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Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-06-07

ladder. One of the bullets crashed
through the glass and others through
the frame of the door. Archie Roden-
berger, who was watching through
window, saw the man either jump or
fall from the ladder and make away
through the alley.
DR.. Scott then called the night
watch and they both went to the Frs
co depot and examined all the trains
They routed out dozen hoboes from
one car who were on their way 10
the harvest fields and rounded up
several other strangers, but none oil
them answered the description of the
man who was seen only indistinct'y
in the dark by Rodenberger and Scott
as he ray away. The police have a
description of a man seen on the
streets yesterday and who they have
been unable to find today, whom they
think to be the man. The fellow, It
is thought, was a dope" fend and
after robbing one store and not ind
ing what he sought went boldly to
another.
Only n few nights ago a young man
by the name of Henderson went
through most of the doctors offices
in town before he found what he
wanted in DR.. Boswell's office.
Doctor Scott says he thought the
thieves were trying to gain entrance
to rob the Baxter National Bank ana
did not know whether there was one
or more. He says he shot to hit but
did not know of the other robbery
and had no desire to kill dope fiend'
The doctor thinks one Of the bullets
must have passed between the mans
legs as he stood on the ladder and
thinks it quite possible the would he
robber was hit by one of the bullets
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-06-07

layettes contain the following gar
ments: 2 dresses, l jacket, 3 muslin
waists, 3 flannel waists, 2 pairs foot
ees, 2 blankets, 8 flannel binders, Y
napkins, 8 undershirts, ! bonnet, 3
large safety pins, 6 medium safety
pins, 6 small safety pins, cake OF
soap, washcloth, l box talcum. The
members of this club are enjoying
this line of work. The hostess serv-
ed her guests most appetising refresh
ments of ice cream, strawberries and
cake. The next meeting will be July
LIST at the home of Mrs. Geo. Rucker
on Cleveland avenue and Fourteenth
street.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-06-07
MANY CARS TO MIAMI

Baxter Chamber of Commerce
news in Joplin Globe:
Baxter Springs, Kan, June 81.
T. Morrison, chairman Of the commit
tee named by the Chamber of Com
merce to complete plans and secure
boosters for Baxter's participation in
the Ozark Trails convention to be held
at Miami June 5, announced TODAY
that he has secured thirty cars for
the parade. Seventy-fve cars are cN-
pected to make the trip and partic'-
pate in the parade which will be held
there on that day. The party will
leave here at 8 o'clock in the morning.
June 10 has been named as Baxter
Springs day at the race meet held at
Pitcher and the same party will visit
there.
The original of the above could
have been used but the Joplin copy
does Just as well-this time.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-06-07
FOR FLAG DAY
Wife of French Justice Will Speak In
Baxter Springs on 14th of
June

If you havn't flag you had better
get one before flag day on the 14th
of this month. Preparations are al
ready under way for a program in
Baxter Springs and every flag that
can be procured should be waving.
1t has not yet been announced what
the program will be but the feature
will be q talk by Madame NJ. Guerin,
of France, wife of a French court
Justice, who is now touring this coun-
try making war speeches. Mr.. Geur-
in is said to be a great speaker.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-06-07
METZLER WILL RUN

Phil c.. Metzler, of Baxter Springs
will probably be a candidate for the
nomination for county clerk on the
Democratic ticket in the August pri-
maries. Eddie Masterson, present
county clerk, was drafted this spring
and deputy has been filling the office
since that time. Mr.. Metzler wrote
to Mr.. Masterson some weeks ago but
as the letter may, perhaps, have foil
owed Masterson to France, he may
not get an answer in time to change
his intentions. Mr.. Metzler is well
known in the county and will nc
doubt make a strong race for the
nomination.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-06-07

