Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1914-10-08

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this city. The company is put
ting up two five-thousand gallol
tanks just south of the Willard
coal Office.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. T. Coe O.
Route 5, left Tuesday for Phoe
nix, Arizona, to attend the wed
ding of their son, Percy. They
will be gone two or three month:
and will visit another son, E. c.
Coe, at Fort Defiance, Arizona
The candidacy of w. r. Smith
of Columbus for state printer, is
meeting with favor all over the
state, and the newspaper boys al
most to a man are for him. He
is a good printer, and is a good
mixer. He will make good.
Cherokee county voters ought to
take pride enough in his candi-
dacy to vote solid for him.
E. E. Moss, Republican candi'
date for sheriff, died at his home
in Galena on Friday night of
last week. He had been sick
with a spell of pneumonia, which
developed into a case of quick
consumption, and he lived only a
few days. Mr.. Moss was forty
nine years of age, and was a
very popular man in Galena.
His place on the ticket will be
supplied by the Republican
county committee.
On the occasion of the 63rd
birthday anniversary of Grand
ma ]. Banning last Sunday. Her
relatives and friends gave her a
royal surprise by bringing well
glled baskets and all, to the num-
ber of forty-nine, had a sump-
tuous dinner, which they seemed
to enjoy, after which amuse-
ments of different kinds, iuclud-
ing music and singing were in
dulged in till late in the evening,
when they dispersed to their sew
eral homes. Thus scattering
flowers (blessings) on the living,
not waiting for death to scatter
them. All wish Grandma Ban
ming many more happy anniVer-
saries.
Judge E. E. Sapp addressed a
good sized crowd at the Majestic
Theatre on Thursday night OF
last week. His address was full
of good sound logic and common
sense, and he made a lot of con-
verts. He made it very plain
that a Judge has no more to do
with sending a man to the peni-
Tertiary than anybody else. II
you want a man sent to the peni-
tertiary you must charge him
with a crime which will send
him to the pen if he is convicted
AS Sapp put it II can't send a
man to the pen for stealing a
horse when he is only charged
with stealing a quarters worth
of sugar." He paid his respects
in no uncertain words to some
fellows who are attempting to
lead the good people of this
county into a trap for the pur-
pose of feathering their own
nests.
Conrad Kratz thinks he has
found a way to get rid of chinch
bugs. Last week when he cut
his feterita the sled cutter was
literally covered with them. He
got a half gallon fruit jar and
filled about two inches of it with
bugs. He then grated a couple
of Irish potatoes and put into the
jar with the bugs. He knocked
the glass cap out of the cover of
the jar and punched some holes
in the lid for air. Leaving the
bugs in the jar for Sc hours he
then took them out and scattered
them around in the grass where
bugs were very thick. Next day
he could find no live bugs at all,
and very few dead ones. What
dead ones he did find were under
the weeds or grass. His idea Is
that he gave them cholera. At
any rate he got rid of them.
NJ. G. Justice sold his fine Gov