Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-08-12
Several nice little whirlwinds Mon

-
Several nice little whirlwinds Mon
day.
The Galena smeltery is again in OPP
Chetopa has decided to have reun-
ion this fall.
Business in Baxter Springs is get
ting better every day.
The Reunion Daily News will he
published again this year.
"After the Ball" has struck Column
bus. Poor old Columbus.
The coal mines are now turning out
an immense amount OF coal.
Three mine accidents, two of them
fatal, occurred at Joplin last week.
Nellie Paul has been quite i'll for
several days, but is convalescent.
Prof. Hicks says the weather from
the Sth to the 18th will be the hottest
of the year.
The Interstate Reunion Association
has purchased 100 more tents for use
during the reunion.
During the excitement attending
the reunion, don't forget that there is
an electric road 10 be built.
According to the Columbus Re-
porter there is a lunch counter in that
town which sells Sandwiches"
AL. Rakestraw has sold his home
place of 10 acres on the territory line
south of this city to E. A. Murray.
While the hills are being cut down
why not have the River street hill cut
down? 1t needs it if any OF them do.
Mrs. L. Kenworihy has sold to I. A..
Beatty a house and lot on Grant street.
Mr.. Beatty formerly lived in Column
bus.
The delinquent tax list takes up
thirteen columns of the Modern Light.
The list is chock full of typographical
errors.
Brick laying ON Jim Hunters new
harness shop began Monday morning.
J. w. McClung is doing the brick
work.
We would like to know il the reun-
ion managers consulted Prof. Hicks
before fixing the date for the coming
reunion.
It is believed that the bank of Ritter
& Doubleday at Columbus will be re-
opened. A movement is on foot look
ing to that end.
Rev. Horace A. Doughty, formerly
of this vicinity, is now located at
Cherryvale where he has charge of
The Baptist church.
Joplin is to have a natatorium, the
water for which will be furnished by
the Redell we'll at that place. The
well is l 400 feet deep.
The reunion managers inform us
that there are three times as many ap-
plications for tents this year as usual.
The coming reunion will be a hum
mer.
Fred Van Gundy, who was badly
hurt in the Jones mine at Galena
about two weeks ago, an account of
which was given in the News, is rap
idly recovering.
The new board of medical eXamin-
ers of Cherokee county is composed OF
DR.. j. P. Scoles of Galena, DR.. A. j.
Mcclellan of Baxter, and DR.. j. E.
Stryker of Weir City.
An exchange says "America is the
greatest land on earth today" 1t has
always been supposed that America
is on earth, but who ever heard OF
land not being on earth?
Joplin News: Dad Lankston went
10 Baxter Springs Monday and says
the town is coming to the front again.
He says things are lively, as every
body is hustling about preparing for
the G, A. r. annual reunion.
The Columbus Advocate says that
Samuel Burns, w. w. Huff and Geo
E. Rucker of Baxter have been drawn
as jurors for the September term oi
the district court. We suppose that
Samuel "Burns" means Samuel BinDs
Joplin has a 5000 damage suit on
her hands. The suit is brought by
Mr.. and Mrs. j. McGinnis, whose
daughter fell on a defective sidewalk
on November 4, 1892, and received in
juries from which she died on March
Is, 1898.
Lead and zinc ores surely reached
the bottom last week. The best grade