance.
Don't fail to forget to register, and 3
then blame US because you csnnot vote. 3
The Austin shaft is over 70 feet deep 8
aud still going down. Prospects good.
Chetopa is preparing to build but 2
ter and cheese factory the same size as
the Baxter Springs plant.
The G. A. r., X. of p. and Select
Friends lodges removed their effects to
the Cooper hall this week. 4;
Pie! Piei Piel Jack Horner Pie
Tonight One hundred plums! Good
program! Fun! Coming3
Coal has been trifle scarce In town
this week owing to the prolonged yet
needless stay OF old winter. I
Messrs. Schwartz & Son, the pho
tographers, left Tuesday for Joplin. G
They did a splendid business here.
Columbus had terrible mad dog
scare last week. The direct result OF
It was the sudden death of 65 dogs.
At the city election to be held OIL
April /, Joplin will have its first ex.
perience with the Australian plan."
The Board of Education met in reg
ular monthly session Monday evening
last. No business of special impOr-
tance.
Next Sunday will close the pastorate
of Rev. Miller of the Methodist church r
for this conference year, perhaps per- 8
lnanently. I
JIM. Cooper is removing two small
tenement houses from South Military
street to his farms few miles west Of d
the city. q
The r. L. Birum property in the
northeast part of our city will be sold !
Monday by the sheriff to satisfy q
mortgage. s
The exercises at the hall tonight u
will cost you q cent apiece, but the o. y
p. II. A. will be worth more than the q
entire coat.
The tract of land lying just north
of the city and known as La Veta I
Place 10 advertised by the sheriff for 9
sale on the Oath inst. =
The weather the past week has been
Anything but pleasant. Generally =
cloudy with raw winds and OCCASION :
al slight falls of snow.
Col. March is still suffering consid- l
erably with his wrist that was 90 bad
ly cut by falling plate glass at the re.
cent fire and is still off duty.
Subject at morning service at N. Z.
church next Sunday will be "The 9
Ministry;" at the evening service C
''The Possessions of the Christian" q
T. w. Smith gives It as his opinion .
that there will be no peaches grown
this year within 200 miles Of this city.
The buds are all dead in this vicinity. {
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There will be an important meeting 3
Of the stockholders of the butter and r
cheese factory Ia this city Saturday, n
March 15, ct 2 o'clock. AL members
should be present. 9
Mr.. AL. Binns, Miss Alice Craig and Q
Miss Sadie Talbot, the most first class c
est cooks in southeastern Kansas, are 9
preparing q mOnstrous pie for the az 9
fair at the hall tonight.
Samuel Bricker returned to the city
Wednesday evening and It 10 expected
that the organization Of the windmill
company will be perfected and opera
tions be begun ut once.
It is said David Powell, Ofborn Cox O
and some half dozen other American f
citizens of African descent suddenly {
disappeared Tuesday and Wednesday, O
ostenSibly for the purpose Of avoiding
an interview with the county attorney. {
At the meeting Of the county com. q
missioners last Monday the contract :