Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-05-14

Attend the race COuIso aHt 'a.'
ground meeting at the city hall this
evening.
Let 'er go. Josiah. The kite shaped
track we must have.
Notice the new occupation tax or
dinance in another column.
Important business meeting at the
city hall this Saturday night lie
there.
Kite shaped track? We'll yes, l
should say. Be at the meeting to-
night.
Foot ball is making quite an im-
preston on the Baxter young mans
mind now.
Thixten, the Galena auctioneer made
things hum for awhile on Military
street last Saturday.
The recent rains are said to be just
the thing for wheat. How awfully
dry the wheat must have been.
II everybody who is foot loose at
tends the meeting tonight we'll be
working ON the track in ten days.
Even the flaming advertisements of
the ice cream dealers fail to bring the
warm weather so much desired.
ia a.,l., ..oc,,;~ac n littla h0rcQ eanan
to see that Baxter Springs will be a
famous horse center before many years.
Another big rain Thursday night. II
looks like the calamity howlers would
have plenty of material to work on.
Lutte Archer of Columbus is OPEN
ing I'D a salesroom for the Deering
binder in the Fox livery stable build
ing.
The crop of strawberries promises
to he large-that is If they are not
frozen too often between now and
ripening time.
Not a nickle could be raised here at
the present time for the purpose ofget-
ting the rain-maEers to begin opera
tiOns ia this locality.
Only a small number of shares now
wanted to secure the race course and
fair ground. Attend the meeting to-
night and let's have them.
Never in the history of Kansas have
we had such backward and disagree
able spring as this. Yet everything
put into the ground seems to grow.
Attend the meeting tonight, add
one more share to your stock, attend
church tomorrow and we'll get the
race track and fair ground all right
enough.
There is one advantage about the
present weather which an unthlnElng
bubble is likely to overlook. It stands
off the man who asks, "ls 1t hot
enough for you 2"
Some one put a penny enwrapped
with tin foil in the nickle slot Of Has,
kett's phonograph Thursday, but it Is
not known whether the fellow got the
machine 10 work or not. Prespma-
bly, not.
Senator Stanford his sold $400, ,WO
worth of trotting horses thus far this
year and has over a million dollars
worth left. Let's cultivate the fast
horse interest in Baxter Springs. IL
means wealth.
PC. MIlliken and family of Galens
drove over to Baxter Thursday after
noof. Mr.. MilliEen came after q jot
or two of carriage repair work which
he had left with the Baxter Springs
carriage works. &
Bring your laundry to Springs
Hotel before Tuesday morning and II
will be sent to the finest steam
laundry in the state free of express
charges. Be clean. Cleanliness II
next TO Goodness.
In our mention of the public schoo
matters last week we accidently omit
ted the name of Mrs. w. H. Vickers
who has been engaged to teach thu
same department the coming year thaI
she had last year.
Another almost paraly zing rebukt
to the ice man came spinning alonl
down this way Monday evening alons
with the report in the dailies tina
there was 16 inches of snow in Ne
braska and more falling.
Ransom Pigg while riding along thI
road about miles west Of town las
Sunday saw a deer in an adjoining
wheat field. Being well mounted OF
his well kown racing stallion he CAV
chase and succeeded In capturing tn.
animal alive. 1t was q one year ole
buck and weighed 70lbs,