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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1910-08-04
BONES OF THREE PERSONS FOUND.

SANTA ROSA, Cal. Aug. 4.-The
bones of three human beings supposed
to be those 6f Mr.. and Mrs. Enoch
Kendall and their son, Thomas, who
disappeared mysteriously about ten
days ago, were found yesterday near
the Kendall ranch house The bones
were traced from the kitchen stove
bv cinders. Jewelry and trinkets were
found among the lbones
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1910-08-04

TAR WANT ADS DRING RESULTS,
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-09-22
]. A. Dent Hurt.
Popular Merchant Meets With a
Serious Accident Near Quapaw.

Every Monday, j, A, Dent, the
Wholesale and retail grocer Of
this city, makes q trip down into
the mining camps, taking orders
for his store. Monday of this
week, while on one of his trips,
his horse became frightened at a
Frisco freight train between this
city and 0uapaW. aHd started to
run away. Mr.. Dent was thrown
from the buggy and sustained a
comminuted. fracture of the right
arm about midway between the
elbow and shoulder. He was
rendered unconscious, but the ac-
cident was witnessed BY the train
crew, and the brakeman brought
Mr.. Dent to his home in this city
where he was attended by Dr.. W,
S. Jones, who reduced the frae:
ture. At this writing Mr.. Dent
is resting as we'll as could be ex-
pected.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-09-22
THE BIG WIND-UP.
Saturday This Wek-Sme Of the Young Ladies
Rustin Clock Strikes All Over

Saturday afternoon the
them another will get some other prize and Others
get
o
advance Will all the better
pleased
at
ladies
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-09-22
Booster Day Oct. |.
Saturday, Oct 1, to be a Big Day
in Baxter Springs.

Don't forget, good people, that
Saturday, Oct. /, will be Booster
Day ia Baxter Springs. On that
day the merchants are going to
give away 43 valuable prizes,
and in addition to that, they are
going to make some very attrac-
tive prices on seasonable goods.
You have to buy goods anyway,
so why not come to Baxter on
that day and lay in your supplies?
You will meet hundreds of your
friends here, and you can make
the day not only pleasant, but
prOftablei pleasant in the meet.
ing of your friends and acQuaiu-
tauces, and profitable by taking
advantage of the prices made by
the merchants of this city.
And right here we want to say
that there are better and bigger
lines of goods in Baxter Springs
this fall than ever before. The
merchants of this city are deter
mined to make Baxter Springs
the best place to trade ia the
Southwest, YoR car not huy
goods as chesply In Joplin as you
can here. To be sure, you might
have more to select from, but
when you inquire the prices you
will find after all Baxter Is the
PLACE to get good goods at right
prices, And this applies to all
lines of goods, too.
We shall expect you to be In
Baxter Springs on Saturday, Oct.
/, and we will not be disappOint-
ed if the weather is good.
Come in and put your feet on
our big desk, and read the px=
changes while tho women folks
are laying in the supplies that
are needed. They can beat the
men all hollow when 1t comes to
buying gone Of the AeCeSsarles.
Don't forget the date, Saturday,
Oct. 1.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-09-22

Be sure to be with VS. all day
the last day. You can secure a
lot of business and it may win
you the capital prize.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-09-22

Mrs. Sarah E. HOke, aged "a
years, died at her late home in
Galena on last Sunday night.
Mrs. Hoke at one time lived in
this city and interment of the re-
mains was made ia the Baxter
ceueiegy yesterday.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-09-22

Do not forget the S-year sub
scrlptiOns. Remember each. one
of them counts 5000 votes, and it
is no trouble to secure several. IL
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-09-22

MFp. Harriet Lennon, aged IS
years, died at her home north of
this city Sunday evening of tu-
berculOsis. Deceased was a sister
of E. B. Schermerhorn of Galena.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-09-22

Mrs. E. F. Sweeney returned
last week nom st. Louis, where
she has been taking treatment.
She is much improved in health.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-09-22

Walt II. LayHe. 70 years old,
at one time sheriff Of,th,s county,
died Friday afternoon In Mt. Car.
mel hospital at Pittsburg. His
death was hasteued BY The bad
wind storm of Sati rlay night,
Sept. 3, when his home, near
Crestljue, vas wrecked. Mr.,
Layne was critically i'll iu the
house at the time,
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-09-22

Ducka are beginning to come
in. One day last week J. NJ.
Cooper and his SON got twenty
four nice blue wing teal.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-09-22
How They Stand.

