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Newspaper
Baxter Springs News
Location
Baxter Springs, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1909
Page
1
The piece discusses Judge McNeill granting parole to Parson Lavender without full investigation. It notes community backlash and a petition to revoke parole. The parson is back in jail and mining news coverage by The News is defended as superior in the local press.
Last Friday night a quarrel between two colored women Mrs Henry Bunn and Miss Birdie Owens led to a fight with Bunn prevailing. Both appeared in Police Judge English's court Saturday morning and squared up.
A 1909 notice warns Parson John Lavender of Baxter Springs Kansas that theft and crime will not be tolerated. It states he is an undesirable citizen and urges him to move at once. The document is signed by By Order of A H T A Willow Creek Local No 67 dated May 27 1909.
In Joplin last week a local man complimented the News for its mining district coverage. He said the News prints the best reports of the lead and zinc district, though the paper remains modest about the praise.
Dr English and E T McCarthy return from Ohio. Ed M Davis and family from Joplin visit. A Monday legal holiday closes banks. Prentice Co advertises farm loans at 6.5 percent. Galena visitors include A V Smith and Julia Hunter. Booster Day auction set for 10 o clock. Joplin to open a new financial institution soon. H J Millar joins local directory.
Expresses sincere gratitude to friends and neighbors who assisted and sympathized during severe affliction and the death and burial of the writer’s wife TT R Favtengr.
Notice is hereby given that dog tax is due and all dogs on which the tax is not paid by July 1 will be killed. Taxes can be paid to C. Connor, city clerk, or to the undersigned Hxwry Horton, City Marshal.
Memorial Day services drew a large crowd for the sermon, followed by graveDecoration the next day. Many visitors from Genoa and Joplin attended Baxter Cemetery observances to honor relatives, while one local figure was visiting her parents in the city for a week, with ties to Oklahoma City.
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