Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-08-01

drouth yet.
Business has been very quiet the
past week.
Timely rains continue TO fall
throughout the state.
The G. A. II. boys want 90 teams
and 80 men Monday morning early.
The winter wheat acreage for Cher
okee county will be largely increased
this fall.
The home grown striped watcrmel-
on is becoming quite numerous in the
market place.
Everybody call at Mrs. Stark's and
get Hat at your own price. Dress
goods selling out at cost.
d. S. Mitchell, the territory saw
mill man, donates SIS worth OF lum-
Der for the amphitheatre.
Friends knowing themselves in
debted TO Mrs. Stark will please call
and settle without further notice.
Later peaches which are now COM
ing into market are larger and OF u
finer flavor than the earlier variety.
The Daily Reunion News will be
mailed every morning during the
week for II cents. Send in your
names now.
Elder d. L. Palmer OF Lockwood,
Mo-, will preach at the Christian
church Sunday, August 2, morning
and evening.
Bethurum saws that when AL. Dive
Is cot home aud found out that sonle-
thing was wrong with his buggy he
said "Dy gumw
Joe Digknifc says he has been on
many a wolf hunt, but never saw
lamI hunt wolves till the last raid Oh
the Baxter joints.
Our grapevine dispatches from the
territory always give the latest news
and in most every instance may be
considered reliable.
IF YOU cannot attend the whole of
the reunion, send ID cents and have
the Daily Reunion News mailed to
you every morning.
A man may wear a white apron as
a token of Innocence, but 1t won't 60
in Baxter Springs, either with the flap
turned up or the flap turned down.
The late festival given by the ladies
of the NJ. E. church was not "dis-
NAL failure" as stated last week-at
least financially. The proceeds were
$24I60.
Geo. P. Hill, late of Baxter Springs,
but more recently of Columbus, came
down Thursday with his landlord and
spent the day among his friends and
family.
j. M. Cooper, who has recently
returned from Oklahoma, reports
the crops not only in Oklahoma,
but all along the line, as simply mag
nificent.
w. A. Braman, the great lumber
dealer of Neutral, spent Tuesday and
Wednesday in Baxter Springs figur-
ing on some big bills of building
material.
Calls have already been made by
outside G. A. II. posts for over $50
tents for the reunion. 1t looks as ii
the boys were not only coming, but
expected to stay all the week.
Star Courier: The county attorney
says that those who bring him in
formation of violators of the prohibi-
tory law refuse, in nearly every case,
to make oath to the Information.
Star Courier: The county COM
missioners met on Monday to allow
number of accounts, and 10 appropri-
ate 81, 1899 to aid in building bridge
across Spring river at Needles ford.
VIM. Lnmley of Neosho township
was killed on Monday last by his sad
die horse falling on him. Mr.. Lumley
was a well known stock raiser and
dealer living near the village of Mel
rose.
The Seneca, Mo-, brass band has
been engaged to play for the reunion,
an that fhara will no tllrna hande he.
sides the drum corps 10 enliven the Oc-
casion. The Seneca band has is reg
ular players. -
Columbus Advocate: S. 0, Nc
Dowell and A. P. Riddle will, about
August lst, commence the publication
of a daily paper at Pittsburg. To
the projectors of the new enterprise
we wish unlimited success.
Rev. James T. Cooter, formerly Of
this city, has been chosen president
L.