Local notes from Joplin and Baxter Springs
Willard Shulte is ill at his home on North Military Street. Mrs Carl Carney and Miss Gay Chew visited in Joplin Wednesday. Mr and Mrs H C Scott visited Mr and Mrs W F Price in Joplin Tuesday. J C Haskett's fine carriage horse, sick long time, died Saturday. F B Caples of Galena was in Baxter Wednesday representing an Eastern cigar house. Baxter Telephone company making extensive improvements with new phones installed regularly. A J Graves, former city resident now near Vinita J T, visited Jon Baxter last Saturday. Mr Graves to live on Henshaw farm north of Easter Springs. Marrtep at office of Justice L C Jones Wednesday January 28 1908, Wise Gabriel Evies of Scammon and Miss Margarett A Mishler of Baxter Springs. couple to live at Scammon where groom works in coal mining. Saturday evening. Bring neighbor. M E Compton, long hospital treatment near Kansas City, now at home of his parents in Joplin, visited city Thursday with brother Clyde. He looks better than when he left. Weir Journal.
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H. C. Scott
W.F. Price
Joplin
J.C. Haskett
A. J. Graves
Vinita
J. T
Jon Baxter
Mr. Graves
Henshaw Farm
Easter Springs
M.E. Compton
Kaness City
Thureday
Clyde
Weir Journal
Melrose boom and railroad hopes loom over Kansas towns
Melrose real estate surges with talk of a new Missouri Pacific line to connect Melrose with Joplin, Galena, Baxter Springs and Keelville to Chetopa. Keelville and Melrose touted as prime trade points for hay, corn, hogs, and grain, with rail access framed as essential to lifting shipments from the mines and farms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Melrose
Joplin
Galena
Baxter Springe
Keelville
Chetopa
Missouri Pacific
Kansas
Four Mile Creek
Tar Creek
Pennsylvania Oil Company
Miami
Chetopa Democrat
Professor Dickens address on elementary agriculture teaching
Farmers invited to a Saturday 1:30 pm talk by Prof. Albert Dickens of the State Agricultural College Manhattan. He will address the County Teachers Association on teaching elementary agriculture and horticulture in district schools, highlighting a vital local issue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Dickens
State Agricultural College At
Manhattan
County Teachers, Association
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J. C. Haskett
Dode Meeds
Henry Scott
Willard Shulte
North Military Street
Carl Carney
Miss Gay Chew
Caples
Baxter Wednesday
Baxter Telephone Company
Oswego
Mike Clary
Baxter
Ed. McNeill
Topeka
M. Erwin
Missouri
Jewell County
Mapes
Sadie Lickie
C. C. Lickis
Horace Austin
Weet Water Street
A. O. DeWitt
Chas. McClure
P. Vernon Woolsey
F. G. Smith Co
Post Office
Jas, Thompson
Quapaw
Jne Cooper
Wm. Buchan
Spring Valley Township
Mr. Buchan
A. J. Thompson
H. C. ‘Scott
Cynthiana, Ky
R. C. Wear
J. B. Orner
Franklin Grove
Bucklee
Zic
A.R. Kane
Cy Paul
Hatfield
Frances Willard
M. E. Church
John Cheyne
Charlie Williams
Jond George Niceley
John Jones
Wilde
Morrow Drug CO
Avey
J. O. Avey
Disce Ena
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