Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-05-21
Harper aud Western Railroad Time Card.
LOCAL NEWS.

The Sherlock sale will occur to-mor-
row, ten miles north Of here.
sun City will celebrate on the Sd OF
July, The Fourth coming on Sunday.
Dicd--Ncar Lake City, May 18th. in
faht daughter Of Mr.. Taylor Nichols.
Catholic services will be held in this
city June 10y Rev. B. Schmiehausen.
New Kiowa, Sharon and sun City,
in this county, will all be money order
Offices after July lst.
The latest styles in fancy writing ma
terials, tablets, note books, ETC., may
be found AZ the postoince. 81
A Grand Army post wac instituted
40 New Kiowa last Friday with enough
members 90 on the offices and one pri-
waite over.
Fishing parties are quite numerous.
We often see parties starting out, but
never see them when they come back.
Wonder why this Is so?
John Earring was the name of the
young man who was accidentally killed
10 Lake City last week. lie was from
johnson county, Arkansas.
Miss Carrie. daughter of Mr.. Lee
Bradley, camc down last Friday even
ing, 10 spend week visiting the fam
lily Of II. L. Whcclock, Esq.
Miss Mamie Axliuc, well and fayora-
bly, known IN this city, will lie married
peXt Tuesday. MAY 18th, to Judge \. :.
Fay, probate judge of Pratt county.
The stately and familiar form Of Capt.
Aver. of sun city. was on the streets
this week. He has attended every term
OF district court since the county was
organized.
10 may truthtully te said of the .&b-
lcys, connected with JuhnSun's Show
Uuter engaaement. tlJt they pomply
paid Their bills ard proved hoacrlb,c
th:1uFiout.
a report was circulated iG liarpcr
kst Friday that Medicine Lodge had
been destroyed hy q cyclone. AMI %
people BILLED. O. course some idio.
Btmtcd ths story.
H. G.. Crdbb was in town this week,
and made the boast that he mas the bet
garden in Barber county, aud offered
10 prove IL 10y his neighbors. lie has q
good place one mile north OF Sexton
postoilicc.
our people should not forget that at
Lake city on May Slst and June lst and
I'd, Nen's Comedy Company will dcd-
cate the new opera house with dra.
matte entertainment. a very rich pro-
gramuiC is promised
\ laudablc effort is being made to
have the Lodi, Canema and Kiowa mail
go 10y way of Roundup. and il is hoped
that IL Will prove successful. There is
u thickly populated neighborhood about
Roundup that has incomplete mail IA
cllities.
Uncle Billy Mills received from Cleve-
land, Ohio, this week, two thorough
bred Hereford bulls. yearlings, that he
bought for the use of his sons ON their
Medicine river stock farm. west of tms
city. They are extra well marked in
coior, and are good in all points. There
Is a steady improvement In the grade
of stock in this county, and we are glad
10 note the fact.
Hon. +. 4. McNeal was this week
Examined as TO his knowledge OF law.
and was admitted 10 Tive bar as prac-
titioner, by Judge G.. W. Ellis. Leon
Edwards, Esq, late of New York, and
Prof Dalzell, late Of Green county, Mo-,
were admitted on certificates from their
old homes. The examining committee
was composed of Attorneys Denton,
Cameron and Flynn.
In the preliminary examination Of
the parties charged with robbng Ar
thur snyder last summer, held before
Justice McCandlcss last week. Riley
Griffin, Hunt Young and james Chit
wood we're bound over i'm The sum of
81 go each, and Norman Young and
Elmer Hart were released. Application
was made to have Griffin released on
h1jcds corpus, by Probate Judge Hardy,
but the application was refused.
Last Friday was quite cold and windy.
and was disagrecable day generally
The high wind carried sand, gravel and
light articles scurrying along. and signs
creaked and moaned with desolate
sound. About 1890 o'clock rain began
TO fall. and for more than an hour il
poured down in copious sheets, flooding
the streets and thoroughly saturating
the thirsty ground. Our farmers say
that one more such rain, at the right
time, viii make corn crop. We also
had slight rain on sunday mig I.
IL We Intend to celebrate the Fourth
IL is about time TO cali meeting Of our
citizens TO appoint the various commit
tees which are necessary to put the
work in good shape. We need commit
tees for special purposes, and II will lie
the duty Of each committee to attend to
the special work for which 1t may be APP
pointed. What is everybody's business
- nObJdy's business. and Is always neg
lected. We would like 20 hear from our
friends on this subject. There should
also be a preliminary meeting Of the
friends Of the cowboy reunion. Let
MS sither drop these subjects OK take
hold Of them with determination to
make asucccss.