Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-08-21

next Monday.
School commences on Monday,
September IL.
The backbone of summer il GER
tainly broken.
W. G. Stevens, editor of the Galena
Post, is very i'll.
Galena is the eighteenth town in
population in Kansas.
Capt. c. ID. Arnold had political
business in Galena Tuesday.
X. NJ. Cheshire of Columbus was
in town Monday on legal business.
Campers are beginning to roll in
already to attend the big reunion.
Mrs. G. S. Wilson of Palestine,
ILL.,, is visiting the family of ]. {.
Haskell.
County Attorney Stevens was in
Baxter Monday morning on official
business.
Mrs. J. {. Scroggin and child OF
Kansas City are visiting the family
of T. c. Weaver.
II is u shame that the rank mess
of weeds about town should be pei
mitted TO stand.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. l.. Meads have
returned from visit with relatives
at Springfield, Mo.
The east end of Spring street lead
ing TO Camp Logan needs some
work before reunion.
| The Galena Post says fakirs Ell
route to the big reunion at Baxter
are arriving in Galcna.
| The board of health. commonly
called the smelling committee"
was out Tuesday nosing around.
Mrs. NJ. +. Overholser of Oklaho.
ma City, Oklahoma, is in the city
visiting her daughter, Mrs. John
Charles Haskett.
l.. +. Muelschuster has bought the
Rehm blacksmith shop corner OF
Neosho aud East streets, and will
be found there hereafter.
Miss Gcrtie Albright, a former
Baxter girl, is building nice resi-
dence in Galena. She has been very
fortunate in mining ventures.
The NEWS is the only paper in the
Southwest in which the rules and
regulations governing the sale of
Peoria and Miami lands were pub
lished.
The Ryan bridge over Spring
river is to be repaired at once. Ii
has been declared unsafe and the
commissioners have given the nee
essary orders for it's repair.
Lee Humphrics of Weir City,
Democratic candidate for the pom-
ination for sheriff, was in town
Wednesday morning interviewing ,
the Democrats.
The Pittsburg Tribune says: "A
prominent drug firm wanted us to
distribute 800 boxes of pills among
our subscribers in Pittsburg, as an
advertisement, but we refused TO
work our patrons in that way"
Mr. II. A. LaRue, cashier of the +,
Cherokee County Bank at Colum.
bus, was married at that place on I
Wednesday of this week to Miss I
Ella Hughes, one of the most pop. ,
ular young ladies of Cherokee /
county. I
An exchange says the following {
is an infallible remedy for the grip. I
One gallon of whiskey, one grain of ,
quinine mix well before using-if !
no improvement, is noticed in one
week either increase the whiskey or
reduce the quinine. &
The Galena Times utters truth as
follows: "Some people do not be.
lieve advertising pays il the paper
charges for it, but attach great i'm
portance and stress TO advertising
If il can be sneaked into the paper
in the guise of news and costs
them nothing"
With the August house fly max I
ing himself altogether too free and {
easy, II is well to know that he has /
no liking for sassafras. Bunches {
of this odorous shrub hung in the {
windows, or oil of sassafras wisely q
distributed are said to defer the !
coming and speed the parting with t
this presidential fellow" I
One of the sights of Fall Festival
week at Topeka will be the burning :,
of structure seven stories high
from which the celebrated Pompier
FIRE corps of Kansas City will res
cue people, bringing them down
by ladders from the seventh story. :,
This event will take place Tuesday ;,
night, Sept 2s, on Firemen's day.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. r. Kane enter. v
tanned a party at their beautiful I
home on Sheridan avenue last
Saturday evening. The evening r
was sLeut in the enjoyment of o
social chit-chat, games and mu- n