Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-05-07

Mulkey has bought an immense stock
Of fireworks for the Fourth. 40
"You can buy No. l two-horse cult
vator for SlS at IL. f. Noble Il Cos. As
y few very large hail stones fell in
tins city Tuesday evening. No harm
was done.
Miss Jesse Simmons Is visiting the
family of her uncle Chas. ii. Moore, at
Caldwell, this week.
The sprinkling carts began operations
last Thursday morning. Ii is a good
institution.
Barnes 81 Ramey will open a meat
shop in the building next to Mckinney
Bros. a HenKins.
Murphy has his ice cream parlor, in
the opera house, in good running order.
Remember, it is up stairs.
I'll. +. Noble x Co. have a few more
Bradley listers and drills that they will
close out at reduced prices. IS
Geo. Ellis is building another house
on the corner at the intersection of Sec
ond avenue and Spring creek.
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/ tiOnery at less cost than the blank
paper will cost you. The INDEX.
Last Tuesday evening while the rain
was falling, it was noticed that there
were occasional currents of warm air.
Pete Hansen has decided to locate at
Pratt Center, where he has a contract
TO erect eight brick buildings this sum
mer.
Bids for buildi ng the four bridges
recently voted in this township, will be
opened OF Monday, May 18th.
The dinner given by the Willing
Workers, at the residence Of Captain
Freeman, Wednesday, was well attend
ed, aud proved financial success.
! Albert Aber returned, this week from
| NO-Mau' ISLAND, where he had been
/ survey ing. lie will return there next
week, being much pleased with the
! country.
Ii is now time to commence working
up the Fourth of July celebration at
this place. This viii be the 10th an
niyersary of American independence,
and the day should be appropriately
| observed.
VIM. Barnes and r. NJ. Sparks have
/ purchased of j. Neff McCleary, the Roe
place, one mile east of town. Herbert
Sparks will live Oh it. There are 100
acres, with fair improvements. The
price paid was $1,000.
The railroad company has completed
the engine round house the bridge over
the cut between Oak and Cherry streets;
the windmill and water-works at Elm
creek, the stock yards and in fact every
thing possible for convenience.
Straycd Il thrce-year-old iron gray
horse, with a scar Oh left shoulder, long
name and tail; left hind foot white;
i'm lean condition. Return of this colt
will be rewarded 10y Chas. L. Morga,
Medicine Lodge, Kansas.
Mrs. Emma Crawford, who has been
visiting her uncle, Il. L. Wheelock,
Esq. of this city, left, Monday morn.
ing, for Wellington, where she will visit
friends for a few days, and then return
to her home in Clark comfy.
Mrs. Hester Sheplcr and her daugh-
ter. Miss Nora, Will leave next week
for Las Vegas, New Mexico, in the
hope of improving the latter's health.
The many friends of the young lady
will hope to see her return this season
fully restored.
John Dollar, Ed Allen and several
others from town, were out at j. NJ.
Jones, five miles northeast, to n party.
last Friday night. The affair was at
tended by a large number Of the friends
of Mr.. and Mrs. Jones, and royal
time Is reported.
misunderstanding i'm the west is so
common that it is hardly noticed. 1t
is wrong, nevertheless. y man can do
more work in month ora year by rest
ing on Sunday, than he can 10y working
every day. II is economy, and it is
right, to respect the Sabbath.
Some one, with a cruel, mean dispo-
sitiOn, last Sunday broke and destroyed
six of the largest and prettiest shade
trees in the public school grounds. This
is a case where the ordinary punish
ment allowed by law would be entirely
insufficient, should the perpetrator be
discovered.
Tuesday afternoon there were indi-
cations here of the approach of severe
storm, the west and north being full of
murky aud restless clouds, and one
continuous roar of thunder being heard
for nearly half an hour. 1t appears,
however, that beyond a severe hail
storm five miles north no damage was
done.
Oscar II. Cope, young man, 20 years
Of age, who lately came here from New
ton county, Mo. died at the residence
of Daniel Warner, in this city, on
Tuesday morning, the 18th inst, at 10
O'Clock, of quick consumption, afer a
short sickness. lie worked as 4 car
penter's helper several weeks, but his
health failed, and he was compelled to
go TO bed. His brother arrived here
Tuesday afternoon, several hours after
death had occurred.
\ gentleman living near Elm Mills
dropped in TO see US, Tuesday, and re.
marked that the people of his neighbor-
hood were praying for "a clod smash
ing, goslin-drowning rain" We jotted
down the item, and left 1t lying on our
table, where the weather clerk must
have seen it, for the rain reached them
before night, and at this writing it looks
as though it was the kind they asked
for. 1t pays to make your wants known