Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-03-27
LOCAL NEWS.
Peach trees are in bloom.

r. A. Chapter tomorrow night. Work
in the NJ. E. degree.
Something new and original in visit
ing cards, at the INDEX office.
The county commissioners will meet
Monday, April Sth, one week from next
Monday.
The latest, tenderest and best beef
at the Central meat market, opposite
1st National bank.
Another door has been cut in the
county clerks Office. Winter " Brown
did good job of work.
Rev. North will preach next Sunday
morning on blind Bartimeus = in the
evening, on"The Power of the Tongue. "
Z. II. Logan, of this city, has been
appointed AS one of the grand lodge
committee on laws of the a. .. u. w.
For councilmen-fve men who will
regard the wishes Of their constituents,
when publicly and clearly expressed.
Removal of Ingraham 81 O'Brian, alb
stract and loan Office TO South Main
street, doors south of First National
bank. AZ
The very latest and prettiest designs
in visiting cards, at the INDEX office.
You will have to wait but an hour after
leaving your order.
Our stock of Boots and Shoes is COM
plete. We can fit you in any style, at
prices sure to be satisfactory. Standi'
ford, Youmans u Eldred. 30
Abstracts to any land in Barber coun-
ty furnished on short notice. Terms to
suit the times and satisfaction guaran-
teed. Ingraham Il O'Brian. AZ.
Rev. w. IL, Gillian will be located at
Harper during the coming year as pas
tor of the M. Il. church at that place.
Harper is to be congratulated.
For 80 days we will give you cut prices
on all dry goods, clothing, boots, shoes,
hats, caps, etc. Money refunded if this
is not the truth. Davis ~ Davis. 20
Fred. CLANCY, former conductor on
the route TO this place, who has been
spending two years in the west, was
here this week, visiting old friends.
Hubbard, the jeweler, is preparing to
move to the burst room, across the
street. The room is being fitted up
with a glass front, and other modern
improvements.
We assure you polite attention, cour-
teous treatment, honorable dealing and
first-class stock from which TO make
your selections, and guarantee satisfac-
ton. Stamford, YOumans 81 Eldred.
The NJ. +. conference located Rev. r.
Sanderson here for another year. Rey.
Hodgson is the presiding elder for the
district. Lake City and Sun City will
be supplied by Rev. Roberts, as we UNI
deTstand 1t.
Coldwater Review: "W. 5. Denton,
of Medicine Lodge, this week entered
suit before Squire Miles against the u.
L. church for S75 for services rendered
in the case of the church against the G..
X. ~ w. railroad"
Mr.. o. NJ. Sopene, who left here some
four weeks ago, to return to his old
home at Manhattan, continued to grow
weaker, and died on the 18th inst. He
leaves a-wife and one child. Mrs. So
pene's father and mother live i'll this
county.
George milford, of this city, was mar
ried, OH Sunday, the 24th inst, to Miss
Edith Lammiman, at the Kline farm,
near this city, Rev. Sanderson oflicia-
ting. A small party of friends witness
ed the ceremony. The happy couple
have gone east on two weeks visit.
w. G. Bristow has just moved here
from Kingman, with first-class out
fit, and will about the first of April,
open a candy factory, confectionery,
fruit depot and ice cream parlor. He
has rented the room adjoining Day a.
Records drugstore, on the north, and
will open the most complete parlors
ever established here.
We saw hog tight fence west of
Mingona the other day that appeared to
be cheap yet durable The builder had
split cottonwood timber into pieces two
feet long and about two inches square,
and these he had fastened together with
strands of wire properly twisted around
the slaves, which are placed from two
to three inches apart, and makes hog
fence as good as the patent fence that
is made at Winfield and sold here.
Barber county has gained two good
citizens, with their families, In the per-
sons of Rolla G. PaTdee and Julian
Clark. of New Milford, Illinois, whose
wives are cousins of Eli G. Benedict
These gentlemen have taken charge of
the western half Of the Miller n Bene-
dict extensive stock farm, near this city,
They will have charge of the horses and
the Holstein cattle. Eli Benedict will
have charge of the eastern half of the
farm, and will devote his attention to
the fine hogs and feeding cattle. These
three gentlemen, Benedict, Pardee and
Clark, are all practical stock men, and
they will continue to add to the attrac-
lions of the, Medicine Lodge Stock Farm
until it is the best equipped and best
stocked farm in this part of the state.
Died-At the home of her son-in-law.
John L. Shannon, in this city, at four
O'Clock, p. m, Friday, March ~, 1889,
of general debility and old age, Mrs. Alb
igaIl GRANGE Deceased, whose maiden
name was Johnson, was born in Hamp
shire county, Virginia, April s, 1907.
Her parents moved to New Harmony,
Indiana, in 1910, and soon afterward To-
pntpd i'm what ia nOW Sullivan pountv
where deceased spent most of her life.
and where she was married. She was
the mother of eight children. SIX vet