01 Jan 1914
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Newspaper
Baxter Springs News
Location
Baxter Springs, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1914
Page
1
Meats include dry salt jowls and ends, bacon cuts and sliced bacon. Dry fruit features peaches, raisins, currants, buckwheat, and syrup products. Sauerkraut, pumpkin, hominy, and molasses offered. multiple can and pound prices listed for bulk purchases. Deals advertised with per pound and per can pricing.
A brief real estate or goods advertisement notes many items are available but cannot be listed here. It invites readers to call for a full display and emphasizes easy inquiry and no trouble in visiting or purchasing.
Riley Mast of Route 1 is very ill with a poor prognosis. Hibbard is building a residence on Shoal Creek four miles northeast of town. Henry Meeds of Route 5 visits Hale Missouri to see his daughter. Mr and Mrs Albert Meeds hosted a large Christmas dinner. Karl Kain and many friends gathered for Christmas with Simpson, Tarrence, Embry and other relatives. E Cox returns from Carter Arkansas to visit his mother. Sam Abrams comes from Omaha for the holidays. Lee and Charlie Thomas return from Manhattan to celebrate with family. G W Simpson of Route 1 hosted Christmas guests at a city gathering in Galena.
Dr English telephone 198. E T McCarthy from Kansas City spent Christmas. J O Goodwin and Frank Hash conducted business in Joplin Monday. Geo Sutherland of Miami visited Baxter Saturday for business. E B Schermerhorn of Galena had business in Baxter last week. Dr and Mrs R B McKinney of Columbus spent Christmas with relatives. Mrs W C Judd of Heavener Oklahoma visits her parents Mr and Mrs M G Justice. Dr and Mrs W T Hope return from Kansas City after Christmas with relatives. Mr and Mrs Fred Embree of Galena visit their parents, Mr and Mrs T A Embree, in the city.
Noble Kuhn and Mrs Ida Noble of the city wed Mr B S Kuhn of Carthage Mo on Monday evening December 22 1913 at Miami in the M E Parsonage. The bride is daughter of John M Cooper of this city and the groom, a Baxter visitor and business man, will reside here with his bride.
George Sikes reports three horses killed by the 6 10 evening Frisco train last Sunday near the Brush Creek Bridge where the Skenners hosted Christmas guests. Sikes suspects a city worker may have toppled the fence allowing the animals onto the track. Other items note Christmas visits, residents traveling to Sapulpa, a Baxter girl’s marriage, improving road conditions, and Perry Clemens declaring another bid for state auditor in 192? with Democratic support.
Baxter defeated Columbus 43 to 15 in the city basketball game held last Tuesday night. The contest pitted the two town teams in a local rivalry, with Baxter pulling ahead early and maintaining the lead throughout the game.
Classified item lists a team farm and brood mares weighing 1200 pounds each, with a foal by Hocker's Percheron, located at Baxter Planing Mill. Also notes visiting people from Kansas City and Indianapolis, plus holiday visits and family ties. Mentions Samuel M. Jarvis death in New York and an estate estimate of five to seven million dollars. һуң
The community bands together amid illness and misfortune to sow and harvest wheat for 1914. James F. Finn, troubled by rheumatism, travels to the farm as neighbors beat him to the field. In prior years similar collective work aided families after accidents and losses. Additional notes mention Nelle Weaver visiting Joplin, Louie Rossman’s Grande River trip, and Christmas visits in Kansas City and Pittston.
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