Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-12-11
Read Cunnlngham's new money ad.

Read CunnIngham's new money ad.
Cook & Palmer give lowest rates on
farm and city loans. %
Rev. r. Hahn is attending the Empo-
ria presbytery at Wichita, this week.
Cash paid for hides and furs at the
me.>t market opposite First National
bank.
Born. D'ecember 5th, 1889, to the wife
of Green hTris, in this city, son.
DIR. Burney.
For books, slatio merry, toys or notions,
with an endless sto,' 10 select trom'
90 to tho Postofflce Boo %store' 20
Bear fighting, with MAJ dressed up
! in a gunny sack to represent the bear
is the latest fun the boys have at uighC'
VIM. Martin lost his pocket book ct'n-
tanning SIS at the M. Z. church last
Sunday morning. He did not miss it
until Tuesday.
The dance at the opera house last
Friday night was well attended. The
new orchestra was highly complimented
on their good music.
Their eleventh child was born to Jas.
Downen and wife, of Mule creek, on
the eth. DIR. Moore SAYS it was boy
and weighed twelve pounds without a
stitch of clothes on.
The largest and most complete stock
nf N oil of
Bookstore. Nothing like it i'll the
county. Can wholesale to country deal
sers, and save them money. %
The Royal Arch election will occur
Dece .mber 26th instead of the 18th, as
previously advertised. The Blue lodge
election will occur on the 2lst. The
Eastern Star election will occur on the
18th.
Prof. Loisette's Memory System is
creating greater interest than ever in
all parts of the country, and persons
wishing to improve their memory should
:send for his prospectus free as adver-
tised in another column. ga
II. M. Ingraham is still in the loan
aEnd collection business, at his old stand
and will make any kind of personal
or real estate loan on farm or city prop
q. ~ty. and will buy township, city, cOun-
ty :, " school scrip or orders. %
On he SOth ult., daughter was born
IN the =, fife J. l.. Ellsworth, and Dec.
I'd Mrs +, ed Hardy presented her hus-
band with n daughter. Mr.. Hardy and
Mrs Ellsworth are son and daughter of
Judge Hardy. o, this city. Both coup
lea were married ne same day, Decem-
Der D, 1888, In this Wy.
BY order of the couI. ell The city mar
shall requests that every 'oedy clean up
the rear of their premises, 0oth fesiden-
ces and business houses. 4 here IS TOO
much old plunder-boxes, b. Trels, pa
per, straw and weeds in the re sr OF the
stores, that might cause big I'll e. ana
around many private houses are slops
and filth in yards and alleys that may
cause diphtheria or other disease. The |
marshal says that if a general cleanin g |
up does not occur he will have the work :
done at the expense of the property
owners.
The Cresset got clear off of its base,
last week, on the school house item.
The INDEX nor either of its editors eyer
questioned the honesty of any member
of the school board; neither of its edi-
tors ever said that he proposed TO see
that every dollar that passed through
the hands of the board was properly ac-
counted for. The INDEX, nor either Of
its editors, has any luminosity towards
any member of the school board; in
fact we are on the most friendly terms
with the three members composing the
board. We do not even know which
member the Cresset referred 10 when it
said that we were unfriebdly with one
OF them. So what is the matter with
our dyspectic neighbor? If the INDEX
rs not right in asking that the contrac-
tor he required to pay the expense the
district has been TO on account of the
delay in completing the new building,
the board does not haze to adopt our
views. There is nothing compulsory
;about il