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Newspaper
Baxter Springs News
Location
Baxter Springs, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1908
Page
4
The Avon Club met with Miss Caroline Plumb on Monday afternoon March 2. Members answered the golf call with quotes from Twelfth Night. The last acts of the play were read, followed by lunch, while Amelia Bischofsberge will entertain the club March 9. Every cent from the show goes to the library fund.
In Columbus on February 26 Cedar Red and Shorty McCleary were convicted of violating an injunction against operating a prohibited business. Each jailed 30 days and fined 100 dollars plus costs. Goods and fixtures confiscated. witnesses briefly unruly, later complying. Judge McNeill warned that injunctions carry weight. Baxter Springs loses a joint. hopes it stays closed.
Lewis C Goodner an invalid for ten years died at his Spring street home Saturday night at 11 25 o clock from locomotor ataxia He was 57 years old and survived by a widow three children by a former wife three more children a brother and a sister Funeral services were conducted at the home by Rev Largent and the body was interred in the Baxter family cemetery on the old Valliere farm southeast of the city
February weather data shows average 40.65 degrees with a coldest 10 32 and warmest 60 74, total rainfall 4.4 inches and snow 2 inches. Notice announces Baxter Springs council bids for crossings project with sealed bids due by March 16 1908 and dated February 25 1908.
Amos Valliere died Monday morning after a prolonged illness. A printer by trade and former News employee, he was a member of the Quapaw tribe and is described as a good citizen. He leaves a widow and two children. Funeral services were held Tuesday March 3 at 2 o'clock.
A national prohibition plank dominates political talk as Democrats weigh a platform shift. Debate centers on a bill to bar liquor shipments into prohibition states to uphold state laws, with potential votes from nearly all Democratic members if brought to Congress.
Rain dampens plans as John McCoy arrives from Avant Oklahoma to oversee his grandchildren land. Reports of visits, sickness and social gatherings on Five Mile and nearby areas with multiple small-town arrivals, dinners, and a note on the county high school building addition needing funds. The Mines section notes zinc sales and a call for local funding.
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