Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-07-31
More rains since our last.

r. Z. Lee and Nick Sherlock were at
Guthrie last week.
One of John Dollars horses was bad
ly cut on scraper last week.
Cunninghams want all the yearly in
terest farm loans they can get. Al
Judge McCanless has moved into the
frame building next door to Finney's.
The father and an aunt of II. IL. Case
came down from Topeka, last Saturday.
on visit.
See 7. l.. Lindley, manager, for year
ly interest farm loans; also short time
chattel loans. 3
The latest, tenderest and best beef
at the Central meat market, opposite
1st National bank.
DIR. Kociell reports that on July 18th,
a line pound boy was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. z. I. Gholson.
Justice Howe has moved his Office to
the Palmer house, opposite and south
OF the Grand hotel.
Mrs. Beers sister and child returned
to Ottawa, Monday. They were not
from Indiana, as stated last week.
Born, July oath; fine boy to Mr.. and
Mrs. n. L. Glenn. Both mother and
the baby doing well. DR.. Kociell in at
tendance.
Yearly interest loans, with the privi-
lege of paying the principal at any IN
terest payment, made by Shannon &
Shannon. 10t4
The Willing Workers will meet with
Mrs. j. G. Thurman Wednesday after
noon, Aug. 7th. Mrs. II. G. Thompson,
secretary.
Noble & Nixon have. put their store
under a regular cleanifiRand repairing
process, and now have an attract e
place Of business.
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
Attorney Sample was engaged two
days last week and two days this week
taking dispositions at Kingfisher in a
case pending in Comanche county.
The Union Sunday school picnic at
the Ferguson grove, ten miles north,
will occur Saturday, August Sd. The
schools of Pratt and Barber counties
will be out in force.
Hundreds of Harvest Excursionists
from the east will visit Barber county
during the next sixty days. Every far
mer should put his place IN apple-pie
order SO that it will give the visitors a
good impression of the county.
a lot of bad boys broke up Mr.
YOung's watermelon patch, in the
north part of town, Sunday, and their
parents had to pay the damage. There
was strong talk of prosecuting the boys
criminally, and the next time, this will
be done.
The Kansas City live stock market
was about steady Monday. Shippers
brought $40 to $500 for best; 9OO-lb.
cows and heifers averaged 500; some
ran up to S2.l5. The hog market was
strong and steady, ranging from 81 the
lowest To S4.25 for choice, the average
being S4.l2i.
There was a little "scrap" at the
school building Thursday night. One
man wanted to quit, and called for his
money. The time-keeper did not have
any money to pay him with, and from
words they came to blows. Nobody
much hurt, but the man left town sud
denly, giving his boarding house an or
der for his wages.
Barber county had cor n for sale last
year, and so what may be expected this
fallg Farmers must buy up stOck-cat-
tie and hogs and even mules, horses and
sheep. 1t will not do to expect TO ship
corn from here Last year the county
fattened and sold $500, 600 worth of cat
tie and hogs and the figures should be
doubled this year.
Grant y. Jones, the genial young
pharmacist of this city, was united in
marriage yesterday, July 30th, at p.
m, to Miss Emma A. Willis, of Sedge-
wick county, Judge Edwards perform
ing the ceremony at the home of Geo.
J. Southworth, in the presence of few
intimate friends. This couple became
acquainted several years ago at Null.
vane, and agreed TO wait for each other.
They have gone p housekeeping on
North Main street,
VIM. Rogers, of Mumford, sowed 16I
bushels of wheat on IS acres of ground,
and few days ago threshed part Of the
crop. He says he will get over SOC
bushels from the Is acres. In the same
vicinity Mr.. Lyman had six acres which
threshed and measured 56 bushels to
the acre. Mr.. Rogers says the general
average on Buffalo Flats will be about
u bushels to the acre, though there are
some large fields which have not been
properly cared for.
The widow of the late Jerry Zeller
through her attorneys, Overstreet s
Denton, has brought suit against the
Atciisou, Topeka X Santa Fe railroad
TO recover $4,000 for the death of her
husband Il will be remembered that
several months ago, while working on a
stock train, in the Panhandle of Texas,
he was run over by the cars and one
of his legs cut of from which injury he
died a few days afterwards, at Mulvane
while being taken to the hospital. Mrs.
Zeiler is daughter of WIN. Doles, a
substantial farmer west of here five
miles.