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OBEOTEST PARADE EVER . OAS THE PEACE PARADE Almost 300 Automobiles in Baxter Peace Parade Monday Picher Joined In. There was nothing solemn about the big peace parade In Baxter Springs Monday, but it was mighty impressive. People shouted until they could not speak above a whisper. There was almost three hundred Baxter auto mobiles in the parade before Picher came and then everybody lout count. It was by far the largest parade that ever took place on Military Avenue. There was too much of it to attempt giving full details. Placards, one of which bore the lettering: "To Hell With the Kaiser and His Whole Damn Family," were numerous and some very humorous. The Kaiser's cfTipy ap peared here and there through the parade. In one car the stuffed dummy carried a white flag. The streets were packed with people and the din made anything but a shout inaudible, so everybody shouted. Firecrackers and guns made a tremendous racket At intervals the whistles blow. Every car was decorated with the American flag and some of the ladies were dm-sed in the National colors. Some cars carried the flags of all the allies. Feeling was Intense and some of the boys of '61, we noticed, were suspiciously moist about the optics and there were others who were. Many people called down town by the parade and celebration, that went with it, expected a program to follow, but were disappointed for almost as quickly as the streets filled, they were emptied of anything to see when the entire automobile parade set out for Joplin. Many of the townspeople and visitors followed them, so that from two o'clock until after six p. m. the streets did not look any different from any other Sunday. All the stores were closed and after the parade went to Joplin there was little to stay up town for. The belated announcement that there would be some sort of a program here in the evening kept only a email part of the crowd in town, although the return of the automobile pageant and some of the townspeople from Jop lin made quite a little crowd on the streets between 7:00 and 9:00 p. m. Local picture shows did very little business. The evening program consisted of the burning in effigy of the kaiser on a huge bonfire between Jackson's drug store and Harvey's furniture store. A little impromptu street dance in front of Scott's drug store terminated the evening. 4- THE MINING NEWS 4.4.4.444 By Frank D. Hills, in Miami Record-Herald One of the largest ore caves in the Kansas-Oklahoma district is in the Indian Queen, which has just opened. It is about 300 feet long, 30 or 40 feet wide and in some places 15 feet from the floor to the roof. The Indian Queen has been noted for its caves, several of which have been eceptionally large and well min eralized, but this one is by far the largest of any . opened there. Thousands of tons of ore-bearing rock is loose in the cavery, needing nothing in the way of mining to get it out, it being only necessary to break the largest boulders and shovel out the dirt and rock which looks like about ten per cent The Indian Queen mill has a capac ity of 250 tons but as yet only about 125 tons has been handled a day, but from 7 to 10 tons of jack and a ton and a half of lead is being made. To J. L. Rinehart, general manager, belongs the credit of putting over the Indian Queen mine. Mr. Rinehart used his own money to finish the mill and began operating. Undesirable of ficers were disposed of and the prop erty has been a good one ever since. Mr. Rinehart is a grocer and inex perienced in the mining game, but he is a business man and depends on his ground foreman, George Hays, of Carl Junction, who is a veteran miner. Together they are making a proposi tion that was a joke, a paying one. The Mary Ann Mining Company which is operating a lease east of St. Louis, adjoining the Merrill, went un der a new management Friday, when General Manager Frank P. Shultz, Superintendent Lon Edwards ana r.rnnnd Foreman Jeff Howell resigned and severed their relations with the company. Fred H. Kissling. for several years manager of the Central Union Tele phone Company of Terre Haute, ina., one of the heaviest stockholders in the company, has resigned that position to tnVe the nosition of general secretary of the Mary Ann. He will have the management of the property but win (merits under the advice of Otto Ruhl of the firm of Ruhl and Stewart, min ing eneineers of Joplin, Mo. Three shafts will be started at once on the Mary Ann lease, two in the neighborhood of the Mars Mill of the Merrill lease and one near the No. 2 shaft, on the south 20 of the Mary Ann. The Mary Ann plant is considered by many th emost beautiful