Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-06-12
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| OdHO IlOW uduiS Tie EXPRESS matter.
Bob. Brown is clerking at the Grand
Hotel.
Mr.. Carroll is building an addition to
his residence in the north end of town.
Miss Cora McClearey is visiting her
friend, Miss Merrick, at Harper, this
week.
r. L. Lee has given possession of his
farm to the purchaser, and now lives
in town.
J. ID. Fleming has moved TO town and
is living in the Cole house, South Wal
nut street.
Ed. Stanley and wife are here from
Wichita, visiting his brother-in-law,
John Dohrer.
Born, on the Sd inst. to the wife of
Vim. Ellison, daughter, DIR. Burney
in attendance.
Twenty saddle and work horses will
be sold here next Saturday at O'Clock,
by Roll Clark.
Editor Axline, wife and daughter,
were up in Pratt county. Sunday, visit
ing his parents.
Attorney Jones and family now live
on North Walnut street in the Rye
VanSlyke place.
Commissioner O'Bryan is doing some
needed work on the streets, clearing the
cutters and raising crossings and cul-
Yerts.
Prof. o. 7. Beeson, of this city, prln-
cipal of the schools of this district, is
conducting normal institute at Olathe,
Kansas.
The suit of u. A. McCanless against
Kaspar burst, for the value of a horse
that died last summer, has been taken
TO Sharon township.
The Fidelity Trust Co., of which Blair
& Ewart are large stockholders. last
week purchased $500, 900 Kansas City,
Mo-, school bonds, paying a premium
of s., 507 for the lot.
w. NJ. Bronson was stepping high,
yesterday, over the birth of son, DR..
Burney in attendance. Exactly two
years before, to day, his wife present
ed him with daughter.
Rev. w. K. Sanderson, brother of the
pastor OF the NJ. E. church, occupied
the desk at the Methodist church last
Sunday night. The people seemed
pleased with his plain, practical dis
course.
Deputy-Sheriff Wallace and Mr..
Kemper, of Elk county, came over Sun
day, looking for two stolen horses and
two thieves. With Sheriff Stevens they
went out to Lake City, but two suspects
there proved to be the wrong parties.
IL. E. Noble says that he has seen
several fields of wheat this season, in
Barber county, that will yield 40 BUSH
els per acre. S. p. Coan, who has also
been out, putting up machines, says
that he never saw such a crop in Kan
SaS.
Albert Louis, son of Louis Nilsson,
died at the family home, near Elm
Mills, yesterday morning early, aged
two years and five months. This was
a bright, handsome and interesting
child, and the parents keenly feel their
loss.
When we mentioned, in recent issue,
that the Medicine Valley stock farm
had sent three FLIES to Campbell's, at
KiOwa, to be bred to his horses, we
should have stated that this was done
because these FLIES are half-sisters to
"Miller's Pride" or they would have
been bred to him instead of the Camp
bell horses.
Geo. IL. Sexton must have ''struck it
rich" The dispatches the other day
announced that he had ousted his poor
old father as postmaster at Sexton, and
received the appointment to the yacan-
cy and now comes the news that he
has been appointed a United States
commissioner in Oklahoma. It is to be
hoped that he will accept the latter po-
sitiOn.
Cunningham Bros. had a good horse
stolen from them in Oklahoma, IN
April. Last week r. II. Smith, near
Elm Mills, traded for the horse at Lake
City. Friday he had the horse here and
p. ID. Cunningham. took possession of
it. The man Mr.. Smith traded with
said he was from Oklahoma. He traded
the Smith horse for another one at Lake
City. Mr.. Smith will likely get his own
horse back and the other fellow will
have to WhistlS.
The McKays are in more trouble at
Kingman. The Leader published a
severe article about their beating up
weak young man, and the next day,
Mckay, senior, attacked Mr.. Albaugh,
the editor. from the rear, striking him
on the head and afterwards attempted
to use pistol. Mckay then left town
and his whereabouts were unknown at
last accounts. The sentiment there is
strongly against Mckay though the pa
pers say the wife and daughters have
the sympathy of the people.
1t pays to raise good hogs. Capt. D.
L. Pierce, of Turkey Greek township,
yesterday sold 80 Eldred 81 Hinman, of
this city, II full blood Berkshire hogs, |
Il month and 10 days old, that averaged |
PA pounds. These hogs, nine barrows
and two sows, took on 62S pounds of
flesh from AZ bushels of hard corn,
without milk or slop Of any kind. Capt. |
Pierce figures that it cost him SITS per
100 pounds to raise this pork, and he
received $3.50 for it. A smoother lot
of pigs were meyer brought here.
Last night, at their hall, in this city,
the Odd Fellows, assisted by the men,
bers of the Rebecca degree lodge, to-