Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-07-03
Peaches are plentiful and cheap.

yesterday.
Macy & Tiff have another kiln of
brick ready to tap.
The main building of the sugar plant
is ready for the roof.
A. NJ. Peck, of the HazeIton Roller
Mill, was here yesterday.
II is said that Bob. Taliaferlo has the
best field of cane around here.
The frequent showers make all kinds
of vegetation grow unusually fast.
Alpha Updegraff was up from the
Territory Sunday and Monday to see
his folks.
Mrs. Scott hubert is on a four weeks
visit to her folks near Wichita, having
started Sunday.
district Clerk Holmes and family
started Sunday for Riverside, Iowa, to
spend the hot months.
G. NJ. Sheldon, Of Colorado Springs,
Col, was here this week on visit. He
is a friend of the family of G. II. Bur-
CESS.
w. w. Standiford came up from En-
giewood. Monday. He reports good
rains out there during the past three
weeks.
Col. Eldred has gone to his ranch to
rest and recuperate for few weeks. He
has been undergoing bilious attack for
two weeks.
A fourteen-year-old son of Robt. Lud-
wick, of Pratt county, who lives near
the Barber county line, was thrown
from pony and killed June 25th.
Frank Beers and wife started east
he to see his folks in Indiana
and Mrs. B. to visit sister at Ottawa.
They Will be absent about three weeks.
Elder Nation will preach at College
Hill Saturday night and Sunday morn
ing, and in town Sunday night. Sub
ject for Sunday night, "They Made
Light of it ~
Look at the designs for tombstones,
urns, vases, etc., in mar
BILE or granite, at the postoffice, and give
a. 5. McClearey your order. He will
save you big money. 6
The Courier says that the salt shaft
at Klngman is now down no feet and
the workmen are in vein of pure salt
that promises to be even better than
any heretofore found.
Thos. Best was at Topeka, Monday,
on business with the Santa Fe railroad.
He came home much gratified with the
crop outlook in this state and predicts
healthy immigration here this year.
John Brown, of this city, planted
lot of peach trees three years ago, and
this week he handed in sack full of as
good budded fruit as anybody ever grew.
He has his trees all proped up, they are
so full.
L. g. Nichols. of Lake City township,
was down yesterday. He said that he
believed that corn in his neighborhood,
south of the river. was better than down
this way, it being generally an earlier
variety.
Judge and Mrs. G. w. Ellis entertain
ed quite number of young people last
Thursday night, IN honor of their guest,
Miss Bessie Whitelaw. Those who
were present say they spent an unusu-
ally pleasant evening. Delightful re-
70 xr-ara eor1,oI
VIM, Doles returned, this week, from
a trip out west, as far as Morton coun-
ty. He was also north into Finney and
Ford counties. Mr.. DOles says that the
western counties have had plenty of
rain, and that good crops are being
raised out there, though they are not as
far advanced as the crops in Barber
county,
In honor of Miss Bessie Whitelaw.
the young people had an enjoyable
dance Monday night, in the band stand,
in the center of the lake. The young
people were carried out in gondolas, to
the music of harps and guitars, the
principal gondOliers being Messrs. Over
street, Long, Edwards, Shaw, Eby,
Peck and Weaver. The mellow lights
of hundreds of Chinese ianterns reflect
ed the weird shadows of the dancers on
the blue bosom of the water, and the
sight was enjoyed by many on shore.
The sweet strains of music fioated over
the water until late hour, and lulIed
into sweet sleep and pleasant dreams
those who were too old or too tlmid to
take part in the festivities.
City Engineer ID. ]. Aber has sur
veyed and set the stakes, through the
streets for the water mains that are to
be laid within the next sixty days, in
this city. He has also prepared the
necessary profile, maps and specifica-
lions for the work, and it will be the
work of but a few weeks to lay the
pipes and put in the hydrants. Mr.. Aber
is doing a lot Of civil engineering just |
now, and his plans have worked out
satisfactorily in every instance. His !
work at the lake. with the ditch cut to |
The sugar works, has been compliment |
ed by good hydraulic engineers who |
nave examined. it. The belief is grow
ing that if his ideas had been followed |
N constructing the Elm creek ditch.
,he city would now have no reason to
fear drouth or flood.