The Baldwin Ledger from Baldwin, Kansas • 1

Sute llitl Saiiilf ft The EulDE Etrawin BALDWIN, DOUGLAS GOUNTY, KANSAS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2 1906 TERMS $1.00 PER YEAR. VOLUME XXIII, NO. tz. OAS EXPLOSION KNOCKERS STILL GOOD ROADS MRS. IT MAY BE OF INTEREST TO YOU KATE BARRICKLOW BURN ED ABOUT THE FACE.

ARE KNOCKING A Sudden Death Mrs. Murlin, mother of Pres. L. H. Murlin died very suddenly last Wednesday evening.

The cause was paralj sis of the pneuruo gastrio nerve. She was in attendance at the special revival serviced at the M. E. church, although she was compelled to rest on several occasions oa her way walking to the While preparing supper Wednes The King Road Drag Man Will be Here Soon. day evening, Mrs.

Kate Barricklow Now Trying a Petition to Get was badly burned by a gas exple sion. the Gity Council to Stop Work on Electric Light Plant. She had lighted the gas and fail. WILL TALK TO PEOPLE ed to open the oven to let out the church. She was there but a few accumulated gas.

When she open moments when she was compelled ed the oven door the gas oame out WILL NOT AVAIL THEM with an explosion that was severe to leave. She was taken to the resi denceof Mr. Harpsterand although enough to scatter the cooking uten three physicians worked over her it sils over the floor and the full force majority was impossible to rally her and in Not satisfied 'with a vote of nearly two to one of the blaze struck her in the face, some of thirty minutes she went to the burning her hair, eye lashes and those who bo bitterly opposed the world beyond. Her demise was in eye brows and burning her faco electric light plant are now talking the same manner as her father She and trying the plan of a petition to has been in apparent good health 1 tie burns will not prove serious however and ber recovery promises the city council te stop the work on for sometime and although she to be soon. called Spencerville O.

her home, the plant and city building. They say gas is proving such The ordinary dirt roads, when in first class condition, is a fine road to drive over. It is smooth, noiseless, and somewhat cushiony. The tractive resistance is low, and it affords good foethold for horses. It is a thoroughly good road for all but the heaviest traffic, when in good condition.

But the average dirt road, as ordinarily maintained is in good condition only perhaps 5 months out of the year, and in barely tolerable condition for about 4 months more. The remaining 3 months are made up of periods of deej), soft mud, or heavy ruts and holes, or hard, rough surface almost inpoesible to drive over. If, now, we could keep these roads in first she has been upending much time great success and people are not with relatives in the west. INSPECT THE eroinc to wire their houses and the She leaves three sons and one Clyde Stewart was in Lawrenc Tuesday. Miss Lawrence was in Ottawa Monday.

Mrs. J. Warner has been sick this week. Walter Junkins was ou the siek list Sunday, Miss Ruby Warner was on the sick list this week. Mrs.

R. F. Blakey is a victim of the grip this week. Rev. Klock visited with Dc, Loomis, Wednesday.

The children of Win. Love arc quite sick this week. Mrs. Virginia Burton and baby-have been quite sick this week. J.

B. Wilson and wife, of Lawrence, are down for the tonight. Harrison Gossage is able tub about the streets again. 1 le mill uses a crutch. Mrs.

Hickey, who has been visiting her brother Prof. Ebright, baa been sick this week. John and Arthur Wilson, of vissted with their sister, Mrs. J. H.

Griffin, Sunday. The new bank is aow ready for business with the exception of their safe, which has not yet arrived. city will have lighted streets at daughter to mourn her departur RURAL ROUTES Clark McKnight spent Sunday in Kaunas City. Miss Edna Boyd was at La Cygne Kansas, Sunday. Miss Mary Garton went to Lawrence Saturday.

Lyle Knox and wife visited rela tives here over Sunday. Rev. Hammons came in from Cottonwood Falls Monday. Mrs. Mary Owens visited with Mr.

F. D. Allen's thin week. Jerry Curtis shipped a carload of stock to Kansas City, Monday. Ivan osier shipped a car load of hogs to Kansas City Saturday.

