Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-04-17

Call on Cook & Palmer for farm and
city loans. %
Cattle are beginning to show the eff
fects of good range.
Cunninghams want all the yearly in
terest farm loans they can get. Al
DR.. Kari reports boy baby for John
Thomas and wife, born on the 18th.
S. K. Stone and Am. Allen went to
Kingman, on legal business, Sunday.
The children of the M. E. Sunday
school are to have Easter eggs Sunday
morning.
Shannon & Shannon have the ORIGI-
NAL and MOST RELIABLE abstract books
of Barber county. Al
Appropriate Easter services at the
courthouse next Sunday morning. No
service in the evening.
Miss Burgess has resumed her place
in the public school, after three weeks
absence on account of sickness.
They have a fine young Wilkes colt
at the Miller & Benedict ranch, foaled
last week. Already Eli says $500 would
not buy it.
The Hazelton Express Office, books
and goodwill are for sale, cheap, the
owners say. Address Brown Bros,
HazeltOn, Kansas.
Mr.. ROBBIE, brother of Mrs. A. L. No
BILE, arrived here Saturday, from Colo
RADIO, and yesterday he started to Okla
homa, to look at the country.
Thursday evening. May I'd, the build
ing association Will sell money to any
stakeholder who may want it. Now is
the time to build, for the money sells
low.
On the 18th, in this city, William G.
BristOw, of Medicine Lodge, and l..
Nettie Armstrong, of Loogootee, Ind,
were united in marriage by Judge Lo-
rem Edwards.
q. 1. Human and DR.. Gillette went
out yesterday, and discovered, not far
from town, a first-class article of fire.
clay, something that will be worth big
money to this county.
Don't forget to mention that the ca
pacity of the sorghum sugar plant has
been increased to $50 tons of cane per
day. The original proposition was to
put in 200-ton plant.
Do you want to have sale ? If so
come to the INDEX and let us print
your bills. There is no case on record
where sale was not a success when
the INDEX printed the bills.
Rumor has it that an enterprlsing
firm has ordered shipped to Guthrie,
Oklahoma, car load OF collins which,
it is expected, will be sold out on the
22d or few days thereafter.
Roll. Clark came in from the west
last night, much to the delight of his
wife and friends. 1t was feared that he
had been foully dealt with as he had not
been heard from for several days.
A letter from our old friend Switzer
has been received; but as it is not a
news letter, but discussion of a sub
ject that the people appear to be tired
of reading about, we will not publish it.
Capt. Estell and family arrived at
their destination, Jennings, Louisiana,
on st. Patrick's day. The captain is
well pleased with the country and
thinks the move will prove beneficial
to him.
The ladies of the M. E. aid society
will have an ice cream and cake festi.
val at the residence of John Higgins,
Thursday evening, April 18th. Fifteen
cents for cream and cake. Mrs. A. NJ.
Houchin, secretary.
d. VanSlyke is attending to the cane
business for Eldred 81 Human, making
the contracts, distributing the seed and
directing the planting. He is making
a study of the business and expects to
be an expert before the season is over.
Wellington Monitor: "Mrs. Ida Til
den, wife of Harry Tilden, living four
and one-half miles northwest of this
city, died Wednesday morning. The
funeral services were held at the Burres
cemetery, Rev. Father Bitter officia-
ting"
Every Barber county citizen is glad
that D. T. Flynn, of Kiowa, was ap-
pointed postmaster at Guthrie. He
will remember his Barber county friends
and should any Of the boys get broke
down there he will be just the man to
tap for small loan to get home on.
A poem warning the farmers against
mOrtgaging their homesteadS is before
us. The verses and rhymes are I'M
dOubtedly original with the writer but
the subject is worn threadbare. Poetry,
in this age, must suggest original ideas
to be acceptable. So "Rollie Roe" will
have to try again.
Ladies, the pleasant weather is here
and you should return the calls made
on you, and visit the new people who
have come to town this winter. OF
course you would not think of going
out without your visiting cards. Ifyou
have none, come in and let us print
package for you.
Another hard rama regular gully
washer-fell last night, lasting about
six hours. 1t is estimated that fully
two inches of water fell. This morn
ing, Wednesday, pools of water are
standing everywhere and the ground is !
thoroughly soaked. Considerable hail
accompanied the rain last night.
9. d, Nelson left here Saturday for
Denver, Colorado. by direction of the
United States authorities as witness