Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-08-14
Hon. A. M. vanLaningham is expect

Hon. A. M. VanLaningham is expect
ed here to-day or tomorrow.
John S. Runyan win be bookkeeper
in the First National bank.
q. S. Boggs Is mentioned as a prob
able candidate for postmaster at this
place.
Mrs. John lifts father is dangerous
ly sick at Lawrence. She went up last
Saturday.
Mr.. Nays concert has been postponed
from tomorrow, Thursday, evening, to
Friday evening. IL
1. F. Shannon will move his family to
Kiowa this week-Friday. Their de-
partlre will be generally regretted.
Mrs. C. G. Tal1aferro, Master Dell
and Miss Lulu Duke will start to-mor-
row for Lipscomb, Texas, to visit John
Duke and Will Kelley.
Jack Davis little girl dropped an axe
and cut the instep of her foot quite
severely, last Friday evening, necessita-
ting the attention of Surgeon Moore.
The attendance at the normal is 116
this week. 1t will close on the 10Th
inst, at noon; though the examinations
will continue during the 3Oth and 31st.
The boys had better watch out. Two
OF them were fired at Sunday night east
of town and the guns are loaded again.
1t will not pay to steal watermelons or
fruit.
Geo. p. Dickerson, son of Uncle Steve,
started last Saturday on visit to his
old home in Hancock county, Indiana.
George is never-tiring worker and this
season he raised big crop and is enti-
tied to a few weeks recreation. 1t
would be good thing for Barber coun-
| ty if Indiana would send out small
army of such Young men.
Barber county is supporting two full
1edged camp-meetings at this time
one at Elm Mills and one at Hazelton.
In the good old days back east, when
the country was sparsely settled, these
camp meetings were the events of the
year, and people travelled fifty miles to
attend them. 1t was then that the
neighborhoOds met and became ac-
qualnted and when the young people
formed alliances that lasted through a
life time. In those days the railway
was almost unknown, or rather untried
and there were few cities and towns to
afford attractions. The camp-meeting
of to-day is not the extensive affair that
it was then. for either the people are as
well acquainted as they want to be, or
each county and even neighborhood has
its own attractions and pleasure CEN
tiers. The meetings now going on are
well attended, however. and everyone
is glad of it.
The troubles about the right-of way
on the road running east from the
Field place were settled by the parties
all donating the right-of- way, when the
county commissioners ordered the
bridge contract let. They had previous
ly instructed Trustee burst to stop re-
ceiving the bids, and the lumber was
hauled back to town. SATURDAY. the
bids for construction ana hardware
were opened, Winter & Brown offering
to do the work for $175 and T. M. Kidd
bidding SITS. The contract was given
to W. q B. When the bridge is COM
pleted and the new road opened, 1t will
run one mile and half directly north
from the end of the lane at Cnrrie's
northwest corner to the center of sec.
ton 25, thence east one mile and half
to the half-sectiOn corner between %
and 30. The road running diagonally
across the hill to the Field place will
then be abandoned.