H. R. Harvey, of Kincaid, came In for a visit with his parents this week. Rev. J.

D. Smith, of Independence, came in for a few hours Mon day morning. E. F. Heim, of Kansas City, visited with his brother, Chas.

Heim, here Sunday. Mrs. E. C. Hickey.

of Cedar Ray id, is the guest of Prof, and Mrs Ebright this week. Mrs. James F. Nyre and children, of Lincoln, visited with Rev. Julius Smith's Friday.

Mrs. Maud Funnell returned to Cliften last week after a two month's stay witli her parents. Mrs. J. II.

Rinley was taken to big expense and the poor tax payer Timothy N. Murlin of Piqua Ohio, will be thrown upon the county Mrs. T. C.Ford Cherokee Okla, Chas. E.

Murlin Blackwell Boo! hoo! That Prof. Bauer has already canvassed the town and up Government Will Gheck Kansas Mail Service. and Dr. L- H. Murlin of this city could find but eight houses that Her husband died twelve years ago last Thanksgiving day.

She was will take the lights and that a ma CHANGES MAY BE MADE 70 years of age last Christmas day jority of the city council favor the stopping of the work and trusting class shape for, Bay, 10 months in the year, and in tolerable condition during the other 2 monthg, would For many years she bore her share to lanterns and coal oil if we don't of the responsibilities as the wife Recent news from Washington it not be worth while. want gas, Listen to our tale ofwoe! an itinerant Methodist minister says that an inipectien of the free Her life was rich in good deeds and The road drag will do exactly this thing. It has done it and it is rural mail routes will be made in The facts are that Prof. Bauer has made no canvas of houses whatsoever but that several houses have her works do follow her. Kansas as well as other states by now doing it for Missouri and for the postoffice department with Dr.

Murlin will leave with the cherished remains of his mother this already been wired on the strength Iowa. Why not for Kansas? Here in Douglas county we spend nearly view to discontinuing or reducing fa nnnnla IrnAvinnr wliAt. thpv afternoon for burial at Spencerville services of such of them ai show $20 a mile on our roads every year. meant- when they voted for Ohio, by the side of her hnsband little patronage. In other words, The cost of dragging is usually es "ereater Baldwin." We have A short private eervicc will be held here and the funeral service timated at from $8 to $28 per mile heard from a majority of the city the department proposes to cut down the tremendous expense of per year, depending on the local cir council and they in no way favor wiil take place at Spencerville Ohio this service and is likely to make cumstances.

Why not spend some such a backward movement. next Sunday. The people of Bald some radical changes in the states. Prof Bauer hat nut in his time of our road money in dragging? a hospital iu Kansas City, Saturday vin will follow the bereaved loved In discussing the plans of the de Mr. D.

Ward King, the man for afternoon. Mrs. Mary ErKinley ones with their prayers 'and sym partment witn the capital repre whom the King Drag was named, so far in drawing plans for the city building, visiting other plants and getting things ready that he may accompanied her. pathy in this their sad mission. and the man who has been most sentative, Fourth Assistant Post master General De Graw said: Mayme McEwin of Peculiar, Mo Mrs.

osier, of Denver, daughter of Mrs. I. N. Foster, is visiting in the city. Schnebly's new oak doors al hia drug store add very much to the improvement of the store building.

Mark Tullcy of Independence, candidate for State Treasurer, was in the city this week, visiting bia daughters who are attending college The W. R. C. of Baldwin enter- acnive in promoting its use, will de save the city every cent possible visited with her cousin Prof. Knepp "The inspection is with a view to liver an address in Lawrence on Mon Is it possible that the people have Pleasant Surprise and mother this week.

ascertaining the cause for any ad 1 1 1 i verse condition which may exist and day afternoon, Feb. 5th, on the subject of Dirt Roads. Admission will be free. Come out and hear what Jim urocuway displayed seven forgotten that we have dark nights still or do they think we will be satisfied with the two gas lights that have been running for several W. J.

