Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-12-11
Doll-Day December l4th.

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Go to Henry Morgan for your farm
loans. IL
Call on Cook & Palmer for farm and
city loans. %
Cunninghams want all the yearly in
terest farm loans they can get. IL
Charley Painter and his cornet are
quite an addition to the NJ. E. church
choir.
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
lst National bank.
The A. o. U. w. election will occur
Friday night, 18th inst. A full attend
ance of members is requested.
The Baptists now hold their prayer
meetings, on Wednesday evenings, in
their chapel, east of the Grand hotel.
T. G. Molloy will leave, Friday, for a
few weeks visit to his parents at Jop-
I lin, Missouri. We are glad to mention
that it is Toms intention to return
here and make this his permanent stop
ping place.
That big lot of holiday goods that A.
S. McClearey bought while east, will
be opened up at the PostOffice Book
store Saturday, November Both. Eve
rybody invited to come in, whether they.
want to buy or not. Y
The talk is now that there will be
big shooting match for turkeys near the
Field place, north of town, on Satur-
day, December 28th. The shoots will
be classed so that almost any kind of a
gun and any distance may be selected.
Mrs. Annie L. Jones, sister Of Mrs.
d. A. McCanless, of this city, died sud
denly, at Wichita, last Friday, 9Th inst,
of heart disease. Mr.. and Mrs. McCan-
less went up last Saturday to attend the
funeral, which occurred at Wichita on
Sunday afternoon.
There are hundreds of small punches
Of steers being fed in this county-gen-
orally IN lots of 20 to 80. Corn can be
had anywhere in the county at Is cents,
delivered; and down IN the southeast
part Of the county 1t has been selling as
low as cents; but 10 cents was more
frequently obtained.
The New Orleans Item, published
daily, every afternoon, is me special SUI
gar paper of Louisiana and ~ '"tes
much time and space to the Kansas SUI |
gar industry. Those who would take
good southern paper, one that tells of
the progress being made in that coun-
try and elsewhere III the sugar bust |
ness, should remember the Daily CITY |
Item.
The Barber and Harper County Horse |
Breeders association will meet in adj |
journed session at Hazelton on Salur-
day, l4th inst, at o'clock p. M sharp. |
The object of the meeting is to fix the |
time and place for the summer meeting
of 1890 and to fix the stakes and for the |
election of officers. Every member of |
the association is requested to be pres
ent. Those desiring to become mem
bers may put in their application ut that
time. The membership fee is 81 and
the annual dues are 81.
The young ladies will give "Griddle
Cake Social tomorrow, Thursday.
night, at O'Clock, in rooms 4, 5 6, up
stars, in the Cook Flats. 1t will be
novel departure from usual entertain
ments. The young ladies viii put the
batter on the griddles, and the young
gentlemen will show their skill in turn
ing the cakes. The most skilltul will
receive medal. and the most awkward
will receive the BOBBY prize. Products
of Barber county alone will be used.
White -four, Graham -four, buckwheat
-four and corn meal, from Elm Mills
and Hazelton viii be used for batter
Our creamery will supply butter, cheese
and buttermilk. The sugar works will
supply sorghum syrup, sorghum sugar
drips, beet sugar drips, Eldred's Fancy
Maple Drips, ETC. The occupants of
the Flats will all throw their doors open
to visitors. Room is general recep-
ton room. bachelors Retreat oc-
cupied by the Shaw brothers. will for:
the first time keep open doors. Laugh
able games for old and young. Plenty
of room. Come everybody, and bring
the babies.