Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-12-15


Morris Bros 20
"Trip Van Wrinkle" will be given
tonight by the c. &C.
Sherlock & Mills will ship car load
of hogs to Kansas City to-day.
Don't buy your soft coal heater until
you have learned Morris Bros. prices .
Get your holiday goods at Day &
Records. %
Determined not TO be undersold,
Morris Bros. have touched bed rock
prices OH soft coal heaters. 20
Harry Brown has quit the Badger
Lumber company on account of tie
heavy work and is temporarily in the
Citizens National bank.
II. l.. Carter was in from his stock
farm near Lake City, Monday, and re-
marked that cattle were doing better
than any season in five years.
Next week the INDEX will publish a
Christmas edition with much interest
ing illustrated matter. Advertisers
should come in early.
Buyers should bear in mind that our
entire stock of holiday goods must be
sold. We bought for cash and will
make prices to suit you.
- bay & REcoRns
John Fleming will go to WaverIy,
ILL.,, on a business trip in few days,
to be absent several weeks. Ills broth
ers, jim and Grant will look after the
store.
The people in the vicinity of the
Doles school house, district No. IS,
will have Christmas tree and enter
tainment at the school house on the
night of the 18th.
Have you seen that $40 dressing case
to be given away by Day & Records ?
If not, go and buy 81 worth of holiday
goods and get free ticket in the draw
ing, which will come off on Christ
mas. %
The cattle shipments from Kiowa for
the month of November were 1873 cars.
From June 1st to December LIST, 3,I22
cars were shipped That represents
about 90 600 head of cattle.
l.. I. Pearson is recovering from the
effects of his accident and soon he will
be himself again. When l.. i. is laid
up for even one day, his absence from
the street Is noticed, for he is ut all
times an active man.
The protracted meeting at the Pres
byterian church closed last Thursday
evening. 1t was a success in awaken
ing a religious interest among people
who had not before thought much of
such matters.
Day Il Records have undoubtedly
the finest line of holiday goods ever ex-
hibited in Barber county, and they say
they are bound to sell them all. Ex-
anime their stock and get their prices
before buying elsewhere. 70
Representative sales of cattle in
Kansas City monday were: Native
COWS, - to 500; butcher steers, So to
$40; feeders, S3.l5 to $3.50. Hogs
were 8 cents higher. Light and mixed
brought $500 to 1896. while heavy
ranged from 81 Ito 81. l2t.
Allen Smith was in from Nescatunga
Monday, and reports business actively
increasing. lie also thinks that the
Southern Kansas railroad extension
will undoubtedly take in Nescatunga
while there is no doubt about a rail
road from the northeast.
w. y. Richie. who furnished the
plans for the Barber county court
house, is now engaged in superintend-
ing the construction of the new gov
eminent building at Wichita. lie will
be here when the courthouse is COM
pleted to assist the commissioners in
examining and receiving it.
Next Tuesday, Dec. 81, the Ladies'
Aid society, of the NJ. L. church. will
open fair at the new brick building
of Higgins x CO., and VIII give an Oys-
ter supper in the evening at same
place. Here is splendid chance for
the people to get their Christmas pres
ents. The fair should be well patron
lied by all our people.
Coldwater Star: John G. Thurman,
who has been assistant cashier in the
Comanche County bank for some time
past, returned TO Medicine Lodge
Tuesday IN racupna l,io duf;a, T., a.
First National bank of that city. Mr..
Thurman made many friends while
here, as he so deported himself as to
deserve the confidence and respect of
all who knew him.
Attention IS directed to the new an
nouncement in this issue of Geppert i
Stone, the pioneer hardware firm.
This firm has never been known to en-
gage in any sensational scheme TO
close out special line of goods, but
anything it has said always meant bus
mess. So it will appear on examina-
ton of the bargains they now offer in
stoves, implements, hardware and sew
ing machines. Remember to call and
see them.
Z. G.. Taliaferro this week sold to
Fred. lIanne, of Winfield, for VIM. Fox,
Of Missouri. l60 acres of land six miles
south of town. for 81, 100, the cheapest
bargain Mr.. Taliaferro has been con-
nected with, he thinks. lie also sold to
Ii. L. Talbot, of Cameron, Mo-. $40
acres, the farms of I. j. and j. Il. Rick
man, south of here twelve miles, near
the Bucknum place, for SLIGO. Mr..
Talbot will come to Barber county to
live. and he will make good citizen.
The marriage of J. S. Hyman, of st.
Louis, and Ella Brown, of Coffey coun
ty, was announced in a Kansas City
paper this week. This is understood
To be the same couple that lived in this
city up to the spring of 1885, when the