Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-03-30
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build large addition to his residence.

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build large addition to his residence.
We are informed that Dick Lee and
Charley Martin intend to start for Arkan-
saw, In a short time, where they will pur-
chase cattle to drive to this county.
Attention is called to the new adver-
tisement of Miss Minnie Faith, dress
maker, In this impression. Her work is
highly spoken of by those who have pat
ronized her.
T. L. 0'Bryan, our enterprising live
stock broker, has had shipped to him from
Missouri, seventy-two high grade heifers
and bulls. They are for sale, and will
undoubtedly go off like hot cakes.
1t is a matter of astonishment the i'm.
mense amount of goods Thompson & Lit
tie are filling their store room with.
They propose to have everything usually
kept In 6rst-class country store.
WEIGH & WEIGH intend to put in brick
making machine as soon as the weather is
warm enough to commence operations.
They will burn large kiln this season.
Clarence Empey, of Hutchinson, is in
town for the purpose of starting jewlery
store. He comes highly recommended, and
we feel confident will do a good business.
Uncle Ed. Youmans is now in Chicago
laying in an immense stock of goods. If
there is any man in Kansas that under
stands buying and selling goods, it is
Uncle Ed.
On last Monday Miss Belle Mcpherson
left for her home at Mumford N. Y. Miss
Mcpherson has been visiting her sister.
Mrs. Carmichael, for several months. and
has made many warm friends who will
miss her.
A great, over-grown insurance agent at
tempted to annihilate little Johnnie Reed of
the Shell Rock Qowa,) News, not LONG
since, but he Johpnie) braced up and fired
the said i. a. out of doors. Johnnie is small
but he has some old ways when an indi-
vidual attempts to run "bluff" game on
him.
How foolish it is for boys who have
good homes and kind parents to think
that they can improve their condition by
going out and battling with the world
on their own account. A few weeks
OF experience usually has a salutary eff
feet and they are content to remain at
home.
Medicine Lodge enjoyed her "great day''
on last Friday, the occasion of their cat
temen's convention. The citizens gave
free banquet on Friday night at which
over nine hundred were fed.-[Pratt Co.
Press. You were misinformed, MIR. Press.
We fed over thirteen hundred people on
that occasion.
c. FL. Brown, Of Boston, Mass, was in
town several days of this week, and made
this office short, but very pleasant call.
He came here for the purpose of looking
over the county with view of locating
stock ranches for himself and several Young
men of his city. We found him a very
pleasant gentleman indeed.
The item in last weeks INDEX referrino
TO a man named Hanna losing a pocket
book containing S11 and when returned
the money was missing, turns out to be
false in some respects. The fellow lost a
pocket book, but there was not a cent of
money in it, and it can be proven that the
the little boys who returned the book. had
not disturbed the contents in the least.
We are sorry to hear that Henry Blick-
hahn has concluded to close out his stock
of saddles and harness, and will leave the
Lodge for good. He claims that he can
make but little more than a living here.
when the merchants sell the goods he
should have the exclusive sale of. Henry
is tirst-class young man, and has hosts of
friends here who will dislike to loose him.
The Medicine Lodge (Kas.) INDEX has
been enlarged to 48 columns and is now
one Of the largest papers in southwestern
Kansas. The INDEX is not two years old,
but by the perseverance and energy of MIR.
NJ. l.. Sherry, its editor, the paper has
rapidly advanced on the road to success.
The INDEX will soon, also, be in an Office
of its own. Mr.. Sherry has the Jour
nails sincere and sympathetc wishes