Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-10-07

How did you like the storm Sunday u
uight, anyhow?
The Viniia fair has been postponed d
until next year.
Cold, dark and gloomy weather the
frs, ot the week.
Neosho river was three feet above
fording Il few days ago.
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The Galena Times claims that Ga. =
lena pays $4,000 year taxes.
Baxter Springs as u trading point ~
is without peer in this section OF i,
country.
DoRN.-To Mr.. aud Mrs. l.. l.. Dun =
ham on Sunday, October l, 1893,
daughter. r
Mrs. l.. Il. Siowel is dangerously
ill., She is suffering from cancer OF
the breast.
Lots of corn was raised in the Qua
paw strip this year. 1t is Of fine
quality, too.
Capt. G. L. Kennedy has moved his
shoe shop up stairs over Joe Schmidts Z
billiard hall. \
Peter Covert sold his farm OIL
Spring river valley TO Walter Won
Wedel for $39 per acre.
a good many of our people took IN
the Priests of Pallas parade at Kansas
City Wednesday night.
Geo. +. Rucker is Strengthening up
the books in the store formerly owned
bv J. II. Tucker ftr j. j. Fribley, re- 4
ceiver. 7
George Harvey, father Of A. ID. e.
Harvey, died at his home in Albion,
Indiana, OH September ~, aged 50
years.
The new Catholic church on Rock I
creek six miles sonih Of this city will
be quite an imposing edifice when
completed.
Miss Virginia Burns of the Weir
CITY Journal had two of the fingers OF
her right hand badly mashed in u job
press last week.
The old buildings which occupied
the ground on which Louis Becks
new buildings are to be built were
moved this week
BoKY.-To Mr.. and Mrs. U. T. Ga.
ba on Wednesday night, October 4,
1893, a daughter. All parties inter-
ested doing well.
Arthur Simons, who died at Galena
last week, was 10 have been married
soon 10 one of Galena's most accom-
plished young ladies. l.
w. B. Armstrong will close his feed
store for u few weeks while Louis
Beck's new buildings are being put
up, after which he will occupy one OF
them.
Vinita, I. T., is TO have another
newspaper. Its projectors will prob
ably reap large crop of experience.
Vinita will not support three news
papers.
We venture the assertion that Bax-
ter Springs is furnishing more visit
ors 10 the worlds fair than any other
town of her size in this section OF
country.
H. w. Cockerill has retired from
the management of the Weir City Tri-
bune, Horace Hayden, the owner, hav-
ing purchased Mr.. COckerill's unex'
pired lease.
| A Baxter shoemaker advertises
thus: "Only 80 cents for half-soul.
ing" Certainly no "whole-soled"
cobbler would allow such statement
as that to get out.
We neglected to mention last week
that Mrs. j. II. Garrett had gone TO
Chicago to take in the worlds fair.
From Chicago she will 60 10 other
points in Illinois 10 visit relatives.
T. B. McElhiney has received the
sad news that his mother, Mrs. Brock,
who lives at Eagleville, Mo-, Is dam
gerously i'll with cancer OF the slOn-
ach and he will leave soon TO visit
her.
Work has commenced in earnest on
Louis Beck's new buildings between
Hunter s. Burgess harness shop and
Cooper & Hodgkins' grocery store.
The foundations are being put in this
week.
A. Rakestraw has bought the Hay
den place of eight acres one mile south
of Baxter and will erect a fine two
story house thereon and prepare to
make that permanent home for him.
self and wife.
The following little versclet from
the Kansas City Journal just Mt the
1 l-.o,ko. lfo.lay ranrninO.