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

Ncn 0COlcdIcy 10 Will GCbduul1OIu,
Youmans & Eldred.
Shannon & Shannon have the cinch
on all others in the farm loan business.
Every abstract made by Bronson &
HOuchin is guaranteed TO be absolutely
correct. 48
Go to S. p. Coan's for your garden
seeds. Also millet and cane seed and
fine seed corn. As
The latest, tenderest and best beef
at the Central meat market, opposite
LIST National bank. 4
Type writer paper, extra heavy, legal,
letter or note size, plain or printed, at
the INDEX Office. 48
S. p. Coan sells the Walter A. Wood
Single Apron Harvester. Something
new; go and see it.. As
Facts-If we have not the best corn
and tomatoes in town, at 10 cents per
can, we will give them to you. B. K.
Harrington. 48
Who wants to locate the prospect
hole 1t will double, twice over, the
value of any quarter-section where it
may be located.
Your account is now due, and must
be settled. This means business, and
if needed, will save you trouble and ex-
pense. Davis & Davis. so
Mr.. Martin, lately from England, has
this week purchased the r. T.. Lee
| farm, two and half miles west of this
city, one of the best places around here.
The price paid was SO 500, over and
above all liabilities, as we understand
The Byerley & Dark stock of goods
is being sold out as fast as three men
can hand them down and make change.
Those who want bargains should call
in early. There is now vast lot to Sc
lect from, but it is getting smaller ey-
cry day. 40
Farmers who contemplate buying a
new Binder should not fail to see the
Deering all steel Irvine Binder, and
also ask their neIghbors who have used
them for the past three and four years,
as to the satisfaction they give. Noble
~ Nixon, agents. 49t4
Miss Lizzie Fishburn, lately of Sun
City, has opened general dlessmaking,
millinery and sewing establishment on
the east side of Main street, three doors
south of Davis store. She will do all
kinds of sewing, repairing and cleaning
on gentlemen's garments.
There will be an ice cream festival at
the residence of j. S. Runyan to-mor-
row night, May 9th, for the benefit of
the Baptist Aid society. Something
new and novel will be introduced. EY-
erybody invited, especially the child
rem. BY order of the executive COM
mittee.
A. S. McClearey has executed two
or three pieces in marble which we
! think would be creditable to a profess
sional sculptor. The head of his sister
Minnie, taken from life, is about the
best picture in marble we ever saw. 1t
is recognized by everyone who knows
the original.
Farmers are working with more en-
ergy, this season, than ever before. The
ground has been in better fix, and they
know that there is a reasonable certain
ty of making crop of sorghum cane,
and if the corn crop should be cut short,
with good wheat, oats and sorghum,
they can pull through.
Kiowa Herald "Col. w. w. S. Snod-
dy, of Medicine Lodge, and Willard
Mason, of this city, will hereafter prac-
tice law in the state of Kansas, under
the firm name of Snoddy s. Mason.
They have opened an Office in this city
on the corner of Sixth s. Main streets.
These gentlemen are both well known
throughout the county and are good
lawyers and will make strong team
together"
The INDEX was treated to a sample
of the first butter made by our creamery
last Friday, the manager, Mr.. May, re-
Numbering us. Better butter was new
er melted by hot biscuit, and no more
delicious lubricator was eyer spread on
the toothsome Kentucky hoe-cake. Nc
difficulty should be experienced in find
ing ready market for every pound OF
butter made by tile Medicine Lodge
creamery, if it is as good as the sample
we tested.
At the proper time the INDEX will
publish all the particulars of the coun-
ty treasury investigation that has been
going on for the past six months in this
county, provided we are permitted to
have access to the report. which viii
soon be public property. We do not
think it would be fair to comment ON
mere rumors. AS we understand it,
the naked truth will be bad enough.
without embellishments. We under
stand that the county commissioners
will meet in special session, soon, to
take action OF the report of the expert
examiners.
An item of local interest, manyof ouI
readers knowing the parties, appeared
in the Kansas City Times, last week
as follows: m. r. Platt, the well.
known cattleman of this city, filed suit
yesterday in the Wyandotte district
court against his business partner, Fred
w. Flato, for a dissolution of partner
ship, and the appointment of a receiver
to take charge of the property, and to
make final settlement of the partner
ship affairs. In September, 1884, Plat
& Flato entered into partnership in the
business of feeding cattle and carrying
on general business of that nature
Platt claims, in his petition, that Flatc
represented that he had large ranches
in Comanche and Barber counties, Kan.