Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-02-08
Distinct court commenced yesterd

Forty transients registered at the
Grand yesterday.
Barber county will have oats to sell
and keep this year.
Fresh fish and fresh oysters regular
ly at the Central market. IL
Mr.. burst has turned his cotton seed
over to Rigg Bros. to sell.
Shannon & Shannon want all the
good farm loans they can get. SO
DIR. 1. w. Stout is filling the position
of deputy sheriff during district court.
Marquand's meat shop is now in the
gypsum building, the old stand. SO
District court will be in session four
weeks, or until Monday, March 5th.
Stock bills, of any description print
ed at the INDEX office, on short notice.
G. c. Smith and wife are here from
Kiowa, the first time since their mar
riage.
Mrs. John Rogers and her friend,
Miss Squier, will go to Kiowa to-day, to
visit for a week.
5. III. Oliver, Jas. Stranathan and j.
b. Cattell, prominent Kiowa citizens,
are at the Grand.
burst II Hitchcock will reopen the
Farmers mill at once and do all the
grinding they can get to do.
Anything from a visiting card to
full sheet poster printed with neatness
and dispatch at the INDEX office.
Catholic services will be held at Sher-
locks hall next Sunday by Rev. Bitter,
from Wellington.
Who will be the first to bring i'm load
of seed corn-not $50 truck, but just
ordinary, every Gay corn.
Messrs. f. Youmans and w. W. Stan
diford started To EnglewOOd, Monday,
to open up their branch store at that
point.
Ben. K. Wadsworth and Miss r. May
Thomas are to be married to-day, at
Enon, Barber county. Their home is
to be at Mulvane, Colorado.
Elder Embrey will be here Friday
of next week, and begin a meeting at
the Christian church. Everybody in
ylted to attend.
Owing to the hard times we Will sell
the $50 Domestic Sewing Machine for
$3.50. Every machine is warranted.
y. 5. McClearey & Co. SO
n, KnoiaII hoe ,ust ,-aoa;,,al m oFl
pure fresh bovine vaccine virus. Those
wishing to be vaccinated will do well
to call on him for that purpose. So
Hon. A. ii. Ellis, of Beloit, the lead
ing commercial lawyer of northern Kan
sas, Is here attending court, represent
ing some of the Ramsey g. Sheldon
creditors.
Steamed feed will save from ten to
thirty per cent. We have an engine
and boiler for sale, which is just the
thing for grinding and steaming feed.
Call at tins Office.
Cash talks in buying goods. With a
dollar you can be Independent when
with only credit you had to take what
was set before you. We can offer
extraordinary inducements in every
line of goods we carry. Standiford,
Youmans & Eldred. 35
ii. +. Noble is in Kansas City this
week buying supply of agricultural
implements for the spring trade. AL
ready there is a good demand here for
farming implements and the SUPPOSE
ton is that an unusually large crop Will
be put in.
East of here, in Sumner and Sedge-
wick counties, the mud is so deep that
farmers have trouble in hauling out
feed for their cattle. In Barber county
our roads are hard and firm and an or
binary team can haul two tons to any
part of the county.
LosT-A yellow grey hound bitch,
with white ring around neck, scar be-
hind left fore shoulder. Reward of
$3.50 for her return or for information
leading to her recovery.
r. J. TALIAFEBRO,
Medicine Lodge, Kans. 81
In the Injunction case from Conan
che county, where citizens of Powell
township objected to delivering the
bonds voted by that township to the c.,
X. & w. railroad, because of informal
ity in the election. Judge Ellis last
week, at chambers, dissolved the in
junction.
Il. =. Boyd, a prominent real estate
man of Fort Worth, Texas, was here all
OF last week visiting old friends. He
was here about four years since with
Capt. Skeen and it was then thought he
would locate here. lie reports Fort
Worth as prospecting in most satlsfac-
tory manner.
The eenditian Of G. c. Blake, who
was stricken with partial paralysis, at
Deerhead, three weeks ago, does not
improve as his friends hoped it would.
lie is not able to leave his room. Mr..
Blake is young man who promised to
be a valuable citizen of the county and
it is to be hoRsd that he will entirely
recover.
County Superintendent Lands is
making an effort to have an eight weeks
teachers institute at this place the
coming summer instead of a four weeks
term as heretofore. lie argues that the
term of four weeks is toe short for the
average teacher to master any course
of study" sent out by the state board.
lie is endeavoring to get an expression
from the teachers OF the county and to
that end he bas sent them blank cards
on which to write their seplies, 1t
certainly would be good thing for the