Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-08-06


If you want a good square meal for
S5c, call at the Cling hotel. 10
The street sprinkler has had big
rest during the last ten days.
1t is about time for the various candi-
dates TO announce themselves.
John w. Rutherford, constable for
Sharon township, was here Oh business
Tuesday.
Take your butter and eggs to Hayden
y Lyle to exchange for groceries or
dry goods.
How can a man ask for patronage
when lie sends his patronage to some
distant city?
Barber, Harper, Kiowa and Conan
che counties ought to organize a district
fair association.
Watermelons are plentiful. You will
know more about how cheap they are
when you pay the doctors bill.
The range is splendid. The rains Of
the past three weeks have made the
prairies as green as in springtime.
Geo. w. Frisby sent to this Office q
fine Peerless watermelon, yesterday.
Our Office devil" relished it greatly.
The foundation of the Wood * Vim.
cent store is completed and the iron
pillars are being placed in position now
New Kiowa is advertising for bids tC
build a school house. If our Charlie
should make a bid he would get the JOB
A. ID. Brannan has sold out the ''Ea-
/ gle Chief restaurant TO Mr.. Grant
who will continue the business at the
old stand.
Droughthy Kansas will be called OF
this winter to supply her eastern sister:
with corn we will be able to spare al
they want.
The approaches to the bridge in TIT
| north end OF town are gone again
Nothing but wooden aprons will do an!
good there.
A mistake was made i'm the founda
ton Of the court house, and consider
able work had to be torn down. it il
all q. X. now.
Judge Reuben Lake won the suit
winch was brought against him in thi
city, some weeks ago, for wages, by on
Of his printers.
This county will more than double it
agricultural products of last year, an,
next year will more than double III
products Of this year
Judge 7. l.. O'3ryan and L. p. Ca
ruthers left Monday morning to atten,
the democratic state convention, which
met at Leavenworth on the 4th inst.
Mulkcy has ordered a lot of new
books for his circulating library. Mem
bership in this association costs but 5
and there will be 800 volumes in tn
library.
On last Sunday, the infant son of MI
and Mrs. ID. +. Shipman, died in thi
city, ut the residence of Mrs. Stith
The afflicted parents have the SINGER
sympathy OF their many friends.
Our good looking editor has been alb
sent all week. The remainder Of In
INDEX force has been so busy trying f
collect enough money TO pay board bills
that our local columns nave been some
what neglected.
The Barber County Normal Insutut
met in this city last Monday morning
Every teacher in the county, and thos
who contemplate becoming teachers
ought to I've in attendance. 1t will con
tinue in session all this month.
Barber county wheat took the frs
prize at the New Orleans Exposition
in competition with the whole world
The crop was raised within a mile O
this city. If we had a mill to grind th
wheat, large acreage would be sow
this fall.
Joe Moore and his brother Bill, il
company with DR.. Cess of New York
passed through here Tuesday evening
en- route to No-Mln's-Land where the,
go to take claims. They had 4 hors
badly cut by wire, east of town, AM
the animal could not be taken along
Last Sunday afternoon a team Of Eol
SEES, attached to a buggy, were standin
in front of Strong's drug store. On
of the horses became frightened at some
thing and made a sudden backwar
finch, and broke the tongue of tn
buggy. The horse did not move out Q
his tracks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dicken, who were S
severely burned about three weeks age
are both improving rapidly. Mr.. Dick
en- walks about the streets with bot
hands and arms IN bandages, and in
sling. Mrs. Dicken can get about il
her room. II was feared that the lad
was fatally injured.
A trip southwest of town, this weei
revealed the fact that the corn tina
was planted early is not cut short yer
much by the recent dry weather, Will
that which was planted late will be SUI
to turn out large yield, as the copiou
rains during the past two weeks iii
= much good to all sorts of vegetation.
Mr.. W. W. Cook paid his dog Ia
this season and put a tag on his purI
The tag was lost off the dog collar som
time ago. and Mr.. Cook thought II
would have TO pay the tax again. La:
: Sunday night, at the Methodist church
a collection was taken up, and, j
: counting over the change, Mr.. Coo
, found his tag. 1t cost him quarter
! as that is the amount it is suppose
the man thought he was putting in tn
5 basket when he really put in the tag.
: The friends of City Marshal johnson
, of this city, surprised him last Frida
evening by cornering him in a roor
and before he could even guess thei
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