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The Baldwin Serger XXVII. BALDWIN. KANSAS. FRIDAY. AUG 5.

1910 NO. 50 OUR IMPROVEMENTS Much Building, Moving and Repairing Being Done this Sunmer. A NEW BANK BUILDING SOON Quite a number of the business firms and property owners of the town are having repair work done, such as painting, remodeling, etc. Plans have also been made for new buildings. Some of the stockholders of the Peoples State Bank have purchased the lot and frame building now occupied by the jewelry store from J.

B. Ross and Dr. Liston. The building will be moved a half block south upon a lot 60x42 purchased from J. H.

Gander, and will be occupied by Mr. Yauslin, the jeweler. Upon the old site a new bank building will be erected. The first story of the building will be of cut stone and will be occupied by the Peoples State Bank. The second story will be of buff brick and will be made into offices.

The building will have a basement and will be modern in every way. The contract for its construction has not yet been let. Prof. W. A.

Cook's new residence of ten rooms at Ninth and Baker streets is well along toward completion. It is to be plumbed for water and gas and wired for electricity. Mrs. 0. M.

Wood is moving the house occupied by B. S. Bennett and located opposite the Conservatory, a shert distance north and will remodel it and equip it with a basement and new porches. A new house will be built on the corner. The plans for the improvement of the Methodist church building include the painting of the exterior, frescoing of the interior walls and completion of the basement.

The basement under the auditorium will be made into a fine dining room which will accomodate two hundred and forty people. The kitchen will be located just below the pulpit. Lavatories and cloak rooms will be installed. The basement will be fixed so that it may be divided into nine Sunday school rooms. These improvements, together with the pipe organ to be installed this fall, will add more than $10,000 to the valuation of the church property.

A. W. Webster has about completed a cottage on Thirteenth street south of High street. Dr. Stephens is having a tworoom addition built onto his property at the corner of Ninth and High streets.

A double porch will also be added. Dr. Porter's property at Ninth and Grove streets is be remodeled, raised and plumbed for water and gas. The W. C.

Markham house at Eighth and Indiana streets has been purchased by Wm. Hefner and moved to Ninth and Indiana. It will be remodeled and will be occupied by W. C. Markham during the coming year W.

A. McClure is building a cottage on Eighth street between Chapel and Dearborn for Prof. G. F. Ream.

Mrs. McKenzie is having her house on Dearborn street raised and a new foundation built. Wm. Clark's property east of Centenary Hall is being improved by the addition of bath room and porches. S.

S. Huff has built a house on his ten acre tract just north of town on the Big Hill road. Mercer IS making improvements Oll his residence at the northeast corner of the campus. L. B.

Snyder, two and al half' miles north on the Santa Fe trail. is building a fine ten room It is being equipped with complete fixtures for water and gas, the gas being pived one and a half miles and a private waterworks system installed. Blake's Grocery and Lockwood's bakery have been improved by new steel ceilings and paint. The Bakery has installed a couple of new show cases. Dr.

Websters house at Eighth and Indiana streets has undergone extensive repairs. The property owned by John Schnebly of Baxter Springs and located just south of E. Leach on 8th street, has been painted and other improvements made preparatory to the moving in of Dr Murlin. W. B.

Tillman is painting his residence and has added a porch. The Sullivan house occupied last year by the Y. M. C. A.

has been repaired and the interior painted. The Bennett club will be in the Sullivan house the coming year. The west basement of the public school building is being cemented and finished up for a recitation and play room. Mayor Hartley is all smiles today. Her name is Genevieve.

Mrs. Paul Annadown of Lawrence is visiting her father, Jas. Clark. Mrs. B.

Peck and grand-daughter Percell are visiting with John Peck in Paola. Mrs. J. O. Wasson is visiting with Mr.

and Mrs. Newt Duval in Kansas City. Miss Helen VanKeuren returned Saturday from a week's visit in Chanute. The Misses Helen and Mary Smith visited Mary Fuller in Eudora over Sunday. Henry Martin returned last week from Dodge City, where he worked in the harvest.

Miss Edna Swift, of Kansas City, visited over Sunday with Dr. Liston and family. Chas Butel has sold his farm to Rev. Gastrock. Consideration, $8000.

Mr. Butel will move to Paola. Mrs. U. F.

Denlinger, daughter Myrtle and sister, Mrs. M. C. Crites of Bolivar, left Thursday for a week's visit in Deerfield, Kans. Mrs.

M. M. Adams and children, who have been visiting some time with Alva Rockhold and family west of town, returned to Lawrence Saturday. Miss Mayme Brune of Lawrence, visited Saturday with Myrnice Crysler. Both Miss Crysler and Miss Brune will teach in Eudora the coming year.

