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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-24
FIGHT UNDER WAY.
Campaign to Obtain Better
Pay for Clerks Begins.
CHASE HEADS MOVEMENT
Meeting at Chamber Of Commerce Sc.
lects Officers and Members of
Executive Committee.

With the election Of officers and an
executive committee. and the contribu-
ton Of $1,000 each by p. b. Chase
and w. S. Corby, the movement fos-
tered by the Chamber Of Commerce to
obtain higher pay for government
clerks is now we'll under way
The whole plan of procedure was
outlined by various speakers at the
meeting held in the chamber rooms
last might. and indications are that a
bureau Of promotion will be estab-
lished in this city within the next
week. 1t was decided TO modify the
original plans and instead of collect
ing fund Of 100000 to finance the
campaign the committee decided that
a fund of $4,000 would be ample to
carry on the work.
By a unanimous vote r. B. Chase
was elected chairman Of the central
Knowles Cooper Of the Y. NJ. c. A. was
named secretary and A. NJ. McLachlen,
president OF the McLachlen Banking
Corporation. was elected treasurer.
These men will be ex-officio members
Of the executive committee, composed of
w. 8. Corby, Wilton J. Lambert. Arthur
c. Moses, William f. Guide. j. Louis
Willige, John w. Yerkes and Isaac Cans.
Work of Executive Committee.
To the executive committee will be in
trusted the work Of financing the cam
paign and managing the details Of leg
islation desired to improve the condition
of the $4,000 government employees in
the United States. A committee COM
posed of one delegate from each state
in the Union and one delegate from thir-
ty-three large cities will act as an ad-
In accepting the craftsmanship of the
central committee Mr.. Chase made a
brief speech. He sounded the keynote OF
the campaign when he said:
I'VE will carry on this fight for the
benefit Of the government and District
clerks with convincing facts. We will
not put war paint on and criticise the
executive or legislative branches of the
government because these clerks have
not received an increase in salary for
fifty years. They are underpaid now
notwithstanding the increase in the cost
Of living, and it shall be the duty OF
this committee to prove to the people of
at once. We shall not embitter the men
at whose hands We are going to ask
redress.
1T has been intimated that the initia-
tive OF Washington business and profess
sional men in launching this movement
might hamper the efforts of clerks to OBJ
tain higher salaries. / am of the opinion
full. Despite the 'muzzle order promulgat-
ed by former President Roosevelt and
continued by President Taft, / believe
both men will indorse the proposition to
have a committee of 100 deal with this
matter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-24

The Vice President and Mrs. Sher-
man have gone to New York and are
expected back tomorrow
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1911-07-20
MORE RAIN-MORE CORN.
Another Fine Rain on Last Sat.
urday Night.

territory in question is the best
for years. The rain this week
of one to three inches, followed
by several days of clouds and
cool weather, supplied a coming
want, and the promise at this
time is for at least 10 per cent
more corn than for the past sew.
eral years. If Southwest Miss
ouri and Southeast Kansas are a
fair sample of the whole, the
total corn crop will be consider
ably the largest ever raised. The
prolonged absence of moisture
coming on the heels of an already
exhausted supply, followed by
temperature calculated to kill,
would have greatly reduced any
corn crop this section has raised
in past years, and would have
done the same for this one, but
for the cultivation. Somehow
farmers caught the contagion
and cultivated corn necessarily,
thereby conserving the moisture
in the ground, keeping down
weeds whose toll on the con-
served moisture would have been
more than that of the corn. The
farmers have been taught a val
liable lesson, the ocular proof
will be worth more to them than
any other evidence. If proper
cultivation saved, in fact in
creased, the yield of corn, it will
do the same for wheat or any
other crop. Very soon farmers
will be preparing for wheat. A
good seed bed-not the usual
one-but really good one, is a
long step toward a good crop;
then good seed is also important.
Millers should be interested IN
this subject, and avail themselves
of the opportunity of pointing to
the remarkable corn crop as an
example.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1911-07-20

Baxter Springs is going to
have another big Booster Day on
Saturday, August 5th, and that
it is going to be great big one
should be admitted without any
sort of argument. Conditions
have changed, long faces have
given way to the other kind. and
people feel oh, ever so much bet
ter than they did when the other
one was held June oath. And
they have a right to. The bleS-
sed rain has fallen all over this
section of Gods footstool since
that time, not only once, but five
or six times, and the rains have
saved the country. That must
also be admitted. Where it look
ed as if there would not be any
corn there is going to be lots Of
it, and where the grass seemed
gone beyond redemption is nice
green grass now, and not only the
first crop is coming out nicely,
but the second crop is also maxi
ing mighty fast. The early corn
10 out of danger; and the late
corn is just humping. Our friend,
the man out in the country, is
feeling good. He has a lot of
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1911-07-20
A Better Feeling.

