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Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1916-06-08

1t now seems to be an assured
fact that Baxter Springs will be-
fore the summer is past, have ra-
pid transit communication with
the camps of Picher, Cardin and
Commerce. When that day comes
it is going to be asolutely neces-
sary that at least two. hundred
houses be built to accommodate
people who will desire to live in
Baxter Springs, although work
ing and doing business out at the
camps. There is also going to
be another big camp opened up
within three miles of town. More
houses are needed. And the
more houses that are built and
occupied the more valuable will
be the other property in the city.
More houses mean a larger as
seosed valuation and a consequent
lower tax rate. More population
in Baxter Springs means in
creased business for the mer-
chants. And of course that is
what is desired by the business
men. More people living iu the
town mean more in the church es
and Schools. and an increased
population means more civic
pride. More houses must be built.
The people who are building G
houses today are not the moneyed
class. They are those who are
planning a home for the future.
If some people who have money
would build some houses to sell
on the payment plan, or would
sell lots on the payment plan tC
people who would build you would
see a big growth in Baxter
Springs just as soon as transport
alton facilities are furnished 81
people can get back and forth
from the camp. Come, let's ge'
busy. If 1t is going to take money
to get the transportation, lett
spend the money. Let's get
move on. This Is the golden op
portunity. Baxter Springs uevel
before had the chance to get IL
the swim of progress. Let's no
overlook a single bet.
! Get or the News list.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1916-06-08

The Poinsettia club met at the
Library last Friday afternoon
and packed a surprise miscellan-
eous shower box for Miss Amelia
Bischofsberger who became Mrs.
Henry c. Bryant of Columbus,
Ohio. last Saturday.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1916-06-08

Mrs. Swihart and daughter,
Miss Zoe Swihart, of Joplin are
guests of Mrs. E. L. Wright.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1916-06-08

Mrs. A. r. Kane has bought a
new light six Buick from Hoods.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1916-06-08

Mrs. ]. H. Boswell was in Col
umbus Tuesday attending a meet.
ing of the County High School
Trustees,
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1916-06-08

In these days of trouble over
the water, the American people,
some of whom talk the other way,
and others who do not let on at
all, are mighty thankful there is
a man at the head of things in
Washington who is doing his ut
most to keep this country out of
trouble. They may not talk in
favor of Wilson, but they are,
Just the same.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1916-06-08

Mrs. J. w. Kaltenbach will en-
tertain the Reciprocity Club FRI
day afternoon,
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1916-06-08

Misses Mabel Rummel, Luella
Schloemau, Eva Treece and Scot
tie Nichols are home from a year
of successful study at PittsburR.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1916-06-08

Jack DeVillers bought a Fort
from Hoods Saturday.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1916-06-08

Ed Goodwin. Chester Covey,
Russell Barnes and Miss Margaret
Opperman are home from K. u.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1916-06-08

Charles Plumb is spending the
week in Commerce.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1916-06-08

Prospects are fine for a big
blackberry crop.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1916-06-08

Mrs. Jim Hunter visited in Mi
ami Sunday.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1916-06-08

Miss Grace Thomas was hostess
at a very delightful party Monday
evening at her home on Route 5.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1916-06-08

The News is only a dollar per
year-it's worth 1t, too.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1916-06-08

Mr.. and Mrs. F. L. Loper of
Oswego, C. C. Mills of Parsons
and Miss Cookson of independence
motored to Baxter Sunday and
visited the family of Chas. L
Co,;fh
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1916-06-08

If the worse comes to the worst,
Woodrow Wilson is going to
cause a force to 60 in and give
Mexico a good licking. He will
keep out of trouble if possible,
but the Greasers are trying his
patience sorely. He is not too
proud to fight" as some people
think, but he does not want to
jump onto such people as are in
Mexico unless it is necessary.
All on the theory that it is rather
cowardly to whip some fellow
who is easy.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1916-06-08

The big strikes being made on
the Hooker land, three miles
southwest of Baxter Springs,
mean another mining camp close
to Baxter. So far three whop-
ping big drill strikes have been
made, aud the drilling campaign
will be continued until it is deter
mined just how long and how
wide the ore body is. 1t has been
proven 65 feet thick. When it Is
determined what sort of develop
meut Is needed arrangements to
that end will be perfected.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1916-06-08

Several new houses are going
up in Baxter Springs, but just
what are you building? You
know a large number of houses
is needed.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1916-06-08