Mrs. Bert McProud, who has been visiting for some time with Mrs. Watt, went to Ottawa Saturday for a few day's visit with Mr. McProud's parents at that place. Mrs.

W. E. Long underwent an operation for a tumor in the Simmons Hospital at Lawrence last week. At present she is getting along very well, and hopes to be out in a week or ten days. Last Tuesday Lyman Jones.

son of Waldo Jones. was experimenting with some powder he had extracting from a shot-gun shell. and as a result he singed his eyebrows and severely burned one hand. Masons Attention August 17th. 1910 will be the next regular communication of Palmyra Lodge No.

23 A. F. A. M. at which time the celebrated team of Lodge No 6 of Lawrence will be here with master and officers to do the work of confering the 3rd degree in their brilliant and extremely interesting form.

Every member of Palmyra lodge should be present and enjoy this occasion, and all resident masons in good standing, not members of Palmyra lodge are invited to come. The lodge will be opened at 3 o'clock p. m. for the purpose of examining the candidate and any visiting brethren who may wish to visit with us at that time so that we may have all the regular business out of the way when our visitors arrive at the lodge room for the work they are to perform Let every member of Palmyra lodge be out at the opening of the lodge at 3 o'clock on the 17th without fail. M.

BRISTOW. W. M. Dudley Collins of Olathe is visiting with his uncle and aunt, Mr. and C.

W. Coddington. THE VOTE AT HOME. The Detailed Result of the Tuesday Battle With Ballots. The election here Tuesday passed off' very quietly but a large vote was polled.

Probably 75 per cent of the total vote was polled. One man attempted to vote a Prohibition ticket but made it defective SO that it was not counted. There were four Socialist tickets voted and 24 Democratic tickets voted. Quite a good many more Democrats voted but on this occasion they used a Republican ticket. Whether they do so in November remains to be seen.

We give below the Republican vote in detail: JUSTICE SUPREME COURT. West 68. Graves 85 Parker 153 Porter 68 GOVERNOR. Stubbs 245 Wagstaff 54 LIEUT. GOVERNOR Hopkins 153 Creech 82 SECRETARY OF STATE.

Sessions 212 AUDITOR. Cauble 64 Davis 141 The hot spell of weather and politics is now over. Let us work harmoniously for Beautiful Baldwin. It will pay. Citizen's Notice.

TREASURER, At a recent meeting of the Pub- Altswanger 3 Grass 9. licity Committee appointed by Lewis 49 the citizens to push Baldwin it Tulley 92 was found that subscriptions were Webb 73 short $90 of securing the amount ATTORNEY GENERAL needed to pay for advertising and Dawson 217 secare 5000 books. SUPT. PUBLIC INSTRUCTION It was decided to let any con- Fairchild 157 tributor to this fund have access Payne 68 to the list of names secured by SUPT. INSURANCE the committee, also it should be King 109 understood that the committee Lewis 105 will publish a full and itemized STATE PRINTER.

account of the expenditures of the Austin 106 Brown 36 funds subscribed for these pubCordry 89 licity features. RAILROAD COMMISSIONERS Already three advertisements Blackburn 39 have appeared in the Central and Cunningham 89 direct results have been obtained, Holland 16 several people writing in concern- Kanavel 50 ing securing property. We are Newswanger 8. evidently on the right track. If Plumb 104 Ryan 39 you have not assisted in this work Ward 62 leave your subscription at either White 91 one of the banks at once.

Push Wood 99 things along tor Beautiful Bald- CONGRESSMAN win. Mitchell 191 PUBLICITY COMMITTEE. Scoll 83 REPRESENTATIVE. Newlin 178 A New Firm. COUNTY CLERK.

Byron Overton has purchased Green 113 Fischer Co man 137 the New Meat Market of Dowas. Mr. Overton Lad COLA TREASURER, been a resident of Baldwin Pease: 132 long Buch: 42 until about four years ago he Hostord 77 moved to Lawrence. REGISTER OF DEEDS. He will be associated with his Lawrence 223 father who for some years ran a COUNTY ATTORNEY meat market in Baldwin.

Mr. Riling 71 Whittington will also be with the Gorrill 97 new firm. Clark 72 There will be extensive changes Melvin 45. made in the building soon and PROBATE JUDGE Mr. Overton says he will make Means 229 every endeavor to give Baldwin a SHERIFF.

first class meat market in every Carmean 106 particular. Mayers 97 CORONOR R. T. O' Niel, of Osage Hoover 2 COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT City, spent yesterday in Baldwin. Monahan 210 Mrs.

N. P. Power has returned Hawley 71 from a week's visit with her COUNTY SURVEYOR brother, John Green, in Duffee CLERK OF Moss 263 Asher 24 Smith 11 COUNTY ASSESSOR Moore 69 Engle 160 JUSTICE OF PEACE W. Bristow 249 CONSTABLE J. T.

