Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-11-10

y complete line or furnishing gOOuS
at Wood & Vincent's. "a
Wood & Vincent have added gents
furnishing goods to their stock OF boots
and shoes.
Hog wire cattle wire. horse wire-ey-
cry kind OF plain or barbed wire at
Morris Bros. p
The new township officers will enter
upon the discharge OF their duties as
soon as they qualify.
The cattle market in Kansas City,
Monday, was steady. Native cows sold
for So 30 TO 81 80. Native feeders
brought 50 O5 to So %.
DR.. John. Hubbard went out 10
Coldwater yesterday to manage South
worth's drug store for week or two,
during the absence of his regular drug
g st.
w. d. VanSlyke will sell out the
Lovejoy-Glasscock stock of goods at
New KIowa on the best terms possible
He is devoting his whole time TO that
business. Mrs. VanSlyke was down TO
see him this week.
The county commissioners of Conan
che county last week refused TO accept
from the city of Coldwater the new
court house built by that city and Of
fered to the county. However, the
county has rented the structure until
the first of Iauuarv
One thing is certain: If Medicine
Lodge does not make some provision
for supplying water in case of fire,
there will some day or night be the
cOstliest cOntiaGratIon in the history of
Southern Kansas. We must have els
terms, a tank, wells, or water works,
and this too. before Christmas.
Our usually fair neighbor, the Cries.
set, was very unkind last week in pub
fishing the following: MANS inhu-
manity to man makes countless thous-
ands mourn, and just why large num-
Der of men who have been given work
on the courthouse and other buildings
should vote against men who put the
bread in their mouths is hard to con-
ceive."
J. d. Quigley, president of the Ar
kansas City water works company, and
the man who built those works, is here
for the purpose Of talking water works
to our people. lie offers to build them
for the city, or he will build them as
private enterprise and rent the fire
protective privileges, taking the major
ity of the stock himself. Should he do
this, however, he would want the citi-
zens to take sufficient stock TO make
them interested in seeing the works a
success. The board of trade will like
~ meet soon and consider the PROPOSE
tions.
The Citizens National bank, success
sor to the McNeal, Little a. Thompson
bank, was organized in this city on the
4th INST. with the following officers:
President, j. w. McNeal; vice presi-
dent, II. G. Thompson; cashier, L. C..
MallOy; assistant cashier, Il. l. Lind
ley. Directors, w. :. Woods, of the
Bank Of Commerce, Kansas City. y.
W. Little. of Wyandotte. Kan, II. G..
Thompson. J. W. McNeal, y. l.. Free
man, 7. L. Lindley and |. +. Shannon.
of Medicine Lodge. J. n. TIargis, OF
Lake City, and +. e. Hubbell. of Des-
MOiues, Iowa. Other stockholders, in
this county, are c. B. Currie. J. z. Hall.
l.. +. Pearson, s. L. Shreaves. Geo. ".
Stevens. II. NJ Ingraham, IL. II. Hardy
and T. y. McNeaI. The new institu-
ton will he in running order IN about
two weeks and by January lst, it will
be in its new building.
An INDEX reporter had business out
west Of town, about twelve or fourteen
miles, last Sunday. and started, with
the intention of going to Mr.. J. Q.
Wheat's for information. When with
in mile and half OF Mr.. Wheat'S. he
saw lady and a twelve year-old girl
coming across the prairie. and inquired
of them the way and the distance. They
were on their way 10 Sunday school.
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they were taken up in the spring wag-
on, and given ride. They had walked
a mile and half; then they rode mile
and half, and still had mile and a
half TO go, making four and a half miles
of walking to get To Sunday school, and
the same distance to get back home.
The reporter also had business with
other persons, three miles away, and
hurried off, only to find that everybody
had gone TO Sunday school, Wondering
what could be the attraction that drew
so well, among people rot noted for
piety and observance of the Sabbath.
he began to inquire into the matter.
His establishment was greatly increas-
ed when he learned that Sunday school
was being held in tent, out on the
open prairie. Further inquiry revealed
the fact that the Sunday school owed
its existence TO the indOmitable pluck
and energy of Mrs. Wheat, a lady who
is loved and respected by all who know
her. She has personally visited the
neighbors, and worked and talked for
the school. Such a lady is a blessing
to any neighborhood. If some of our
city Sunday school superintendent
could visit that school a few times, they
would, perhaps, learn something that
would be of great importance-how to
get the people to attend.
Tho jail.
The county commissioners formally
accepted the new jail, last Saturday,
from the contractors, after thoroughly
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