of any in th entire district, in fact it is doubted if there is a mining plant in the world that would ecell ti for appearance, it has operated only one day, last Fri day. Two shafts are down to the ore which ia said to be similiar to that of the Merrill (Mars) ground. The Knights of the shovel is a new society in the field, which as yet has sot become permanently organized but is very active, however, in getting good roads. Every man who carries a hovel in his car is supposed to belong to the organization at present, especially if he is found repairing a bad spot in the highway. There are thousands of ears in the country and if all drivers would car ry a shovel or spade and spend 15 minutes a day in fiixng some had place, it would help materially in get ting the routls in a condition where traffic could be increased greatly tind the travelers would enjoy the satisfac tion of riding in comfort, which would well repay the time lost. It is believed that the members of the new society will wear a small shovel button to show that he is a public benefuctor and steps will be taken to enlist every person who travels to enlist in the army of good road workers. The Kansas Line Mining Company which is operating a lease on the State line north of St. Louis, ha con cluded to mine the lower level after operating hand jig3 on lead from the upper run for several months. The shaft was sunk to the lower run several months ago but as the upper one was rich in lead it was thought best to operate on it with jigs and four have been used and from 3 to 4 tons have been recovered to the shift with three jig men. The level which has been worked is 140 feet but the lower run is found at 195 feet and etends 50 feet. The sinking will be done at night and the jigs operated in the day time. A 150 horse high pressure boiler and a 400 foot compressor has been installed at the shaft in the last week. It was taken from the Coronet Mill north of Blue Mound and it is prob able that the mill will be moved to the lease if the ground proves as good a3 it is thought to be. The Tri-State Mining Exchange of Picher, while it has not begun to op erate, is doing a good work in acting as an information bureau and looking after the wants of the mining com panies. One of the particular benefits of the Exchange is that companies in need of help can call the office and state the number of men needed and they secure them free of charge to the company. Colonel John A. Clark, secretary of the Exchange, sayH that it is a pleas ure to assist the operators in this way or in any other way possible and that all are free to call. IRA MILLER NOT DEAD Report of Another Ira Miller's Illness Gives Rise to Report of Death of Baxter Man A report circulated here announcing the death of Ira Miller, of Baxter Springs, was not correct The report came from a telegram announcing the illness of another Ira Miller living away from here. The report falsely circulated here gave the boy's mother a bad scare before she learned the truth. Mrs. Miller lives in the north west part of town and her son is in the army. Elmer Hummil returned Tuesday to his home in Webb City after a few days visit here with his sister, Mrs. C. W. Phillips. START CAM 1 F Campaign for War Work Funds Will Be Started in Baxter Springs Saturday Morning; The United War Work campaign to raise f 4,000 in Baxter Springs for the Y. M. C. A. and allied organizations w ill be a one-day affair in this city, if present plans materialize and that one day will be Friday of this week. There was a meeting of the wo man workers at the assembly room of the Chamber of Commerce at '2:30 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, for the purpose of making arrangements for the drive, and at this meeting was lecided the necessary details. It is the intention of Mrs. A. R. Kane, the chairman of women's war work jn the various drives, that her same organization of captains and as sistants will be used in this work, as in the other campaigns. She has de signated Miss Vcma Canaday as head of the work in making this particular hive, and Miss Canaday called the captains together for the Wednesday afternoon meeting. The United War Work is also being pushed in the Baxter Schools through the efforts of Prof. O. M. Rhine and his corps of teachers. Posters, pledge cards ami buttons have been furnished him for the school enmpagn and for the organization of Victory Boys. Because of the same organizations, used in other drives, being put back into harness for this dirvo also, the headquarters for this drive are at the Chamber of Commerce with Secretary C. M. Sarchet in charge. It is the in tention to get all the work completed in the one