Trumbull 20 A. B. Lee 18 Mott 14 TRUSTEE A. Andrews 221 CLERK Bert O'Niel 205 TREASURER W. M.

Clark 222. COMMITTEEMAN C. E. Becks 22. Gardner 8.

Robinson 1 The County Ticket. The candidates for county offices on the Republican ticket were quite numerous and of about equal proficiency. Each man had his friends and in several instances the race was quite close. The successful candidates were: Sheriff', S. I.

Carmean. Treasurer, C. E. Pearcy Clerk, W. R.

Green. Clerk of Court, C. E. Moss. Probate Judge, Hugh Means.

Register of Deeds, Floyd Lawrence. Attorney, E. T. Riling. Assessor, C.

E. Engle. County C. R. Hawley.

C. E. Moss ran like a scared rabbit although he has but one leg. He probably received the largest majority in the county. Riling won over Gorrill by about 25 votes.

Pearcy's majority will not be over 100. Hosford was second man. Engle won over Moore by a very large vote. Hawley carried all the six wards in Lawrence. Lecompton, Kawnaka, Marion, Clinton, Wakarusa, and only lost Grant and Eudora by two votes.

In the Lawrence legislative district Don Carlos won over Bowersock in every voting precinct. Miss Minnie Denman of Palmer, visited over Sunday with friends. She left Monday to visit at Garnett. Mr. and Mrs.

Ogden of Newport. are visiting Mrs. Ogden's parents, Mr. and Mrs. A.

W. Graham. Miss Nettie Sullivan and Charles Rogers returned to Ottawa last week after a visit with Mrs. C. I.

Curry. Miss Iva Holderbaum who is staying this summer with her sister accompanied them for a visit in Ottawa. The Misses Grace and Mary Showalter returned from Cannon Ciiy, Saturday. where they had been since June 1. Miss Roxanna Showalter will remain in Cannon City until the first of September.

Mr. J. I. Martin and wife entertained the K. and L.

of S. Monday evening August 1st. as a farewell to Mr. Charles Murlin and wife who are ston to leave us for their new home. After a very enjoyable social hour refreshment's were served.

after which the guests departed thanking Mr. and Mrs. Martin for their hospitality. IT IS MITCHELL The Lawrence Man is the Winner in the Congressional Contest. DOUGLAS COUNTY LUCKY Douglas County is more than ordinarily fortunate in the recent Republican primaries.

Not only do we get the Governor for another term but the congressional prize has been won by this county in the selection of Hon. A. C. Mitchell of Lawrence for the Republican candidate for Congress from this district. His majority will be from 700 to 1000, and this is considered quite a victory, for Cong.

Scott has always been quite popular in this district. Speaking of his nomination Mr. Mitchell says: course I feel very much gratified over the result and particularly so over the large majority given me by the people of my own ward and county. I want to express my graditude to my friends throughout the entire district for their loyal support and the overwhelming expression of their contidence. It is a token of personal esteem and belief in the progressive principles for which I stand, that I deeply appreciate.

"What class of support do I think deserted Scott at this primary? My judgement is that it was those voters who are absolutely opposed to Cannon and Cannon rule. There is a deep seated feeling against the arbitary controll of legislation by one man. I have found throughout the entire district this overwhelming opposition to Cannonism. do not attribute my victory to any dislike of Mr. Scott, but the voters of the Second district are just naturally opposed to Cannon and his domination of Congress.

"My purpose when I go to Washington will be to work for and promote the progressive principles advocated by Roosevelt and Taft, and help along in that kind of legislation." Birthday Party. Last Monday was J. A. Deel's 75th birthday and all his relatives who lived near, together with Dr. Kester, spent the noon and afternoon with him.

Those present were Prof. S. A. Deel and family, W. H.

Gill and family, of Vinland, and Dr. Kester. Mr. Deel and Mr. Gill are both veterans of the Civil War.

during which Mr. Deel was imprisoned for 17 months at Andersonville and in Libby prison. A very thrilling account of their war experiences was given. Thos. Dyer Dead.

Thomas Dyer died Wednesday morning at the home of his father, Martin Dyer, nine miles southwest. lie had been sick for several months, but his death was sudden, being caused by the breaking of an abcess in his chest. Mr. Dyer leaves a widow, an invalid patient at the Semple sanitarium in Ottawa. The funeral will be held at the Catholic church in West Baldwin, today (Friday) at 10 a.

m. Miss Beatrice Fast has been sick the past few days. T. B. Jones enjoyed a visit this week from his brother, J.

M. Jones and family of Topeka..