Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-12-18


We are selling candy for 10 cents. Da-
Wis & Davis. 80
Mrs. Granville Morris returned home
from Oxford, last Saturday.
The city was full of country people
last Saturday, and trade was good.
The McNeal Mortgage Company
makes especially of short time loans. 3
Wanted, girl for general housework
Enquire of a. S. McClearey, at the post
Office.
Eli Benedict will start, to-day, on a
visit to the Miller & Benedict ranch, in
Sedgwlck county.
Riley Lake came by here from trip
to the western part of the state and
Kansas City, last week.
Thos. Doran won the span of horses
raff1ed off by Geo. Goundry, Saturday
night, throwing 46 at high dice.
Mrs. u. A. Wilmington will be over
from Winfield, to-day, to spend the hol-
idays with her daughter, Mrs. Nixon.
The Sons of Veterans will meet at the
G. a. R. hall, Saturday evening, Dec.
q, 1889, for the purpose of organizing
camp at this place.
Geo. r. Follett, d. r. Edwards and
d. b. CrOll. of Hazelton, were here last
Thursday evening, taking the higher
degrees of Masonry i'll Cyprus Chapter.
l.. Munsol, Jerry Simpson and John
L. Jesse returned yesterday from hunt
i'll the Territory. In nineteen days they
killed Is deer and so turkeys, besides
other small game.
J. n. Bibb was down from Sun City,
Monday. He is getting to be heavy
weight since he went into the mercan-
tile business, and now tips the beam at
24O, and yet he is not corpulent.
E. w. Deming. late manager Of the
Attica sugarworks, has accepted a po-
sitiOn with the Fort Scott foundry and
machine works i'll connection with the
erection and sale Of sugar machinery.
The merchants of this city have put
in extra large stocks for the holidays;
in fact it is question if there is anoth-
er town of It's size in Kansas that car
ries such well assorted stocks of goods
as this one.
II. NJ. Ingraham is still in the loan
and collection business, at his old stand
and will make any kind of a personal
or real estate loan on farm or city prop
erty, and will buy township, city, coun-
ty or school scrip or orders. 20
Anton Hunkeler who. ten weeks ago,
was wound around a shaft at the sugar
works, and sustained badly broken
and shattered arm, was up town last
Saturday. His arm will not be as good
as new one, but it will beat no arm.
DR.. Kociell wishes to announce to
those troubled with asthma, bronchitis
or consumption that he is making fresh
oxygen almost daily, and he is now
ready to treat those affected with chest
or lung troubles, for which oxygen gas
is the best cure known. %
Cards are out announcing the ap-
preaching marriage, on Wednesday
evening, Dec. 25th, in this city, Of Mr.
w. ii McCague and Miss Lucle Pur-
sell. This couple is we'll and favOrably
known in this community and they are
popular among all classes.
Lee Bradley says his turkeys have
something like mumps. A large swell
ing comes under each eye. None have
died and none have yet got rid of the
swelling. lie wants to know what is
the matter with them, and what to do
for them. Who can tell him ?
The Kiowa Herald appears to have
seeded from Barber county and now
claims to be published at Kiowa. Har-
per county, Kansas; or at least that is
the way it appears on the first-page
date line Of the Herald. phis is very,
very sad blow TO Harper county.
The congregation of the Cedar Valley
Cumberland Presbyterian church, met
at the school house last Saturday as
pound party ana collected groceries and
other eatables weighing 430 pounds, and
presented it to their pastor, Rev. Foose,
who had been holding protracted
meeting for three weeks.
w. w. Cook is in reeeipt of letter
from Secretary Rusk, acknowledging
the receipt of specimens of sorghum
and beet sugar from the Medicine Lodge
works. The secretary says; Il think
that they are both as fine specimens as
anyone c0utd ask for. Please congrat-
ulate the manufacturers upon their sue
cess in turning out so fine a quality of
sugar"
The steam heating apparatus at the
new school building was tested last FRI
day. Itheated the building thoroughly.
Mr.. Chase estimates that the coal bill
will not he half as much as when stoves
were used. The finishing touches are
being put on the building and it GER
talnly is creditable appearing build |
ing. The lumber used for fnishings is |!
the best ever used in this town, on any |
The officers of Fidelity lodge, No. s,
a. O. L. w, elected Dec. Is. are John |
Dohrer, p. NJ W.; w. S. Finney, NJ |
w; DIR. w. II. Moore, F.; Jonn Hig-
gins, o.; F.. NJ. Byerley, R.; j. H. Yen
nj, Fin; H. Yant, Rec.; John Singer,
Guide; R. II. Hahn, l. W.; Frank |
Beers, O. W.; Dr. Stout, Medical Ex-
aminer; W. w. Cook, o. Coyle and John |
Higgins, trustees; w. S. Finney, grand
lodge representative. These officers |
will be installed January 10th, 1890.