City Clerk Patton tells us there
is a much better feeling toward
the city administration now than
for a long time, and that he is
having less trouble than ever be-
fore in the collection of occupa-
tion tax.
The better feeling is caused by
the city paying for a night
watch, and taking the burden off
the business men. 1t has been
in the past that the business men
made a weekly payment to a
night watch, and the business
men did not feel that they were
being treated right, being COM
PEELED to pay an occupation tax
and getting nothing in return.
But it is different now.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1911-07-20
BOOSTER DAY.
The Next One in Baxter Springs
Will be August 9Th and Con-
ditiOnS Are Different.

cane and COW peas coming on
and he knows that his stock i:
not going to have to go on short
rations the coming winter. Gar
den stuff is looking nice and
much of it has been put in with.
in the last two weeks.
Oh, it is going to be a joyous
bunch that will gather in Baxter
Springs Saturday, August 5, and
and it will do them all good, too.
The merchants have caught
the glad spirit, in fact they
caught it just as soon as the first
rain of the several recent ones
fell, and they tell us they are go
ing to make it to the advantage
of every man, woman and child
within driving distance of Bax-
ter Springs to come hore on that
day.
All this is as it should be.
Help one another. One can not
make much success without the
help of the other, and these
Booster Days are the happy me-
diums of bringing the people to-
gether.
Don't forget the date. Be there.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1911-07-20

Verne Wilson, who has been
running a fixit shop just south of
Hoods, got his mind in the
wrong channel Tuesday night
and started out to get rich in a
short time by holding people up
and making them Deliver.
His first victim was Earnest
Cox of the bakery of Etter G. Cox.
Wilson held him up at the point
of a gun near the bakery, and
got two or three dollars. From
there he went over into the north
part of town and met Mr.. and
Mrs. Ed. Weddell, who were on
their way from the depot. Will
son held them up and secured
some change from Mr.. Weddell,
but Mrs. Wedell, with rare pres
ence of mind, dropped her hand
bag in the weeds.
Wilson continued in his high
way tactics, and his next try was
at Mr.. and Mrs. Hickens, who
live about a mile and a half north
of town. He met them in the
road near Sam Vests place, and
hands up" Hick.
ems put up his hands all right,
but not Mrs. Hickens. There
was a big As calibre revolver
down in the bottom of the buggy,
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1911-07-20

Governor Stubs continues to
write long letters to Attorney
General Dawson giving him the
devil about matters and things,
and Dawson writes long letters
to Stubs telling him he's an
other, and so forth. Of course
they give copies of their letters
TO the newspaper reporters who
get so much a oolum for the
stuff, but Southeast Kansas,
really the best part of the state,
gets the brunt of it all. Any
way, Stubs and Dawson are
calling one another all sorts Of
uames--in the papers.
Conner Davies Of the ConcOr-
Ala Ksnsau says It reminds him
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1911-07-20

He that asketh in My name
shall have his prayers answered.
Last Saturday night another
fine rain blessed this section OF
country, and there was a net
gain in moisture-thlt is, more
water fell Saturday night than
evaporated during the week.
Corn is growing to beat the band,
and so is grass and forage crops.
Along the corn prospect argu-
ment we herewith present the re-
port and opinion of Mr.. W. H.
Marshall, secretary of the South
west Millers' Association. 1t is
worthy of careful perusal, for it
contains the thoughts of a man
who seems to be practical. Mr..
Marshall thinks the corn crop in
this section will be a record
breaker, and his opinion seems
to be entirely justified by present
conditions. If his opinion is cor
rect the farmer will have to adj
NIT that he is only just Begin
ming to learn. The report fol-
lows:
Condition-Absence of precipi-
tation, accompanied by excessive
heat, has, in the case of early
corn. hastened the ripening of
the pollen, causing the tassel to
have a ripened or matured APP
pearance. The tassel is not
otherwise damaged, and will
shed its seed readily and the silk
10 in a healthy condition. Meth
er the early or the late corn
shows evidence of the ordeal to
which they have been subjected.
In fact, the few scorched blades
to be seen are nowhere other
than on the edge of the fields
and are no more than are always
seen in this country the middle
of July. The color is fine.
Indicated out-turn-For the
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1911-07-20

