Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-10-11

BAXTER SPRINGS, G.
Wheat sowing Is IN order. .'
Register, register! resislcr!!
Quail shooting is said TO be excel
Go and hear Congressman Perkins
at the city hall next Monday at l 30.
Hon. D. w. Perkins will speak at
the city hall next Monday afternoon.
The weather has been u little mere
pleasant this week-not so much rain.
w. w. SrOtt entered four OF his fine
horses at the Vinita fair and captured
Two premiums.
Farmers have begun To market their
wheat anh are bringing IN considera-
bic Of II just now.
Register ut the News office before
Oct. %, If you desire 10 vote ut the
approaching election.
The last weeks issue of the Chetopa
Advance contained very good write
up of our recent reunion.
1t is about time 10 begin TO pay par
ticular attention to the taitening OF
the Thanksgiving turkey.
Cornelius NJ. Clark and Thomas j.
Wiltermood of near this city have re-
Gently been granted pensions.
The duty of every citizen is TO see
that lie is properly registered that he
may not lose his vote November 4.
Some Of our resubmission friends
have been boasting that there are five
liquor joints now in operation in this
city.
If you have changed your residence
since the last election you must regis
ter in order TO have vote at the next
election.
The Advocate says that "major'
! Hunt, who has managed the Column
bus creamery for two years past. has
skipped out" leaving several creditors
in the lurch.
The county commissioners have
been petitioned to put in bridge at
the crossing of Willow creek just
northwest Of this city. 1t has long
been needed.
Capt. G.. A. Power. ot Terre Haute,
Ind, addressed fair sized audience
at the city hall Tuesday afternoon up
on the issues of the day and In the in-
terest of the peoples party.
The Western Veteran, published at
Topeka by 0. H. Coulter and Lewis
Hanback,, gave in itslast issue a splen-
did two-column account of the late
soldiers reunion at Baxter Springs.
The Cherokee Sentinel of last week
published full column account of the
late soldiers reunion here. 1t was a
very creditable and well written re-
sume of the interesting incidents OF
the event.
Deacon d. N. Pence brought us a
fine sweet potato Tuesday weighing
three aud q half pounds. Thanks.
Now if some one will fetch" US a
plump, juicy possum we believe we
would enjoy another square meal.
The Y. P. s. c. E. of the First Pres
byterian church will give an apple pie
social at the residence of Mr.. s. A.
IIaines next Tuesday evening, Oct. IA.
All are cordially invited to come and
participate in the pleasures OF the
evening.
Several Baxter young bloods went
to Joplin Thursday evening in order
to get an advance peep at the great
Barnum show. A goodly number Of
our citizens went to the noisy city yes
terday TO see the great and only circus
on EARTH.
A neat card announces that Miss
Maude Mcdowell, formerly OF Column
bus, aud daughter of Mr.. S. 0. Nc
Dowell, is to be married TO Mr.. Will
NJ. Pye of Cherokee on Wednesday,
October %, in the state penitentiary
parlors at Lansing, Kan.
MARRIED.-At the Office of and by
Justice L. II. Williams in this city, on
Tuesday, October z, 1890, Andrew An
derson and NJ. E. Scott, both of Gale
ma. These people were 90 years old
and after the impressive ceremony
which made them one they went on
their way rejoicing, as happy as two
c,oIda,,- hraaeta mead0w larka In the