Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-06-19

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Mrs. Merrell and the children started
east, last Wednesday.
Parasols, from IS cents to 81, at Stan.
difOrd, Youmans & Eldred's. 50
Cunninghams want all the yearly in.
terest farm loans they can get. Al
w. II. Love has added two good sim
gle driving horses to his stock.
A gold watch to exchange for good
buggy horse. L. E. Hubbard. A
The McNeal Mortgage Company
makes especially of short time loans. 8
Creamery butter always on hand, at
Standiford, Youmans & Eldred's. so
The cricket club have set Tuesday
and Friday afternoons for play and
practice.
See L. L. Lindley, manager, for year.
ly interest farm loans; also short time
chattel loans.
Nothing ever before shown in this
city can touch our line of neckwear for
gentlemen. S. Y. E. so
Elder Nation was at Wichita. last
week, in attendance at the ministers
state association, where he delivered an
address.
Your account is now due, and must
be settled. This means business, and
if needed, will save you trouble and ex-
pense. Davis & Davis. so
Frank Holmes has purchased the
place where he lives, on South Main
street, from II. Ii. Richards, of WITCH
ita. 1t is good property.
Let the wheels Of commerce cut the
weeds out of our streets" The city
marshal is helping the wheels some by
cutting weeds on side streets.
Judge Ellis and family will start next
Tuesday on their eastern trip. Their
guest, Miss Bessie Whitelaw, will re-
turn at the same time to her Dodge
City home.
Ladies, at no place in the county can
you have such a variety from which to
select your shoes. We are well stocked
up in this line. The finest and best are
the cheapest. S. Y. & Z. so
Do you want to have sale /? If so
come to the INDEX and let us print
your bills. There is no case on record
where sale was not a success when
the INDEX printed the bills. 2
e. w. Pelton, a Comanche county
farmer, attempted torun his mortgaged
stock to Oklahoma, last week, but was
caught below KiOwa by Joe Bowers and
taken back to face his creditors.
1t is the belief of those best posted
that the last Hillman capture will not
pan out and the insurance companies
may as well decide to pay the S3S, 1000
judgments against them. Hlllman may
have been murdered III this county: but
he is undoubtedly dead.
w. S. Denton is a persistent worker
in his determination to beautify his
home. He has the prettiest patch of
blue grass we have seen in the county.
and has just finished putting fountain
in his front yard. The neighbors all
think of raising few ducks to help
decorate the fountain.
Attorney T. G. Cutlip was at Okmul-
gee, l. T.. last week on legal business.
He says that every room in the town is
occupied, and until the status of the
'squaw men" is established there will
be no more houses built there. 1t az
pears that this class own the town and
do nearly all the business there.
One day this week, Wilsey Stout,
Fred Wadsworth and Fred Ellis raised
full-grown coyote over near Mr..
| Wadsworth's and ran it mile into a
hole north of town, where they dug it
out and allowed the dogs to kill it. 1t
was minus one foot and is supposed to
have been the one that stole trap from
Moss Hamilton last winter.
Kansas City Star: There are so many
picnics and church festivals at yelling
ton this season, that the bellies of that
city are compelled to wash their white
dresses twice week." Twice week?
That is nothing. Our girls wash theirs
every day. 1t is a cold and dreary
night when this town does not have a
festival. or lawn social, and when it is
too bad for these, they get up a musi-
Gale or a dance.
Overstreet, Denton 4 Shannon is the
style of a new firm Of attorneys, alb
stracters and insurance agents at Kio-
wa, successors to the firm of Flynn &
Robinson. /. +. Shannon will be the
resident partner and manager, and the
people of Kiowa and vicinity may be
assured that he is worthy of any conf
dence that may be repOsed in him. He
is safe counsellor. Overstreet & Den
ton are as good lawyers as practice in
Kansas.
Exchange: THE man who wouldn't
take newspaper was in town the 9TH
er day. Among other indications of
being behind the times, we noticed that
he set his watch by the sign in front of
the jewelry store, wiped his nose on a
bolt of calico hanging in front of dry
goods store, stopped at bank to in
quifG the price of coal, and paid twenty
i've cents ~ q drug clerk for an al
manac."
Kiowa Journal IN. b. Bianton, we
are informed, will have about 800
bushels of peaches to sch. He has one
tree from which he sold last year ten
dollars worth of fruit. Yet some peo-
pie persist in saying it does not pay to
raise fruit. j. When Jacob Achenbach's
wheat is threshed, he will have more
than 1000 bushels. This is the piece