Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-12-26

Frank wright and Lew Lebrecht Will
open large grocery store i'm the Mason
&c Temple building, corner Of Main and
Central Avenue. We wish the boys
success"
There are hunters and hunters; but
the first one of whose success the INDEX
has taken judicial knowledge" this
season is Fred Merrell, who sent over
four braces of plump quail this week.
Others may have killed game, but there
is 40 record of it.
Judge O'Bryan is selling car load of
apples shipped to him from Lafayette
county, Missouri. Among the favOrite
varieties that we have tested are the
None Such, "IIuntsman's Favorite'
and ben Davis" lie has quite a lot
left.
w. L. Rouse has purchased 5. f.
Stones house and lot, south of the
courthouse, one of the best structures
in this city. The price paid was about
5000. Possession will be given some
time early in the new year. Mr.. Stone
will move with his family to California,
we understand.
The ladies Of the Eastern Star were
surprised last Saturday evening, when
their installation ceremonies were COM
pleted, on being invited to an oyster
supper at Warren's, provided by their
friends, the members of Delta logde,
a. +. aud A. M. 1t was compliment
wOrthily bestowed.
We call attention to the best article
on creameries that we have recently
read, published I'm the INDEX to day.
IL is from the Norwich News and
should be studied by every farmer with
in radius OF ten miles of Medicine
Lodge. If our people do not get up a
creamery this winter they will always
aregret it.
January LIST, G. q. Chandler will go
in as president of the Citizens Nation
al bank, of this city, J. w. McNeal re-
firing TO devote his attention to the
business of the McNeal Mortgage COM
pany. Mr.. Chandler came here from
Elk City, several weeks since. lie is a
nephew of DR.. Woods, of Kansas City,
the largest stakeholder in the bank.
We do not like to appear persistent;
but we must again notify all persons
owing the INDEX that a settlement Will
be expected at the close of this month
We have to pay our paper and ink bills
monthly; our coal men and our grocers
make us pay up every Inonth, and we
can see no sense in people standing us
Off" So please be ready to pay up.
Remember the cantata, "Santa
Claus" to be given next Monday even.
ing at Thompson's opera house for the
benefit of the Presbyterian Sunday
school. Besides the grand choruses by
twenty-five children, there viii be solos
Duets and qurtettes by the best talent
of the city. 1t promises to be pleas
ant affair. Admission % cents; chill.
dren 10 cents.
The double wedding in which Fred
Hardy and Miss Hunter and Mr.. Ellis.
worth and Miss Hardy were the con
tracing parties, occurred at the home
of Judge Hardy, in this city, Sunday
afternoon, I'D inst, Rev. SandersOn of.
floating. The brides were dressed
alike and looked very pretty, it is said
a substantial dinner was spread and en-
| ioyed by the guests.
Sheriff Stevens captured another es-
capped Jail bird last Wednesday, VIM
II. Davis, charged with burglarizing
COoksOn's jewelry store, at Kiowa, in
1887. lie escaped from Jail in August
1857, with John Hudson. The sheriff
found him at hls fathers, in Harper
county, five miles east Of Attica. He had
never been tired; but will be at the Feb
ruary term, and will probably get three
or four years in the penitentiary.
II you want to make a good resolution
for the new year, let 1t be that you viii
settle up your indebtedness at the IN
DEx office. IL you are a good citizen
and want to encourage an enterprise
that always has something good to say
for your town, la times Of drouth as
well as in times of prosperity, gen will
at least treat your local paper as well as
you do your bank, your merchant OF
your tax collector. You pay them be-
cause you have to. Should you not pay
your printer because you appreciate his
servicesp
Cook 4 Palmer have closed up sever
al trades in the last few weeks. They
traded 500 acres belonging to 7. L. Lin
dley, for some valuable property in
Atchison, Kansas, and for a 6ne resi-
dence in Usage Mission. They alsC
closed a trade last week with Clay Nc
Grath for bis ranch of $40 acres. They
secured farm Ida Pike county, Penn
Besides these trades they have mad,
several other real estate deals, and have
quite a number of large ranches anC
100 acre tracts IN this county that viii
be closed out for eastern land and city
property in a few weeks,
+. w. Scott, local manager OF tht
Kimball Lumber company, an old anC
prominent citizen and vice-president o.
the Pratt County National bank, hal
been arrested on the charge OF rObbiDe
the bank of $4,000. The robbery Oc
CURED at noon one day last May wbilG
the Bank officials were at dinner. AZ
the time of the robbery it was general
ly believed that some one connected
with Me bank coma.itted the robbery
but 1t has taken months to find ogt yhC
it was; and even now the many Pratt
people think that Scott is not guilty
On preliminary examination he was re
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