When the count was made Sat-
urday afternoon, Sept. II, the
vote stood as printed below. No
other count will be made until
the close of the contest.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-09-22

The hickory nut and pecan
crop will be a big one this year.
The pecan trees between here
and Chetopa are Just loaded.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-09-22

Some of the young ladies have
asked us who is helping them in
the contest, but we can not tell
until after the contest.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-09-22

Go to Reddy's and take another
look at that piano. Isn't 1t a
beauty?
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-09-22

Clyde Chubb is going to San
Antonio for the benefit of his
health.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-09-22

The Ladies Aid Society of the
Methodist church. will give a
chicken dinueP at the Polster
hotel this (Thursday.)
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-09-22

Col. II. II. Gregg Of Joplin was
a Baxter Springs visitor Monday.
Col. Gregg 10 q delegate 10 the
National Mining Congress, which
vii meet in Los Angeles.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-09-22

T. T. McAboy shipped a car
load of cattle and hogs to Kan
sas City last Thursday, He went
along to mingle with the stock
men, and find out just how much
higher hogs are going to go, If
possible.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-09-22

Every prize is worth winning.
There are only a few days left in
which to work.
Contest closes Saturday, Sept.
"a, at 4 o'clock p. m.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-09-22

Uncle Toms Cabin Friday
uight. 25c and 35c,
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-09-22

Saturday is the last day, girls.
If you want that fine piano you
should hustle.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-09-22

A, J. Thompson, D. D. S.
Phones 261 and 90.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-09-22

Have you noticed GregOry's
signs?
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-09-22

John T. Wright, a former res
ident of this place, but now liv-
ing.in Kansas City, was here this
week to attend the funeral OF his
mother-in.law, Mrs. p. s. Hoke,
who died at Galena last Sunday
night.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-09-22

That the Kansas school book
Law is a farce, and worse, even,
than that, is a fact that is dawn
ing on many
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-09-22

''Monnd City Paints may cost
a trifle more, but Long-Bell
Lbr. Co"
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-09-22

New sidewalks will be built on
Military street in front OF the
business houses occupied BY Love,
Horton, Hartley Bros, Micheuer,
Gregory. Gray, Sullivan and
many others. Well, now new
walks are needed,
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-09-22

If Tom Brown cleans and
presses that suit the work will
be done right, for he knows how.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-09-22

Remember the race is TO the
hustler this time. And the prizes
are worth the effort.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-09-22

J. C. Haskell had business in
Oklahoma City this week.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-09-22

Our motto is promptuess; Our
desire is to satisfy. Brown, the
tailor.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-09-22

When you want a real nice
shine, call on TheO. Horton, at
the Arcade Barber Shop.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-09-22

Mrs. Chas. L. Smith and Mrs.
T. T. McAboy spent last Satur-
day in Joplin.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-09-22

Ringlings' circus at Joplin last
Thursday very nearly depoph-
lated Baxter SPRINGS.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-09-22

Cooper & Co. are using con-
siderable of our space this week
to tell about seasonable merchan-
disc.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-09-22

Miss Irene Dent has returned
from Colorado, where she spent
ssleEal Of The bot Weeks.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-09-22
FIRST Prosbytorian Church.

bHOS GAVSVySOAAoA SH0IO4.
C. A. Harris, Phi. D., Pastor.
Our motto: Interest, Instruc-
tiOn, Inspiration"
Sunday school at '9:45 a. m.
Christian Endeavor 7:3O p. m.
Prayer meeting on Thursday
evening.
Morning subject, "EnOch's
Walk"
Evening subject, Seeing
Rome"
Cleaning and pressing done by
Brown, the Tailor.
Uncle Toms Cabin Friday
night. 2Sc and 35c.
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-21
PROF. J. F. DuGGAR, OUR ALABAMA EDITOR

