Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1906-05-24
MT. HOPE NEWS.

MT. HOPE NEWS.
Mr.. aud Mrs. s. 7. coe visited Mr..
mud Mrs. c. Sparlin.
Mrs. Buchan aud Miss Ella called
at Mr.. Beitzhoover's Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cling visited l.. C.
Hooker aud family Sunday.
Mrs. W. b. Fancher entertained q
number OF neighbors Sunday.
Those present were Mr.. and Mrs. X.
o. Thomas, Misses Vic and Pearl
Lindsey, Oracle Thomas.
Misses Mae Livingston and En-.
ma Jones drove to Gslena Monday.
The picnic given by the Blue
Mound Sunday school was great
success. There were fifty.two pres
ent aud everyone had good time.
r. o. Thomas and Misses Myrtle
and Oracle attended the commence
ment exercises at Columbus.
Mr.. aud Mrs. Orren Calls and
family spent Sunday with Mr.. and
Mrs. Beltzhoover and family.
Prey Coe visited in Columbus
Wednesday and Thursday.
Mrs. Livingston and Jay visited
Mr.. and MRS, John Jones Sunday.
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Till We get something simpler,
better and more practical, or until
we get roads of an entirely different
nature, we shall have no better
road.making tool than the King
split log drag used after each rain
That il does the work has been
demonstrated. II is the Christie
pher Colum bus who is to discover
for US the way to permanent good
roads IL we will give il fair chance
and trial, all the rest comes after.
These remarks are not intended 10
point out TO anyone his duty 10 THE
particular. but to urge upon each
reader 10 give the road-dragging
movement tho benefit of his person.
al influence and example while the
prospects, for the general adoption
of the drag are so bright.
The old saying that Talk lie
cheap" ought TO be revised since
the long. distance telephone has
come into use. When you visit the
local toll Office of the Missouri
and Kansas Telephone Company
you may zee machine that meas.
ures talk and shows that talk is
cheap only when you consider the
distance and service. The machine
is the "Calculagraph" or message.
measurer" used by the Bell system.
The Calculagraph looks like a clock
lying face upward at the right OF
the central" young lady as she site
at the board" In the clock.face IL
a slot and at the sides are two han.
dles. you could lift off the face
of the clock you'd see three little
skeleton dials with figures linked
like a typewriter ribbon. When
you begin talking the right hand
lever is pulled, che having pushed
your telephone "call slip" under the
clock. face-that click prints on
your "call ticket" the exact hour
and minute that you begin. There
is no guessing, over.charge nor un-
der charge with the Bell Telephone
System-it is the exact time to a
quarter of a minute. When you
stop talking the fair operator
pulls the left lever aud the click
prints on your "ticket" the exact
moment of the ending. There lie no
looking at the clock or watch--the
machine makes no mistakes! Sell
ing time lie a science. and this little
Calculagraph is a modest yet in.
teresting little machine that safe
guards the customer as well al pro-
tects the company.
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