The robber gained entrance into the
Rsddy Drug Store through the back
door and pulled out the drawer in
which the opiates are kept. Mr.. Red
dy had quite a supply on hand in this
drawer, but the drawer is construct
cd with a partition and the robber
evidently just pulled the drawer out
to the partition and turned his at
tention to other parts of the store as
the "dope" was undisturbed and some
parts Of the store had been turned
topsy turvey. Nothing seems to be
missing but the money-Leslie Mey-
erding's jewelry store seems to have
lost nothing, although most OF tn
jcwelry stock was locked up and could
not have been reached by the robber'
When the robber attempted to rob
the Scott Drug Store business pickle"
up." The robber must have thought
that there was no one in the building
hut DR.. Scott has rooms back OF tn
drug store and the Baxter National
Bank. As soon as the doctor heard
the noise at the back door he tool;
Archie Rodenberger's revolver and
crawled around behind a partition
about ten feet from the door where
ne could watch the door. He could
hear the robber working but he could
not see him, it being so dark outside
although the door was a glass one
The robber had a step ladder set up
to the back and was cutting the screen
away from the transom and making
lots of noise and DR.. Scott thinking
he wa seeming through "cut loose
with the revolver. 1t is a marvel that
the man was not hit for the bullet
holes in the door shows that every
bullet passed within just a few inch""
of the man who was standing on the
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-06-07

Kansas must have q volunteer 10
day harvest army OF ninety thousand
men who are willing 10 go into the
wheat fields on call. according to q
recent statement by Z. E. Frizzell OF
Larned, in charge of the wheat harvest
labor campaign. Mr. FriZzell said that
thirty thousand additional men were
needed on the Kansas farms for the
3O.day period from June 10 to July 10,
Or an army of ninety thousand men,
each of whom will give ten days as
needed.
Wages in the harvest this year Will
be attractive. Frizzell said, and every
able bodied man between the ages OF
rs and a. years will be urged to go
10 the harvest. The campaign for Ia
Dor means not only the saving Of the
big Kansas wheat crop. but the win
ning OF the war. In practically every
county in the state wages this year
will be fifty cents an hour and board
and lodging. That means $3.50 to So
a day and board. For the harvest hand
army will this year work eleven and
twelve hours n day.
The Kansas wheat belt is being d.
vided and Today harvest is expected
in each division. Starting in tile south
ern tier OF counties. the harvest under
favorable weather conditions viii begin
about June 10. In order to handle the
crop properly, thirty thousand men will
be needed in each harvest section for
a Today period.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-06-07
WILL GIVE SPECIAL IN
JUDGEMENTS TO OUT OF
TOWN PEOPLE
BARGAIN FOR HOME PEOPLE
Meeting of the Merchants of
Baxter Springs Is Called
for June 10th-All Be
Present

Baxter Springs is going to hold
forth some special inducements for
outside trade and give the home peo-
pie some nice little bargain treats
also. This was definitely decided up
on at the meeting of the directors of
the Chamber of Commerce Monday
Everybody will be asked to cooper
ate with the plant which has not been
worked out yet except in a general
way.
The first trade day will be June %
After the first the trade days will be
held at regular intervals of a few
days each.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-06-07

French homes have not baked bread
for hundreds of years. They have not
even ovens nor baking tins in their
kitchens. They rely on the bakery.
II you ask them to bake their own
bread-for the bakery cannot supply
quick breads-the women OF France
must add another hour to their long
day OF toll. VIII you ask them to do
that? Or shall our homes carry the
extra burden Of doing without wheatf
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-06-07
Going without wheat is perhaps more

Going without wheat is perhaps more
expense, certainly more work. Not .
hardship but a burden. Who shall
bear the burden? Shall We ask
the women Of France to do It? Do
you know what It means to themI The
women Of France are doing their own
work, doing the nations work, even
doing the work Of teams in the field.
The men are gone-all but the younger
boys. the aged and the invalids. In
almost every homo is a cripple or one
diving Of tuberculosis-an added care.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-06-07

Mrs. +. C. McWilliams received a
letter from her brother, Tuesday,
Mr.. Newt. Moran, who has been To-
Gated in Company B, 22nd Engineers
at Camp Sheridan, Alabama. Mr.
Moran writes that their orders to be
prepared to leave camp at any time
comes very unexpectedly to the boys
there. This all goes to show how fast
Uncle Sam is getting there and every
letter brings the sacrifices Of war a
little nearer.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-06-07

