Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-01-18
LOCAL NEWS.


READ Cunningham money ad. 81
Alex Hopkins was up from Kiowa
Monday.
Cash paid for hides at the Central
Meat Market. IA
Best beds at tho Cling Hotel, for 95
and 80 cents. 81
shannon 4 shannon have an abund-
ance OF money To loan on land. 80
Our soft Italian climate was grand
fraud last Saturday and Sunday.
Steam engine and boiler for sale at a
bargain II taken at once, This office.
+. Sample returned from Kansas
City Sunday. lie was there under med
ical treatment.
The latest, tenderest and best beef
at the Central meat market, opposite
lst National bank.
Bqard by the day, 81 and Si.25. Table
board $3.50 week. Board and lodging
S4tO So, ut the Cling. 81
The Harper county officers have been
installed aud the troubles are about
over for the present.
Grant Fleming dropped in here
Monday from waverly, Illinois, and
will remain several days.
A boy was born on the 18th 10 the
wife of Jacob Knirr, the tailor with
Byerley, Dark X Runyan.
At Marquand's meat shop, next door
10 the pOstofiice, may be found the best
fresh and smoked meats in the city. q
John y. March, of the depot force, is
taking a vacation of q month. He will
spend the time at Lawrence with his
mother.
Flour You must have. Davis Il Davis
can and do sell it cheaper than any
house in this city, and they handle the
best grades. 81
Mrs. J. &. Thurman started last Sat
urday to Kansas City on visit to her
father, W. I. Williams, and family.
formerly of Sharon.
The recent cold weather badly injur-
ed hundreds OF dollars worth of canned
goods in this city and ruined many val
liable collections of flowers.
Coroner Moore, acting rs sheriff, went
to Kiowal to-day to replevIn from Sher-
in Stevens the Culver 4 smith stock of
hardware, now in litigation.
Editor J.. A. Hoffman, of the Attica
Advocate, was here last Friday, want
ing TO 60 to Lake City; but he missed
the stage and returned home.
Twelve inch ice was cut here this
week. There are four large houses
filled and Medicine Lodge can supply
the surrounding country, If necessary
You eau pay your old subscription
with corn, oats, eggs, butter, chickens
or turkeys. at the market price. Bring
them in early and start the new year
squarely.
Owing TO the defective stoves, 1t be.
came necessary TO dismiss school In
two rooms Monday morning. Two new
stoves were purchased and these will
heat the rooms, II is hoped.
Rev. Sanderson's lecture Friday even
ing, on the subject: London anC
What Saw There Is for the benefit
of the church. The admittance is but
25 cents; children over II years, II
cents.
The six-year-old child of n mar
named Lyman Pratt, was frozen neal
Attica, Harper county, last FRIDAY
night. The child started for the barn
missed the way and wandered out OF
the prairie and died.
Charlie Schuneman was down from
Lake City, Saturday. lie likes hi
school and the patrons, but says tn,
accommodations are very poor FOL
90 rich = district. He believes tina
warmer quarters should be provided.
Sunday night, at about 0 o'clock tn
bed clothes In an upstairs room OF Mr.
Swank's house, In the south part o
town, caught FIRE from stove pipe tina
passed through the floor, and but 70
the timely arrival Of neighbors tn,
house would have burned. The alarm
Of Gre called out at least 100 people Il
less than Eve minutes, AMI being
willing crowd, the bedding was soon on
o. the snow. II was narrow escape