Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-01-09


BAXTER SPRINGS, {
Citizens meeting at city hall tonight.
Sam Jones will lecture IN the Meth
odist Church January 2lst.
The tickets for Sam jones' lecture
are going off like hot cakes.
The district court convened at Col
unlbus on Tuesday morning.
j. Fl. Humphrey sold his grocery
store to Cooper Il Hodgkins this week.
Shipments at cattle, hogs aud hay
have been quite large during the past
week.
Don't fail 10 attend the meeting OF
the race track association at city ball
this Saturday evening.
r. Milne has sold his hay barn on
the corner Of Sheridan aud Main
streets TO D. N. Baldwin.
The proceeds of the Sam Jones lec-
ture will 20 10 the church and will be
applied on the church Indebtedness.
Wednesday morning the mercury
ran down to 20 degrees above zero,
which is the coolest weather we have
had this winter.
G. w. Daniels has sOld for Jacob
ROsslnan his farm IL miles south.
west Of Baxter Springs to l.. +. Gage
for $50 per acre.
The X. C. +. S. Il NJ, railroad will
make u survey south from Baxter
Springs as soon as the weather be-
comes settled in the spring.
Remember, the Rev. Sam Jones
lectures at the ME-. church Thursday
evening. Jan. 81. Admission 5Oc.
Reserved seats 75c. Secure your tickets
early.
NoTICE.-NO hunting will hereafter
be allowed Oh any one of my farms or
premises. Trespassers will he prose.
cuted 10 the full extent of the law.
WALTER Wow WEDELL.
Prof. j. Rodman Harmon says axle
grease IL the best preventative TO keep
rabbits from gnawing on young fruit
trees. One box of grease will smear
300 trees SO that rabbits will never
touch them.
At the extraordinary low price of
so cents every Tnan and woman who
can gain admiLtance 10 the NJ. Z.
church ought 10 hear the celebrated
preacher, Sam Jones, Thursday evcn-
ing, Jan. 81.
We understand u new paper, the
Reporter, has been started in Column
bus. We have not been able as yet TO
secure u copy, but as We are now TAX
ing four Columbus papers We get
most of thenews.
Jim Maussner will start for his
home, Albion, New York, Tuesday
next. He has spent two very pleasant
months in and around Baxter Springs
and he leaves behind him many pleas
ant recOllections, together with the
regrets of many warm friends. The
Y. M. G. A. will wear the usual Grape
for thirty days.
The Baxter Springs social club are
preparing for a grand ball aud supper
next week. The intention is TO make
this the most reeherche, bong tong af-
fair of the season and the conmin-
Cling of fair women, brave men and
ham sandwiches will lay over any
thing of the kind ever put on the
boards Of Baxter.
j. G.. Naylor acted as referee, stake
holder and bottle holder at q recent
prize fight in Lyon township. Three
rounds were fought under the Queens
bury rules when Que Of the combat.
ants was knocked out with a fence
rail and Naylor got away with the re-
ceipis, including long bottle of Col
umbus rat poison.
RI. Morrison, the mineral prospect.
or, in drilling for water on the farm oI
j. B. Oppernan three-fourths Of q
mile south OF Baxter, at the depth ol
200 feet went through two feet Of lead
aud Zinc ore Of good quality, this be-
ing the first strata of mineral forma-
ton found, with good indications OI
more mineral still lower.
Samuel II. Smith is responsible fol
the assertion that w. j. Moore, county
attorney, says he Is going to cOmmenct