The outcome of the democratic
convention" held in Topeka this
week is going to be that Henry j.
Waters is really going to run for
governor on the democratic ticket.
It has been assumed that Waters
name was put in just to fill up, but
big Democrats are telling that Wa
tiers wants the job, and what is
more, thinks he has a chance to get
the executive chair. The democrats
are counting on the loyalty Of the
people to the president and his war
policies to pull the ticket thru.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-06-07
REGISTRATION WILL
Be HERE AGAIN
BOYS Who Have Become Il
Years of Age Since Last
June Must Register Here
Tomorrow

The second registration will be held
all over the country tomorrow. The
place of registration at Baxter
Springs will be in the Library build
ing under the direction of F. w. Boss.
1t is hard to estimate how many there
will be in Baxter Springs, but it IS
said to be more than one would think.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-06-07

The Holly Club was pleasantly en-
tertained Monday afternoon at the
home of Mrs. F. NJ. Perkins on Four
teenth street. The following guests
and members were present: Mesdames
j. w. Barnes, NJ. f. Mullen, J. Il.
Trewatha, r. NJ. Gilman, ]. E. Viles'
W. T. Hope, C. H. Griest, Geo. Ruek-
er. Miss Grace Perkins. The work
Of the afternoon was work on layettes
for refugee babies. The layette work
ed on yesterday makes five layettes
which this club has finished. The
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-06-07

The first move in the L. & T., the
railroad that was bought from the
court by the people to keep it from
being junked, will be watched with
interest. The directors have leased
the road to a man who will give them
nothing for it for the first year and
less than 21a per cent for the re-
manning nine out of ten years. Also,
the man has the option of dropping
his contract at the end of one year.
The people raised eighty thousand
dollars. Out of the less than three
per cent the expenses Of the corpor-
alton have to be paid. The matter
is up to the Utilities Commission fer
confirmation.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-06-07

A Topeka citizen has written to
Washington proposing to consolidate
the thirty odd printeries in the Cap
ital City, and make this serve as an
object lesson for the rest of the
country. He points out that any
two of the big plants could do all
the work that is done by all the in
dustry. This would release a third
of the skilled labor and allow its
use in war industries. The two big
newspaper plants here could be con-
solidated and a ten per cent saving
in labor be effected. Two ice COM
panies traverse the same ground.
A fifty per cent saving could be
here affected. Numerous milk, wag-
ons go over the same routes. Morco
Morrow has a favorite illustration:
In one big apartment house in Chi
cago seventeen milk vendors served
the inmates.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-06-07
IRE ROBBER NARROWLY
ESCAPED WITH HIS LIFE
Doctor w. r. Scott Shot Door Full of Bull
LET Holes Robbed Reddy's Drug
Store of Twenty Dollars.

What is thought to have been the efforts OF lone roooe
quite deal of excitement in Baxter Springs Monday
about the time the last people had disappeared from the see
eddys drug store thought by the police to nave oeeh
FIRST place visited by the obbe Some $50 taken from the
drawer and the store was ransacked all in what sup
ro.ed To have been search for cocaine morphine
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-06-07

Mr.. and Mrs. John Tubbs and child
rem, Of Tulsa, who have been visit
ing Mr.. Tubb's sister, Mrs. Elmer
Garrison, for a few days, left Mon
day for Sloan Springs, Ark, where
Mrs. Tubs and the children will
spend the sumner.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-06-07

and in addition to that, he is the Gus
todian of the fortunes of most Of the
population of his town, for if he told
all he knew or didn't tell it well,
things would begin to happen immed-
lately. The country editor gets less
and earns more than any other pro-
fession."
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-06-07

With the Hun at the gates of
RHEIMS, bombs falling on hospitals,
the fate of Belgium just BACKYARD
the corner, the call Of the president
for money thru War Savings Stamps
will have much greater weight than
few weeks ago.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-06-07

James Hartley, who is III with the
rkeumatism, is improving slowly.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-06-07

Mrs. F. N. Perkins is entertaining
this afternoon the Holly Club.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-06-07
CAPITAL CITY NOTES
(By Chas. H. Trapp.)

