Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-08-06

The Loan Association is getting in
It's work.
Now that the crops arc assured bust
ness is improving.
The rains have interfered with the
work on the court house.
II you want ice cream for your dinner
stop at the Cling hotel. Meals Csc. 10
J. N. Titus has removed his Office up
stairs, over Mobiles hardware store.
We will have about 100000 bushels
of corn this fall. Pretty good for
bran new county.
d.. and Mrs. Kessler, of this city. will
soon remove to Greensburg to make
their future home,
Our young folks ought to organize an
archery club. The girls with their out
! fits, look too sweet.
The outside foundation walls for the
court house are up to the level of the
surrounding ground.
We have not yet received those fine
samples of corn which our farmer
friends have promised US.
Mr.. Alex. Mckinney returned We'd
nesday, from three weeks trip into
the western part of the state.
The Pratt County Times is bewailing
the flight Of one Frank Smith, who. it
says, was last seen i'm Medicine Lodge.
While other sections arc complaining
of prairie 6res, Barber county is cover
ed with prairie flowers, and carpet as
green as it is in May.
Examine your young trees. and see
If bOrers are not at work in them.
These pests are doing considerable
damage in the county.
Mrs. wilson, who came here to attend
her daughter, Mrs. Dicken, who was so
severely burned about three weeks
ago, has returned home.
Mrs. Anna Dargan has again taken
control Of her boarding house plant,
west Of Stith's, where good board can
be had by the day or week.
The ladies' of the Presbyterian church
will give an ice cream lawn social, at
the residence OF Mrs. John Rogers, ON
Thursday evening, August 18th. All
are invited.
A horse got loose from man in this
city Wednesday, and ran east. He was
caught about mile from town, tangled
in wire fence. His breast was badly
lacerated by the wire.
Il. J. Maple, who lives near Elm
Mills, has about 80 acres of corn that
will yield 80 bushels per acre, sure as Z
gun; and I've thinks he will get 90 bush.
els, but doesn't want to be too enthu-
siastic.
Messrs. j. &. II. Guy, father and son
who have been keeping the st. Mich
olas hotel, at Harper, have rented the
Globe hotel, at Sharon, and took posses
sion last Wednesday. We wish them
prosperity.
Mr. l.. A. Field, who lives near this
city, has 2S5 acres of corn, some OF
which is sod-coTn. He is confident il
will average 40 bushels to the acre and
thinks he may get 30 bushels. The sod
corn alone will average over 30 bushels
the acre.
City Marshal Johnson gives all con.
cerned notice that he will from and af-
ter this date, take up all stock, of every
kind, that may hereafter be found in,
side the city limits. So many com
plants have been made to him that he
feels bound to strictly enforce the law
Our exchanges are all publishing the
delinquent lists of their counties. W.
have not yet seen list as well gottel
up, nor rs well set UP, as the one We
print. The Atchison Champion has
about the worst we have seen. W.
don't put on much style, but we know
how 10 monkey with type.
Rev. 7. J. IIutchison will leave, in {
few days, for southwest Missouri
where he will engage in the temperance
work by speaking in favor of submit
ting the matter to vote of the people
He will also have an opportunity OF
working for southwest Kansas, by
telling the people of our big crops anC
cheap lands.
Capt. VIM. Garrison, of Sharon
E brought us a few specimens of hi'
, Irish potato crop, last Wednesday
, They were Of the Early Ohio variety
were very large, and the peel was a:
| tender as we would expect to find OF
= potatoes half their size. They haC
t never been cultivated since planting
and everything indicated a rapiC
growth.
An old gentleman was here about ter
= days ago, and from all appearances III
was disgusted with Barber county. Mr.
NJ. IL. Hitchcock got into a conyersa
ton with him, and found that he was
newspaper correspondent, from Indi
ana. and that he was disguised. II,
said he was going back to Indiana, ant
[ would write mp this country as it Teall,
, is, and not as the real estate men say j
2 is. Mr.. Hitchcock got IA buggy, tool
D the old fellow ont, showed him tht
5 country, got him back in time to catcl
| the morning train. and told him to 90
and be sure to tell the truth about wha
he saw. He went home, and here is
short extract of what lie wrote for hi
home paper, the Muncie Democrat
Il found Medicine Lodge an actual
. live little city of 500 inhabitants
set upon a hill, with ample room t,
spread herself There are severa
very nice, neat brick blocks in tn,
town, a couple of two-dollar-a-day hotel
+, and number Of stores, groceries hard
ware. clothing and drugs stores wher,
prohibition don't quite prohibit. Liver,