Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-01-02
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The Willing Workers will meet with
Mrs Youmans, Wednesday afternoon,
Jan. 9th, 1889. The election of officers
will occur at this meeting, and all mem
bers, and those who wish to join the
society, are cordially invited to attend.
Mrs. Waldron Chase, Sec'y.
We are opposed to spending any
money in blasting or digging at the
west end of the water ditch until some
factory has located here, and proposes
to use the water power. The rock now
makes good bed for the falling water,
and the water itself can easily widen
and deepen the ditch when there is
need for it to be done.
The only amusement yesterday, New
Years day, was big shooting match
for turkeys at S. K. w. Fields. About
fifty men from town and the surround
ing country were present and they shot
with every kind of gun from squir-
rel rifle to forty-four Winchester.
There was some good shooting and
some wild shooting and about twenty
turkeys changed hands.
Kiowa Journal: Work on the salt
well is progressing rapidly, the drill
now being down between three and four
hundred feet. While the drill was 60
ing down, the question of water IF
there had ever been any doubts on the
subject) has been fully solved. Last
Saturday Mr.. Tenant found an mex
haustible supply of pure soft water.
| Within the next week we will probably
know the thickness of the vein of salt
that certainly underlies our town and
vicinity"
In very short time the great gypsum
works of Medicine Lodge will be the
wonder of Kansas. The water that will
furnish power for the works will soon
be running through mile ditch, tap
ping the Medicine river; the road to the
quarries has been laid out and the ma
chinery will be in position, it is be-
lieved, by April 1st. Then it will be
an everyday occurrence to ship out sey-
eraI hundred barrels of plaster of paris,
tons of stucco work and thousands OF
square yards of fire. proof ceiling. This
industry will give employment to at
least fifty men and perhaps more.
Lake City Bee: "There has been
several loads of salt coming into town
from the plains this week. /. Died, to-
day friday, Dec. %, 1888, at her home
five miles north, Mrs. M. G. Bell. She
leaves husband and several children.
-. Frank Gordon returned last Satur-
day from a trip to Colorado where he
went to buy cattle, but he went too late
in the season, as the cattle had been
driven south There were two pony
races run on the race track Monday.
One between Bill Williams Club and
Egbert Fritzlen'S bay, and the latter
won by about foot. The other race
was between Klmbell's sorrel and q
Forest City pony, and in this race the
sorrel came out popping behind the
other"
There should be built at once, in the
courthouse, a vault for the records and
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and we believe that the county CON-
missioners could not make more SEN
sible expenditure Of county money.
The records in that Office directly or in
directly affect about one-half of all the
property in Barber county; perhaps half
of the citizens are plaintiffs, defendants
or bOndSm3n in cases in that court:
hundreds of citizens are interested in
judgments on file in that court; thous-
ands of dollars Of costs, belonging to
witnesses. If the courthouse should
burn, or even if fire should occur in
the clerks Office, these valuable records
could hardly be saved. A good vault
could be built for $500, and perhaps
less. 1t could be put in the southeast
corner of the court room, directly oyer
the treasurer's vault or 1t could be built
from the ground up on the south side.
If the latter plan were adopted, vault
for the sheriff's Office could be provided
with very little additional cost. This
is matter that we hope the commits
sioners will consider at their next meet
ing.