Baxter Springs Delta from Baxter Springs, Kansas • 1

3 tjin 1 -v SUBSCRlPflON, SOcts PER YEAR. "INDEPENDENT IN ALL THIJ5GS; NEUTRAL IN NOTHING." INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. VOL.1. BAXTER SPRINGS, KANSAS. THURSDAY, DEC.

1887. NO. 36 Ladies and gentlemen, if you want a Go to the city hall at 8 o'clock Friday eve, High School Kotej!" As we approached Thanksgiving Weather still a little shady. Bring us your Christmas ads. What about the new Ennis hotel? Goboling torever over wiih sunie The programme will be short and at 9 we were made very happy by the turkeys.

president of the school board makinV 1 Buy goods at the Golden Eagle and us a call and extending our Thanks save 25 per cent. giving over to Friday. We students Our motto is: '-The best goods lor the least money." J. M. Coopek.

The D. A', road will tap Baxter each enjoyed these two days io our own way. Some were off on a visit, some working for holidays, while others were attending to regular duties. There about May next and don't you forget it. As advertised the Andres brothers sale came oil iu the Cooper block iuui i JtlgCTi from our number, for which we you shall leave, "Gloria" will be pleasant for the ear; "Woodland Echoes" will be sweet to hear; 'Katy's Letter" will be "Love Shall Guide Thee" will please you; "Three Chafers" wiil tease you "On Hail Us Ye Free" you had better come and see; "The Daily Question" will bring a confession "The Huntsman" you have never heard "Bobolink" is the naughty bird "Star of the Twilight" is the shining delight; "Jack aud Gill" will run you np the hill "Old Mother Hubbard" will send you home to the cupboard Admissiou 25 cts.

By all means let's have a Christmas tree for the little ones, and be sure that not a Sunday-school scholar is slighted when the tree is being made up, hut see that every little heart is made to throb should be truly thankful. The evaporator has shut down for tins season, but will open up iu time i LOCAL MISCELL AM Cooper lead 011 fine shoes. Ladies shoes a specialty at the Golden Eagle. Just, tike aiook in J. M.

'Myers' Varity An elegant assortment of fur cap the Gol en Eagle. All the latest novelties iu millinery at Mrs. W. Jones. It will pay you to see J.

R. Tucker Co's line of new hats. Finest II of randies and confe ctionery at A. Mader's MeElliiney Fribley sell goods at bottom priors for cash. A large Invoice of China-ware just received at J.

M. Myers. An elegant line of Ladie's Wrap just received atCooper's. A fine line of gents' underwear Jut received at the Golden Eagle. J.

M. Meyers is Rolling glassware and notions at cost. 'Drop in. Go to Cooper's for fine shoes. Bnv your hats of J.

R. 1'ucker Co. nd save money by the transaction. Blackjack, Ko-ko Tnlu and-White Yucatan Chewing Gum at Mader's. Call in and examine those fine heat ing stoves at McElhiney Fribtey's.

Go to Cooper's for Ladies Wraps. The best and cheapest China and gas-ware in the city at J. M. Myers. Spe Cooper's line of fine clothing.

liars! new! latest styles, best quality, cheap at R. Tucker Co's. Still we continue to open new goods. J. M.

Cooper. The largest stock of hats ever onenpd in Baxter ju-t received at J. R.Tucker -Co's. good b.ot or shoe, a perfect fit at the lowest price, go to J. R.

Tucker aud Co. Rev. M. E. Brain'-nll delivered quite an able and interesting sermon at the M.

church on last Sabbath evening, i this scribe for one enjoying it wonderfully well. About a hundred or so new subscribers between this and Christmas would make us enjoy the holidays hugely. If you dou't believe it then give us atrial and see. -There will be more or less "bustle" but little confusion will be had at the entertainment at the hall on the evening of the 2d, as good ordeV will be maintained throng out. Sports have been scouring the counrty pretty lively here of late, and the feathered tribe and the cotton-tail race have been thinned out somewhat by the igniting of gun-powder.