day, if it is at all possible. The pledges may be paid in three lifferent payments 'Qr' cash or on December 2, 25',; on January 15 and r; on March 1. Of the total funds raised throughout the country, all of it under the direction of the federal government, iiS.65rr goes to the Y. M. C. A., 8.80'; to the Y. W. C. A., 17.00r; to the Na'.ional Catholic War Council, 2.0or! to the Jewish war board, 8.80rr to the War Camp Com munity service, 2.05'; to the Ameri can Library association and 2.05 'i to the Salvation Army. LOVE'S DREAM DISTURBED BY WALLOP FROM CUPID Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 15. Mrs. Ella Mav King's ideals of love and marital bliss were given a severe jolt when "Cupid" was smashed over her head by her husband, so she made it plain in a divorce suit filed in Superior Court against T. C. King, a yardmas- tor for the Central Georgia Railway. "Cupid," Mrs. King explained, was a bit of statuary, weighing about three pounds. POCKETS PICKED E. J. Call. Baxter shoemaker, had his pockets picked as he was return ing via the intcrurban car from Jop lin Mon. nicrht. Mr. Call knows noth ing at all about how it was done ex cept that he is out several dollars. Several reports of picked pockets have come in lately. It appears some long fingered fellow is doing a good busi ness on the crowded intcrurban cars. MEMORIAL SERVICE SUNDAY Date of Services for Baxter Soldier Memorial Service Has Been Post poned Until Next Sunday The union memorial service to be held for the Baxter soldiers, has been postponed until the coming . Sunday. On account of the influenza it has been impossible to hold the services before that time. Rev. John Garret son will preach the sermon at the Li brary theatre. x ASK POSTERS BE TAKEN DOWN A request has been received from P. W. MeMahon, office manager of the Liberty Loan committee of the Tenth Federal District at Kansas City that all posters advertising the vari ous Libertv Loans be taken down by all people who have them displayed, n order that the present United War Work drive posters may be the more effective. The request came Tuesday to the Chamber of Commerce here. NOT MANY MEN Superintendent Wygle, of the sewer construction, is having a hard time to get men for the work. The influenza, election, peace talk and the bad weather of a few days ago has broken into the sewer work and slowed it down greatly. Mr. Wygle is making a campaign for men this week. Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Apple and Miss Myrtle Pratt and R. Oliver were Jop lin visitors Monday. I A- 'Coufftor that Kurt rwi Cftmiu fh OpUh t.toYOTa4 0U 1 E Stiff THE IS r iiiun i rrr MIL miU UN Boys Who Left Monday Got as Far as Emporia and Were Sent Home Some Baxter Springs Boys Columbus Advocate: The boys who entrained on the fi:47 Katy Monday morning for Ft Riley only got as far as Emporia. While waiting for their connection there they received a telegram from Adjutant General Huffman's office ordering them to return to their homes. About 2,200 of the Kansas boys were at Emporia waiting for their train which, il it has been on time would have left before the telegram reached Emporia and so would prob ably have enabled the boys to at least reach the Fort before being returned. Thcv were entrained on the first train going to Parsons nnd reached there just too late to catch the train reaching Columbus last night, and so missed a warm reception as a large rowd of the celebrants had gathered at the station to welcome them. They spent the night in Tarsons and reached Columbus this morning. The following men constituted the contingent: Benjamin Flannigan, Columbus. Lawrence Herman, Fittsburg. John Frognelli, Columbus. Frank Simone, Weir. Harry Fisk, Galena. George Watterson Benson, Colum bus. Douglas Arnold Murphy, West Min eral. Samuel Curtis White, West Mineral. Tilman Rolfe Hocker, Baxter. Oel Earnest Slusser, Baxter. Fred Mosher, Chotopa, Wm. Lloyd Shannon, McCune. Johnnie Ora Johnson, Weir. Floyd Arthur Bottorff, Columbus. August Boucher, Scammon. Floyd Earl Warstlcr, Columbus. Clarence Henry Munson, Scammon. Louis Froment, Columbus. Joe Hamilton Robinson, Scammon. Bryan Betts, Columbus. James Francis Lyons, Scammon. James Robinson Horn, Scammon. Claud Clarence Bradley, Galena. John Qunicy Wells, Baxter. Ralph E. Betts. Clarke E. Duncan. Henry Dock. These and the 135 men called to re port to the local board this afternoon at two o'clock reported1 at the court house and were dismissed to their homes to await further orders from the Adjutant General's office. The following telegram was re ceived at the office of the local board this morning: Topeka, Kas., Nov. 11, 1918. Sent at 5:15 p. m. Local