Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-05-08
LOCAL NEWS.

Paint your houses.
Spring chickens are nearly ripe.
Read Cunningham s new money ad.
Call on Cook 81 Palmer for farm and
city loans. "
Over 5000 pounds of milk was deliv-
cred yesterday.
1t is not too late to set out small trees
if you do it properly.
Call and see Bronson ~ Houchin if
you want to make loan. As
You can buy the Light Buckeye Fold
ing Binder at S. P.Coan's. As
Riley Lake says that his 400 acres of
wheat is in firstclass condition.
Sixteen pounds of the best Prunes in
town for 81, at b. X. HerringtOn's. As
Bronson & Houchin have an album
dance of money to loan on good farms.
1t was necessary to work on the res
ervoir dam all day Sunday with ten
teams.
We are told that some kind of small
bug has greatly damaged the peach
prospect.
The wind, last Sunday, while not very
strong, raised enough dust to make it
quite disagreeable.
f. NJ. Fleming's Oklahoma claim cor
ners on the TOWNSHIP of Lisbon. He
thinks it the most valuable claim in
that country.
1t appears that the prosecuting wit
ness in the Sharon rape case is not IN
the country, he having left there, with
his family, several weeks ago, between
two suns.
Ten teams and twenty men are at
work OH the lake. 1t will be ready for
water in a few days. The lake will
cover nine acres, and have an average
depth of about seven feet.
Attention is directed to the profess
siopal card of Col. w. w. S. Snoddy, in
this issue The report that he had To-
Gated in Oklahoma was an error. lie
has a good claim there, but this city is
his headquarters.
Goes for cash just now We are great
ly in need of money, and will make il
to the interest of anybody to trade al
the Red Front Store for the next thirty
DAYS. Business Is business. We have
the goods, and your money will gel
them cheap. i. X. Harrington. As
The Standard Fire Insurance compa
ny, of Kansas City, Mo-, has furnished
the INDEX with a valuable steel letter
opener. DR.. w. S. Woods, principa
owner of tic Citizens National bank, Of
this city, is president of the company
and T. G. Molloy is the Medicine Lodgt
agent. 1t is a solid institution.
The Clark County Clipper wisely OBJ
jects to the people being put to the ex
pense OF a special election to fill the
senatorial vacancy in this district
There will be no need for a senator be-
fore 1891, probably, and certainly moi
before the next election. The cost of &
special election will be, to Barber coun
ty, about $40.
Sunday evening, May 10Th. at Thomp-
sons opera house, in this city, Rev. w
II. Gillian, of Harper, under the auspi
ces of Delphla lodge, No. 40, Knight:
of Pythias, will deliver lecture on The
history and objects of the order. The
occasion is the celebration of the thirC
year of the existence OF the lodge il
this city. The lecture will be free. ant
the public is cordially invited to attend
The only issue In the building asso
citation election, last week, was the one
of allowing borrowers representation OF
the board of directors. The borrower!
have contended that as they were pay
ing big money to the association. they
should be allowed voice in the manage
ment of its affairs; and as other stock
holders were being let out on very cas-!
terms, that they, the borrowers, SHOULD
he put on the same footing, at least
There are now five borrowers on tn,
board of directors.
We received two or three compliment
on our paper of last week. one maj
said he had served fourteen years in tn
newspaper business, and ought to know
a good paper when he saw it, and h
had never seen such good boomer a
our last number. He thought it wOul'
have been good investment for tn
people to buy 10000 copies. and sen,
them back east. We appreciate sacl
compliments, and work hard to desery
them. We have printed and sent OF
or given away, each week, for the pas
month, from seyenty-fiye to one hun
dred and fifty extra copies. 1t has bee
done at our own expense. We intenl
TO lead the procession of progress thi
year, or break the crank on our press
and all encouragement or assistanc
will be appreciated.