Topeka, June 4-Will Beck OF Hol-
ton and Henry Stitcher of Usage City
are on the opposite sides of the fence
on the question of whether or not an
editor ought to take paid war adver-
Using contributed by merchants. Beck
believes that it is a species OF prof.
iteering which Sticher believes II
enables the merchants to take part Oh
the load from the overloaded news
paper man. It is well known to the
fraternity that ten calls for space Tor
the various campaigns and the rise
in everything, from labor to paper
has cut out practically all the pront
in the business-if there ever was a
profit. At a meeting Of the Topeka
Press Club it was decided almost un-
animously that the ends Of the nation
would be best served by taking the
Contributed by" advertising.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-06-07

TfTman Hooker and Miss Doris
suaIley and a party Of friends motor
"a 70 Columbus Sunday.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-06-07

thing done to keep this hay from be-
Ing baled too green, for such praS
tice means a very large loss Of hay
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-06-07

Recently it was said that "a coun-
try editor is a mighty good editor
but a mighty poor business man.
Charles Sessions, old-time newspaper
man and head of the Utilities Com
mission, said: 1.-THE country editor Is
the best business man on earth. ne
has to make living for himself UNI
der the most adverse circumstances
Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1918-05-25
PURELY POLITICAL

The fortunes of politics are as strange as
fiction and uncertain as the winds of
March. Josiah Collins was elected we'll
fare commissioner Of King County last Sat
urday, which spelled defeat for William G.
Potts for the same position and thereby
hangs tale. In 1902 Potts was a candi-
date for the state senate from the thirty
fifth senatorial district and Josiah Collins
wanted the self same position. Nominations
were made at that time under the old con-
vention system and it therefore behooved
candidate seeking nomination to get as
many personal friends into the convention
as possible, and with his friends for
shouting neucleus, endeavor to storm the
other delegates into voting for him, which
was often done when the delegates were
elected to support another man. Old time
politicians will remember how admirably
the storming proposition worked when
George B. Lamping was first nominated for
county auditor, his friends lead by Ira Bron-
son successfully storming or as would be
now said, camougeflauging the delegates, a
majority OF whom favored a slated candi-
date. Pots on the surface won a majority
OF the delegates, but Collins was backed by
Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1918-05-25
CAYTON'S WEEKLY

Published every Saturday at Seattle Washington
U. S. A.
the interest Of equal rights and equal Justice to
all men and for ''all men up
A publication of general information, but in
the main voicng the sentiments of the Colored
Citizens
It is open to the towns and communities of the
state of Washington to air their public grievances
Social and church notices solicited for pub
licaton and will be handled according to the rules
of journalism
Subscription 81 year in advance. Special
rates made to clubs and societies.
HORACE ROSCOE CAYTON. Editor and Publisher
TELEPHONE: BEACON 1910
Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1918-05-25
THAT EFFICIENCY CLUB

IL is exceedingly cOmmonQdDle on Jne pdfC
of those instrumental in organizing the Effic-
iency Club in the City of Seattle, which
held it's first public smoker one evening last
week. There is a burning need Of efficiency
among the colored folk in the city and if the
members of the club do their duty and their
whole duty for their fellow men they will
take up the situation of the colored folk of
this community and put forth herculian
efforts to materially improve them. TO en-
courage them to become thrifty, industrious,
frugal and reliable should be some Of the
objects and aims Of the club. Colored folk
must be thoroughly reliable if they hope to
widen their sphere of usefulness in this
community. While standing in bank one
day this week white man stepped up to
the banker and after stating his object of
calling concluded with asking for loan of
$4,000, which he got and on a proposition
that at least hundred colored men could
put up fifty per cent better proposition,
and yet the banker would consider him alb
solutely crazy. ''That's the reason white
men can make money and black men can
not, we said to the banker after the bor-
rover had gone. ''Ead I put the same
proposition to you an insane commission
could attend to my wants much better than
a banker.' ''I fully agree with you,"
came from the banker, ''but colored men
have the reputation of not meeting their
financial obligations. They do not make am
pie preparations to meet their obligations
as time goes by and when the time expires
they are wholly unprepared" Here is
sermon in nut shell and if we are honest
with ourselves we must admit it's truthful
ness 81 can use any amount of colored
laborers and helpers, but I do not want
them as foremen and directors" said the
superintendent of gigantic industrial
plant "and simply because they lack initia-
tive and are very unreiable' These are
some Of the reasons why colored men are so
often shut out from working in industrial
plants. Now let the Efficiency Club get
busy and encourage it's members and friends
to become eficient-know what you want,
have general knowledge of the same and
then bend every effort within your power
to always be Johnny on the job, all of which
brings about a state of proficiency and
whether white or black the thoroughly pro-
ficient will sooner or later be amply pro-
vided for in gainful occupation.
Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1918-05-25