McDonald, one of Baldwin's citizens until Dec. 1004, but who is at the Old Soldiers' Home at Esquimaux pups in Schnebly's win the possibility of removing such conditions. In discovering tha dow Saturday. he has to say. there is a lack of patronage on Dodge City.

Kans was most agree weeks at no small expense for man Lena Jackson came down from toiued fifteen ladies from the W. R. C. Lawrence Saturday iiocn. given route consideration is given tels.

and not the most brilliant ably surprised by his comrades on bis 78th birthday, which occurred Lawrence, Saturday night, for A dinner was prepared and a gen few days with home folks. light. Of course the gas people wont re Obituary. Robert Hall Pearson was born first to the possibility of increasing the interest in the service of the route; second, to the possibility of on Jan. 22.

In honor of the oc eral good time was had, Mrs. Hammin returned to Law fuse to put in lights for people, but Mrs. Benedict will Btart on her in Yorkshire, England, April 1. rence Monday after spending Sun casion bis wife presented him with a beautiful gold watch, and his comrades gave him five dollars, rearranging the route so as to in 1828. When four years old he day with her niece, Miss Telford.

have you found anyone whose plumbing bill was lewer than le crease the patronage; third, to the return from Dillon Mont, on Feb. .8 Her daughtee, Mrs. H. which was contained in a tobacco possibility of establishing every- Word has been received from came with his parents to America, and settled in Allegheney Co. where he grew to manhood.

other-day service in lieu of daily pouch. Chas. Humphrey in New Jersey, so much improved in health, that she can now return home. Mr. McDonald is well known service, and last, to its discontinu stating that he is very mnch improved in health In May 1854 he came to Palmyra.

All ladies of the city are here, having been ne of the early settlers of Baldwin. In 1863 he ance where the conditions are such that the expenditure involved in the to meet in the parlors' of the M. E. Mrs. Joseph Watson, of Burlin- In September 1855 he was married to Catherine Bay Singer.

His marriage being the first in Palmyra aided in driving Quantrel out of church on next Wevlncwday at 2 p. operation of the route is un warrant ed. Lawrence and on Angust 20, of that game, visited with her mother, McKenzie, and friends over Sunday. m. for a' social- time.

Brincf vour township. 'While no fiied rule as to the anticipated. You can't get something for nothing and it costs to put in gas plumbing as well ae electric wiring. Mr. C.

H. Patti-son, vice president of the Baldwin Gas Co. and the man who secured the Baldwin franchise, in an interview in the daily papers a few days since, said that gas, was not satis factory for light as it made such an intense heat but that the gas company were simply pushing gas as a heating proposition. Baldwin people felt when they work and a nickle. With his wife and two children Mrs.

J. F. Dole and daughter, amount of mail which should be When the eastern poultry buyera he moved, in 1860, on to the farm year, became a corporal in Co. D. 21 Kans.

militia. He was ordered into service Oct. 8th, 1864, and made his headquarters in Baldwin. He wan engaged in the fights handled on a rural route has been started for Canton, Alberta province Canada, Monday, after a month's were in lialdwin, they paid ihe where be has since resided until the visit with her parents, Mr. and day of his death.

To this union there were 12 children born the wife and nine children survive him. Mrs. J. B. Stump.

against Todd, Dick, xoger and farmer eight cents for their hitkens. The Baldwin buyers paui half a cent more the oame day, ibea sold all their purchaHes to the New-York lyers got nine and a hmm Quantrel. A livery team tied at Mr. Jacot's adopted, still the department feels that the average rural route should handle 3,000 pieces of mail per month, with a possible minimum of 2,000, but the question of the discontinuance of the service on routes must in all cases depend upon its conditions as they may exist on His wife died in 1878. He mar- broke loose and came home Friday married Xfiiss itoseila Harris in cents, Now the farmer is won iter 1884.

During the civil war he ing where became in? evening, leaving Byron Barton and Joe Holliday behind. The buggy top was broken, in turning a corner, but nothing further was damaged. Those who attended the bani served in the Union army, being connected with a Kansas regiment and also with an Illinois regiment. of the Kansas Day club in such routes, aud the expenditures involved in operating the service ou a given route might not be Monday night were K. J.

