Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-04-10
Democratic Contra, Committee.
LOCAL NEWS.

Fruit is safe so far.
Read Cunningham's new money ad.
Two A. .. U. w. assessments for
April.
Cook g. Palmer give lowest rates on
farm and city loans. %
Some mems promises are like pie
crust-easily broken.
Something new and original in visit
ing cards, at the INDEX Office.
LOst-Three cornet music books. Re-
turn to AL. McClearey, and be rewarded.
The Express says that Clyde Noble
will be the next martial" of Hazelton.
l. F. Shannon now occupies one of
the Macdonald houses, on South Main
street.
Golfers strictly pure white lead.
Also fine line of colors in stock at Day
81 Records. 45-2
Attorney Sample was DOZEN in Texas
last week, taking dispositions in a Clark
county case.
DR.. l.. b. Gillette's father and mother
left for their home at Beatrice, Nebras-
ka, yesterday.
The Mozart club meets every two
weeks. 1t is laying the foundation for
good musical work in this city.
Married, in this city, Sunday, March
Slst, A. Il. Purdy and Miss Anna Moore.
This item should have appeared last
week.
Miss Edna Cackler is now book-keep-
or and cashier at Miss Della Moore's
millinery and dress making establish
ment.
We are selling an article for making
old harness as good as new. Try Raven
Black Harness Oil. Sold only by Day
& Records. 45-2
Parlin q Orendorff have closed out
the last of the Morris stock of hard
ware, their agent, Mr.. Mercer, CON-
pleting the work Saturday.
The Royal Arch chapter will meet
tomorrow night, and confer the r. A.
degree. Visiting companions frater-
nally invited to be present.
Master Bob. Eldred last week receiv-
ed from an admiring friend, Hon. Ed.
Hewins, of Chautauqua county, very
pretty and docile pony, half Shetland.
The Ladies Aid society of the Baptist
church will hold their monthly sociable
the second Thursday of each month.
The sociable for April will be omitted.
A Washington dispatch says that the
indications are good for the appoint
ment of d. L. Flynn, of KiOwa Kansas,
as postmaster at Guthrie, Indian Terri
tory.
At the city election at Kiowa, on the
LIST inst, for mayor there were SO votes
cast, 70 for Min. +. Burrus and 26 for
F. NJ. Lane. Evidently the town was
not feeling very well. Medicine Lodge
cast 376 votes.
The county commissioners were in
session yesterday and Monday and they
will not get through, perhaps, before to-
morrow or Friday. All OF the bills con-
nected with the February term of the
district court are to be considered.
From the 10th of April to the Goth,
A. S. McClearey, at the postoffice, will
have for sale great variety of house
and garden plants, flowers and bulbs,
which he will sell cheaper than any
heretofore offered here. Save your or
ders for him. 80
Medicine Lodge is doing considerable
in the way of supplying outfits to Ok
lahoma boomers coming through here
from the west and north, and the rush
has not fairly started yet. About the
first of May this tide will be turned,
and we will catch 1t again.
The Truitt Il Esmond Building and
Loan Co., is an enterprise at Sth and
Wyandotte streets, Kansas City, Mo-,
in which j. Z. Truitt is president and
Geo. Esmond is treasurer. Mr.. Truitt
is the gentleman who purchased Col.
Esmond's farm, and his third interest
in the Payne place, in this city. Col.
Esmond will shortly move to that place.
Kiowa Herald: "E. F. Widner, who
has been absent in California during the
past two years, and during that time
has been a resident near Los Angeles,
has returned and says he would not sell
his claim of eighty acres, which lies in
the beautiful valley of the Medicine, for
less than five thousand dollars, and that
we have here the finest country in the
world and ought to be satisfied with it..
s It is now Judge Youmans, Uncle Ed.
having been appointed a county COM
missioner to nh vacancy caused by
the resignation of W. W. Standiford,
The appointment was made Monday By.
the two commissioners and the county
clerk. The appointee is an old citizen,
successful business man and one in
whom every citizen and taxpayer has
confidence. He will make satisfac-
tory officer, we think. 4