Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-03-25

BAXTER SPRINGS,
! CAUCUS.
The citizens of Baxter Springs will
meet at city hall April lst ut 8 $50
o'clock p. m. for the purpose of NOM
inatating candidates for city offices.
Wheat is looking first rate.
Columbus had another fire last
week.
The truck patches are being worked
in early and late.
And still the wind blows from the
north occasionally.
The youths of our city are opening
up the base ball season.
That wrestling match at Chetopa
will come off on April 10.
Clean up your premises If you do
not want cholera this summer.
The marble season has opened up
and the small boy is IN his glory.
Chicken buyers are IN The land and
arc paying seven cents per pound.
The assessor is abroad in the land
and as is usual he finds the people all
poor.
Prisoners confined in the county
jail of Crawford county will be put to
work OH the streets of Girard.
Chctopa has an athletic club. 1t is
hardly probable, however, that it will
secure the Corbelt- Mitchell mill.
A citizen OF ChelOpa says there are
thirteen places in that city where
liquor is sold. Wicked Chetopa.
The Republican Editorial Associa-
ton of Missouri will hold its next
annual meeting in Joplin on April Il.
This is the Time of year when the
men do NOT 90 home to dinner. The
house cleaning craze has struck the
town.
The sum of Sl65,0O0 was offered for
"A lease on 40-acre tract OF mining
land near Joplin last week, but ii was
refused.
Attention is called 10 the mayors
proclamation whirh appears elsewhere
IN this issue. Read it and profit
thereby.
Cholera will pay visit to this coun-
try this summer. II YOU do not want
to meet the dread disease clean up
your premises.
The candidate who now spends
money, cigars or whiskey for election
eering purposes is liable TO receive a
sentence for term in the pen.
o. p. Morton Post G. A. r.. of JOp-
lin is making great preparations to
entertain the state encampment which
will be held in that city in April.
John Shellack, a miner living at
Litchfield, in Crawford county, COM
mitteJ suicide last Saturday morning
by hanging himself to door knob.
Report has reached this city that a
"pet poodle" died from poison at |
Columbus last week. The purp had
licked the "pizen" from his mistress
cheek.
Ira G. Perkins and II. G. Scott left |
yesterday (Friday) afternoon with
two car loads of fine horses boand for
Railway, N. J. They will probably |
be absent some time.
Theo. Lawrence. an old time Baxter
boy, who has been in the employ of
the Wells-Fargo Express Company
for some time, has resigned his posi-
ton and located in Carthage.
"Clean up," should he the motto OF
every person in town. The chances
are that cholera will visit this country
early, and the sanitary condition of
the city should be looked after.
Mrs. Sarah A. Crowell announces
herself as candidate for the Office Of
treasurer of the Board of Education.
Mrs. Crowell is fully competent to
hold the office and is in need of it.
Horsemen are requested to remem-
ber that the News is in better shape to
do all kinds of printing in their line
than ever. We guarantee to execute
the work promptly, neatly and at
prices that will satisfy.
The mayor has issued proclama-
ton requesting people 10 clean up
their premises. All parties ignoring
said proclamation will have chance
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