Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-09-24
LOCAL NEWS.

Fresh oysters are OH tap in tins city.
Next Wednesday you will get an
other INDEX.
Mulkey has sold two organs in the
last ten days. II
Three car loads Of wire at Geppert &
Stones, for $40. 10
New goods and novelties just re-
ceived at Mulkey's. IL
Lee, Doran & Roberts have sold
their bus to Pratt Center firm.
VIM. Murdoch was painfully hurt in
runaway, last Saturday afternoon.
A government pension examiner
was here for several days this week.
Mulkey has just ordered seventy-vol-
umes for his circulating library. II
Born, on the 18th inst, in this city,
20 Mr.. and Mrs. Scott l.. Allen, a girl.
District court will convene here on
Tuesday, Oct. 9Th. There will be a
large docket to dispose Of.
The brick work on the second story
Of the court house will be completed
this week.
II you waut 90 borrow money on farm
or city property, call on Bronson &
IIOuchin. 10
steve Garrison this week sold his
farm Of 100 acres, three and half miles
north, TO SefT. McClear-y.
SouthwOrth Il Co. have moved their
Comanche county drug store from Mes
catunga to Coldwater.
Before you sign an application for a
farm loan, see Blair X Ewart at the
First National Bank. 10
J. W. Hayden has resumed his posi-
ton. in the store, greatly benefited i'm
health. Mrs. II. and the baby will not
come out until later
Examine your titles and fix them up
while you can. Bronson Il IIouchin
will make you an abstract, and you can
tell where the defects are. Is
Lawrence Miller and wife and VIM.
Barnes left here this week for western
Colorado, on Il prospecting tour. They
may decide TO locate there.
Judge Lacy says the bridge over the
Medicine river, south of town, will be
completed this week. And now let's
fix up the roads.
A Mr.. Walton, Of Aurora, Ind, is
out here visiting his friends, Rigg q
Johnston. lie is a photographer and
is looking for location.
B.EKies has purchased the Reynolds
feed and grain store on north Main
street. lie is talking of cubbing sew
eral thousand bushels Of corn this
season.
J. G. Lovejoy, of Manchester, n. H.,
father of Mrs. Waldron Chase, IS out
here ON his first visit. lie is delighted
with the country, and speaks of invest
ing in real estate.
Judge G.. w. Stevens has purchased
the half interest of his partner, Mr..
Simpson, in the Red Barn livery sta
bles. lie has good rigs, plenty Of room
and deserves patronage.
That other bloodhound the female,
arrived last Monday. II nature is al
lowed to take its course, and the season
is good, this county will he overrun by
blood-hOunds in n short time.
Mrs. II. s. Lyle and Miss Cornie
Cooper started to Stanford, KY, this
week, on a visit. DIR. and Mrs. Penny,
who had been visiting here, returned
TO Stanford at the same time.
Frank Cline came in Saturday from
n three weeks trip TO Missouri and
Euraka Springs, Ark. lie had good
time, but declares that Medicine Lodge
is the best town in the world.
G.. ID. Gilmore was down from Crook
ed creek, east Of Elm Mills, this week,
after the last load of lumber for their
new schol house which is about COM
pleted.
After n delay Of several weeks, the
long lumber for the Wood & Vincent
building arrived this week and now the
structure is assuming shape toward
completion.
Nef McClearey purchased, this week,
Of Lawrence Miller, the blacksmith
shop, tools and fixtures, and the lot on
which the building is located, on south
Main street, opposite the opera house,
paying for the same $500. Hebas rent
ed the shop and tools to ). T.. Garrison,
for one year.
Mrs. p. II. Chaplin, accompanied by
her son, Master Neelie, started, this
week, TO Oquawka, Henderson county,
Illinois, where they will spend the WIN
ter. Mrs. Chapin's parents, who are
quite old, reside there, and she is anx-
ious to be with them. Frank and Lutte
Chaplin will remain in charge Of the
farm.
Dr. ]. r. Davis, assisted by DR..
Moore, performed difficult operation
on the son Of Harvey Thompson Of this
city. The boy was suffering with pleu-
risy and his lungs were so badly
crowded by the abscess that had form
ed, that his breathing was nearly sus-
pended. DR.. Davis used miniature
pump and extracted from the sack
more than a pint OF matter, and now
the boy is about well. This is the first
time tho operation was ever performed
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