Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-08-06
LOCAL NEWS.
syden & Lyle keep groceries.


Hayden Il Lyle keep groceries. s
Police business is dull this week.
Another big rain last Tuesday morn
ing.
The city was out of butter last Fri
day.
Messrs. Afford and Pool called on
us Monday.
Rhubarb is boss medicine for bill
iOus attack.
Freshest groceries in town at Hay
den Il Lytle's. 3
Riley Lakes big sale will occur TO.
morrow, Saturday.
For RENT-A new two room house,
apply TO Henry burst. 8
The Cling hotel is new and neat and
oIly charges Sl.5O day. 10
This is fine time to paint up your
houses. There is no dust.
Misunderstanding Is an exercise war
ranted to cure indigestion.
Mr.. VIM. G. Mills, wife and daughter,
are visiting Eureka Springs.
II seems that our young men DO not
care to organize Il brass band.
Mr.. Fristoe is building neat resi-
dence In the north end of town.
Mr.. John Blume presented US a fine
watermelon last week. Thanks.
20 ACRES FOR sALE.-Very desirable
and cheap. Inquire at this Office.
Clean up yonr premises. 1t may not
always be as healthy as at present.
There never was q better time to pay
the printer than now. Don't forget it.
The large number Of fruit trees set
out last spring are doing unusually
well.
Fried chicken social at the Christian
chapel next Wednesday evening at SIX
o'clock.
Help build up our home merchants,
home mechanics, and home workmen of
every class.
Medicine river was higher last Fri
day night than it has since the big
nOod Of two years ago.
The stock Of turrip seed in the city
was exhausted last week. Plenty have
been received since then.
This county will have about 10000
acres of corn this fall, and it will av-
erage 40 rJ0 bushels per acre.
The Evansville Herald says coal has
been found three miles north of that
place. We hope the report is true.
Mr.. j. G. Morgan is raising some
Christmas watermelons and roasting
ears. They are just ont Of the ground.
: The food last Friday unsettled some
OF the piles driven in the river at the
Thompson crossing west Of town, three
miles.
Lew. Lebrecht and wife are parents
ola fine. boy, the event occurring last
Friday evening, under the auspices OF
DIR. Burney.
Considering that this is n droughthy
country we think two good rains week
does very well, not counting the several
light showers.
But few farmers were in town Tues
day. The watercourses were too high
Wednesday they made up for the falling
of Of the previous day.
A buggy ride over the county would
surprise those who are i'm the habit oi
sticking 80 closely to business that they
never get out Of the city limits.
Mr.. Robt. 4. Neff, of the Sun Cit,
Union, made our city business triI
last Monday. lie reports the corn as 1
full crop in his part of the county.
The case against Thompson ct al hal
at last been ended. Last Saturday th'
defendants were discharged. The
body Of McQuinn has not been found.
The backbone of the drought has beer
broken, we think. 1t has rained so Of
ten in the past two weeks that we ar,
beginning to hear growls about tn,
superabundance
Mr.. James Huffaker. who resides OF
line farm adjoining Sharon, has sew
eral hundred acres of land under cult
walton this season. North of Sharon
II a field of 100 acres OF corn, besides ,
number of smaller fields elsewhere.
Fred. Bichlyter is in the lead on fin,
watermelons so far this season. He ha
brought to town, from his farm east o
here, about six loads and 40 at load
They sell readily for 10 or Is cents ant
are very large and delicious. Fred. i
bachelor-but deserves better fate
The advantages of getting farm
loan from the First National Bank O
Medicine Lodge are, that there is n,
delay. money being furnished on da,
Of application; the interest is payable
here at home; there is no limit to th,
amount they have to loan. and the,
have rates as low as any other /