Board, Columbus, Kansas: Telegram received from Crowdcr at 3:50 to stav induction of all calls to army. Men entrained will be returned. Detailed instructions mailed you. Do not suspend classification and exami nations. (Signed) RAHN. Just what will be done in the mat ter can not be known until the receipt of the instructions which have been mailed from the Adjutant Generals office. MEN SIGN TO GO TO MARYLAND Three men. all Missourians, signed up' here Tuesday to go to Aberdeen, Md., Wed. where they will help build thp povernment Droving ground. The threen are John M. Clankard and L W. Palmer of Pierce City and Louis J Miller ' of Monett Miller and Palmer have worked on several gov ernment projects in Maryland and are well aenuainted with conditions there. The proving ground, according to Miller, is being enlarged lor tne test ing of big cannon by the government Andrew Turner, also signed today, to go to Nitro, W. Va., on Friday of this week. There is a shipment to Nash ville Saturday. IV! 1 U twiti i ud fee It Qlkly I UOtaail I IrriutiM. ' J tiokllaf. (I r unii IIUI NOBODY Right her in the preamble we want to sty this little piece of comment isnt aimed at single, solitary man. but at what we eonikkr a vary, vary bad policy. It has to do with the farmers and miners standing around Bax ter Springs Monday afternoon wondering why there was "nobody noma." When the miners that did work Baxter Springs, which they bad been itching to do all day, they found that the vaunted mercantile organization bad enlisted everything else loose about town and deserted for Joplin. We dont mean the Chamber of Commerce bad any hand in the play at alL It was a sort of spontaneous school boy, small town plot to run away to the country field. Groups of farmers came to town. waited nntil growing- tired they boarded a car for Joplin. . Townspeople tad working men came down town Monday and finding Military avenue a blank they followed the merchants off to Joplin. Baxter went over to Joplin in what the fellows considered a grand auto mobile pageant Horns were squawking, people were cheering, dummies aad placards threw color into the gathering. They arrived ia Joplin with; the ex pectation, no doubt, of stampeding the town. But Baxter was lost in the shuffle. here proved to be a minnow in the ocean over there. The little show the beys put on over there added just a little, however, to what Joplin needed to draw other towns like Baxter to the metropolis. Joplin is much obliged to Baxter and to reciprocate will send some of their traveling salesmen and local solicitors over here to repay the call aad get our business. The business and professional men in Baxter set the example for the trade. Who has the audacity or the ing man goes to Joplin to buy his shirts and beans? In the way of condoning the mistake, it might be said that no oat could '. expect mercenary motives to enter strongly into the general elation and the plans for jollification Monday. But withal and nevertheless, there is sock a thing as giving the trade of the town a square deal A retired farmer living in Baxter paid us a call Monday afternoon and remarked as follows: "I dont see how you fellows on this paper have the nerve to appeal con tinually to us fellows to stay away from Joplin and buy at borne." AH we could do was to grin like a little fellow that has been hit by a big one aad is trying to stop the anger of the other fellow by appearing good natured. He said: "Look at your merchants, arent they setting a fine example?'' AH that we could plead for the boys was that they were drunk on the good news and not responsible entirely for what they didend we believe this trot ia some measure. To be exactly just, there were several fellows, including some of the officers of the Chamber of Commerce, who slipped away and bid from the bunch knowing the folly of catering to animosity of the majority. There could not have been five cents profit in anyway from tne trip but the fellows were not looking for profit It was very expensive; not la money spent on the trip, but in loss of prestige. It is easy to get up a bunch of fellows to go to Joplin, but a trip to Hockerville, Treece, Blue Mound, St Louis, Picher, Melrose, Neutral and Col umbus sounds like work. However, the Baxter automobile pageant yester day would have been very impressive and beneficial in a number of these small towns, where as it was absolutely lost on Joplin. If a trip like this sounded too much like work than a program at noma would have been next best in order. Baxter will have to wake up and do more than stand on Military avenu and beckon in the direction of the mining field and the farming territory to work out the