DR.. Boswell has bought a new
Overland.
For Sale-Fresh COW with calf
by side. Phone IS.
Mrs. Chas. L. Smith visited
friends in Oswego Monday.
George Rucker has bought a
new Buick from Hoods.
Hoods have sold a new light
six Buick to Francis Goodeagle.
John E. Love of Springfield,
Mo. and Tom Love of Summer
field, Mo-, are here visiting W.
N. Love.
For Sale-About Sc chickens
from 5 weeks to 2 months old,
some are frying size. See Mrs.
S. H. Smith.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. C. Smith of
Enid, Okla, are here visiting
Mr.. Smiths parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. C. H. Smith.
Several new houses are going
up in Baxter Springs, but JUS t
rt,ak ora vou hu;id;no2 Vou
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1916-06-08

Get OE the News list.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1916-06-08

George Rucker has bought a
new Buick from Hoods.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1916-06-08

Mrs. Chas. L. Smith visited
friends in Oswego Monday.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1916-06-08

Hoods have sold a new light
six Buick to Francis Goodeagle.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1916-06-08

For Sale-Fresh COW with calf
by side. Phone IS.
The Tupelo journal., 1916-10-27
Notice Public Works

Notice is hereby given that the
board of SUPERVISORS of Lee county will
on the 1st Monday of November. 1916,
at the court house door in the city of
Tupelo. Miss award the contract for
doing the following public works to the
lowest responsible bidder or bidders.
The board reserves the right to reject
anv and all bids, to-wit:
For new bridge across Yonaby creek
on Sherman and Saltillo road.
For moving steel bridge across Euc-
latubba creek on Saltillo and Birming-
ham road and replace same for dredge
boat to pass.
For new bridge in Town Creek bot
tom on Belden and Union road.
For new bridge across Tuckalubha
creek OIL Shannon aud Okolona road
For three bridges in Town Creek
bottom on Shannon and Nettleton road
For bridge across Little Coonewah
on Tupelo and Po4totoc road east of
B ssell
For bridge on Verona and Planters
vile road IN Town Greek bottom.
For raising City Poinr levee on We
roma and Smithvllle road in Town
Greek bottom.
BY order OF the board Oct. 5, 1916.
A. S. PArham. President.
John NJ. Witt, Clerk.
The Tupelo journal., 1916-10-27
INDIAN SIGN LANGUAGE.
Members of Every Different Tribe Can
Read These Signals.


A white man who visits a foreign ma.
ton finds it hard and sometimes i'm
possible to make his most ordinary
wants known. The red nan has no
such difficulty. The problem of a uni
yersal language was solved centuries
ago by the savage inhabitants of this
western world.
Should an Indian from northern Alas.
ka go to Patagonia he could by means
OF this universal language converse
with his southern brethren almost as
easily as he could with his n%eighbors
at home. That would also be the case
IL he visited Central America or met
the tribesmen of our OWE western prai
rleS and mountains.
When this language was invented no
n knows. but every Indian learns it
In addition to his OWL. Recently two
chiefs of different tribes met in the
Geographical society room in Wash
lngton and held a conversation that
lasted nearly three hours, and yet nei-
Their one knew a word of the others
language.
This universal language is, of course,
made up of signs. For example, if an
Indian is passing through a strange
country and sees other Indians at a
distance he makes the peace sign
that is, he holds up his blanket by two
corners so that it covers his whole fig
ure. The same thought is expressed
by extending the hands, palms out
ward. slightly inclined from the face.
n of these signs.
Then there are. the abstract signs by
which these .'sayages" can express
they thoughts with regard to the
Great Spirit. heaven. good, evil. life
and death, sickness. health, riches and
poverty. Life is expressed by drawing
an imaginary thread from the mouth
and death by chopping this thread off.
Another sign for death is to hold the
tips of the fingers of one hand against
the palm of the other and let them
gradually slip downward and at last
drop beneath the palm.
Most white people think that the In
dian word Of greeting, How" is mere
~ the abbreviation of the question.
How are you?' But that is not so.
The word is really "aou," which means
brother" or friend" SO when he
comes up and growls out his seemingly
inquisitive How he is not asking
after your health, but telling you that
he is a friend.-Youth's Companion.
The Tupelo journal., 1916-10-27
J. D. Rowan

