Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-02-08
r. a. chapter tomorrow night.

II. a. chapter tomorrow night.
a car load of Baker wire at Morris
Bros. 81
II. NJ. Ingraham is again making
farm loans. %
Shannon X Shannon can make choice
city loans. SO
We are informed that the wheat is
looking unusually well.
DIR. Yant, dentist, will extract teeth
for 80 cents after February LIST. SO
Sewing Machine Needles, Repairs,
Oil, etc, At the Z. o. Bookstore. SO
Marquand-Main street.-the gypsum
bullding-meat market-old stand. 80
Steam engine and boiler for sale at a
bargain If taken at once This office.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. J. w. McNeal,
in Medicine Lodge, Feb, 2, 1888, boy.
Easter Sunday is the first day of
April. An early easter brings an early
spring.
The best beef to be had in town is a
the Central meat market, opposite LIST
National bank. 4
Save pasture and protect your crops
by fencing with barbed wire purchased
of Morris Bros. 81
HOTEL FOR RENT.-The Avenue
house. this city. Call on 5. Z. CoAN
for particulars. 81
A. +. GATHERINGS has opened barber
shO- in the room next door to Watkins
u Co., OH Main street.
Attorney Long was at Wichita and
Pratt Center last week on legal bust
ness. lie came home Sunday.
Mrs. Thurman returned from her WIS.,
it to Missouri last Sunday. Her little
sister returned with her and will remain
several months.
HENS WANTED-At this Office, six
hens, of some standard breed, payable
by one years subscription to the INDEX.
A dollar saved is dollar made. Re-
member this and try Standiford, You
mans II Eldred under their new system
TO go into effect Feb. LIST. 35
The Medicine Lodge hotel changed
hands last week, N. w. Young retiring
and j. u. Fleming taking charge. Mr..
Fleming only kept the Avenue hotel a
week.
The hall and entrances to the court
house should be lighted every night,
and especially when the building assoc
iation meets there. The county has
paid for lamps and they should be
used.
Jas. A. Blair was down from Kansas
City this week. lie reports an improve
ment in the money market of the east
and thinks that the present will be the
most prosperous year in the history Of
Kansas.
II you are feeding corn to twenty
head of cattle, you can save the price of
an engine and boiler in one season, and
grind and boil your feed. You have a
thousand uses for boiler and engine.
We can sell one very cheap.
sun City is having a great religious
revival and the Union of last week pub
iishGd long list IF people who had
united with the church. The list had
i'm it the names OF cope of the very best
people of that community. II appears
that the MethOdists and Baptists are
each holding meetings.
Ben. WadswOrth came in from Null
vane, Colorado, last week 10 spend a
few days with his parents. lie has
been doing well out there. contracting
and building and thinks that there is a
bright future for his adopted home.
lie is thirty miles south of Lamar,
Bea now wears crop of heavy beard
that makss him appear diGnified man.
Rev. Gates, presiding elder of this
district, preached to the largest asid:
fence at Thompson's opera house, Sun
day sight, that we have ever seen in
this city. Every seat on the floor was
taken and quite a nGmbeT were CON-
PEELED to go to the gallery. rhe ssTylces
lasted three hours, by the watch; but
one-third Of the time was spent in an
effort to raise 500 due on Rev. Sander
sons salary for the year. One-half of
the amount was subscribed.
A number of business men of this city
met at the parlors of the Grand hotel,
Monday night, to discuss the question
of boring q prospecting hole at this
place. =. ID. Terry. representing Wiser
Il Co., a prospecting firm, now of Hutch
inSon. lately of New York, was present
and gave The meeting the result Of his
experience, and indicated what it would
cost TO bore a hole. His figuFes we're
considerably higher than were expected
from $3.50 to 81 per foot for distance
of 1000 to 5000 feet. Some of those
present had been corresponding with
eastern cOntractotss sud understood that
one dollar per foot would be ejl thai Z
hol, would cost. The matter was gen,
orally discussed but the conclusion ar,
rived at that at present the city is not
ready to bore hole. Mr.. Terry rec
commended the formation and incorpora-
ton Of Q company at once, and this
lptsp win likely b taken.