Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-10-13
Don,t we wish we bad a good brass

lively on Friday.
Take your boxes. barbed wire, etc
of the sidewalk Friday.
y baliy horse drew the usual crowd
on the streets yesterday.
Work on the courthouse is moving
along slowly bat steadily.
The Wood & Vincent building will
soon be ready for occupancy.
Remember the singing school to-
night, at the Christian chapel.
There is hardly a town in the state as
large as this, but has a good brass
band.
Services at the Christian church next
Sunday morning and night, by Elder
Gadd, of Iowa.
Mr.. WheelOck has a piece of sand
burr in his throat, which bothers him
considerably.
We guess business was pretty brisk
last Monday, from the number of peo-
pie on the streets.
a whiskey republican, running on
a prohibition platform, is product of
Kansas exclusively.
The bridge across the Medicine river
just west of town, is about completed
Wagons began crossing it to-day.
The beautiful nights and good roads
give our young people fine chance to
take delightful rides. They go, too.
Ed. Mulkey says the State Sunday
school convention got through more
work than usual, at its recent meeting.
If our republican friends will prac-
t.ce total abstinence, there will be more
consistency in their preaching prohibit
ton.
We would be glad to have the visit
ing editors see our town, but if they do
not see few samples of our farm land
the visit will be almost failure.
The republicans are expected to have
pow-wow at this place next Friday
evening. Mcfarland and some other
stranger are billed for speeches.
a frst-class write-up in thirty lead
ing eastern agricultural papeIs, would
be worth thousands of dollars 30 this
county. Let us treat the editors well,
that they may have a friendly feeling
toward us.
Mr.. Caruthers has been absent this
week, leaving us short of editorial and
mechanical force. We could not take
time to look up our usual amount of To-
cal news, By-the-way, it would be a
good scheme for everybody to report at
the Office all the interesting items they
know, and then they will not be over.
looked.
Henry burst started last Sunday on
an extended trip to Dayton, Ohio
While away he expects to find some one
who will agree to come here, build and
operate Touring mill. In the event
of his succeeding in this expectation
the board of trade has agreed to pay
half of the expenses of his trip. Even
that would be small pay for securing a
mill.
The marriage of w. 5. Finney and
Miss Gordie Burney occurred last
Wednesday, the 9th inst, in this city
Rev. Gillian officiating. They started
To- Illinois on the afternoon train to
visit their relatives. The bride Is the
eldest daughter Of of DIR. Ii. II. Burney
Of this city and the groom is a success
full business man. They have q new
house which they will live in on theil
return.
Henry Pearson, who lived in this
county several years. to 1881, and
brother TO l.. +. Pearson, OF this city
died at lIarrisOnyille, Mo-. on the ST.
INST. lie left here in bad health and
went TO Eldorado Springs, Mo-, but die
not improve in health. lie leaves 6
wife and four children. His age wa.
about SO years. His life was insured
for s., 600 in the y. o. L. W., of which
he was a member.
One of the wOrkmen on the NJ, T. 4
l.. bank building had a narrow escape
yesterday. He was accidentally knock
ed from platform, and made a LEAF
for another platform ten feet below
Ills feet landed on a single stringer, on
ly six inches wide, and he caught /;
studding with his hands. Had he miss
ed this stringer, he would have gotteI
some ten feet further, among a lot o.
siils, and would have been killed OF ter
ribly crippled.
Hon VIM. III. Carter, Thos. b. Camp
bell and Frank Thornton, all of Lex
ington, Mo-, came out last Tuesday
and remained till Sunday afternoon
They were looking after their interest:
in this section. We have known then
all long and well, and if, in tho swee
bye and bye, they conclude to move t
rustling county, we guarantee then
a hearty welcome here. Mr.. Carter has
for number of years, represented hi.
county in the Missouri legislature.
Thos. Cravens, the proprietor of tn,
Commercial hotel at New Kiowa. dice
last week of malarial fever. Our in
formant states that the widow of tn,
deceased will sue the city of New Kio
Wa for several thousand dollars dam
ages. she claims that her husband
was arrested and confined for eigh
days in the city calaboose, for drunken
ness, and that he did not receive prop
er attention, and, from the effect of hi
confinement, contracted severe col,
and sickness that caused his death.
Cameron MOI indicator: ~. W
DeGeer left Monday evening for hi
new home in Barber county, Kansas
taking with him a car load of youn
horses. He has resided for Is year
six miles south of the city, where h
has been known as one of our most pro
gressiye and intelligent stock farmers
We wish him the success in his neN
| home that ENTERPRISE. pluck and sduar