We present herewith a likeness of
our Alabama Editor, Prof. ]. F..
Duggar, Director of the Alabama Ex-
pertinent Station, Auburn, Ala. Our
readers are already more or less &C.
quainted with Professor Duggar as
an occasional contributor to our col
umns for many years; but recently
we have engaged his services for an
article each week. He will also an
swer such in quiries regarding agri-
cultural matters in Alabama as may
be received from our readers in that
State. ~
By education, training and expert
ence Prof. Duggar is we'll equipped
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-21
The Useful Mower.

Messrs. Editors: No one who has
ever used q mower would ever think
of going back to the old hand scythe
for cutting his grass. We have found
the moving machine the best imple-
ment for destroying sprouts, briers.
weeds, ETC.. that we have ever tried.
When in our teens we we'll remem-
Der how we would have to take the
mattock and dig up those detestable
sassafras sprouts. and each time they
would come back four-fold.
Now. when we wish to rid field
of sprouts, along in August we mount
our moving machine and NOW the
sprouts down. A few times moving
and we have no more sprouts.
For destroying the ragweed NOW
just when they commence to bloom.
Rake and cure them for hay. Any
one who has never tried ragweeds for
hay will be surprised at the nutri-
ment there is in them, especially for
horses and mules.
In running our machine we always
see that all nuts and bolts are tight.
ed. To stop that rafting or knock
ing fuss we so often hear when the
and keep all wearing parts we'll oil
machine Is running. we have found
that putting piece of leather Of
medium thickness around ball on
knife-head where it joins to pitman
rod stops the knocking and also the
wear. L. A. STRUPN.
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-21

for this work. He was born in west
ern Alabama, Hale County, and re-
ceived his early education in coun-
try school and Southern University.
Later he graduated from the Agri-
cultural College Of Mississippi, in
1887. and has also pursued courses
of study along the line Of his special
ty at Cornell. Columbia and Ohio
Universities.
His experience has been a varied
and extensive one as indicated by the
following statement of the positions
he has filed: Assistant in Agricul-
ture. A. & M. College and Expert
ment Station Of Texas: Editor South
ern Live Stock Journal; Assistant Di-
rector South Carolina Experiment
Station; Agricultural Editor, Depart
ment Of Agriculture, Washington. D.
c.; Professor Of Agriculture in the
Alabama Polytechnic Institute dur
ing the past fifteen years, and dur
ing the last seven years Director of
the Alabama Experiment Station.
Professor Duggar is also author Of
Agriculture for Southern Schools"
which is the adopted textbook on
this subject in the schools of Ala
bama. Virginia and Florida. and of
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-21

Southern Field Crops" new book
now in press.
No man knows more of scientific
Southern agriculture than does Prof.
Duggar, and this extensive knowl-
edge is supplemented by the owner
ship and practical management of
farm properties for the last fourteen
years.
We want our readers in Alabama
to make free use Of Prof. Duggar's
extensive information and hope they
will write him direct, or to this Of
fee, whenever they need help in
solving their everyday farm prob
lens.
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-21

against us. Tillage favors bacterial
action in the soil, and bacteria break
down and set free plant foods for the
use OF our crops-in this sense
"Tillage is manure"
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-21

and pulverizing the soil so that air
can enter every portion of it and
supply a necessary condition to the
operation of friendly germs" and
stop the activities Of those that work
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-21

Water near the surface Of the soil
reduces the temperature and shuts
OF the supply of air which IL essen
tial to the best growth Of the plant.
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-21
$500 More Year Farming: How to Get 1t
BY BETTER TILLAGE-HOW IT AFFECTS BACTERIAL
LIFE IN THE SOIL.
OR MANY YEARS the Ques-
ton of soil fertility was look
TAFT Butler.


