Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-03-24

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Tuesday night. Cause no quorum
Tom Smith lie making some I'M.
provements on his place south OF
town.
r. O.>Thonas has sold to ]. NJ
Rice Reeves engine. Mr.. Rice will
use it in drilling:
DIR. A. ]. Thompson and family
have moved into their home on
East Sherman street.
| ]. G. Poister returned Saturday
morning from St. Louis where he
went to visit his mother.
Clothes cleaned and pressed at
Tenelze bldg. Satisfaction guaran-
teed. Try me. L. DARDENN jr.
Grand masquerade ball at opera
house, Friday night. Everybody in.
vited. Good order maintained. Come
]. c. Haskell left Sunday night
for ST. Louis where he will buy a
large spring and summer stock of
dry goods.
Ezra Henshaw of Bloomington.
H.. arrived in Baxter the latter part
of last week to visit relutives and
look after property interests.
I'D. Convey was laid up last week
with grippe. He has about recov-
cred from the grippe, but is nurs-
ing a good sized carbuncie on his
right hand.
Mr.. and Nrs. ]. C. Haskell and
son. Clare. and Mr.. and Mrs. L. Over
holser OF Oklahoma City, who have
been visiting here, went to Colum.
bus Sunday to visit relatives.
A man went TO an Arkansas ply
stefan to get a prescription to cure
himself and wife of chills. The doc
tor prescribed equal parts of wills
key and qu,nine. The man took the
whiskey and gave his wife the qui-
line and says the results were sat.
isfactory.
The Joplin News. Herald tells OF
young man who is paying the pen
atty of popularity. He so pleased
the parents of his best girl with his
Jokes the first time he called that
now they refuse to leave the room
for minute when he is there for
fear they will miss something.
There used to be theory advanc
ed that the way to make good fight.
ers was TO feed the soldiers raw
beef. II ia fact worth considera-
ton, however, that the Japanese
soldiers continue to eat rice, greens
and fish, and yet give the Russians
some points in military movements.
On Friday, April l, at his place,
two and one-half miles north of
on the Military road, ]. C.
Mays will sell horses, 4 mules, 5
cove, bull, ) 75.pound shoats, a
big lot of farming implements, 2
stands of bees, lot of chickens, and
goods, on ten months
credit. Col. W. T. Hartley salesman.
N. Doty clerk.
We notice that the Cowley county
convention under the
leadership of Hon. A. NJ. Jackson,
,as sent an instructed delegation
% the state convention for Hearst
or president. While Hearst may be
he most available and strongest
we think and feel that Il
9 entirely wrong to send delega-
ion to the convention instructed
or any candidate. Contingencies
nay arise making one who now ap!
pears the logical candidate entirely
,ut of the question when the time
.omes to nominate, and then the
could do absolutely
nothing on account of their previ-
'us instruction. Don't send in.
tructed delegations, trust to the
lonor of the delegates and select
sood men for delegates. l.
During terrific thunder storm
vhich visited Muskogee recently,
he lightning performed curious
reak. 1t struck the residence of ].
|. Hammer, and the bolt followed
he flue down the house to a room {
Ehere Mr.. Hammer and his wife Z,
Tere sleeping. II then entered the Z
Dom, knocking off two of the bed
'osts and tore the mattress beneath /,
hem, and then followed some exit
o the ground. Neither of the occu- {
ANTS of the bed we're injured in
he least Ii