Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-08-29

OF tnlS city 90 not snow mucn OF a dis
position to encourage the Old Settlers
picnic. Two or three persons are do
ing all the work. 1t is not likely that
the next meeting will be held here if
the people DO not show disposition to
encourage the affair.
Uncle Billy Morris and wife will leave
here Sept. Sth for Columbus, Ohio,
where they will take in the G.. y II.
encampment and fIom there they will
90 to their old home on the eastern
shore of Maryland where they will visit
with friends until about the 1st of De
cember, when they will return here.
Saturday, Sunday and Monday Bar
bar county was thoroughly soaked with
rain, putting the ground in elegant
shape for wheat and rye. The Indica-
tions now are that twice as much wheat
will be sown here this year as was last
season. 1t is also safe to say that the
chinch bugs will increase in about the
same proportion.
a letter from Eli G.. Benedict, advo-
eating a colt show was received last
week too late for publication. He sug-
gested Saturday, September LIST, as a
good time for the show. The sugges-
ton is good one, but we think the time
for preparation too short. But we pub
lish the letter, anyway, as the sugges-
tions are good for any year.
A dispatch from Pratt Center to the
Kansas City Times, dated 26th, tells of
an outrage committed on a l4-year-old
girl, Jennie SnOwden by VIM. Hargis,
well known in this county. The two
were out walking when he accomplished
his purpose and threatened the girl if
she told anyone. She told her mother
and on her complaint, the young man
was arrested and put in Jail. His eX-
animation was set for Monday.
There will be hundreds of bushels of
peaches in Barber county this year.
Last Friday and Saturday, on a trip
in the western part of the county, we
saw number of eXtra-good peach or
chards where the trees were loaded
down. It's a fact that if the first settlers
of this county had planted fruit trees
that this would now be the best fruit
county in the state. There are many
bearing orchards that were planted five
and six years ago.
Our Mlngona correspondent, in let
ter too long for publication, tells of an
enthusiastic Union Labor meeting held
at that place last Thursday evening at
which Jerry Simpson and young Mr.
Beals took an active part. Heis especi-
ally eulogisuc in referring to Nh: Beals,
who is comparatively a new political
speaker, he being a very young man.
Mr.. Pease and Mr.. George Lang also
addressed the audience. Next week,
another meeting Will be held at MingO-
ma and all parties are invited to attend.
Or. W. II. Moore will leave here Sat
urday for st. Louis, Missouri. where he
will take a five-mOnths' course in the
American Eclectic College of Physi-
clans and Surgeons. DIR. Moore IS one
of those who believe that man is never
too old to learn, and 1t is his intention
to profit by all the modern discoveries
and practices. We hope that his high
est hopes may be realized and that
when he returns here he will be still
better equipped to cure the lame, the
halt aud the blind and make smooth
the bed of suffering humanity.
The heavy rains and consequent rails
ing of Elm creek, this week, did con-
siderable damage to the brush dam be-
ing built across that stream for the
water-ditch supply. At several places
along the ditch the water broke
through, though no serious damage was
done. As before suggested in these
columns. it Will be well enough to
wait until the dam and ditch have set
tied and have been thoroughly tested
through a wet and dry season before
any more money is voted on that enter
prise. If good supply of water is Sc
: cured-and it proves to be lasting sup
ply-then there will be time enough to
, talk about voting more bonds.
Wellington Standard: The LIST Corps
department of G.. y. II. for Kansas has
: been divided INTO six divisions. Sum-
3 ner county is in the fifth division with
3 j. U. Fellows of Mcpherson, comman-
J der. The third regiment is composed
of the counties of Sumner, Harper, Bar
, Der and Pratt, with l.. A. Simmons Of
this city as colonel. He has organized
! the regiment into companies and order
, ed the different posts to report to him
| l,a .Iav Of ~ g., L.
contemplating attending the grand en-
campment at Columbus, Ohio, by the
i lst of September. His object is to make
up a train load to leave Wellington
e They should report their officers elected.
Q Col. Simmons has appointed Oryllle
3 Smith, adiutant, and n. w. Vanocker,
Q. NJ. of the regiment, both of this
, CITY,"
t c.. l.. Higgins, a printer who had
}, been working in this Office since last
| November, sneaked out of this town
D last Sunday, leaving debts to the
amount of about SO, and the suppOsi.
q ton is that he went to Dallas, Texas,
. where his wife and child are, they hav-
\ ing gone two weeks before. Higgins
4 was good printer. a very plausible
n man and it is no wonder that he worked
his game so well; though it is now
known that he was a great liar. He
played the Christian dodge here and al
: the time he left ne was an elder in the
} Christian church, and three hours be-
Il fore he left he assisted in serving the
u sacrament of the Lords supper. He
pretended to have received a dispatch
: announcing that his child was dying: