Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-11-13

G. l. Hinman was out last Sunday,
after terrible seige by inflammatory
rheumatism.
The Baptists will repair their house
south of the courthouse, and use it to
hold their prayer meetings.
John Howell, of Nashville postoffice,
Kingman county, has A stock hogs for
sale-25 shOats and 10 feeders. 25
Our Hazelton correspondent writes
that ThOs. Collins has dehorned 160
head of cattle on his farm southeast OF
! HaZeltOn.
y blizzard was booked for this locali-
ty Monday, but it was not a success.
Yesterday, Tuesday, was one of the
most pleasant fall days.
Jim Thompson, trainer and driver OF
Campbell's horses. has gone to Cali
forni2, to take charge of the L. U. Ship
pee horses, at Stockton.
The Christian church at this place
wants pastor. If any of our exchan'
ges know where a good one is out of a
job, they will please send him on.
a trip to the country, in any direc.
ton, Will show much larger acreage
of wheat and rye than last year, and il
is in better condition than it was al
this time last year.
The largest and most complete stock
of toys in the city, at the Postoffiee
! Bookstore. Nothing like it i'll the
county. Can wholesale to country deal.
ers, and save them money. 25
All kinds of stoves, implements, bug
gies, wagons, builders hard ware, black
smiths stock, woodwork, cutlery, am
munitIon, ETC., in the Geppert & Stone
stock, now on sale by II. G. Bond. 20
The personal effects of the late Clark
Gilmore, colored, were sold at auction
Saturday, near the postofice, and they
actually brought more money than
would the property of live white man.
The report is that Mr.. Byerley is to
be under-sheriff another says he will
be deputy register of deeds; another is
that he will be deputy postmaster. Sc
it appears that Mr.. Byerley will be TAX
en- care Of
1t is understood that the work of lay
ing the water pipes will commence this
month. This is right, for every day de.
layed will cause more dissatisfaction.
The property owners should be assured
some protection against fire.
j. NJ. White, a farmer living seven
miles east of town, was stricken with
pal tial paralysis, last week, while out
feeding his cattle, his left side being
electric treatment, and Mr.. White can
now walk.
j. n. Titus yesterday shipped from
here II cars OF cattle to Kansas City
G.. w. Hendrickson shipped loads and
Jas. A. Lockard sent load-altogetheI
Is loads. These cattle were all grazed
and fed in Barber county and not in the
Territory.
IF you don't see what you want, ask
for it," Our room is just little crowd
ed with our new invoices and we are
selling out all summer and early fall
goods to make room for new invoices,
so you can get bargains unthought OF
if you will but enquire for them. We
are clearly IN the lead of the mercantile
procession and expect to hold the posi-
tion Davis s. Davis. Is
The sugarwOrkS company are harvest
ing their experimental sugar beets this
week, and the yield is astonishing, run
ming nearly twenty tons to the acre.
The company will chop them up and
run them through the diffusion cells
this week and see how much sugar can
be obtained. There will be enough for
one large strike. it is believed, and prob
ably more. 1t the sugar yield keeps up
to the chemical test, beets will be the
crop next season instead of cane.
The county commissioners, at an ad-
journed meeting held on the Sth of Oct
ober, 1889, made contract with the
First National bank by which the bank
is to be the depository for the county
funds for term of three years from
January ]. 1890, the bank to pay pei
cent. interest on average daily balances.
and the bank to pay ninety-six cents for
all scrip presented TO it. Commission
srs Fleming and Youmans voted for
he order aud Commissioner Stranathan
voted against it,
p. a. Simmons, wife and daughters,
Misses Jessie and Ethel, started from
here, last Saturday, for their new home,
Kansas City, Mo-. where MIR. simmons
yoeS to take position with the Fidelity
Trust company. Mr.. Simmons came to
This county in 1884, and took the posi-
| lion or assistant cashier with the Medi-
line Valley bank which was merged in
20 the First National bank by Blair &
| Ewart, and he has continued here as
he assistant cashier of that institution
until within the past few weeks, he
, ,avlng the practical inside management
If that institution for five years. There
are no better or more correcU- @""count-
ants /; there was never more pleasant
man TO deal with at a bank counter.
But it was as a public-spirited citizen
md Christian gentleman that Mr.. Sim
mons appeared in his best light. He
vas an active Sunday school and church
yorker and the Methodist people of this
| ity have lost treasure In his depar-
ure. Mrs. Simmons was one of the
'est neighbors imaginable and no one
Who ever lived near her will, we are
sure, ever forget her many. acts of
| kindness. Miss Jessie, the accom-