Friday. October Is, at eleven
o'clock, the remains of ]. D.
Rowan were quietly laid to rest
in the cemetery at Chesterville.
surrounded by his grief stricken
family and a large number of
the friends of his early boyhood
and later manhood.
Mr.. Rowan had been seriously
sick for several weeks, and as a
last resort had undergone an op-
Grafton at a Memphis hospital.
which proved fatal.
He was born in 1861, and had
spent his life in this community.
In 1894 he was married to Miss
Maggie Bean, of Saltillo. To
this union six children were
born, all of whom with his wife
survive him.
He was a man of exemplary
character, noted for his indefati-
gable industry and rugged hon
esty, and enjoyed the confidence
of all who knew him, and the
devotion of his family.
He became a member of the
Methodist church in early life
and lived a consistent christian.
Shortly before his death. realiz-
ing the seriousness of his condi-
ton, he stated that he had no
fear of death, but desired to live
that he might serve God more
acceptably.
While our hearts are sad be-
cause our friend has passed from
our midst, yet We sorrow not as
those who have no hope, and in
loving sympathy for the bereaved
ones we would point them to the
Comforter who binds up the
broken hearted and wipes away
all tears A Friend.
The Tupelo journal., 1916-10-27
HITLESS BASEBALL.
Remarkable Record That Was Made
by Cy Young In 1904.

The proud record for pitching con-
secutive innings of hltless baseball Is
held by no less a parsonage than the
Hon. Denton Tecumseh Young OF
blessed baseball memory. Mr.. Young,
better known as .'Cy." is the holder OF
several records in unusual feats in the
pitching line.
1t was back in April. 1904, that
Young proceeded to shatter all figures
in this line, ana before he got through
he had created q new record in hurting
hitless ball and one which stands to-
day clean cut and without Il spot or
blemish and without a doubt the great
est piece of pitching the game ever
witnessed.
On April 80 against the Washington
team Young took Winters place in the
third inning. no Il out. and pitched
out the game. retiring the next twenty
one batsmen in order. Young's next
game took place May 5 against the
Athletics. Cy pitched the best game
of his long ana honorable career that
day and retired twenty-seven Of those
famous swatsmen of Connie Mack in
a row. In a game against Detroit on
May II Denton II. pitched his famous
fifteen inning ] to 0 game against the
Tigers, and in the first seven innings
Young set them down without a base
hit.
This would give Cy twenty-three
innings of hitless ball. or, in other
words, as far as the records show, six
ty-eight batsmen stepped to the plate
and were retired in succession. In that
same period the big Ohioan pitched
fOrty-eight consecutive innings where
in his opponents failed to get a run
across the plate. After bis great no
hit-no run game against the Athletics
he pitched fifteen innings of runless
ball, as mentioned, against the Tigers
with Ed Killian opposing him. 1t was
a battle royal, and the clever Killian
met defeat by a score of / to O.-New
York Sun.
The Tupelo journal., 1916-10-27
Had His Title All Ready.

Disraeli's first novel affords a curl
u instance of intelligent anticipation
Among the host of characters in WV
ian Grey" o of them slightly yelled
portraits of celebrities of the day,
Lord Beaconsfield is n of the most
important in the secondary rank. The
novel was written in 1896, exactly fifty
years before the writer assumed the
title he had invented. 1t is usual for
novelists to portray themselves in their
first book, but no other instance a be
found of an author christening a char
acter with a name subsequently to be-
come his own.-London Spectator.
The Tupelo journal., 1916-10-27
Jutland and the Sea.

Jutland is one of the few countries
where political change has been avoid
ed. Denmark has looked after the
Jutes for Y e. 1000 years without
challenge. But the sea has refused to
let Jutland alone. Like Holland, it
needs the protection of bikes, and but
for these there would be considerably
less .IUtland. Even on the east coast,
with its higher elevation, the sea runs
into many inletS. One of the longest
Of these. the Lymford, was in 1925
broken into from the west by the wa
tiers of the North sea, and the north
corner of Jutland has ever since re-
NAMED an island.-London Chronicle.
The Tupelo journal., 1916-10-27
CHART!NG THE GREAT LAKES.
Uncle Sam Has a Steady Job In These
Perilous Waters.

