Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-09-11

Mrs. Rouse is IN Wichita, this week.
.. L. Settles and II. c. Kline were at
Harper, Monday.
Cook Il Palmer give lowest rates on
farm and city loans. 28
T. A. McNeal returned Friday from
trip east on business.
Rev. Sanderson has been assisting at
the Lake City camp meeting during the
past week.
Mrs. Margaret Doran is visiting
friends in Chicago. and other places IN
Illinois, this week.
Mrs. Caruthers will leave to-day for
eastern Kansas and Missouri to spend
four weeks visiting relations.
SCHOOL BoARDs.-A $50 set (seven)
JobnsOn's school maps for S12 if sold
Immediately. Hubbard the Jeweler.
w. w. Cook and wife, Mrs. e. II. Ell
dred and Miss Mary Best went over to
Attica, Friday, to see the sugar works.
Bronson & Houchin have moved one
door further west. in the same build
ing. The bank takes their old quarters.
The Presbyterian ladies have been
requested to give another dinner on
election day. which they have consent
ed to.
Wayne Mckinney has moved with
his family from Comanche county to
this city, and is living in the southeast
part of town.
A steady, hard rain fell the night of
the 7th and put the ground in excellent
shape for blowing. The wheat acreage
will be doubled this year in Barber.
Clothing-especially mems suits tor
fall and winter wear, from So up, latest
patterns and most fashionable cut, just
| received and now open. S. Y. & E. Is
A nice job of lettering is that being
done by A. S. McClearey on tomb
stone for the grave of Tommie Stock
still. He has several other orders to
! fill.
| Prof. Blossoms private school started
off, this week, with an enrolment Of
about thirty. The room is pleasantly
located and the pupils start off in great
earnest,
Fine brood mares, work horses, driv-
ing horses and colts for sale cheap by
L. G. Molloy. Time will be given on
good paper at low rate of interest.
Inquire at First National bank is
The quarterly meeting services at the
M. <. church will be held next Sunday.
Communion service in the morning and
preaching by the pastor. The presid-
ing elder will preach in the evening.
Superintendent Cook, in charge of the
government appropriations to encour-
age the manufacture of sorghum sugar,
has been ordered to make a trip to all of
the Kansas plants and he will start out
this week.
The ladies of the Baptist church will
give bean Bag social tomorrow
night, at the residence of Mr.. Cain.
Everybody invited, and a bushel of fun
may be expected. Admission free. Fun
begins at eight o'clock.
The painful rumor reached here this
week, that the republican candidate for
sheriff had attempted to seduce the
good democrats of southeastern town
ship by sending them case of beer. 1t
is to be hoped that this is simply cam
| paign rumor.
Elm Mills township nominated j. NJ.
Reagin for commissioner and they did
it for the purpose of electing him. And
yet Elm Mills township has a citizen
who is candidate tor commissioner,
one Mr.. Cool. Mr.. Reagin lives In
MingOna township.
1t takes a strong wagon and a good
team to haul 5000 pounds of cane
There were more loads, Monday that
weighed less than ton than there were
that weighed more than ton. The
miserable roads leading to town will be
cursed night and day during the next
| three months.
The board of directors ct the Citizens
National bank have elected Frank b.
! Chaplin cashier. This is a good selec-
ton. There is no young man in this
community who stands higher. AS
boy and man he has always conducted
himself in this community SO as to COM
mand the admiration and respect of
every class.
A number of horsemen have decided
to fix up the race track on Judge Ellis
place and speed their animals regular
| ly. That is the piece of ground our
people shonld at once buy for tair
grounds. The forty acre tract Is adj
mirably located and just now it can be
purchased for very reasonable price.
we can name ten men WHO could well
afford to buy that land and dedicate it
to use as fair grounds and a race course.
Big crops and bountiful harvests
make the raisers think of more suhstan-
tial merchandise and family supplies.
With the idea Of Quitting half of the
population OF Barber county DAVIS &
Davis have ordered and are now receiy-
ing the biggest, best and most complete
| stock of general merchandise ever
opened here. They only ask careful
examination into qualities and prices
and know then that they will sell the
! goods. is
Attica Advocate Several of the of
ficials of the st. Louis & SanFrancisco
railway passed through this place in
their elegant official car, last Saturday,
on their way to Medicine Lodge, return
ing east on Monday evening. We do
not pretend to know the object of their
visit. nor has anything transpired up to