Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-06-25

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. The editor sleeps In his chair,
While the little red wasp
Not q moment to lose
/. Builds q nest OF paste in his hair.
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i. The fruit crop Is short this year.
The binders are clicking all around.
. Tuesday was the longest day of the
year.
|. The planning mill is crowded with
. work.
Melrose is building new school
!. house.
County teachers institute begins at
. Columbus July 5.
I. The ice wagon is generally well
. come visitor these days.
: The Reporter says that the reunion
: at Columbus is assured.
. The weather is still warm and no
railroad news to chronicle.
Many mowers moving out this
week-the more the merrier.
The Quapaws were out in full force
: Thursday to attend the circus.
I, There are new apples in market, but
oh, Susan, how wormy they are.
joplin is preparing for the grandest
, celebration of the 4th in its history,
The weather promises to be of the
4 regulation heat for the 4th Of July.
Osborn Cox is getting ready 10 put
up kiln of hard brick for sidewalk
use.
8 The dog fennel crop was not seri-
ously affected by the late spring and
heavy rains.
It is said more binders have been
e sold in Baxter this season than any
previous year.
. Galena is pulling for the Pittsburg
! road. What are our influential men
doing on that line.
Manager McFaddcn says the cream
cry milk supply is increasing both at
Melrose and Baxter.
The NJ. f. Sunday school enjoyed q
most delightful picnic at Reunion
Park on Wednesday.
/ Farmers have been scarce in town
this week. They are working every
available minute now.
The farmers could not leave their
r fields TO attend jimcrOw show, so the
circus was notwell patronized.
The circus band was great. II was
{ composed OF six members of the Baxter
a band and four men with the circus.
e. E. Edwards, the carriage maker,
/ is turning out nice line Of work, q
e good portion of 1t being for Galena
Q customers.
And now comes Galena at the
n eleventh hour and says she will have
one of "them thar old time celebra-
tions" like she always has.
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t Elder D. NJ. Harris will preach in
g Melrose next Sunday morning and
e evening. He has a good word for the
people in that part Of the county.
A very serious epidemic has been
). raging in this locality for the last few
8 DAYS. The name of it, shorn of its
Latin nomenclature, is spring fever.
Samuel Hopkins had horse to stray
! off or be stolen last Sunday night.
. Horses are disappearing around here
altogether too frequently In this way.
A Neosho bottom farmer was in our
:. Office Monday who has planted his
@ corn ground the third time this season
> and still il is looking "fair to mid
ding"
We are told that some of the most
magnificent wheat fields ever seen in
this country are to be found in the
9 territory q few miles south of Baxter
y Springs.
Invite your eastern and northern
friends to visit Kansas, and especially
Cherokee county. Have them come
now when they can see the productive
capacity of the soil.
The Democrats, led by r. j. Down.
: ing, ratified the nomination Of Cleve-
land Thursday evening by anvil shoot
o ing and q display of fireworks, but the
demonstration was not very loud.
> The Baxter Springs Bi-chloride of
o Gold Instifnfa Is q grand success.