FERROUS WateFS.
Summer after summer the feet of
the lake survey sails the broad eX-
panse of the five lakes and the score
of bays and inlets searching for dan
ger spots that may claim their heavy
toll of human life and vessel tonnage.
Since 1871 the United States govern
ment has been silently carrying on
this work, a herculean fight against
the jagged reef and the unseen Shoal
that menace navigation. Sounding
lines have been plunged into black
depths of $4,000 square miles of water,
and still today there are areas that
have not been charted in which pass
ing barks may founder.
Probably no frequented waterways
in the world are SO hazardous as the
great lakes. At no time is a steam
er on them more than a comparative
ly few hours from shore and period
ically fierce storms arise, fully as
violent as those experienced oil the
ocean. which play with the steel ships,
battering them helplessly about, threat
ening to engulf or sweep them ashore.
over S5,000,O00 has been spent by
the government since 1871 for the
prosecution of the work of charting
the lakes. Locked in heavy timbered
boxes, protected from fire in immense
vaults in the old postoffice building. De
troit. are over 1900 field charts. dating
back to 1918, when a survey of Lake
Erie was made by officers of the Brit
ish navy. With few exceptions the
maps are the result of the scientific re-
searches of United States officers and
surveyors.-New York Sun.
The Tupelo journal., 1916-10-27
Notice
To Teachers ard Trustees of County

To Teachers ard Trustees Of County
Schools:
We have planned for all our county
public schools to continue five and one
half or six months during the session of
1867. All schools should have
opened Monday, October 16. Trustees
will please see that your schools open
on the above dade and continue with
out the loss of any time. as we desire
that all schools close On time in the
spring. All teachers must secure con-
tracts before teaching in any school as
the law will not permit the county
superintendent to pay teachers for
services rendered before securing con-
tracts. Contracts cannot be made
with teachers who do not have a valid
license recorded in the superintendent
Office. Assistant teachers must not
teach with an average below as. Trus
tees and principal4 need not call for an
assistant teacher in schools that can
not mainthin an average of As pupils.
3l.2 I. M. Milan, Supt. Ed.
The Tupelo journal., 1916-10-27
Railways In shakespeare's Time.

An American lady at Stratford on
Avon showed even more than the usu-
al American enthusiasm and fervor.
She had not recovered when she reach.
ed the railway station, for she remark
ed to a friend as they walked on the
platform, "To think that it was from
this very platform the immortal bard
would depart whenever he %journeyed
to town."
The Tupelo journal., 1916-10-27
SAVES DAUGHTER
Advice Of Mother no Doubt Pre-.
vents Daughter, Untimely End.

Ready, Ky.-"I was not able to do
anything for nearly six months" writes
Mrs. Laura Bratcher, of this place, land
was down in bed for three months.
l cannot tell you how | suffered with
ny head, and with nervousness and
yomanly troubles.
Our family doctor told my husband he
ould not do me any good, and he had
give it up. We tried another doctor,
1t he did not help me.
At last, my mqther advised me TO take
ardui, the WOman'S tonic. thought
was no use for | was nearly dead and
otliing seemed to do me any good. But
took eleven bottles, and now | am able
do all OF my work and my own
ashing.
think Cardui is the best medicine
re world. My weight has increase
nd ! look the picture of health.
If you suffer from any of the ailments
peculiar to women, get a bottle of Cardui
today. Delay is dangerous. We know
i will help you. for it has helped so
many thousands Of other weak women
in the past so years.
At all druggists.
.Wyifs t.: Chattanooga Medicine Co., Ladies'
Advisory Dept, Chattanooga, Tenn, for .S1scial
hssfyx<tioss on your case and e4-pags book, Home
Treatment for Women" in plain wrapper. NC. l1s
The Tupelo journal., 1916-10-27
Trustees Sale Notice

BY virtue of the provisions Of a GER
tain trust deed executed by r. H.
CLANCY on the 9Th dav of January,
1915, to the Undersigned as trustee to
secure the payment of a certain in
debtedness therein mentioned to Lafre-
MIA H. Carruth, which said deed of
trust is of record in trust deed book
40. pages $40 ct sequiter of the trust
deed records of Union county. Miss,
AMI which is also of record in trust
deed book 80, pages 383 ct sequiter of
the trust deed records Of Lee county,
Miss, default having been made in the
payment of the first note falling due
on sail trust deed, and the bent ticiary
in said trust deed having declared the
entire Indebtedness secured by said
trust deed due as is provided in said
trust deed, | will, as such trustee in
said deed of trust, on the
ELEVENTH DAY OF NOVEMBER,
A. D., 1916, in front of the court house
door in the City of Tupelo, Lee county,
Miss, within legal hours. offer for sac
for cash to the highest bidder at publ C
outcry, the following described prop
erty, viz:
The north half of the northwest quar-
ter OF SectlOn 10, township o, range D,
in Lee county, Miss, and 158 acres
being all of the northeast quarter of
section Is. township g.. range A. in
Union county, Miss. Except two acres
used and known as the McQuirter grave
yard.)
Also one bay mare mule about ten
years old named Rhoda One bay horse.
mule four years old named Fox. One
black mare mule about seven years old
named Mary. One black horse about
ten years old named Bill. One red
brindle cow about six years old named
Bess. Also one t~wo-horse wagon late
ly bought by r. H. CLANCY, and all
gear, harness and so forth of every
kind and description owned or used by
R. H. CLANCY, and all farming tools,
APPARATUS and utensils of every kind
and description used by him or in his
possession.
Alss about 2, 500 pounds of seed cot
ton. about so bushels of cotton seed
and so bushels of coin.
The title to all of which said property
is believed to be good, but | sell and
convey only as trustee.
81 B. f. Murdoch. Trustee.
The Tupelo journal., 1916-10-27
Some People Never Satisfied.