the grass to growing, and it is
thick as hair on a dog. The
trees have been trimmed, and
the water works plant has been
overhauled. Many improvements
are contemplated, and will be
made before the big reunion
opens, five weeksIfrom next Mon
day. Didn't think about it be-
ing so close, did you? Well, it
is almost here, and it is going to
be a fine one.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1911-07-20

chases his ownership of factories
and his millions of dollars of
sales annually. ETC., ETC., are all
cited. But did you ever know of
one of them to tell how much
the rents, taxes and insurance
cost on the big city block? How
How much the salaries of the
thousands of employees amounted
to annually? How much the
million or so of big catalogues
they put out every year come to?
How much the hundreds of men
at the heads of departments
which they employ at 500 to
$500 per month salary come to?
How much the army of truck
wagons they employ to cart the
goods from cars to warehouses
and warehouses to cars come to?
No, they do not boast of any of
these things, but we know that
all these thing in big city cost
great sums-enough to make the
goods thus handled and sold in a
retail way, shipping direct to
consumer, cost fully as much or
more than goods of similar quail
ity do, when sold from the re-
tailer's stock, direct to the con-
sumer, without any packing,
booking and shipping
like the mail order house
has to stand.
But the mail order man spends
great sums annually advertising |
and educating the public to be-
Iieve in him. The country re-
taller in the small town holds his
ADVERTISING expenditures down to
4 dollar or two a week, and most
Of them not even that much, and
many of them nothing. The re-
,ult is the mail order man sweeps
he country over with his decep-
i've arguments and gathers in
he trade.
A skilled writer can produce
ound logical arguments and
,roof that knocks the whey out
# every claim the mail order
nan makes in behalf of his sys-
EN- of doing business as against
he system of the country retail
merchant. But the retailer will
ot stand for the service and the
1ail order man finds him easy
rey, and all but wipes him off
be face of the earth.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1911-07-20
St. Marks Church.

July % will be the Sixth Sum
day after Trinity. The Collect
is: 20 God, who hast prepared
for those who love Thee such
good things as pass mans UNDER
standing; pour into our hearts
such love toward Thee, that we,
loving Thee above all things,
may obtain Thy promises, which
exceed all that we can desire;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen"
The Epistle is from Romans
GIL: Even so reckon We also
yourselves to be dead indeed I'M
to sin, but alive unto God in Je-
sus Christ"
The Holy Gospel is from St.
Matthew 5: 20: Jesus said UNI
to His disciples, Except your
shall exceed the
of the Scribes and
Pharisees, ye shall in no case
enter the kingdom of Heaven.
Service for the worship of Je-
hovah according to the ancient
use of the faithful before the
Reformation translated into a
tongue "understanded by the
people" in 1549 in the reigh of
vi, will be held in St.
Marks Church, Baxter Springs,
on each Sunday night during the
summer at eight. Hebrews 10:
d.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1911-07-20
HELD UP THREE-TS SHOT
Verne Wilson of This City Makes a
Bad Mess Out Of His Attempt
to be HighWayman.

and she reached down after it.
Getting hold of it she carefully
passed it to her husband, who
shot Wilson, and put him out OF
business. The bullet went into
the neck just away from the
center, on the left side, and
came out below the shoulder
blade on the right side. Mr..
Hickens and wife went to Mr..
A. W. Abrams home near by
and telephoned to DR.. C. M.
Jones, and the doctor went out
and found Wilson lying beside
the road. A cursory examina-
tion by the light of matches told
him the fellow was n4ortally
wounded. Calling help he had
Wilson taken to the home of Joe
Stradling, and there he gave him
what assistance was possible,
but Wilson died at about 8
o'clock.
DR.. Jones tried to get a con-
fession out of Wilson, and al
though he was positively identi-
fed by Cox, Weddell and Hick-
ems, he did not confess anything.
Wilson was a married man,
but had no children, the only
child he had dying some time
ago. His wife is daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Stradling.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1911-07-20
BUNCOrlBE.
And Southeast Kansas Gets Tn
desirable Advertising.

