Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1900-11-24

variety OF Jellles anu Juhs anu Pnc
serves and pickles brought forth from
boxes and baskets.
There's enough stuff here to feed
an army" said Hannah Dorton, as she
hustled about from table TO table, the
happiest and most active person In the
house.
A few minutes before one o'clock !
heard her say to Mrs. Kate Whiting:
"Come, now, Kate; you and your hus.
band and two children are to set at
this table over in this corner. Come
right along" And when they were
seated the old lady hustled up to Mrs.
Patch and said:
"Now, Lucy, you and your husband
and the children are to sit here at this
table"
"And II she didn't plump them right
down with the Writings that they
hadn't spoken to for years." said the
voluble Nancy Ross afterward. Indeed
Nancy was so fond of telling about that
Thanksgiving dinner afterward that !
think will let her tell about II now.
"Then," she said. "if that Hammer
Dorton didn't set old Squire Bent down
at the head OF one table with his daugh.
ter Nellie at his right hand and his
son-in-law. John Waters, at his left,
an their baby in high chair at its
gran'pa's side, an IT want three min.
utes before the Old squire had that
baby in his arms and he ct his whole
dinner with the little thing in his lap.
heard his daughter say to him 'shan't
I take the baby, father, so that you
can eat your dinner in greater COM
fort" But he held right on to II, and
there he sat talkin' to Nellie and John
same as IL there'd never been any
trouble at all. And he had that baby
in his arms the whole afternoon, an
went around as proud sayin' to folks:
See my grandson. Amt he a mighty
fine boyT 1t was the first time he had
ever seen the child, an the next week
he made Nellie and John come and live
with him. Then what did that Hammer
Dorton do but put Reuben Hopes an
his brother Silas and their families at
table by themselves, an heard her
say to 'em; Come, now, you folks want
TO be sociable an have u good visit
together same as own brothers ought
to on Thanksgivin' day. Their wives
have always wanted to make up, an
tell you they found their tongues
mighty soon, an fore that meal was
over they was talkin' away as II there
had never been any row over property
or anything else. An before they knew
1t the Andersons and Robey families
found themselves at the same table
with Hammer sayin' to 'em: Now II
don't make no difference about the
past. This Is Thanksgiving day, an q
good time to forget that there has ever
been anything but happy past be.
tween you folks
I'VE will now sing:
'Blest be the tie that binds.'
An everybody sung It., an then Elder
Sharpe asked blessin' an the dinner
was begun. There never was such a
spread seen before in these parts, an
you never would have thought to have
seen them people eatin' an laughin' an
merrymakin' together that there was
such thing in the world as malice or
envy or bitterness or ill-will or any
thing o. that sort, no you wouldn't.
After the dinner we had games an
sung songs an made speeches, an from
that time on there was more peace an
happiness an soclability in the neigh
horhood than there ever was before. /
tell you, we'd good reason to stand up
a. we did before we started for home
an sing Praise God from whom all
blessings flow. ~, I. Harbour. n %.
lroil FIRES Preak