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Newspaper
Baxter Springs News
Location
Baxter Springs, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1908
Page
8
A Baxter district camp meeting draws many visitors and notable figures from Missouri and nearby states. Festivities include speeches by Senator Chas Morgan and Captain Geo Matthews, arrests and fines, school preparations, temperance events, and widespread reunion activities with locals from Galena to Joplin and beyond.
The post office at Baxter Springs Kansas lists dead letters to be collected within two weeks. If unclaimed the items will be sent to the dead letter office in Washington D C. Bert Bond.
Wednesday visit reported by this paper shows Assistants General John Marshall and Chas Schucker at Camp Logan. No joints or law violations found there. Bax ter drug stores Corner Drug Store and Baxter Drug Co. were raided, proprietors arrested, and wagon loads of goods confiscated. Sheriff Hatton stored the goods. Bonds posted. hearing soon. Some believe the stores did not sell strictly according to law.
John Alder, a Lawrence Kansas businessman, is in camp and celebrated for discovering life in Capt Arnold after the 1863 massacre. The two men are seen as prominent figures and are always glad to meet, reflecting their shared history and stature.
At the Baxter reunion on Thursday thousands of teams and over thirty automobiles moved amid busy activity with no accidents reported. No injuries occurred on the grounds and overall peace prevailed throughout the event.
A.C. Hilligoss of Parsons, colonel of the association, urged a ten days session for next year. Stockholders and old soldiers agreed strongly, and the motion prevailed.
Farewell note from Baxter reunion week expresses thanks for attendance and wishes prosperity and good health for all as they depart. Mentions hopeful return next August for another Baxter reunion week and prosperity through the year. Also includes a for sale classified line: Good 31-2 in.
Harmon launches a new system dentist offering city price rivaling rates and guaranteed work. His affordable care comes from a fully electric office with motor, fan and dental engine enabling faster, less painful procedures in about one third the time of rivals.
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