Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1896-06-20

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BAXTER SPRINGS. (
i. Geo. FentOn,
,eed &
Fhs PRACTICAL SHOE MAKER. Q
Repairing done with neat .
ia ness and dispatch.
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fer Miss N. {. MCCONNELL, a
. e' DRESS MAKER
Rooms in Perkins building, d
rec corner of Military and i,
u Sheridan streets.
Geo. w. Bigham of Miami has n
10. 1900 bushels of old corn on hand. :.
,v Hay cutting has commenced and 4
the cut will probably be heavy
e"' one.
There is an enormous acreage of
flax this year and II is looking first II
rate. u
oe Wheat buyers at Fairland are 4
paying thirty-fve cents per bushel r
ived for the product.
Rev. L. A. Bridger, formerly of
this city, is pastor of the Baptist 1
church at Miami. n
and Wheat cutting is finished and in u
some places threshing has begun. u
The yield is fairly good. t
y. Mrs. W. A. Mckinney of Parsons
.or, arrived in the city Wednesday to c
visit relatives and friends.
pos, Miss Erma Mckinney has return =
ed from an extended visit with rela- f
tives aud friends at Parsons. d
~ 49,. JC. Richmond of Fort Scott, Kas.,
representing Merrill's system of a
vertical penmanship for schools,
was in the city Wednesday.
Hicks predicts many electrical q
'"Ss' storms in a few days, but don't get
alarmed. He says they will be Y
"more splendid than dangerous" r
Republican county convention =
one week from next Wednesday.
July 1. Goodness. how the candi- u
IL oe dates are hustling for delegates!
be ----
Col. Weldy of the Galena Repub.
ican and G. Wash Peterson of the
Galena Post got mixed up with the r
Joplin crowd Saturday and came i
to Baxter. &
T., ,--, 4
The annual convention of the
Cherokee County Sunday School
Association will be held in the
"'e Baptist church at Weir City on
"' Saturday and Sunday, June 2'.2s.
. The yield of oats bids fair to be q
heavy, and with moisture when
needed the corn cropwill be strictly
in sight, for there will not be cribs
'tice enough in the country to hide it.
Sam Jones, the evangelist, has r
lecture on The Battle of Life and @
hni How to Win It," in which he ridi- 9
now cules the idea that hard times are Il
due to scarcity of money, and b
claims that want of circulation is n
the trouble. "
W. C. Lykins of Miami is very
can. happy man now that work has COM
for menced on the extension of the
Memphis road to that place. Mr..
Lykins has been laboring hard 10
'on- get that road into Miami for many,
the many moons. .
The baccalaureate sermon deliv- y
ear cred to the students of the Baxter
ired Springs Normal and Business Col
lege last Sunday evening by Rev.
/ he N. K. Bramhall of Weir City, was
lis one of the finest sermons ever
delivered in this city and was lis L
tened to with marked attention C.
"" from first to last. e.. j
ami. On Friday of last week John Rcy-
nolds held glass ball in his
'u fingers for Bert Durham TO break J.
"e with target rifle. Durham, not
being Buffalo Bill or Dr. Carver,
and not knowing the gun was d
loaded, missed the ball and as n
consequence Reynolds has a very {,
ted sore fuger where the bullet hit him. q
As yet we have not heard of any Il
body being arrested for building
'ne an electric railway within the cor
'oi porate limits of Galena. The city =.
council of that town by ordinance 9,
made il misdemeanor TO build
ale such a line, yet such a line is being
y is built Can it be that the Galena
city fathers are eating crow!
con- DIED.-On Tuesday. June 16, 1896, y
ent the home of her parents in the
on Indian Territory, near the Shawnee
lakes, Oracle, little daughter of Mr..
10 and Mrs. c. W. Mitchell aged one
year and one month. Death result :,