Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-03-12
LOCAL NEWS.

Geo. Friedly was i'm from Comanche
county this week.
Wayne Mckinney returned from the
west last Tuesday.
Call ON Morris Bros. for garden seeds in
bulk. Al
G.. II. Butman was mp from the ranch
yesterday, taking in tine sights.
Prof. Wagar's band will give dance
tonight at the opera house.
The train going east now leaves here
ut llaO, instead of Has n. m.
Commencing with next Monday the
mail will arrive here on the train ut $40.
Morris nros. have any and every variety Of
garden implements. Al
II. Lebrecht & Go. have taken charge
of bursts hay scales. 4l-2t.
Attorney Atherton now has his office
in the Thompson building, North Main
street.
w. u. Iiardwick was mp from New
Kiowa on Monday, and stopped ut the
. Grand.
Morris bros. are beating the world at low
prices Tor barbed wirc. Al
Miss Louisa O'Brian, Of Joliet, ILL.,.
sister Of Henry, of this city, is here on
visit.
Nick Sherlock this week came IN from
Missouri and Illinois, where he bad been
visiting
France X Go. have sold out their bus.
mess. Oak Mize, Of the firm will go
west.
+. l.. Lindley has moved his family
To town. lie will undoubtedly make a
good citizen.
Judge Ellis Will start Saturday for
Clark county To hold court. lie will go
by way of Dodge City.
DIR. and Slrs. Brown were over from
Sharon this week, stopping at the
Y Grand.
Mrs. NJ. l.. Sherry and child, of
Sharon, spent tins week here with j.
Nj. sherry and wife.
G. II. Freeman was mt Winfield this
week looking after stone for his con-
tracts.
Geo. Honey has returned from his
trip out west. lie left Roll Clark at
Newton.
We have this week turned out some
cTeditable horse bills. A speciality
made of this work mt the INDEX Office.
Miss Dora Douglass, of Sun City,
passed through here this week on her
way home from school in the east.
Melior Is new postofllce in Barber
county, west of New Kiowa, with Miss
Lottie +. Griffin rs postmistress.
An elegant new closed carriage was
received this week by the Bus company.
IL will be run to and from the depot,
evening parties and entertainments.
Mrs. and Mrs. A. ID. jameson are re-
joicing over the advent of then first
born. very handsome girl that was
born on the 10th inst.
The Young Peoples Leauge will meet
next Thursday evening, March 18th. at
the residence of Mrs. 5. NJ. Kessler.
All the young people invited.
The willing workers of the Christian
church realized enough from their din
ner Wednesday To- purchase an elegant
communion service for the church.
The present incumbent, s. T.. Stone.
Councilman Ingraham, Col. Brand, II .
G.. Thompson and Il. n. McNeal. are all
mentioned in connection with the may
orally.
Watch out for the Bohemian Oats
swindle. The papers i'm this state have
given their readers fair warning and
If anyone is beat now, IL will be their
own fault.
W, W. Cook and O. G. Ewart went to
Winfield this week to figure on securing
n large lot OF stone they propose using
this season In building and IN laying
sidewalks.
Quoug, until lately the laundryman
at the Grand, will ON next Monday
open n first class establishment Of his
own, next TO Higgins furniture store.
The Roundup school house is now
completed and ready for occupancy.
W. l.. Barker. who did the carpenter
work, says II is a good building, sOxSO
feet.
l.. +. Pearson & Co. this week sold TO
Mr.. Orndolf, of Indiana, the Joe Owens
place, four miles east of town, on Ante
lope Flats, for $1,000. There are lGC
acres in the tract.
J. +. Hutchins, Of Waverly, Illinois,
n merchant and old friend of the Elem
ing boys, Is here to look at the country
lie says II is far more desirable than he
expected 20 find Il.
Jas. Il. Whitelaw,. formerly Of this
city, is now editing and publishing the
sun, democratic paper at Dodge City
He starts of as II he would make q
pleasant and popular writer.
Another team ran away through the
streets on Tuesday, breaking down the
lamp post in front of the Medicine
Lodge house. Securely hitch youI
teams or suffer the consequences.
A progressive euchre party, orgn 1izet
with officers, meets every wednesda,
evening In the parlors of the Grand an(
spend pleasant time. The club |,
made up of the bon ton Of the city.