Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-05-14

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of fireworks for the Fourth. 40
Mr.. and Mrs. Youmans. spent three
days in Nescatunga this week.
"Bantams' Roost, +" is what the boys
call the Famous establishment.
Farmers will do well to call on ii. Z.
Noble & Co. for eheir cultivators. As
Another new house in the north end
of town was commenced Wednesday.
A load of coal passed our Office We'd
nesday in which were Jumps that would
weigh 300 pounds.
BoRN-In Lake City township, Bar
Der county, April 10Th, to the wife of
Mr.. Taylor Nichols. girl.
EBBring in your orders for stationery
now. We have new type aud new
stock and expert workmen.
Charles f. Morga and his family
moved from here this week to New
Albany, Indiana, their old home.
John Pearson this week brought in a
lot Of luscious goOseberries raised on
his place from bushes planted last year.
Last Monday, May 10th, II. G.. Eckert
and Miss Amelia OrnhOlZ were united
in marriage in this city, by Justice
Durham.
W. W. Murphy has given up the ice
cream business, and will travel for
Kansas City firm, with headquarters at
Cherryvalc.
Lee, DOran & Roberts are erecting a
brick building 2jxlO, with full base
ment, on the east end of their lot OH
North Main street.
ID. y. Woodwork, now one OF the
editors and proprietOrs of the Kiowa
Journal, called on the INDEX last Sat
urday. He is also a lawyer.
The Cling Hotel is daily growing in
popularity under the management of
Mr.. LItchiield. lie is making a very
successful effort to please the public.
Attention Is directed to the formal
announcement of the change in the
firm of III. L. Noble X Co, in this issue.
Mr.. Nixon has purchased the two
thirds interest of Messrs Omeara and
Ewart, and is now devotiDg his atten-
tiOn TO the business.
Don't forget that Elder Lucas will
preach at the Christian Chapel this city
Friday evening and for several even
ings thereafter. All are invited.
Mrs. W. T. Rouse is visiting her
fathers family at Cheney. At family
reunion last week she saw her grand
father, one Of the pioneers of Califor-
mia. who had been there for nearly
forty years.
Geo. II. stone, Mortimer Strong and
Peter Hansen went over To Harper yes
terlayto visit the Royal Arch Chapter
of that city and excmplfy the work,
preparatory to instituting chapter at
this place, a charter for which has
already been obtained.
J. l.. Isenberg, editor Of the Harper
Sentinel, was here Yesterday assisting
in the Il. of =. lodge organization, and
rs was his sworn duty, he called on the
linden. lie was favorably impressed
with this city and was profuse in his
praise of its air of substantiabilty.
The report published in the Winfield
Courier To the effect that \. W. Patter-
son, of Kiowa, had lCCn shot and killed
last Saturday night by Il gambler, ap-
pears - have been entirely without
foundation. Several of our citizens
were i'm kioWa this week and they heard
Of no killing
Wichita Eagle: Mr.. W. W. Cook,
vice president. and i. \. Simmons,
| cashier of the First National bank, Of
Medicine Lodge, called last evening
for a regular social visit, in company
with Henry Richards, and we had It
| the social visit we mean. They are all
/ splendid gentlemen.
~ great discovery; or. sure remedy
/ for trouble, is the subject of the morn
ing sermon at the NJ. + church next
Sabbath, by the pastor. Evening lee
ture: The secret of success; or, the
road to prosperity" All are welcome
and the young people are especially in
yitcd To- the evening lecture.
\ Comanche county correspondent of
/ the Wichita Eagle says that KiOwa PEG
pie are repairing the roads between XII
| owa and the towns in COmanche cOun-
| ty. We understand that the road lead
ing west from this city is nearly i'm
passable for seven miles out, and that
| trade i'm that neishborhood, which nat
urally belongs TO us, is going to Kiowa,
/ several miles further off than we are.
\ small sum would put the road in or
der. Are we rich enough to neglect our
opportunities
An energetic German has written to
shannon, shannon X Burney. asking if
| this would he good location for a fruit
| farm, and if small fruits have been
success here. OF course he was an
swered in the Affirmative in both in
stances. There is no industry that will
/ pay better than Embarrassing in Barber
county, and there is no probability of it
being overdone. This city will afford
/ regular market for the products of sey-
eral farms. and any surplus could he
shipped to Harper, Wellington or Wich-
tia, with a certainty of commanding
top prices.
Chas. Goodnight, one of the most ex-
tensive ranchmen in the Panhandle
country, stated the other day that cat
tie wintered very badly in the Panhan-
die, and that losses were quite heavy
on through cattle; also that of the whole
number driven north in the past two
years, he did not believe thirty per cent.
were alive to-day. lie attributes the
heavy losses to bad handling, want of
trail room, and arriving so late in the
season that the cattle cannot become