Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-01-16

BAXTER SPRINGS, {
Sam Jones will lecture IN the Meth
odist Church January 2lst.
The tickets for Sam Jones lecture
arc going of like hot cakes.
The occupation tax collector has been
busy this week gathering in the sEekcls
The proceeds of the Sam Jones lee
ture will go to the church and will bC
applied on the church Indebtedness.
Siegel Archer's infant child died al
Fl. Scott. Sunday aud was brought t.
Baxter Springs for burial Tuesday
last.
Farmers are beginning to look up
machinery and are getting ready fol
farm work which will be in full blast
next month.
II anyone wishes to know what q
fairy looks like let him go down to the
mill pond and see jim Ludlum OH his
new club skates.
Nearly all the inhabitants of Baxter
Springs were down on the mill pond
Thursday afternoon and evening, and
most Of them were on skates.
w. w. Smith and VIM. Buchan
have purchased a stock of hardware
and will go into business at Mansfield,
Ark. We wish them every success.
Charlie Taylor brought in a car
load of fat hogs Wednesday and
among them was one weighing $50
pounds, raised exclusively OH Kansas
corn.
Remember, the Rev. Sam Jones
lectures at the NJ. E. church Thursday
evening, Jan. q. Admission Soc.
Reserved seats 75c. Secure your tickets
early.
One OF our tat business men is q
fine skater, but he ought to have Il
skale fitted 10 his abdomen 50 that
when he goes down he can slide clear
across the river.
NoTicE.-No hunting will hereafter
be allowed on any one of my farms or
premises. Tpspassers will be prose-
cuted to The full extent of the law.
WALTER VoY WEDELL.
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At the extraordinary low price of
80 cents every man aud woman who
can gain admittancc to the NJ. E,
church ought to hear the celebrated
preacher, Sam Jones, Thursday even
ing, Jan. 2l.
Mrs. Winn of the Quapaw mission
school received the painful intelligence
Monday morning that her son, a lad of
fourteen, had his arm torn off by
machinery at tho Lawrence, Kan,
Indian school.
DR.. G. E. Smith, a graduate of the
Louisville medical college, has rented
a dwelling house in the southern part
of the city and will make his perlna-
nent residence here. His Office will be
in Polster's drug store.
We have refrained from using the
word equipped" as it has become so
common it is almost vulgar, but it
must not be forgotten that we have
some of the best equipped liars, loaf
ers and bummers ever produced in any
country.
w. w. Scott started for MOntgom-
cry. Ala, Tuesday where he will
spend five or six weeks disposing of
his stock of horses and mules. He
will bring back some more fine Ken
tucky stock for trotting aud breeding
purposes.
The Western Veteran has com.
menced The publication Of roster of
the old soldier and sailors who attend
ed the reunion at Baxter Springs last
August. The names Of the Kansas
and Ohio veterans were given in the
last issue.
The weather during the past week
has been colder than at any time for
the past three years, but the mercury
did not get quite down to zero and no
disagreeable effects have resulted from
what might properly be termed the
cold snap Of the season.
Lucien S. Dagenett died Sunday
evening last at s o'clock p. IN. at
his home in the Ottawa nation. Mr..
Dagenett was a prominent member of
the Ottawa tribe and was well known
to the people of this vicinity as an ins
telligent aud honorable man.
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