Iuzc, The mayor of Baldwin appointed He has been an honored member Clarence Stewart, Chas. Wood'aWL, E. J. Kinzer, W. F.

Osborn and J. of the Independent order of Odd Will Lodge, Christy Fischer, decided to put in an eieciric ngni plant and a city building that it was a step forward for our town, that it add to the value of our property and the conveniences, comfort and safety of our homes, and they will not take a step backward by requesting such a procedure. There is, not a single reason why Baldwin should regret her action when she voted to put this town abreast with many others in the state of the same population, for our local conditions warrant our taking an advanced step. C. Fisher to attend the meeting of Fellows for nearly 40 years and one deemed warranted even though the minimum of 2,000 pieces of mail per month were handled, where it Scholfield, Foster, Cox, Mite delegates, from the different municipalities of the state, held at To- of the charter members of the Baldwin charter.

He is believed to be Prof. McCutchan, Dr. was found that a considerable num 3eech, V. T. Nicholson and Obituary Mrs.

Elizabeth Gates was born in Switzerland, September 20 1839. Died ia Baldwin, Jan. 28 1906. aged 67 years, 4 and 8 days. She came to this country with her parents when a child.

She was married to W. II. Gates at Alma, Feb. 24 1856. Of this union ten children were born, only two, Mrs.

Wiles of Baldwin and a brother at Heron Lake remain to mourn their loss. She came to Baldwin but a few months ago to make this her home. She was converted about thirty-five years ago and has been a true christian ever since. A brief service was held at the ieka on Nonday, preparatory to the annas Semi-Centennial project the oldest settler in Douglas county. After a brief illness he quietly O.

E. Arnold gave the toast ber of the possible patrons were not availing themselves of the benefits of the service." the Future." which occurs in a few days. passed away January 27, 1906. The funeral was held at his late The Young Women's Fonig At present there are 1,567 rural mail routes in operation. This es Missionary Society will hold ita regular monthly meeting on Mon residence on the ola "Biack Jack Battle Ground," where be has lived day Feb.

5 at the home of Miaa tablishment will probably be materially shaved down when investigation is made of their paying ability. The scene of all scenes in the great religious drama "Ben is the miracie on Mount Olive, with which the performance terminates. This final scene in the drama shows the reunion of Ben Hur, his mother and his sister, after the passing of Aiila Clark at 2:30 p. m. AH for 46 years.

The funeral wan attended by a large number ot his friends from all over the country. young women especially are cor Revival Services This has been a week of revival services. Presiding Elder Kelly began the series by his sermon Sunday evening. Good interest 1 i dially invitid. The meeting will begin promptly at 2:30 p.

ra and for one hour. Cose and something about Western Afriev home of Mr. Wiles at 2 p. m. Mon-! Christ into Jerusalem The mother day and the body was taken, for and sister of llur who were stricken interment, to Geary S.

'where with 1-prosy, have been cleansed by The mortal remains of the highly respected citizen, Robert Hall Pearson, was laid to rest in Oa1-wood cemetery on January 31, 100C. The funeral was conducted by tin; writer, assisted by Revs Gander and Robinson, by ihe Odd Good Roads fleeting A good roads meeting will bt held in Lawrence on Monday Feb. 5. Ward Kinj, a speaks, of national reputatio i on the good road's proposition, will addrts the W.IS OUOWIl-tll IUC OCl TiUG. JU J.

UCB day evening Rev. Julius Smith The ladies of the Relief i orp the father, two sons preachad, Wednesday evening Rev. I will ghf their regular Pension day and two the Xnzarene, they are sur-funded by a wondering multitude. daughters arc buried. The sympathies of the community wh sing praises to Jesus Cock anl Thurslav eening Dr.

Iliff, Tonight the regu prayer meeting will ba attend thU dinner at the I. O. O. ha! Monday Feb. 5, Coma and get a giiod meal-for 15 cents Fellows and G.

A. Li b. S. people. All should meeting if possible.

are extended to the bereaved fa.v.'y.