Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1894-04-07

ton City.
There Is not college graduate
teaching school In Hiawatha.
T.n car loads OF Lawrence -four
were shipped to Holland last week.
A Council Grove man Is making n
fortune shipping pigeons to New York.
Amateur opera in Lawrence is sane
titled and consecrated to the uses Of
charity.
A dog and hair trigger gun gave
the preacher and the florist u job In
Paola lately.
A Lawrence man who owns num-
b.r of water works is called n hydra
h, q ed monster.
An entire train load Of Mica cheapa
bananas went through Kansas over
the Santa Fe the other day.
A Westmoreland man who stole
stove may he justly inferred to have
the hot stuff in his make up.
Coal oil Is SO cheap in Beloit owing
to rate war that people can afford
to read agricultural reports.
Theresis kick coming to Wichita
because the meat markets refuse to
handle high grade OF meat
A Lawrence girl is so tall that she
has to wear high heeled shoes rs low
heels will not reach the ground.
The third drug store having been
started in Logan 1t is rs easy to get
sheep dip rs il is to buy blueing.
MIR. X. Dome Geza, the crack fiddler
from the state university last year, is
giving lectures on bypn 'tism this
year
Ex-Mayor Cofran. A. 5. johnson and
j. n. Stricken of Topeka, are negoti-
at;ng large land deal ut Monterey,
Texas.
The register of deeds of bourbon
county is going to run the office on
cash basis hereafter. No cash no
record.
A preacher in Richland is gong to
quit the job because there isn't
enough marrying in the to~nsh p to
pay out.
II is said that Professor Leonard,
who went to Topeka in search of the
Homestead girl, left San Francisco all
too soon.
Topeka boys can't get the girls used
to nod so the boys have gone back
to the old fashioned habit Of tipping
their hats.
A Winfield young man, Mr.. Fred
Clarke, will pitch for the Savannah,
Ga. bLs. ball club Mt Sla5 u month
this summer.
There are 5000 acre, of government
land open for settlement in Ford
county. II should be fenced up and
opened with II rush.
Ness City has six printing offices,
and when new boy gets s.arted
around after the itaiic spaces he
doesn't get back for week.
V. l.. Kellogg is expected back from
his studies in Germany about the LIST
of April. when he will take up his
work ut the state university.
There is talk of county high school
in Geary county. Captain Mcclure
offers five acres of land IN junction
City If the talk comes to head.
An instance of the power of greed
over love comes to light IN Ncwton
where girl has fatty refus d to mar
ry man until he has 500 in the bank
Associate Justice Fosters divorced
wife is confined in the Atchison coun-
IT, poor farm. At one time Mrs. Eos
ter was the leading belle of Atchison.
Hallelujah tits done-the gre at
transactions done. a school teacher
in Labctte county has been discharged
for chang.ng her name from Mary to
"Nlae."
The High school class in English
literature in Howard is being enter
tanned with reading from Jerome X.
jerome. This beats the state treas.
urer's report-but not much.
Permission has been gwen the
Masons of Salina to organize new
lodge in that city to be- called the
John II. Brown lodge, in memory OF
the deceased grand secretary.
The projected double track on the
Santa t'e from Florence TO Emporia Is
to be built chiefly to perpetuate the
amicable social relations existing be-
tween Strong City and Emporia.
The old fashioned vender of sassa-
fras root is making his spring visit to
Ottawa. Sassafras root Is mighty
good spring medicine for such as go
much on herbs and banks and teas. D
Blue grass is said to do well in
Greenwood county. With the old
flint hills sodded to blue grass the
Grampian hills and their flock of
frugal swine wouldn't be anywhere.
The dispatches from Salt Lake City
that tell of mounta n lions being
killed on the streets and wolves sla n
in the alleys indicate that Colonel
Stacey of Kansas has got his coat Off
A Junction City man has two cows
that net him $40 u month, but he saves
the strippings and gives them plenty
of bran and shorts. The same man
makes S3.j0 month out of sixty
chickens.
The opera Martha" is to be pre-
scented by the department Of music ut
the state university next June.
"Martha" has not so many pieces that
may be VIII stled us 'Mikado," but is
whole lot classicalcr.
Since the talk of q female gymnastic
class in Emporia began, II mas come
out that four girls in the freshman
class can skin cat and one of the sub
preps can chin pole seven times
straight hand running.
The Santa lie receivers are contem-
plating the construction of another
track on their main line between EN-
poria and Florence TO accomdate the
immense traffic on that division, which
averages 100 ira Ms each day.
There Is one thing sure II Ellie
Caldwell of Lawrence wears tights in
the comic opera he is TO appear n.
the audience will get good circular
view of the scenery whenever he faces
the footligbts.-Kansas City Star.
Postmaster Goodrich OF Lawrence
doesn't care how soon the AK drops:
n l. IL. A.. a. n.