Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-10-16
Put up your stoves.

CereSC farm loans they can get. Al
Bronson & Houchin have cheaper
money than ever, to loan on good
farDls. 6
The roof on the new school building
was put on just in time to shed the big
rains.
Be careful about your first fires, and
take the old rags and papers out of the
chimney.
Save money in buying your Harness,
&C., of Finney. Largest stock and the
lowest prices. IL
The latest, tenderest and best beef
at the Central meat market, opposite
LIST National bank. 4
We desire to call especial attention to
the new advertisement of Shannon &
Shannon in this issue of the INDEX.
Mrs. A. L. Freeman came up from
Lipscomb, 1exas, last Friday, to spend
a few days with her sister, Mrs. Graves.
Who will put up ice-not just little,
but thousands of tons? The wator is
here, and the cold weather never fails
to arrive on time.
Ed. Shaw, brother Of Wash and Ar
thur, is here on visit. He is a tele-
graph operator and claims his home
wherever he may be located.
Cane that was not properly cultivated
has not been profitable to the raisers or
the mill. Next year, farmers will
know much more about raising cane
than they did last spring.
Fine brood mares, work horses, driv-
ing horses and colts for sale cheap by
T. G. Molloy. Time will be given on
good paper at a low rate of interest.
Inquire at First National bank. 16
1t has been decided to have base ball
on Tuesdays aud cricket on Fridays.
The lovers of each game have decided
to encourage each others sport and two
good clubs will likely be the result.
For cash we will give you unprece-
denied bargains in all kinds of hard
ware. The stock was bought to be sold
out cheap for cash. Everything you
want. H. G. Bond, at Geppert & Stones
old stand. 20
Call in and see US before making your
loan. We have the cheapest money in
Barber county. No second mortgages
One mortgage, one rate Borrowers can
pay off loan at any time. Come and see
US, and we will convince you that what
we say is fact. Come now. Ingraham
s. O'Brian. IL
Mrs. j. NJ. Sherry is visiting in Reno
county, having returned there with her
mother who spent two weeks visiting
here with her daughter. The mother
is ninety years old and entirely blind :;
but very cheerful. Mr.. Sherry has gone
back to his claim adjoining Kingfsher,
Oklahoma.
y. z. Orwain, former resident of
Kiowa, was burned to death IN Ca
boose on the Missouri Pacific railroad,
out in Greedy county, last week. The
caboose had broken away from the
train and running backwards, crashed
AAOO O ROOOOhSO1 Vi bIAIS 700 ONOLOu1n
and took fire. Mr.. Orwan was, at the
| time of his death, mayor Of Horace,
Greeley county.
The cricketers play twice a week,
Tuesday and Friday afternoons, on the
fiat north of the depot. A number of
young men are fast learning the game
with promise of making good players.
AT present, Messrs. Best, Thomlinson,
Palmer, Martin and Sanderson are the
best players. However, in the game of
Friday, Doc. Bronson, r. j. Mckay,
w. a. Schiller, Tom MolIOy, c. H. But
man and other ex-baseballists, showed
a good gait. The ladies enjoy and are
welcome at the games.
E. H. Nixon tied to Jim Dobson in
the preliminary canvass and won but
that is no sign that he will win in No
vember. Dobson will have all he can
attend to in looking after his own cleo
ton, and he will not want anybody rid
ing on his back. In the meantime, if
the old substantial republicans want to
get even for the treatment accorded
them in the county nominating conven-
ton, when Wheat, Taliaferro, Huffa-
ker and Ipgraham were slaughtered,
they have but to down the pobson and
Nixon combination.
The two days rain this week was grand
for the wheat. The acreage this fall
will be at least third larger than was
sown last year, Wheat can be sown
here until November, and it makes as
good crop as when sown earlier. With
mill at Medicine Lodge, and one Will
be running by next April, the wheat in
dustFy will be very important one in
Barber county. The average yield over
the county this season was probably
twenty-five bushelslto the acre. Think
! Of that, you eastern people, who raise
Is to 20 bushels on $50 land
John Dohrer who, as everyone knows,
is a great lover of shooting, started out
one morning this week to amuse pref
ty cousin from Pennsylvania, who is
visiting here. He had the young lady
get up at daylight, eat a hurried break
fast, and before sun-up the two were
well started towards the hunting
grounds. When two miles from town.
a bad, bold flock of qualls attacked
them and Johnnie attempted to get his
gun. Then it suddenly dawned on him
that it was at that finishing up
a delightful Sunday morning nap at his
home in town, two miles away. Swear
ing Miss Gussie to secrecy, he slipped
in town the back way. sleaked into the
house without disturbing Mrs. Dohrer,
and at the end of another hour he and
lis faithful Fred. were hunting for that
same bold and dangerous flock Of quail.
The young lady told the story before