of grandstanding very much, in
cSmuch as the Offices of both
Stubs and Dawson are in the
same building and they could
very easily go across the hall
and tell II to the face, and not
inflict a long suffering public
with a lot of balderdaSh.
Isn't it about time to call .
court Of inquiry 10 find out if
the two fellows are not actually
insane? They rave like insane
men, and the people of the state
are beginning 70 wonder.
Dawson is a Scotchmau aud
Stubs is a Quaker. You pay
your money and you take your
shOice,
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1911-07-20
CFirst published July 20, lOllJ
Notice Of AppOinfmsnf-Ex-
ecufor.
ecHf0E

state Of Kansas, county OF Cherokee tS.
In the matter of the estate of A. ID. c.
Harvey, late OF Cherokee county, kansas.
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT.
Notice Is hereby given that on the 18th
day Of July, a. D., 1911, the undersigned
was, by the Probate Court Of Cherokee
county, Kansas, duly appointed aud quai-
flied as executor Of the esiute Of A. &c.
Harvey. late Of Cherokee county, de-
ceased. All parties interested In said es-
tate viii take notice and govern them.
SELVES accordinely.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1911-07-20
Mail Order.
The System That Makes 1t
Prosper Is the System 1t
Will Take to Kill 1t.

There have been many foolish
contentious and many absurd
arguments made, pro and con,
on the mail order question. A
great deal of abuse has been
printed of the mail order con-
Germs by local papers and most
of it, in our judgment, is little
short of good advertising, and
ineffective argument against the
mail order concern. The reason
that country people buy goods
of mail order houses, or of the
dealers of some larger nearby
town is because they are in
fluenced or made to believe that
their exists some advantage to
them in trading elsewhere than
with the home dealer. And this
perhaps is not stating the fact
sufficiently strong. There are
those doubtless who feel that
they are able to save a great deal
on the purchase of their goods
elsewhere than of the home
dealer.
One very marked oversight on
the part of local business men
and of the general public as we'll
is the insignificance or unimpor-
tance of things that otter pro-
duce a lasting and almost in
effaceable impression. Little
things very often cause us to
reach decisive conclusions that
may be entirely incorrect and
easily disproved, yet remain for
ever a settled conclusion unless
emphatically disproved. A 19
cent cast monkey wrench may
have the same finish and appear
ance as a genuine forged steel
worth three or four
times as much. A ten cent cast
law hammer, polished and plated
nay have an equal appearance
With a IS cent forged steel ham,
ner.
A shrewd salesman always
eeks to impress his prospective
PATRONS with the advantages TO
,e enjoyed by trading with him,
md the mail order man may
cry properly be classed as a
hrewd salesman. He has no OBJ s
ection to the general public get
ing under a wrong impression, ]
rovided the error is in his favor.
'ut what does the local mer-
haut do to disprove the error? :
Tothing, absolutely nothing as
ale. He just sulks. That's all.
The catalogue men tells the
onsumer over and over from
art to finish of his big book
iat he can and does buy and
il cheaper than any other deal
!. he prints plausible argu- p
euis Why Il Is so-his big Ppr. Z
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1911-07-20
DR.. Baxter Dead

DR.. J. H. Baxter died in Col
umbuS on Friday of last week.
DIR. Baxter was very fine man,
and had practiced medicine in
Columbus for forty years. He
was a devout christian and had
a host of friends.
Heleaves a wife and one son,
DR.. Leroy Baxter.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1911-07-20

Ed. Polster gave his Sunday
school class a little picnic at
Reunion Park Tuesday evening
and the bunch had a good time
of course. Supper was eaten
under the big spreading elms,
and it was way after dark before
the class went home.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1911-07-20

Last Friday and Saturday two
special trains of soldiers were
seen going through Baxter.
They were from Texas going to
Fort Leaveuworth.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1911-07-20

