Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-02-13
Valentines day tomorrow.

to Davis Il Davis. %
y literary treat will be given tonight
at the opera house.
Cook & Palmer give lowest rates on
farm and city loans. IS
Editor Walker, of the Harper Graph
ic, was over yesterday on business.
Flour you must have. Davis & Davis
sell the best and the cheapest. 20
The L. L. IS will have Little Hatch
et'' social February I'D, Washington s
birthday.
The latest, tenderest and best beef
at the Central meat market, opposite
Ist National bank. 4
Manager Smith, of the Hazelton stock
farm, was up last Friday and Saturday,
attending the Chaplin stock sale. He
made several purchases.
Do you eat candy, or does your sweet
heart eat candyP John Luallen, next
door to the postoffice, keeps the best
and purest that can be purchased. 3S-2
For ExCHANGE-All or part of a
good livery outfit, and other stock, for
unincumbered land. II. l.. SHANNON,
Medicine Lodge. 35
Elder Nation went to the country last
Tuesday. and held meeting at College
Hill school. He did not get back Sun
day, and it is thought he will stay out
all this week.
IL. n. Burner says that the peaches
are all right yet as is ali other fruit.
Mr.. Burner lives six miles west of this
city and has one of the best orchards
in the county.
When you come to town, drop in and
take your lunch with the old reliable,
John Luallen, who has just opened a
firsJclass confectionery and lunch room
next door to the pOstofice. 1872
Alfred Gregory, of the firm of Boards
ley & Gregory, Kansas City, attorneys
for the Jarvis-C onklin mortgage COM
pany, was here last week three days,
looking after business in the district
court.
Though our baby did win the first
prize at the baby show, we are not stuck
up and we will speak to our acquaint-
ances and friends just the same as if
ours was not the prettiest, sweetest and
best child in town.
Thos. Dunn, for three years connect
ed with the Chicago Lumber company,
at this place, left here Monday for the
north, and he will work for the compa-
ny at some larger place. Mrs. Dunn
will remain here until her husband To-
Gates permanently.
The city council has had several men
and teams at work repairing, strength
ening and otherwise improving the wa
ter ditch, for the past ten days, and the
work will be continued, Councilman
Pearson informs us, until every needed
repair has been made.
The young ladies' aid society, COM
posed of young ladies from all the con-
gregations in the city, has, we are told,
been dissolved. 1t accomplished good
work, and we regret the dissolution.
Three or four weak societies will prob
ably spring up in It's place.
Subject at the Presbyterian church.
Sunday morning, The Allegory of Isaac
and Ishmael." Subject for evening,
What Authority have we that Inter
cessory Prayer in Behalf of the Conyer-
sion of a Soul will not fail to be an
swered 20 Come and receive comfort,
praying soul.
The case against the Preston women,
charged with larceny, will likely come
up in the district court next week. An
other examination at the Preston place,
last Saturday, brought to light several
more articles, supposed to have been
stolen. The women have so far failed
to get bail and they are yet in Jail.
Go and hear Prof. Hamill and his
pretty daughter, Miss Alice Flamill, at
the opera house tonight, in their read
ings and recitations. Wherever he has
appeared, Prof. Hamill has been sue
cessful in delighting his audiences. He
has DEVOTED a lifetime to elocution, and
stands at the head of his profession.
Kiowa Journal: "B. v. Ray says he
killed a snake about three weeks ago.
1t was found on the prairie and was as
lively as well regulated snake in June.
....F. NJ. Lane brought to town a few
days ago some green grass nearly five
inches IN length. This is the first grass
of the season aid was found in shell
tered canyon"
The young ladies of the Presbyterian
church will have an entertainment at
the residence of w. s. Denton to-mor-
row night. Refreshments will be serv-
ed. Admission Is cents. A good time
guaranteed. If any come away dissat-
isfied, they can get their money back by
calling at this Office. Children will be
charged one dollar.
Last fall we travelled around in this
and adjoining counties enough to con-
vince us of the absolute necessity of ouI
farmers planting diversity of crops.
In many places we saw poor corn, and
near 10y was good crop of castor beans.
Why not every farmer put ont a few
acres Of beans? 1t outselIs corn, is a
nice crop to handle, and would be a big
help if the corn crop should be cut short.
Castor beans kill moles, Gophers. and
such vermin as does its work under the
ground, and is free from all pests.
DIR. W. S. Woods, president of the
Bank of Commerce. Kansas City. is the
principal stakeholder of the Citizens
National Bank of Medicine Lodge. His
friends here will be glad to learn that
the Bank Of Commerce was last week
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