Hot Weather Arrives Soon Says Local Weather Office
The local weather office warns that hot conditions are imminent with high temperatures expected this week. Residents are urged to stay hydrated and seek shade during peak sun hours.
16 May 1903
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Newspaper
Baxter Springs News
Location
Baxter Springs, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1903
Page
1
The local weather office warns that hot conditions are imminent with high temperatures expected this week. Residents are urged to stay hydrated and seek shade during peak sun hours.
An advertising pitch extols Baxter Springs Kansas as the region's best small town with rising roads, mining output, parks, and a spring river. It promotes free grocery delivery by mail or on weekly rural routes, inviting big orders for delivery by light wagon and offering Deering Harvester repairs and parts services.
Mapes, photographer, reports a Baxter Hardware Co ad format with repairs and sales. Local residents Patton, Catlett, Adams, and Armstrong among frequent visitors, with social events, cafe offers, and theatre at the opera house. The piece mentions Franklin County towns Galena and Baxter Springs, a school purchase, mining prospects near Los Angeles, and health notes on M P O’Connor.
An adjourned Commercial club meeting set for Wednesday evening May 20 signals urgent business. The Meech case jury disagreed after 26 hours deliberation. bail likely $3000. Measles cases reported. local visits noted including Mrs Masters in Mound Valley and Pearl Masters with Helen McCammon and Opal Macon. Community notices cover hardware ads, cane seed, stoves, screen doors, and a domestic assault case with $850 costs.
Market notes reveal prices vary with supply and demand in Baxter Springs area south of Cooper's. Local merchants caution buyers about potential fluctuations and advise confirming current rates before transactions.
Work at the Tom Clark shaft resumed after a several day rain shutdown. Despite expectations head is still being found as sinking continues. The strike remains exceptionally rich drawing crowds to view the ore. A third Brewster Gaines Smith lease hole hit zinc ore and Charlie Hackett Crawfish lease shows a good jack bine and a flowing well. Stray shoats reported near town. reward offered.
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