We lived for awhile in a Korean
home, eating Korean rice, pickles and
seaweed, padding about in stocking
feet, sitting on our heels in lieu of
chairs, sleeping on stone, floors with
u heads resting G? on the customary
pine blocks which the Koreans much
prefer to pillows. But we had these
experiences only when we deliberately
sought them. The orient is the orient
de luxe to those who wish it so.-Chris-
tan Herald.
The Tupelo journal., 1916-10-27
Notice of Sale by Special Com.
missioner of United States
Court
Jones & Hopkins Mfg. Co VS.. Asa W.
Allen. et. al. No. 10. In Equity.

Jones & Hopkins Mfg. Co VS.. Asa w.
Allen, Ct. al. No. 10. In Equity.
Pursuant to the provisions of a de-
cree of the District Court of the United
States for the Eastern Division OF the
Northern District OF Mississippi, rem
dered by said court at the October
term, 1916, thereof. and on the 9Th day
of October, 1916, in the above styled
cause, the under signed, as Special
Commissioner of said court in said
cause, will on
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1916,
at the courthouse in the City of Tu-
pelo, Lee county, Mss within legal
hours. for cash. at public auction, sell
to the highest bidder, the following
described land, to-wit:
One % acre of land, more or less. in
the northwest corner of southwest
quarter of section 80, township 9,
Range 6, east. beginning at the north
west corner Of said quarter, running
thence east 28l3 feet, thence south $50
feet, thence west 1913 feet, thence
north $50 feet to The beginning; and
having situated thereon the brick ware
house formerly occupied by the Asa
w. Allen Co, and the laundry build
ing and three frame cottages and
blacksmith shop and being east of
Mobile and Ohio railroad, in City of
Iupelo. Lee county, Mississippi.
Said land is sod for The purpose of
satisfying the claim adjudged by said
court to be due the Red Bad Trust Go
and the costs of this Ocaeding. Only
such title conveyed as is vested in me
as such Special Commissioner.
Witness my hand this October 10th,
1916. W. L. CLAYTON,
80 Special Commissioner.
The Tupelo journal., 1916-10-27
Sheepskin.

Sheepskin was used as parchment be
fore the invention of paper. Even then
it was a substitute for vellum, which is
made from calfskin and of a far finer
ployed for fine Illuminated work. Tan
ned sheepskins are in the trade called
basils. For these there are many legit-
innate uses. but it is for imitation pur-
poses that the sheepskin is most large
Nv used.
The Tupelo journal., 1916-10-27
A Straight Tip.

Say" growled the first hobo, why
didn't yer go ter dat big house an git
a handout?'
"Why, l started ter" replied the 9TH
er, "but a minister lookin' guy gimme
a tip not ter. He seq: Turn from yer
present path. Ye're goin' ter de dogs =
philadelphia Press.
The Tupelo journal., 1916-10-27
La a Safe Place.

First Undergraduate-Have you tele-
graphed to the old nan for money?
Second Undergraduate-Yes.
"Got an answer?"
Yes. | telegraphed the governor,
Where is that money l wrote for?' and
his answer reads, In my pocket Y
Baltimore Sun.
The Tupelo journal., 1916-10-27
Already Knew Some of II.

Johnny" said the small boys moth
er, Il want you to stay home all after
noon and learn the Declaration of In
dependence by heart"
I'll have to if you insist. But the
idea doesn't line up WITH my ideas of
life, liberty and the pursuit of happi-
ness."-Washington Star.