Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1894-02-10
KANSAS MATTERS.

A marriage year old was announced
in Horton short time ago.
Topeka proudly boasts of an Swear
old thief in the county jail.
There are still young people in To-
peka who say cleopatra"
Andrew Lang is enrolled as stu
dent of the state university.
Mr.. Kitchen assisted at ''milk-
maids convention" in Anthony.
Mr.. Riley Rainwater is on the pen
sion rolls of the Topeka agency.
Abilene still sticks to the old fash
ions and glories in her skating rink.
Charley Lease is business manager
of the barb" paper at the state uni
versity.
There is talk of a new morning daily
at Atchison. But talk won't pay the
printer.
The late Dwight Thatcher was writ
ing history of Kansas at the time Of
his death.
De Wolf Hopper once played Piticus
Green in Hazel Kirk" on the Craw-
ford circuit.
School attendance in Wellington has
decreased so that they have laid OFF,
three teachers.
A.; flank movement the cigare tie
fends have begun war on chewing
gum in Emporia.
While the Pansy club is Hourishing
in Topeka, Atchison should organize
Rag Weed club"
The Topeka Bicyclist Protective as
sociatioL, with a membership OF 100,
has been organized.
Yellow shoes .'go" with ''made up"
ties and light trousers for full dress
ut Baker function.
Nine persons took their chances in
the next world rather than live in
Leavenworth last year.
The mayor of Emporia puts the
nickel-in- the-slot machines in the cate
CORY with games of chance"
Five wolves and two tons of rabbits
were reported in a general wolf chase
and rabbit hunt in Smith county.
Times are SO hard in Thomas county
that the county treasurer has married
the daughter Of the county clerk.
An Abilene preacher asks: us the
young man really safe?" Probably
not-not at least until the cards are
out.
Laurie Bliss of Yale 90, is figuring
with the Kansas boys to come to
Lawrence and coach for them next
year.
Newton has band of sixteen
pieces. but that is seventeen more
than the citizens get on practice
nights.
The Topeka high school graduation
will take place shortly. Topeka is al
ways anxious to have bad business
over with.
A keg of pigs feet was among the
presents that shed joy over the honey
moon of Marion county bridal pair
last week.
The graduates of the Holton high
school number l16. OF these eighty
seven were girls and twenty. nine
were boys.
There seems to be something wrong
with the eccentric or the giaticutus or
the left ventricle of the usual ''Janu-
airy thaw."
A Marion county man planted forty
acres of oats recently, and Butler
county man was stopped only by n
snow storm.
At a recent Lawrence wedding all
previous efforts at dog" were knocked
out by having one usher selected from
each of the banks of the city.
The combined age of happy Law
renee couple is thirty years, and yet
the Zodiac club has great deal To say
about child marriages in India.
A spiritualist fakir who fooled juno
ton City and Salina was called down
and glyed in Abilene. You can't fool
little old Abilene; she's travelled.
The Salina postoffice did $4,000
worth Of business last year which
proves that the st. Johns cadets are
rs popular Us they are handsome.
Rome was not mentioned in the
Washington college oratorical contest.
But Caesar and Cromwell were pretty
badly wrecked before it WAS over.
A Wichita woman has written play
which has been produced by home
talent. Into each life some rain must
fall, some days be dark and dreary.
Martin Van Buren, Stevens, aged 60,
has been enrolled in the law depart
mcnt Of the state university. lie is
the oldest student in the university.
The Emporia young women have