Ill ed upon as mainly chemical
pr0blem-ons of plant foods-but
the developments of recent years
have shown that it is more largely a
biological problem than one of chem
istry. A fertile soil is by no means
a mass of disintegrated or pulveriz-
ed rocks and dead organic matter. 1t
is filled with inconceivable numbers
of very small. invisible, but living
plants, called bacteria or germs
the life activities of which bring
about destructive and chemical
changes of the most vital Importance
to crop production. Some idea of
the numbers of bacteria in fertile
soil under favorable moisture and
temperature conditions, may be OBJ
tanned from the fact that as many as
100000 bacteria have been found
in a cube of soil measuring about
1-3 Of an inch on each side.
How Bacteria Increase Crop Produc-
1t may also be stated that there is
usually q direct and constant rela-
ton between the number of bacteria
in the soil and the crop production.
For instance. Liebefeld found nearly
twice as many bacteria in meadow
land as in cultivated soil, and nearly
five times as many in manure pile
as in the meadow land. Kinsley, of
Kansas, examined the soil of five
fields and compared the number of
bacteria found, With the crop yields.
In each case the yield was proportion
al to the number of bacteria; the
field having the least number of bac-
terra yielding least and the one hav-
ing the largest number of bacteria
yielding most. 1t was also found
that the field which had the largest
number of bacteria contained the
largest per cent of humus, and the
. one having the smallest number Of
bacteria and yielding the smallest
crop, had the lowest per cent of
humus. This establishes close re-
lationship between the number Of
bacteria, the amount of humus and
the size of the crop produced.
Two Kinds of Bacteria.
There are many kinds of bacteria
or germs" in the soil, but, as AFFECT
ing soil fertility they may be divided
into the two general classes: Those
that must have air (aerobic), and
those which flourish only in the alb
sence of air or are able to obtain oxy-
gen by breaking down compounds
containing it (anaerobic). Those
which must have free oxygen or air
to live and work for the farmer may
also be put into two classes accord
ing to the work they do. The one
class consists of at least two xmas
and is Of value to us chleny IN
breaking down compounds contain
ing nitrogen and forming nitrates
which are soluble in the soil water.
These bacteria must have, in addi-
ton to the organic matter from
which nitrogen is obtained, a rather
warm temperature and air. onuer
the most favorable conditions, nltro-
gen may be made available SO rapid
" as to quickly exhaust the supply
unless measures are taken to repien-
ish the supply of vegetable matter
from which it is obtained. Laree
quantities of available nitrogen are
necessary to large crop yields ana
hence, the necessity OF filling the SOL
with large quantities of materiai'
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-21


such as the crops can use, are most
numerous and active in a soil we'll
filled with decomposing vegetable
matter.
The other class of helpful bacteria
which need free oxygen or air. are
those which live on the roots of those
plants called legumes, and take nitro
gen from the air for the use of the
plants on whose roots they live.
Tillage and Bacterial Activity.
The relation Of tillage to the activ-
tiles of these bacteria is apparent.
The one class takes nitrogen from
air in the soil, after using it, turns it
over to our legumes to be stored up
in the root and stem for our use.
The other must have air in order to
break down the nitrogen compounds
in vegetable or organic matter in the
soil, and construct combinations of
nitrogen that the plants can use as
food. Both are our friends and both
must be supplied with air before
they can serve us.
The processes by which organic
matter containing nitrogen are bro
ken down and nitrates formed that
are soluble in the soil water are
known as nitrification. The intensity
of nitriflcation is largely dependent
upon the freedom with which air
may enter the soil. Deherain found
20 times more nitrates were formed
in a given mass of soil thoroughly
agitated once a week than in an
equal quantity of soil left unmoved
for several months. Soils that run
together badly. or those that crust
over and become hard-that is, those
| that are not we'll broken and thor
oughly pulverized-are not open to a
free entrance and circulation of air.
and consequently the nitrogen-fxing
bacteria which live on the roots OF
tegumes and gather nitrogen from
the air of the soil for US, and the
nitrifying bacteria that break down
organic matter in the soil and put
the nitrogen in condition to be used
by plants, can not work for us to
their full capacity.
Air is essential to these important
changes and thorough tillage, deep
breaking and thorough pulveriza-
ton, are necessary to permit of the
free entrance of air into the soil. In
this connection another curious but
fortunate fact should also be stated.
A porous soil not only favors helpful
bacterial action, but it Is thought by
some that the bacteria in the soil
directly help to produce the loose.
porous state known as good filth.
Bacteria That Do Harm.
The class of bacteria which thrive
in the soil only when air is largely
or entirely excluded are known as
denitrifying bacteria. That is. they
convert the soluble nitrates formed
by the friendly bacteria, above men
toned, back into insoluble forms
that the crops can not use.
Sour, l compact. badly drained,
poorly cultivated soils, into which
the air can not enter freely, are those
in which these unfriendly bacteria
thrive and do their work of locking
ND plant food so that our crops can
not use it. OF course, there are other
conditions besides good tillage that
aid the free entrance of air into the
soil, that favor the activities OF the
friendly bacteria and hamper the
i work of unfriendly germs; but
tbora is probably no more important
Evening journal., 1910-07-18

