Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-07-23

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10. Bennett, the Texas horseman,
came in yesterday.
Miss Mate UpdegrafT is visiting in
Hutchinson, this week.
Recorder Hall cut the third crop of
alfalfa from his patch this week.
y general shout went up Wednesday
when the rain commenced to fall.
Nance Nichols house in the north
enl is nearly ready for occupancy.
The district board of L. $. medical
examiners met at this place yesterday
The Grand hotel has increased dining
room help and is daily making improve
ments.
II. W. Bartels has been taking down
the evidence in the McQuinn disappear
ance case.
Take your butter and eggs to Hayden
& Lyle to exchange for groceries or
dry goods. S
Louis Lockart is a republican candi-
date for county commissioner in the
sun City district.
a firm III this town has contracted
for 1000 bushels of old corn, to be de-
liyered at Attica.
T. y. McNeal is figuring on putting
up two Offices OH the east end of his lot.
on Kansas avenue, east.
Cashier Ewart and Assistant Sim
mons, of the First National bank. went
out to Coldwater Wednesday.
Mr.. Freeman has no trouble in get
1 ting laborers. About n dozen men are
always sitting around, waiting for
vacancy.
Mrs. Yoakum, pOstmistress at Hazel
ton, and Mrs. Seymour Peck, of the
same place, were here yesterday, on a
shopping expedition.
l.. c. Faris having moved TO Montana
we rather expect to see the Early
Settlers articles in the New Kiowa
| Journal discontinued.
There was a good soaking rain in the
Elm Mills neighborhOod last Friday,
and W. e. Douglass tells us that the
/ people have been able to break prairie
| this week.
Capt. Wilson, WHO resides OIL South
Elm, twenty miles northwest of here,
| is lying dangerously i'll at his home, with
little prospect of recovery. He has been
sick several weeks.
&. I. Freeman will build the Wood
& Vincent building next door to Ii. Z.
Noble & Co. Work will be commenced
as soon as the stone for the foundation
can be brought here.
When a subscriber writes ''stop the
/ paper" he only means to stop the copy
| going TO his address-a very insignifi-
cant part of a subscription list or the
business of the office.
George Honey got his right thumb
broken, yesterday, while roping cattle.
The thumb became fastened in rope
! which was attached to a COW, and The
work MAS quickly done.
, Sheriff Sughrue, of Clark county,
I nil'"d billiard hall keeper. who was
: resisting arrest, at Ashland. Tuesday
night. Public sentiment is strongly
I against the sheriff, and he is under az
rest.
The feeling against Raymer, who
cruelty murdered young Nelson, i'll
7 Comanche county, two weeks since, is
SO strong that Sheriff Bowers has
taken him TO Edwards county for safe
keeping.
/ +. /. Caldwell, editor of the Southern
/ KanSar, was here yesterday. collecting
/ material for the August number OF that
/ publication. 1t will contain some val
liable information about Barber county
and Medicine Lodge.
John c. WoollOmes and Chas. c. Fair
were here Monday on business connec-
/ ted with the school district recently
formed in theirneighborhood. An cleo
ton has been held and bonds voted to
/ build school house at once.
Mrs. McFarlan, areturned missionary
! from Alaska, will lecture at the Pres
/ byterian church in this city, Sunday
evening at S O'Clock. Admission free.
/ Everybody invited. The lady is a sister
of Mrs. Purcell, who resides one mile
north of Mingona.
John Cushion returned this week
! from NO-Man's Land, and reports very
/ dry weather there. lie says that
scarcely any crops were planted 10 be-
/ gin with, and these only on the sod, and
consequently the residents of that new
country will have TO rustic in the state
! for something to eat.
Vim. Kelley and Chas. Wilder re-
turned Tuesday from the Panhandle of
Texas, where they went in search of
land. Mr.. Kelley purchased G4O acres
80 miles north of Mobeetie and next
spring will move his cattle there. He
says that is a good country for man
with a small bunch of cattle.
When it is remembered that we have
to deal with over one thousand persons
who have accounts on our books for
\ subscriptions, advertising or job work,
it will not appear strange that we have
to send out many statements. Our
real friends will promptly respond to
these requests when they can.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dicken, who were so
/ frIghtfully burned last week, have been
removed to a cool room in the opera
house block. They are slowly improv-
ing, but will not be well for some time
yet. Several of their relatives, from
Iowa, arrived last Saturday and with
the good people of this city are giving
the sufferers every attention.
Again we desire to remind our sub
scribers that if they want the benefit of