he, when his every minute, since he first
stepped off the train has been one grand
ovation on the part Of those who knew him
best In personal note to the editor hereof
he said: "My Dear Mr.. Cayton: thank
you very much for the splendid writeup you
gave me in the last issue of your weekly. 1t
is just like you and I appreciate it more than
[ can tell you.
We do not expect to see him leave Seattle
and when he will have shaken hands with
the most Of his friends, he will get down
to business and Immediately there will be
things doing.
Collecting the mails by the tube system is
to soon go into effect in many Of the larger
eastern cities. Now for a transcontinental
tube system that will reach the Pacific from
the Atlantic within few hours
Five million U. S. soldiers in France and
Kaiser set up and take notice, but the en-
tire world. You have done something
when once you have aroused "the nigger"
of your Uncle Sam and Kult Kaiser now
knows it.
That coWardly mob down in Georgia that
lynched woman clearly demonstrates that
in the best regulated families are to be
found human hyenas.
Calling the butchers strike off after hav-
ing most ANONYMOUSLY lost reminds us of
the fellow that locked the stable door after
his horse had been stolen.
Perhaps the Merchants Protective Asso-
citation is legal as proclaims Judge Ronald,
but no one except Ronald and the firm of
Gill, Hoyt & Frye seem to be Of like
opinion.
Schwab is working for the government
and only gets a dollar a year for his serv-
ices but Schwab's industrial holdings
doubtless give to him million dollars a
year, taken from the government That's
truly working both ends against the middle
Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1918-05-25

Georgias gallant white gentlement Is. bs
anywhere else) have lynched another colored
woman Such bowling hyenas are too con-
temptible to be consigned to hell
Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1918-05-25

Moore made up his mind as to whether or
not he will remain in Seattle and how could
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-04-12
PROTECTION FOR
ALASKA GATEWAYS
Coast and Harbor Charting Urged III
Special Bulletin of Coast and
Geodetic Survey

WASHINGTON, April 12-Protec-
tion for the gateways of Alaska by AIDE
quate coast and harbOr .charting was
urged in special bulletin issued yester-
day by the coast and geodetic survey.
With more than 10000 miles of detailed
coast line, Alaska cannot be approached
without plying the waters that nearly
surround it, because gigantic mountain
ranges, that may never be surmounted
by railroads. bar the path to the east.
In 80 years the coast and gcodetic
survey has had less than $4,000,000 to
spend in Alaskan waters on work that
should invariably preecde development
of a new country Exports from Alas
ka through these waterways have
amounted to SOS, 100000 in 30 years,
caching the greatest annual amount last
year when $94, $50 worth of goods
lwere sent out of the territory which
Originally cost the government 5000,
600. Imports to Alaska in 90 years have
amounted to $412 100000, showing the
Vast amount of trade carried on with
he territory solely by means of ships.
| The bulletin said Alaska has many
fine uudevelopcd harborS, OF which lit
/ tie is known. Owing to lack Of charts
I224 American vessels have been lost
in Alaskan waters during the last q
years, CARRYING to their deaths $50 per
sons. About 20 per cent Of the losses
were due to standings which might
have been prevented by accurate sur
Ivevs.
There should be the most serious
thought given now to taking care O
Alaska 5 greatest need" the bulletin
Iconcludes. The war should not delay
preparation for the work, as immediate
provision looking to the care of thu
prcliminaries win mean the saving pos
siblv Of wears