Desirable Groceries Offer Quality May Satisfy New Year Needs
A local grocery notes growing appreciation for its reliable essentials. It promotes canned goods coffee tea flour and sugar as top quality items to start the new year with.
14 Jan 1915
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Newspaper
Baxter Springs News
Location
Baxter Springs, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1915
Page
1
A local grocery notes growing appreciation for its reliable essentials. It promotes canned goods coffee tea flour and sugar as top quality items to start the new year with.
Joplin observers note activity around Cooper's Grocery with Mrs J C Plumb shopping on Friday and P Lewis on business. Des Moines visitor Mrs Chas Hummel visits her mother Mrs J A Sour. Walt Sullivan traded a Ford for a new one in an hour. A C Edrington did business in Columbus early week. Wheat prices rise and farmer morale improves. William McSherry delivers wheat from Lyon township farm at $1.20 a bushel.
Sunday morning Marshall Horton and J O Treece observed a black horse and buggy driven by two Italians. Horton identified the outfit as stolen after describing the property. Henryetta officials confirmed the theft from Payton Oklahoma. The Creek owner described the gear in detail and identified it. Deputies secured the suspects Geo Smith and Joe Moachat. They offered to return the property without requisition.
John Doyle a Muskogee Oklahoma policeman rode to Joplin drank during the return trip. He became so disorderly on the Missouri Pacific car that conductors telephoned Marshal Horton in Joplin. Doyle was jailed, arraigned before Police Judge English, and fined nine dollars, which he paid after wiring for funds.
See That Bright Spot Waxit Made It. Waxit restores furniture and linoleum floors and is suitable for autos and buggy bodies. It claims magical effect with harmless guarantee and is offered for sale by Hood's.
Jas McCreary of Tulsa visits sister Mrs Rathbone. W W Wilson improves after illness. Mrs J C Naylor and Myrtle shop in city. Willard Shults recovering from paralysis. Farmers travel to Sapulpa to bin wheat awaiting dollar fifty. Tim Alexander from Tar Creek district. Andrew O'Donnell joins Harry Hartley’s barber shop in Baxter Springs. Mrs W M Smith hosts Justamere Club. J E Simmons to host in two weeks. John Polster making progress on new home. Offer invited for a large town block suitable for farming. Dick Fancher buys garden plot. big farm west of town changes hands. Mrs A C Edrington hosts card party. prize to Mrs J H Boswell. Luncheon served.
Light running sewing machine of known quality praised as unmatched in the market. Hood's offers this model as the best option with no similar rival.
An advertisement urges readers to ask their grocer for Peacock Flour, claiming it is ideal for pastries and baked goods. The note emphasizes the product as the preferred choice for pastry making and grocery store availability.
For Sale a lot of good furniture at the John M Cooper home. Westcott from Galena was here Friday for legal business. Easter Springs real estate expected to rise this summer. For Sale three colts, one two years old, two one year old and a three quarters thoroughbred draft from Basten.
The News announces the publication of Dark Hollow by Anna Katharine Green a leading American mystery writer. The first installment will appear in next week’s city and rural route edition inviting readers to discover who murdered Al Etheridge what Judge Ostranger hid in a secret room and the veiled woman behind the burned house on the hill.
Karl Kain mourns sixteen hogs killed by Frisco passenger No. 8 last Saturday evening. Track parkers numbered eighteen. the engine struck, causing instant death for sixteen hogs and scaring the remaining two, likely turning their hair white.
The Baxter National Bank stockholders held their annual meeting on Tuesday night. Directors elected for the ensuing year are F. S. Hall, L. D. Brewster, J. J. Fridley, Geo. E. Rucker, and A. R. Kane. A resolution authorized payment of the usual dividend. Directors will elect officers tonight.
The Round Oak has stood the test of long experience, which has made it the favorite of all heaters. Sold by Hood.
A partial listing shows a Bourbon red gobbler five hens a Bronge gobbler seven hens two well bred shepherd pups about five months old. Seller Mrs W B Fancher states she is moving to town.
Hardware ad notes seed oats and Sudan grass seed priced at 50 cents per pound. A. C. Ballard advertises quality by promising house behind the goods and a guarantee. Hood's brand implied.
Cash buyers ready to pay top price for 40 80 120 or 160 acres of prairie grassland located within five to six miles of Baxter. Immediate purchase offered with ready funds and firm price expectations.
An advertisement proclaims a local bank aims to be the best in the region, inviting patrons to open accounts and share in its success. It promises guaranteed deposits, claims exclusive protection among Baxter Springs banks, and highlights advantages of banking with them.
The fragment lists curio items at 208 East 7th Galena Kansas in the name of Mrs J E Shafer and notes a Library Theatre event on January 20 featuring Namah Rease from the Lyceum Course. It mentions westward zinc and lead development and a high price seaplane scope with implied commerce and spectacle.
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