Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-08-20

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ing for moment.
Teachers desiring schools should ad-
vertise In the INDEX.
a frst-class drug clerk wants a sltua-
ton. Apply at this Office.
Capt. c. c. Pepperd came in from
Comanche county last night.
We move that Sheriff Nelson import
pair of Georgia blood-hounds.
Mulkey has just ordered seventy-vol-
umes for his circulating library. II
Rolf was not under arrest, or he would
perhaps have been with the escaped
prisoners.
The u. S. medical examining board
met here yesterday, and examined six
pensioners.
Geo. r. Stone and L. S. Updyke made
trip through Comanche and Clark
counties last week.
w. L. Williams, secretary of the
county democratic central committee,
was over from Sharon this morning.
So far, Mr.. Philip Hartzell has
brought in the largest watermelon that
we have had the pleasure of carving.
Attorney Long has sworn off ever de-
Tending man who owns hound pups.
He is disguised with Depew's stu
pidity.
Deputy County Surveyor Aber came
from lao
had been laying off that town into lots
and blocks.
Katy-dids have been singing for the
past two weeks. There Is an old say
ing that they make their appearance
just six weeks before frost.
. Parties who contemplate the purch-
ase of cattle for corn feeding, will find
plenty of money for that purpose at the
First National Bank. Call and get their
rates. II
The ks of Pc met last night at
Mr.. Taber'S, on the hill, the neighbors
say. If they are anywhere within a
mile of town, their presence is gen
orally known.
Frank McAlister came in from Lakin
yesterday. lie says Vandiver has not
been heard from lately. but the suppo-
sition is that he is somewhere IN the
Indian Territory.
f. ii. Nixon came over from Win
field Wednesday, and announced that
on Monday Mrs. Nixon had presented
him with daughter. lie is justly
proud of the event.
VIII our readers, when they have
finished this issue of the INDEX, stop
and think of anything that has hap
pened within the past week, that is
not mentioned in these columns.
Have you seen anything of three
strange men, shackled together, going
your way? They are Barber county
prisoners, and should be invited to re-
turn home, and all will be forgiven.
The official call for county demo-
cratic nominating convention is pub
llshed in this issue of the INDEX. The
primaries will be held on Saturday,
Sept. 18th, 1856, and the convention on
the following Monday, Sept. Goth. The
basis of representation is published in
the call and other recommendations by
the committee appear there. Every
democrat should read the call.
Mr.. Wilson Campbell, from Bristol,
Tenn, an old Virginia friend of Post
master McClearey, is here looking for a
location. Mr.. Nc. had not seen him
for twenty-nine years, and yet recOg-
niZed him at once on meeting him this
week. They were boys when they last
met.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. n. Deal have the
sympathy of this community in the
death Of their infant, Nellie, aged
months and days, that died last Sat
urday, the I4th inst. The little one
was recovering from the effects of
whoOping cough, when it was pros
trated by the severe hot weather.
The lecture 10y Prof. Dewey, Monday
evening, at the opera house. was atten-
lively listened to by fair sized but APP
preciatiye audience, the teachers being
out in full force, and many citizens in
terested in the cause of education also
being present. His subject, Hints on
Self Culture" was ably handled This
evening, Friday, Mr. L. Il. Mcdonald,
assistant county superintendent, will
lecture at the same place.
We understand from a reliable source,
that a united effort is to be made IN this
city, soon, to prohibit the sale of beer
ard other intOXicants to minors. Our
informant says that it is the regular
custom for lot of boys, between the
ages of fifteen and twenty-one years, to
frequent saloons and buy and drink
whatever they choose; and they buy
beer by the dozens of bottles and take
it to some secluded spot and there drink
it until they are drunk. Fights, brawls
and an unnecessary amount of noise
follows. The men who propose to stop
this branch of the business are by no
means cranky prohibitionists;n but
men who have heretofore offered no OBJ
lection to the liquor business as long as
it was conducted among responsible and
full-grown men. Our advice is, to rule
the minors entirely out, or there will be
trouble.
We take pleasure in calling attention
to truly meritorious work by one of
the most famous of American orators
the late eloquent and well known John
Il. Cough, whose life and labor became
blessing to the millions in our own
country as well as in Europe, who have
had the privilege of hearing his burning
words, or of reading either of his excel
lent works. We have just had his last
book, Platform Echoes" placed in our
library and frIlst many Of nnr frin,dn