7 Remember the enter! amment to be given at the city hall on the evening of the 2d, aud be promptly on hand at 7 p. ni. and be sure you have a piece of calico swingiug to your arm. Have time and again been asked what printing office "pF' was made of, and if there be any one hungry for a slice he can apjeasc his appetite by gulping down this piece: TnqzfWhKlxvr. Miss Mot ton was drilling the people In sic at the Presbyterian church on Snnday evening last.

She is well posted in music, is a fine singer, and some very good singing was had under her instructions. John Henry an says he has the papers to show there is no civil au-thoriiy, and a fellow over on the Fiji Island telephones for him to produce the documents to that effect or else dtop down to the foot of the class. M. E. church services as follows: Class meettng at 10 a.

m. aud preaching at 11 Sunday school at 3 p. m. and preachidg at prayer meeting Tliurs day evening at o'clock. Everybody We are glad to see Eugene Lyman back again after his long aud dangerous illness.

The drawing class at Mr. Lyman's we learn is the most distinguished circle in this city. It meets every Tuesday evening and has a membership of some seventeen we believe. Nearly all the teachersd a number of our students are taking lessons. Mrs.

Patterson made us a short call yesterday. The sub-juniors had an examination in arithmatic Tuesday. Of course they enjoyed it very much. Some we understand reached 100 per cent, while a few went to the bottom. Student.

with gladness upon the reception of some present. This tree rightfully belongs to them, and to cheat the little ones out of their just dues is altogether for the next. Twenu-tvvo wagon and vehicles wore in sight at one time on Military Heel Saturday. J. R.

Tucker Co, have just opened a I invoice of flannels tor the fall ami winter taile. ileal) muc 1 big Indian in the city Saturday, by chief me Frauk Beaver being iu the drive; IL-iped to ''carve dat 'possum last Sauidoy and the effects of feeling good is sticking to us yet. Hats' Large stock of fall and winter hats just received at J. R. Tucker Co's.

The ground h.ts received a thorough soaking and it is presumed the fanners aie once more happy. Flannels, ail quantities and any quality at prices that can't be undersold at J. R. Tucker Co's. Mr.

P. R. Slater has been quite sick but we are glad to say he is coming arouud all right once more. Foit Sale ouRicnt. A good five-room house, guod cellar, cistern and outbuildings.

Enquire at this office. I). IK lielman left on last week with wrong. We old folks were once all little shavers and doubtless some of us have a vivid recollection as to how bad it made us feel to miss the Christmas tree, then with a liberal hand let's fill SI the cup of joy of the children to overflowing on the above night by a well filled tree. A cold wave what was a cold wave struck us last Saturday night.

Rain, sleet and snow made up the combiua-nation, but not quite enough of the lac ter to justify poets to expatiate at any great length upon the "Beautiful," in consequence of which the average Mrs. Shiver has a splendid line of The hunting party consisting of E. Sontag, A. Koellmann, Chas. Kolbe, Wm.

Brendell, J. P. Marks, Gus Kansas City; Geo. H. Redell, Galena? J.

Leeper and M. Cooper, of Baxter, returned Wednesday from a ten day's hunt in the territory, bringing with them a fine lot of small game, the fire having driven the large game out of reach. A good time is reported to have been had by the jolliest lot of. Nimrods that ever pulled trigger at the flying game within the borders of the Indian territory. Had one or two real nice and pretty callers at this office Wednes his family, for Fort Scott.

Wish him newspaper man is supremely happy. The good Lord Tcnows it is bad "enough for the thinly clad editor to have to face the snow, but to have to wrestle with two-for-a-cent effusion upon the beautiful flakes is too much for his millinery goods which she is selling st COSt, A fine line of muffles at the Golden Eagle. Call at J. M. Meyers' variety store much success iii his new home.

Monday was a real nice day, the sun shining brightly from the rising to '4 welcome.especially strangers. Mr. Perry, depot agent at Galena, weary and overworked brain aud he And get low prices on new goods just re- i i sadly longs for a place where jim-crack but who resides at this place with his family, has obtained a four months lay- poets are not to be found. the going down of the same. Icicles were hanging promiscuously around Saturday night and Sunday and overcoats were in great demand.

