Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-05-01
The creamery is running.

y. L. Hlnman went east, Sunday, to
buy lumber tor the sugarworks.
s. p. Coan is just getting in a new lot
of flour. Prices to suit the times. 48
Shannon & Shannon have the oRIGI-
NAL and MOST RELIABLE abstract books
of Barber county. Al
Setting up the Kindom,' Will be the
subject of discourse at the Christian
church Sunday night.
Rev. w. A. Cain and wife will be abb
sent a few days. on trip to Des Moines,
Iowa, their former home.
We have the only COMPLETE AND
CORRECT set of abstract books in Bar
Der county. Bronson & Houchin. 4S
It looked like business, yesterday, to
see the farmers driving in with their
new milk cans, filled with milk for the
creamery.
Eugene Youmans is spending few
weeks at Sallda, Colorado, where he is
interested, with his brother Ed, in the
mercantile business.
Hazelton High Patent Crown Flour,
the best that is made, price reduced to
$l.55 per sack other goods equally low,
at b. X. Herrington's. 48
Cashier MolIOy and Attorneys Denton
and Long and the senior of this paper,
ate Sunday dinner at the Hardwick
house, Kiowa, last Sunday.
Frank McAlister was here last week,
from Lakin, on his way to Oklahoma
with seven yoke of oxen which he ex-
pected to sell there to settlers.
A pleasant time is assured all persons
who attend the May Reception, given
by the young ladies Of the Presbyter-
ian church, at ThOmpson's opera house,
this evening.
Eagle: abilene aspires to the dis
function OF being called the Lexington
of the west on account of the special
attention given to horseology, but she
has to be awful speedy if she gets away
with Medicine Lodge"
r. E. Kathrens and Miss Mamie Hor-
ton, a well known young couple of this
city, were married last Wednesday
evening, oath ult., at the Usage hotel,
Rev. R. SandersOn officiating, The best
wishes of the INDEX are extended.
A select school, for six weeks. tuition
81, beginning May 20, will be conducted
by Misses Burgess and Pursell if enough
pupils can be secured to make 1t prof
liable. Those who wish to send pupils
please let them know at once. 4S
j. K. Stone, of this county, has Sc
cured the contract for transferring all
the government supplies from Wood
ward to FIT. Supply, 1. T.; also the con-
tract for furnishing 400 tons of coal.
He will go down this week. His family
will visit at Wichita, for the present.
How would it do to have big cele-
bratiOn here July 4th, with excursions
from every direction. to give everybody
an opportunity to visit this city, and
look at our sugar works, gypsum works,
creamery, lake, electric lights, the new
school house, and the widest-awake
city in Kansas ?
Mr.. Smith, manager of the Hazelton
Stock Farm, said to us this week that
he considered his trip here last week
with his horses, to the horse show, was
the best advertisement he could have
devised, The returns are already COM
ing in, several farmers from this vicini-
ty having hunted up the farm and it's
horses.
The commissioners, T. L. O'Bryan,
II. NJ. Ingraham and G. G.. Taliaferro,
appointed to condemn the land and lots
for the waterworks reservoir, and the
ditch leading to it, have been busy this
week, and will soon have their report
filed. Attorney McNeaI and Surveyor
Aber have also been doing some steady
work in this case.
Henry burst entertained half dozen
friends very pleasantly last evening at
his home in this city. He and his very
children are natural musi-
clans and last evening they both sur
prlsed and delighted their hearers. A
lHnch, palatable, but not easily OBJ
tanned in this dry climate, was spread,
and thoroughly enjoyed by the guests.
But for the timely interference of
Rev. Cain, of the Baptist church, Sun
day evening, the Presbyterian church
would have been destroyed by fire. A
lamp had communicated blaze to the
Easter decorations, that had dried out,
and no one was In the church to stop
the flames. Rev. Cain was passing and
took in the situation and stopped what
would have been a serious conhagra-
ton.
April 30, 1884, five years ago, yester-
day, occurred in this city the attempted
bank robbery and terrible tragedy, in
which George Geppert, the cashier, and
E. w. Payne, the president, of the Med
iclne Valley bank, were killed. The
robbers, four in number, were appre-
hended the same day, and that night
three Of them were hanged and one shot
to death while attempting to make his
escape. That was the saddest day in
the history Of Medicine Lodge.
Riley Robinson, of Kiowa, was up
Saturday, accompanied by his father,
R. II. Robinson, one of the old time res
idents and most respected citizens of
Howard county, Missouri. Mr.. Robin
son is nearly seventy-five years old and
fifty years ago he was selling goods In
Howard county. He is related to many
of the old families of central Missouri.
Though passed his three-score-
and ten, Mr.. Robinsoa is bale and hear
ty, vigorous III mind and body. and with
his six feet, four and one-half inches of