glorious destiny we all so fondly expect This thing of follow ing the line of lease resistance is had on a town as well as an individuaL Has Baxter ever given the farming and mining territory a treat? Isnt it remarkable that people are as well disposed towards a town so lax in hos pitality as they are ? No fairs, no trade weeks, no community entertainments. A good trade week will pay for itself that week and accrue greater bena-. fits for the future. With wan pressure and after business or we will pass into mourn our passing. NOW PERMIT BUILDING G. W. Lundtrren. manager of the Long-Bell Lumber yard here as in re ceipt of the following letter from Long-Bell headquarters in Kansas City. It will be interesting to those expecting to build soon: Circular Letter No. 149 Kansas City, Mo., Nov. 12, 1918. To all Managers: The following is copy of a telegram that Mr. Moorehead, Sec'y of The Southwestern Lumbermen's Associa tion, just brought into our office, sent him by a member of the War Indus tries Board. Washington, D. G, and Mr. Moorehead tells us that this is official. It reads as follows: "War Industries Board has re moved all restrictions on farm and city construction costing not to exceed ten thousand dollars. A C. Johnson." It is our understanding that it is not even necessary to have from your local board a permit, and so on receipt of thiB please see your local board ana 'if they have not received this informa tion they undoubtedly will receive this notice from Washington within tne next day or two. You can exnlain to your local board that Dr. A. C. Johnson, who signed this message is a member of the Re tail War Service Commission now at Washington, therefore the reason we say, "this is official." We will govern ourselves accord ingly. Yours truly, J. H. Foresman, Manager. GIBBENS INFANT DEAD Dorothv Irene Gibbens. the 2-year- old infant of Mrs. Dollie Martin, died at 1 o'clock Wed. afternoon at the family residence on Grant Avenue, from a two weeks illness of Spanish influenza which was followed by pneumonia. The child is survived by a mother and one Bister, Marie, and several other relatives. This brings more sorrow to this family as tne rhiWu grandfather. W. A. Evans, died just one week ago tonight at 7 o'clock. No funeral arrangements nave yet been made. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Jones, of Springfield, Mo, are here visiting re latives.' Harold Tait was a Miami visitor Wednesday. HOME. Monday got off early and cam into fair and leave the cows la the cora They stood around the corners tad What was a big fish ia a small pead inconsistency to complain when a work Joplin, but not wanting to incur the lifted we should be up and a coming. inocuous desuetude with no one to NO CHARGES FOB -BUN TQ BAXTE3 Sunday a delegation of the fire de partment from Baxter came to Ga lena to pay or settle for the run the Galena fire department made to Bax ter a week ago Friday at the time of the large fire of the vulcanising plant , at that place. In an interview with the assistant fire chief, Herman Weiler, be stated that no charges would be made. Ga lena Times. While the assistance of the Galena . fire department in this instance was not needed in the first place, and was ' not called on the authority of Fir Chief Nichols, nevertheless the Ga lena boys showed their neighborly, spirit in responding so promptly to ' the call and now that they have re-, f fused to make a charge, Baxter " Springs should be and is doubly thankful. SERVICES FOB MBS. LONGMIE2 The funeral services for Mrs. E. C Longmier were held Sat afternoon at the family residence. The services were conducted on the front porch, of ficiated by the Rev. O. L. Orton of tha Methodist church. Mrs. Longmte? was a member of the Methodist, church for the past fifteen years aad has lived a Christian life. She leaves many friends to mourn her untimely departure. The surviving relatives are a las band, E. C Longmier, a two-year-old baby, Francis Rezo, father and moth er, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Cook and twa brothers, Otis Cook of Oklahoma Cijt. and Ray Cook, of Camp Funstoa. CABDIN NAMED COUNCILLOR At a meeting of the directors of tie Chamber of Commerce Tuesday L. L. Cardia was named the natfnnil councillor for the Baxter Springs or ganization with power to reprseeLt Baxter at conventions that wQ be held looking toward re-coastraotisa. The first of these conventions wQ 1 1 held at Atlantic City, N. oa De cember 4-4 and all national oocbc- lors are delegates. This eonvestica ti called by the Chamber of Ccmmr i of the United States and w3 be L ' ' jointly with a conference of the TTi Serviee Committees of over SCO v: -industries.