Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-07-02

remember the dance At Lake City
next Monday night.
Mr.. Herbert Sparks will remove to
California in August.
Mrs. ID. F. Shipman is here visiting
her sister, Mrs. Stith.
Mr.. Byerley's children are visiting
their aunt in Sumner county.
Tevis * Proctor have two good offers
for their Mulberry creek ranch.
DIR. G. l.. Dunn. wife and child, were
in from Nescutunga yesterday.
Trot out the tom-tom and the hewgag
tomorrow, and make joyful noise.
4 gentle shower of rain last Monday
night was just the thing for garden
truck.
Under-Sheriff Lindsey has gone out
to Ford county in the McQuinn disap-
pearance case.
Mrs. II. A. Neff passed through here
Wednesday on her way to Sun City
from visit east.
DR.. G.. w. Aver was out, this week,
after a severe sickness. 1t will take a
very bad spell to keep him down.
Kansas avenue, east Of Main street,
is being graded. The dirt from the
court house excavation is being put on
this street below DIR. Wants place.
The savings, loan and building asso-
fsiu ia
ton of every one, though there are yet
several shares Of stock that may be OBJ
tanned.
Our townsman, y. c. Bender, came
up from No-Man' s-Land tins week, and
announces his intention of selling out
his interests here, and locating in the
new country.
The display of fireworks tomorrow
night will likely be on East Kansas
avenue, near the court house site. 1t
will be the grandest display in the his
tory of the county and should be wit
messed by every one.
If one town lot is sold, all the lots in
the neighbOIhOod are put up ten 10
twenty per cent. If farm is sold, the
ncighboring farms are advanced. We
are not apt To have genuine real estate
boom while this continues.
G.. q. Stiles. of Springyale, with his
wife, will start lin a few days for
months visit to his old home in Mich
igan. In anticipation of the sport he
will have in hunting and fishing, he
becomes enthusiastic. lie has not been
there for seven years.
Dr. L. j. Miller, who purchased the
Newkirk and Hamilton places last
week, has also purchased the Howard
tract Of 100 acres, adjoining, for So, 600.
This gives him $4,000 farm within
two miles and a half of Medicine Lodge.
Taliaferro X Morgan worked up the
trades.
The DccrinS All Steel Irvine Binders,
the Deering Giant Mowers and the
Decring Light Mowers are the most
durable and lightest draft machines in
the world, and they wear the blue rib
bon in Barber county ia all field trials,
ana don't you forget it. For sale 10y
Noble & Nixon. Sit
Is will be seen by the Official an
rouuCcmCnt in this issue of the INDEX,
the meeting of the Normal Institute
will be held in this city, commencing
on Monday, August %, and will contin-
ne four weeks. Professors Dewey and
Beeson, two experienced instructors,
will have charge.
Attention is directed to the adyer-
tiscmCnt of Stevens ~ Simpson, success
sors 90 Ingraham, Stlth ~ Co., in the
livery business in this city. The new
lirm is composed of as good men as can
be found in the county, aud they will
make it to the interest of all who may
favor them with Patronage.
Farmers and stcckmen will benefit
their neighbors and the county general
ly 10y reporting sales OF cattle or other
live stock in their neighborhoods, and
especially by giving the prices. In that
way buyers keep posted as TO who has
stock. The columns of the INDEX are
open 10 all such items Of news.
Last winter it was necessary to ship
hay to this city from Harper county.
This should not occur again. Thous-
auds Of acres Of good hay 80 to waste
here every year, when the expense of
saving it would not exceed one dollar
per ton. IL the winter hay sells here at
from s. to 81 per ton. There is no
probability of the market being glutted
at any time with good hay.
The rumor is now that dead body,
supposed TO be that of j. b. McQuinn,
the missing man from the western part
of this county, has been found in Ford
county. McQuinn's brother and other
relatives are out here from Missouri to
assist in the search for him, and this
week with the Nessrs. Dean and others.
they started to Ford county To inyesti-
gate the rumor. The plot thickens as
this case grows older.
A wildcat has been seen in the north
end OF town several times, lately, caus-
ing some fear on the part of the ladies
living in the vicinity. One day last
week Mr.. Boggs' children discovered
the animal lying under small ledge,
IN the ravine near their residence, and
ran home TO report to their father. lie
took his gun and followed them back,
and they pointed out the beast. Mr.
Bogg3 fred at it, and was fortunate
enough to kill it. lie has the thanks
Of the whole neighborhood.
Plans are now being prepared for the
Wood 4 Vincent building, on Main
street, adjoining that occupied by Ii.
L. Noble x Co. II will be 25xSO feet,
two stories high, and of the modern
style Of architecture. Nearly opposite,
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