There was a decided tendency
on the part of the buyers of zinc
ore to lower the price level last
week, and while the offerings
were lowered, this forced many
producers to hold their ores and
sales, where made, were from
500 to SAP. The major portion
of the tonnage brought $40 to
S41.50. The highest price re-
ported paid was S45.
Calamine ores were firm at $50
to S23 for 40 per cent zinc. Little
change was noted in the produc.
ton of this ore from the previous
week, although there was an in
crease in the output of the blende
ores.
A number of new producers
were added to the list of active
mines the past week and as a re-
suit the output was increased
quite materially, but this increase
is threatened with immediate an
inhalation, for producers on every
hand threaten shutting down if
there is a reduction of ore prices
below $40 again. This threat
comes largely from the hard and
sheet ground mines that have
been having a long campaign of
maintenance on low prices forced
upon them, and just when the
first advance comes and there is
some hope of a little profit, a sag
in prices comes to discourage
them. To meet the problem this
time, they plan an immediate
shutdown instead of the long
drawn-out struggle that has been
endured since January Is. In
this company of producers are
some of the largest outputters in
the entire district.
Beginning with Sunday a num-
Der of ore contracts expired, and
while the smelter holding them
has been making efforts to extend
them for six months or a year
longer, there has been no report |
of an acceptance as yet. 1t is,
however, probable that some of
them will be resigned and some
Of them will be abrogated. Those
re-signing the contracts will like
ly confine their contracts to ore
that contains approximately two
per cent iron and one per cent
cad, as that class of ores only
show any advantage on contract.
Production was signify greater
han the week previous and the
weekend saw little ore left in
he bins of the producers.
The metal market, while show
ng some variation, closed at
practically the same level upon
which it opened. Spelter closed
t S5.55 firm, while pig lead
tayed at S4.4O, East st. Louis.
1t begins to look now as if the !
armers were going to have to
- r--a,,,.d -, ,,e1a rora - tbtc
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1911-07-20
$23,752.

Ores marketed for week end
ing July 18th. 1911, from the
Baxter. Miami district.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1911-07-20

Comparative statement of ores
marketed from eighteen leading
since January LIST to date.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1911-07-20

Mrs. Katherine Brown left
Tuesday morning for chetOpa.
She went as q delegate for q
Ni1Siouary society.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1911-07-20

Reunion Park Is the prettiest
place il this whole country nov.
Gle lsc.Rl rsinl lev. lllIIsl
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1911-07-20

1t begins to look now as if the
farmers were going to have to
rent ground to pile corn on this
fall. Never before in the history
of corn growing has it come out
so fast as since the rains of COM
paratively recent date.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-05-24
MOVING PICTURES.

Capt. Robert Fulton and Messrs,
Isaac Hay, John w. Brown and ]. c.
Hill have returned from the confed-
crate reunion at Little Rock. A
number of other Dawsonians have
not yet reached home.
Rev, H, T, Crumpton has been at
Indian Springs several days. He
was prevented from attending the
Southern Baptist Convention at
Jacksonville on account of sickness.
Mr., J. D. Weaver and family re-
turned Friday from Thomaston,
where they spent several days with
relatives
Mrs. j. F, M. Harrell and Miss
Mollie Geise left Monday for Con-
cord, where they will spend the sum
nler.
Miss Tommie Morton, who has
been visiting Mrs. T. ]. Hart, has
returned to her home in Lumpkin.
Miss Annie Sandlin and Mrs. JET
frey Kersey have been visiting at the
home of Mr.. M. l. Kersey-
Mr.. R. E. Shippey of Putney has
been receiving the glad hand of hi'
Dawson friends this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. c, Durham have
attended the Southe rn Baptist Con
Vention in Jacksonville.
Misses Ruth and Rucker Tweedy
are visiting Miss May Tweedy a
Eatonton.
Mr.. Smith Harris has returned
from a fishing trip to Florida.
Mrs. l.. J. Rogers of Union Springs
is visiting Mrs S. D. Hatcher.
Mrs. r. NJ Stewart has returned
from a visit in Fort Valley.
! Mr.. Lee Cannon of Richland hal
visited relatives here
! Miss Bessie Daniel of Lumpkir
has visited Mrs. John Clark.
Mr.. T. j. Slade has returned from
trip 10 Alabama.
Judge w. H. Gardner is on a triI
to Kentucky.
Miss Elma Horsley is at home from
Fairburn.