Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1917-06-28
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Petitions have been circulated fol
the building OF an 1S-foot brick road
from Eldorado through Towanda and
Augusta TO Douglass, q distance Of
thirty miles.
The board Of county commissioners
OF Sedgwick county has instructed the
county attorney TO bring suit against
bondsmen In twenty.one cases where
bonds have been declared forfeited by
the courts Most OF The actions are In
liquor cases
Joseph r. Kerley. so years old, who
has been postmaster az Peck, Kan.
for the past fourteen years. Is dead In
hospital in Wichita after u short
Illness.
Hiland Southworth. q wealthy cap
italist at Abilene for twenty-five years
died the other morning after years
illness.
Or. l.. Z. Reed was found dead In
his offices in the Fourth National
Bank building al Wichita recently
Heart dii ease is thought TO have
caused death. The doctor was Al
years old.
. A soldiers quartet. singing In uni
form is proving a material aid 10 en-
listment and Red Cross contribution In
Allen county. The quartet. composed
of Harry Neal Fred Bishop. John
Hurlock and Leo Daigh. all enlisted
men of the machine company and sig
nal corps. accompanies every speaker
At meetings scheduled throughout the
county.
The north cell wing of the Kansas
state penitentiary ut Lansing. the
Oldest portion of the prison. is being
RACED in preparation for the erection
Of a modern dormitory. This part of
the institution was built in 1864. II
has been responsible for most Of the
criticism directed at the penitentiary
by reform workers. The cells are
barely four feet wide and the entire
structure is Anticipated and insanitary
Tie Crawford County Enterprise
today was sold by II. W. BOuck to w.
II. Shider, publisher OF the Girard
Press.
Degrees were granted to 1S9 seniors
1T the annual graduation exercises OF
the Kansas State Agricultural college
recently. In addition, eight received
the degree of master of science and
five received professional degrees. w.
o. Thompson. president of Ohio state
university, delivered the commence
ment address.
Dexter Sapp. % years old, son of
the ex-judge OF the Cherokee County
District Court and nephew Of the late
William F. Sapp, Democratic national
comitteeman from Kansas, died re-
Gently in his law office at Galena OF
heart disease.
The 2-room house OF G. w. Jones
near Treece, was blown up the other
night. OF the five occupants, Willie
Jones, 6 years old, is dead; his brother
Earl, II, is probably fatally injured,
and the other members of the family
badly bruised and cut.
In half an hour $1,100 was subscrib-
ed to the Red Cross in Highland, a
town of eight hundred people near
Hiawatha. In Hiawatha citizens have
been assessed according to wealth and
comittees were at work raising $4,000
as Hiawatha's share.
The United States government has
offered to spend more than $4,000 IN
the state OF Kansas in the next year
to teach Kansas women how to in
crease and conserve the food supply.
Judge W. H. Higgins of Seneca was
elected president and Judge Ed W..
Thompson of Concordia secretary
treasurer Of the Probate Judges AS
sociation Of Kansas. Salina was
chosen as the 1918 meeting place.
Nelson Crawford, professor of in
dustrial journalism at the Kansas
State Agriculture College, has been
appointed associate editor Of the Mid
land Magazine, established three
years ago for the purpose Of present
ing the literary ideals of the Middle