Reunion plans promise a hammering event this year
Col L C Weldy warns the reunion will be a hammer. The Newsman reports Topeka inquiries about the big reunion and Baxter locals note enhancements by Geo Polster on his property with paint. The Times critiques Kansas City streets with worn asphalt on Main Walnut Grand. Willis & Congdon plan a hay barn for 8 B Apple at Quapaw sized 0x14 feet by 20 feet high to hold 1100 tons. Discovery of gas or oil on Tar creek could benefit Baxter. a gas/oil prospect is anticipated by a Carthage company.
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the Times
Kansas City
Main
Walnut
Grand Avenue
Willis & Congdon
Quapaw
Avery
Ice Man Brewster Plans First Class Ice Delivery
Ice dealer L. D. Brewster announces readiness to supply first class ice. Customers may place orders at the ice depot beside Cook's Grocery or with T. B. McElhiney.
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Cook’s
T. B. McElhiney
Wall-Paper John Luckey Visits Galena Daughter
Wall-Paper John Luckey visited his daughter Mrs E B Payne in Galena on Wednesday. C F Prehm of Galena had gone to Europe on pleasure bent.
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John Luckey
E. B. Payne
Galena
C.F. Prehm
Europe
Riveling Gilliam Visits Joplin Friends This Week
Riveling Gilliam of Joplin visited relatives and friends in the city this week. Our old friend George Elliott has been appointed marshal of Gayena and Wednesday he bloomed out in a handsome new blue suit. Mrs Geo L Walker and children left Sunday for Nortonville Kansas where they joined Mr Walker. The price of zinc ores is dropping again and the mining towns are of course gloomy because thereof.
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Riveling Gilliam of
Joplin
George Elliott
Gayena
Geo. L. Walker
Nortonville
Kanean
Miami visitor in town for business this week
C Lykins of Miami spent the week in town on business. Dr and Mrs C M Jones and Will Jones of Galena visited relatives in Baxter at the start of the week.
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C. Lykins
Miami
Crawford Couple To Spend Summer At Topeka Farm
Governor and Mrs Samuel J Crawford arrived from Topeka on Sunday and will stay the summer at their farm adjoining the city Joplin’s Main Street is praised as the best lighted thoroughfare in the West.
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Samuel J. Crawford
Topeka
Joplin
Rail extension work begins from Miami to Afton
The railway company started grading the extension from Miami to Afton last Monday at Afton. The bridge contractor has shipped in camping outfits and provisions and will employ about fifty teams and many men. The camp sits on the Neosho riverbank near the work.
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Miami
Afton
Neosho
Miami Herald
Polster's Acquires Stilleen Stock In Trade
J. M. Cooper & Co. have bought Mrs. M. S. Stilleen's entire stock of petchachmee and related items and invite her customers to call on them for these articles.
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J. M. Cooper & Co
M.S. Stilleen
Galena Smallpox Move Sparks Legal Threats in Kansas
In Galena Kansas E St George Noble moved from the Banke hotel to a home on East Seventh Street near Water after a smallpox diagnosis. Nearby resident C C Sherrod and wife moved ill wife to the Oxford hotel then to 507 Lincoln avenue. Sherrod hires counsel and plans damages suit, while Noble faces potential legal action for moving a contagious case near others. Also notes a highway bridge contract, and a local Modern Woodmen notice.
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Galena
Kan
E. St. George Noble
Banke Hotel
Parke
Noble
East Seventh Street
Water
C. C. Sherrod
Rooster with horns attracts town attention in Joplin
J R Short, a farmer two and a half miles southwest of Joplin, parades a common barnyard rooster with three inch horns in town drawing as much notice as the Gentry parade. The bird is shown in a big coop when needed to prove its oddity amid skeptics.
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Joplin Globe
J. R. Short
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Col. L. C. Weldy
Geo. Polster
C. F. Gaines
Mia Marguerite Gaines
Eldora
Iowa
E. Co. Gaines
The
Traders’ Bank
Baxter
Tom Weaver
Vine Street
Hie
L. D. Brewster
Polster’s
DeWitt
Morrow & Co
Miami Street
Midland Bridge Company
Keneas City
Modern Woodmen OF America
Baxter Camp
Z.C. Weaver
Hanback
V.C
John M. Cooper & CO
Houston
Tex
Job Copping
Raine
Mrs. Hopper
Express
F. R. McGregor
L. H. Cross Implement Co
New Presbyterian Church
Tom Lee
Spurgeon
Estatie Place
Rogers
Vinita
J. T
Jim Rogers
Rogers Brothers
Henry Hayden
Hayden Post Office
Bob Rogers
Sam Rogers
Heck Bruner
Jack Enman
Christian Church
Baldwin Opera House
Keelville
Chetopa
B. F. Vanatta
W. T. Hartley
Geo. W. Peterson
Kelly Carmichael
Fribley Hardware and Implement Company
Renny Grounds
Second Ward
J. W. McCammon
Norman
W. McCammon
Dewitt & Thompson
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