Prepare for winter by selecting early your choice of round oak and range heaters at McElhiney Fribley's. oft' and has gone to California to view Considering the cold day there was 'ceived. AVhen you want something good in the line of tobacco and cigars go to A Mader's. Children's fine shoal shoe at the Golden Eagle. day, but suppress names for fear of mafcingsome one jealous, for a person a fair attendance at the M.

E. church Sabbath-school on last Sunday. The little ones seem interested in their les For tinware, class ware, notions sons, Mr. Poty, the superintendent, is interested iu the little ones, and good order is maintained throughout the en the country as als to see if the climate would be of benefit to his wife's health. It is said that necessity is the mother of invention.

This may be true, and we shall be under fthe necessity of trying to invent a machine that can do editorial work when there is noise enough in the office to bring to life an Egyptian mummy. Ladies and gentlemen you are cor- 'A These heavy frosts will remind you that J. R. Tucker Co. have just received their big stock ot underwear.

A real genuine treat is in store for those who attend the entertainment at the dry hall on the evening of the 2d. Now, don't take, our word for it but go and see if J. Tucker Co. have uot tire school. This is as it should be, aud the Delta is prou 1 to let the public know the happy aud healthy state of affairs of this well-behaved school, and hopes it may never have cause to change the good opinion formed of each and every one who attends this God-given and first step heavenward tha dialty invited to "call and examine our large stock of underwear just opened and novelties go to J.

M. Meyers' cheap cash store. -Our larse fall and winter stock of "boots and shoes have arrived. J. R.

Taiekr Co. Fall and winter hats, bonnets, turbans, all in the very latest styles at Mrs. W.W.Jones. J. n.

Tucker Co. can show von the best woolen underwear for the price ever saw. We invite the Indies to call and examine our Dittman shoes at the Golden Eagle. the beet stock of dress goods in the mar when seized with a "jealous tantrum fit" hasen't as much sense as the Golden Eagle goat We've had the ailment and know exactly how it serves a fellow. Gypsies tell your fortune and charge you for It, but we tell you how to make a fortune free of charge, and that is by investing your money in Baxter real estate.

No wheat deal risk in the transaction but a dead sure thing. Married. On the wing, in the Indian territory on the border near this city, Sunday, November 27, by Rev. M. E.

Bramhall, Mr. L. Lane to Miss Ida Meadows, both of Galena, Kan. All grades, best quality, any size and at prices that will surprise you. No trouble to show goods.

Respectfully, J. R. ket. All kinds of hardware, tinware, iron, steel, nails, fine cutlery, copper- Tucker Co. ware, at McElhiney Frib A chicken is never in danger of Last week's Seneca, Dispatch loomed up in handsome shape.

Guess Its editor has struck' a fresh vein of the ley's. being hit by a woman so long as it re mains directly iu front of her, but we Mr. Tyner has bro.ght his frraily ,5 root of all evil and concluded to make a divide by treating the paper to some new from Chetopaanl permanently settled are not responsible shonld it come in contact with the boulder just in the among us. Gladly welcome theni to our type which adds much to the appear midst. ance of tho paper.

Curtice is stayer rear. We are no chicken (not a spring one at least) but we've tried the project from way back, and but few if any and arc perfectly satistiei as to how it The wife and step-son of Mr. Joe Carpenter have been quite sick for the past several days, but we hope they will country papers have the edge upon his paper as regards good, solid works 1 soon be out again. You can't let vour children snrW -with cold whil" J. R.

Tucker Co. sells flannels so cheap. Mrs. W. W.

Jones can pleise you In any ra'lMnTV goods you want in price, quality and style. "Now Is vour best chance to buy your fall and winter hats, bonnets and all millinery goods at cost at Mrs.lt. Shiver's. Roe thitffoat cart and harnesnt the Golden Eagle. 50 cents worth of goods gives vou a chance to draw the whole turn-out J.

R. Tucker A Co. can furnish ymi dress pattern 1n anv style, quality or quantity at prices to suit purchasers. Give them a call. The members of the.