Word came from Dover early this
afternoon that Governor Pennewill
had reached a decision not to call a
special session of the Legislature to
validate the city government Of VIII
mington, because he was Of the opin-
ion that the government could be re-
stored to a legal basis through ac-
tion that might be taken by the mem
bers of the City Council of 1907-1909,
with the cooperation of the officials
who went out of Office in June of last
year and those of the present session.
The Governor besade his decision on
opinions given to him by lawyers he
consulted, ii is understood.
An attempt was made to reach Gov
ernor Pennewill by telephone at the
State House. and Secretary Of State
Smithers said that the Governor had
gone. He admitted that the Governor
had reached a decision regarding the
request of the Mayor and Council of
Wilmington for a special session of
the Legislature and had sent his reply
10 Mayor Spruance. Mr.. Smithers said
he had been instructed by the Cover
nor not to make public the decision
reached or the contests of letter sent
by the Governor to Mayor Spruance
as II was considered private commu-
nication that would have to be given
publicity by the Mayor, If at all.
Evening journal., 1910-07-18
DAUGHTERS DISCUSS
AGE OF CANDIDATES

BY United Press Leased Special Wire.
NEW YORK, July 1S-With the an
nouncement by Mrs. Donald Mclean
that Mrs. Mary e. Scott, president
general Of the Daughters of the Amer
lean Revolution, is to be a candidate
to succeed herself. It became known
campaign for the Office will be the
camapign for the Office will be the
ages of the respective candidates.
Mrs. Mclean declared that refer
ences by the opposition to the age of
Mrs. Scott were really funny and that
in her opinion. II the truth were
known, IL would be found there is
not a great difference in the ages OF
Mrs. Scott and her opponent, Mrs.
William Cumming Story.
81 know how old ! am" said Mrs.
Story, when told of Mrs. McLeans s
statement, but | do not know Mrs.
Scotts age and will make no comment
on what il might be-"
Evening journal., 1910-07-18
RAILROAD MEN
in CONFERENCE

By United Press Leased Special Wire.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, July 1S.-
Whe nthe officials of the Order of
Railway Conductors and the Brother
hood of Railroad Trainmen went into
conference today with General Man
ager Myers of the Pennsylvania IL
was admitted that on the result hing
ed whether the threatened strike
would be declared. The union Off
cials have full power to issue a strike
order at a moments notice. They
sought today's conference claiming
that the company had misunderstood
their attitude. They planned to ex-
plain the matter to Myers and hoped
TO arrange a compromise. Failing in
this it was conceded that nothing
could prevent a general strike.
Presidents Garretson and Lee were
hopeful as they enterd the meeting.
They said there was good reason to
believe that a basis ON which both
sides could agree existed. On the ten
hour work day demand. they declared
they would stand pat but expressed
the opinion that a way would be found
whereby il could be put into effect
without adding to the company's ex-
pense.
II was rumore das the conference
progressed that an agreement had
been reacheS