Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-05-01
LOCAL NEWS.

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Strong & Strong shipped cattle and
hogs east last week.
Call and see Bronson 81 Houchin if
you want to make a loan. 4S
Born. April %, 1889, to the wife of
DIR. L. b. Gillette, a son.
You can buy the Light Buckeye Fold
ing Binder at S. p. Coan's. IS
Mrs. G. T.. Freeman is spending few
weeks with relations at Coldwater.
Sixteen pounds of the best Prunes in
town for 81, at Il. X. Herrington's. As
Bronson s. Houchin have an album
dance of money to loan on good farms.
Shannon a. Shannon have the cinch
on all others in the farm loan business.
Prof. j. N. Wilcox, of Kiowa, was here
Saturday, attending the examination of
teachers.
Every abstract made by Bronson q
Houchin is guaranteed to be absolutely
correct. As
Go to S. p. Coan's for your garden
seeds. Also millet and cane seed and
fine seed corn. 4S
The latest, tenderest and best beef
at the Central meat market, opposite
1st National bank. 4
Typewriter paper, extra heavy, legal,
letter or note size, plain or printed, at
the INDEX Office. 48
S. z. Coan sells the Walter A. Wood
Single Apron Harvester. Something
new; go and see it. As
The city council will meet in regular
session on Monday night. 1t formerly
met on Wednesday night.
Rev. G. w. Owens. of Sun City, will
supply the Baptist church pulpit, of this
city, next Sunday evening.
A light frost occurred here last night.
1t probably hurt the tender garden veg
etables, but the fruit was not seriously
injured.
Facts-If we have not the best corn
and tomatoes in town, at 10 cents per
can, we will give them to you. B. K.
Harrington. 4S
The cold rain Sunday night and Mon
day morning put out the lights of the
few chinch bugs that were prospecting
in this county.
Excursion rates to all western points
are now on sale at the depot. There has
been a considerable cut under regular
rates to all western points.
Mrs. Nation, wife of Elder, arrived
from Texas, last Wednesday, and will
remain here with her husband. She is
a very pleasant and intelligent lady.
Mrs. r. G. Williams desires to have
1t understood that Mrs. Anna Savage
is not her daughter. She says that she
was hired by the woman's father to
nurse her, and that is all she had to do
with the case.
There is a good demand here for la
boTers and teams and no one need re-
main idle day or an hour if he wants
to work. After July 1st, this commu-
nifty cannot half supply the demand for
teams and workmen.
The Band of Hope will give an enter
tainment, consisting of songs and rec
itations, by the little children, on Fri
day evening, May Sd, beginning at s
O'Clock, at the Presbyterian church.
Admission only 8 cents.
A gentleman who has been there, said
to Us this week that he did not believe
that one Oklahoma settler IN twenty
had money enough to buy team, farm
implements, lumber, or even food
enough to supply his family for thirty
days.
The Byerley & Dark stock of goods
IS being sold out as fast as three men
can hand them down and make change.
Those who want bargains should call
in early. There is now vast lot to Sc
lect from, but it is getting smaller eY-
cry day. 40
There is no man in Barber county,
who knows Sheriff Stevens, who will
believe for one moment that Spencer
would have escaped from him, or that
he would have been permitted to go to
KiOwa, or anywhere else, hunting Tor
DOndsmen.
Farmers who contemplate buying a
new Binder should not fail to see the
DeeriDg all steel Irvine Binder, and
also ask their neIghbOrs who have used
them for the past three and four years,
as to the satisfaction they give. Noble
u Nixon, agents. 49t4
Goes for cash just now We are great
ly in need of money, and Will make it
TO the interest of anybody to trade at
the Red Front Store for the next thirty
days. Business is business. We have
the goods, and your money will get
them cheap. B. X. Harrington. IS
Last week, seven families of 'boom-
ers" from New Mexico, on their way to
Oklahoma, we're induced to stop here
and try their fortunes in Barber county.
They have all secured land which they
will farm. The return tide from Okla
homa will drop hundreds of families in
Barber county.
Persons desiring to reach Wichita IN
the evening in time to transact business
or attend an entertainment, can leave
here on the l0o'clock train, 90 to Hazel
ton or KiOwa, and from either of these
places take the Missouri Pacific and ar
rive at Wichita at 8 O'Clock, p. m. This
will be great convenience to the trav-
cling public.
The machinery for the Attica sugar.
works, or a considerable part of it, is
on the ground. 1t is an old, second
hand outfit, used years ago at Cham
paign, Illinois. 1t may be that new
machinery is to be added TO the Attica