M. E. church met on Tuesday evening and decided to have a Christmas tree as also an entertainment of some kind for the little ones during the holidays. 'Uncle Eph, can you tell me why the weather is like some people?" say cz I kin, boss, 'ceptin it be cos it am so changeable." Correct, and now j'qu can go head. We are opposed to runaway matter, aud if the people fail to give him a liberal support then are totally unfit to adoVn the angeJicTwJngs in their flight to that land frogq' whence no newspaper reader ever returneth.

i The opening of spring will witness the biggest boom for Baxter that ever struck any town in the southwest, and then some men will be left to suck their thumbs for consolation and will bo mad enough to hire some small boy at a fabu Fa km for SAtE-' A farm containing 320 acres, 200 of which is in cultivation 3 houses, 150 bearing apple trees, 100 peach trees, 60 cherry trees and good water. Terms-If all sold together, $4,000 cash. Inquire at this office or of A. C. Two miles east of Baxter Springs.

A couple who desired to be made as "Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one," passed through here Sunday en route for the territory where they were cemented together as tightly as was ever a broken trace welded by Rocky mountain grip, aud we trust nothing but death will ever break the matrimonial bans. People should shelter their stock as best they can during these cold nights. Dumb brutes have a hard lime of it at best, and no pains should be spared in making them as comfortable as possible, aud when this is done then you will buthavedoue what charity demands in protecting animals totally unable to protect then-selves. Think of this and ien house your stock as much as possi Dr. and Mrs.

D. E. Lee, Baxter's old reliable here Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of each "week. Rooms at Occidental Hotel. Go to J.

R. Tucker Co's and see their elegant line of Gent's Hats of all colors and all styles. The Blaudinsville, 111,, Gazette is quite a lively sheet, and gives considerable news as to the doings of the people in the old sucker state. G. A.

R. confectionery and lunch stand, T. Lee proprietor, one door north of Mrs. Stark's, east side Military street. Warm meals at all hours.

"Distance lends enchantment to the view." Wish a certain, tew within the coiporate limits would view this in its proper light and then act accordingly. The sale advertised by Mr. Willis came off Tuesday, but we are not posted as to how things sold, yet take it for granted satisfactory figures were realized. Rev. Cooter, the Presbyterian minister, preac ed the Thanksgiving sermon at his church on last Sunday, and strict attention was accorded uiiu during the discourse.

matches for the simple reason there is never any wedding cake in sight, and a newspaper man without cako feels mighty odd. A mortgage on the home makes the fireside gloomy, for it shuts out the sunshine of prosperity and free-heartedncss, Mrs. L. E. Allbnght and children took Thankgiving turkey at Columbus last week, but are now at home again.

The author who wrote, "There Is beauty in. extreme old age." proba bly never tawkled an egg. Mrs Jack has a bran-new ad, in this paper. Read it and then gLvo her a call. A nice lot of beef cattle thwugh our streets Wednesday, lous price to kick them all over the county for not investing that long-hidden and muchly-rusted dollar in real estate.

This boom is not based npon guess work but the pegs have been 82t, aud so sure as the sun rises in the east and sets in the west then so sure will the D. M. A. passengers be here in May to witness the boom. In the good old days when bustles were made exclusively out of newspapers then printing offices had a ready sal-; of old exchanges, but since these double jointed, four stpry-with-a-basemout-'at-t ached have been placed upou the wo market old papers are of rather sfow sale, aud editors are led to exclaim, ding this four-story aud basement arrangement any way, and especially when the 4op story is all "yanked out of jint Everybody should take a chance at the coat cart and coat.

Bnv BO rents worth of goods and getone chance, at the Golden Eagle. Yon will miss your best chance if you don't examine J. R. Tucker fc Co's mammoth stock of New dress goods before buying elsewhere. Why do so many people go to J.

R. Tucker (Vs for boots and shoes? Why, heeause they 6eU.the best goods for the least money. If there Is any man In Cherokee oiin'ty who Is not able to buy a suit of clothes call f.t the Golden Eagle and they will give him a full suit. 11 ble from the bitter aud stinging biases of a winter's night and thus you will prove sjood Samaritans indeed aud in truth. 7 I-.