Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-04-03
LOCAL NEWS.
Bring on another boss 7


The BAPTIST Sunday school now meets
at 10 O'Clock, a. m.
Cook Il Palmer give lowest rates on
farm and city loans. %
Dobbs Bros. sold four car loads Of
seed oats this spring.
Something new and original in visit
ing cards, at the INDEX Office.
A. l.. Noble will bring his family
home from Winfield this week.
billiard Hutchins is able to be out.
His leg was broken Christmas day.
The latest, tenderest and best beef
at the Central meat market, opposite
LIST National bank. 4
Mrs. s. A. Warner arrived from Cali
fornia last Friday on a visit to her
father, S. Taber, and family.
DR.. ID. F. Holmes, of Vernon county,
Missouri, is here visiting his sisters,
Mesdames Hall and Runyan.
Is the Cresset satisfied, or would it
have the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ques-
ton again submitted to the people?
The Presbyterian church is receiving
new coat of paint, which speaks well
for the prosperity of the congregation.
Mrs. T. l.. O'Bryan returned from
Englewood, Sunday. She left her sis
ter, Mrs. Standiford. much improved III
health.
The school board are contemplating a
scheme to straighten Walnut street and
get a lot more of land for the school
house grounds.
Mrs. Nixon and Mrs. Bronson are Wis
iting at Winfield, and their husbands
are taking care of each other and hav-
ing a pleasant time.
Jefferson Long, of Hardtner, and
Miss Addie Collins, of Sharon, were
married at Sharon March 81, Rev. ID.
NJ. Smith officiating.
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 81 Eldred. 80
Hubbard, the jeweler, has moved into
his new quarters on the west side of
Main street, opposite Herrington's.
He is comfortably fixed up.
The people were too busy voting to
perpetrate many April Fool jokes. The
greatest joke attempted to be perpetra-
ted was the Ladies' ticket.
The Royal Arch degree will be con-
ferred by Cyprus chapter, of this city,
Thursday evening, April IL. Compan-
ions are earnestly invited to be present.
Our Grocery Department is fully
stocked with fresh, first-class goods,
that are cheaper than seconds" at any
price. Standiford, Youmans & Eldred.
Rev. North and DR.. Gould were out
on geological research last Friday and
had runaway and breakdown and
had to walk to town from the gypsum
hills.
Sheriff Stevens saw Sam Northcraft
at Osawatomie last week. and says that
he has gained eighteen pounds in weight
and is practically well, mentally and
physically.
S. z. Coan has moved his feed and
grain store into the room lately occu-
pied by Howard & Newkirk, who were
in the same business, on the west side
of Main street.
MOtter got off the best one. Said he
"What is the use of voting for Joe Nc
Neal He's got money enough to live
on, without that office; give it to some
man that needs it,"
Persons wishing to improve their
memories or strengthen their power Of
attention should send to Prof. Loisette,
237 Fifth Ave-, N. Y, for his prospect
AIS, post free, as advertised in another
column. AZ
The Earnest Workers of the Presby-
terrain church Will give 1O-cent social
at the residence of Sheriff Stevens, on
Thursday evening. They will serve
good lunch and hope to see a large
crowd.
And now if there is any ex-mayor of
Medicine Lodge who has been hesita-
ting about leaving town fol- the towns
good, we would respectfully inform him
in the name of 27S good citizens that
there is no string tied to him.
KinGman will not have sugarworks
this year. There was a local fight
raised against the proposition to vote
township aid. and the company de-
clined to proceed. There are few COM
munities where the people generally act
more in harmony than they do at Medl-
cine Lodge, especially where any pub
lie enterprise is at stake.
Wichita Eagle Medicine Lodge
evidently feels like it had been elected.
1t wanted waterworks and sugarworks
and it has practically secured both. The
index feels so jolly over the situation
and outlook that it hollers 'hoopla =
Evidently Medicine Lodge has caught
on to the Wichita way of doing things;
that is, when you want anything go
fetch it, and don't depend on somebody
else"
Now that the battle is over, and the
people have again expressed themselves
as satisfied with the course of the city
administration in making the contract
for the sugarworks and waterworks,
let us all pull together, and once more
work in harmony for this city and coun.
ty. No local fight should ever be start
ed I'm this city that will last twenty
four hours after the polls are closed.
We cannot afford to stay mad at each
other longer than that. 1t is under
stood now that we are to have no more
kicking for another year, at least.
Nine-tenths of the ladies of this city
are opposed to voting or taking any ac-