Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-04-23


City.
Easter services at the Christian chap
el next Sunday.
For Rent \ new two-room house.
Apply to II. burst. AZ
y tenderfoot lady in our city calls
prairie dogs ground hogs"
New houses are going M in all direc-
tiOns, but the demand is for more.
Attorney Oyerstreet went to Conan
che county yesterday. on legal business.
Harrington & Smith are building an
addition forty feet long TO their store
room.
Many old friends have dropped i'm to
see MS this week. They are always
welcome.
Receiver II. f. Noble has put the c.
II. Douglass cattle into the care of Ben
Douglass.
DIR. Moore reports n ten-pound girl
for Mrs. a. Bahr, of this city, born on
the l7th inst.
Attorney Denton is living in his new
house in the GObeille II Noble addition,
near Mr.. WheelOck's.
j. p. Dickey is the last Ohio man who
has arrived here to locate. lie IS well
pleased with the county.
Let every Sunday school teacher buy
their scholars one of those elegant
Easter cards at Mulkey's. 81
Samuel Funk, Jr., formerly Of this
county, died in Comanche county on
the 10Th inst, aged - years.
Thompson, one Of the hostlers at the
Grand Central stables. was severely
kicked 10y horse last Monday.
a. j. Johnson advertises that he will
sell lot of live stock at public auction
at Elm Mills, on the first day of May.
II. y. Burner has good Champion
com-planter, which he will hire to all
good neighbors for reasonable con-
sideration. AL
County Clerk Taliaferro will please
accept the thanks of the INDEX for in
formation furnished concerning the
Lane-Skeen wedding.
Lot owners VIII take notice that there
is a strong and steady demand for
houses in this city. Why not build n
few neat, cheap cottages?
Our country friends are requested to
stop and see MS when they come TO
town, and give us all the items Of news
happening in their neighborhood.
FoR RENT-A furnished room for
sleeping, size l5xl6; or will rent it
without furniture.
IL Mrs. HESTER SuEPLER.
Del. Sherer, the Young man the
Weaver boys shot, and for which they
were lynched at Anthony this week.
proved up claim near Sharon two
years ago.
Ell. Powell, the merchant. and post
masier-io-be, at Gallagher, COmanche
county, was in this week after supplies.
This city is daily gaining importance
as n wholesale point.
The Southwestern Lumber company
have their card in this Issue. 1t will
be worth anyohe's time to call and ex-
anime their stock AMI prices before
purchasing elsewhere.
:. >. Carey. who lives south of Min
coma, received from his father. in Den
yer, Col, this week an imported Irish
setter, as pretty Il specimen of dog as
We have noticed here lately.
Inquiry was made here this week as
to tie whereabouts of Geo. Rittenhouse.
formerly of lIazelton, this county, but
lately of Garden City. 1t appears that
he left the latter place without saying
goodbye.
Judge IIerrick, accompanied by his
wife, spent Sunday and Monday here.
The judge. To pass upon the bill of ex-
ceptiou in the Watt murder case. and
Mrs lIcrrick-to keep an eye on her
frisky husband.
John y. White was UP from Lodi
this week and added his name to the
roll of honor. His many friends will
he glad to learn that Johnnie is pros
pering in manner that is gratity wing to
himself with every prospect of a big
crop this season.
The good-looking editor of this paper
last week paid compliment to the
moral editor, which the latter had
rather left unsaid. Morality boasteth
not itself. II the citizens discover our
morality after the lapse OF time, we
shall be content.
Wednesday. DIST inst, was the ami
verSary of the terrible flood of last year,
at this place, when eighteen persons
were drowned. There was no reason
for the fear, but last Tuesday night
more than one family in the overlooked
district, or near it, were very uneasy.
Barber County Truth is appreciated
10y our people, generally; but there is
Il disposition on the part of several ad-
vertisers in the paper to refuse TO con-
tribute to the expense Of its publication
a AiN pun llAHANA - AOu UlNtll TIE ISL
victim of false notions of economy.
The entertainment given last Monday
evening, to raise funds for identifying
the cemetery, was n success in every
particular, the gross receipts being s63.
The play, "Esmeralda, was satisfac-
torily rendered, and the Maypole dance,
under the direction of Mrs. George r.
Stone, was exceedingly well executed.
W. NJ. Squire, a merchant of Protec-
ton, Comanche county, was here this
week. He says that with the least bit
of encouragement the people from his
place aud vicinity will make Medicine
Lodge their railroad point. All they
want is good roads and a bridge over
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