Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-05-08
Monday was a dusty day.

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rains Monday.
Cook & Palmer give lowest rates or
farm and city loans. Is
Coffee. % cents pound, at Standi.
ford, Youmans 81 EIdred's. so
The Grand hotel wind mill went down
under the storm Sunday night.
Cunninghams want all the yearly in
terest farm loans they can get. IL
Creamery butter always on hand, al
Stamford, Youmans g. Eldred's. so
S. p. Coan is just getting in new lot
of flour. Prices to suit the times. AS
Shannon g. Shannon have the oRIGI-
NAL and MOST RELIABLE abstract books
of Barber county. AZ
Noble 81 Nixon can name you low
price on binding Irvine, as they bought
before the advance. 49t4
The Ladies' Aid society of the NJ. E.
church will meet with Mrs. Scott Allen
Friday afternoon.
Flannel shirts are all the go. We have
neat line of latest patterns. Come and
see them. S. Y. &E. so
We have the only COMPLETE AND
CORRECT set of abstract books in Bar
Der county. Bronson & Houchin. As
DR.. BurDey and wife celebrated their
18th wedding anniversary last Thurs
day. May they live to celebrate as many
more.
all of the people from College Hill,
except three, have returned from Okla
homa, well satisfied with their lot in
Barber county.
Attorney w. S. Denton was yesterday
appointed special county attorney for
the prosecution of the case of the State
against Geo. w. Aver.
Hazelton High Patent Crown Flour,
the best that is made, price reduced to
$1.55 per sack; other goods equally low,
at B. X. HerringtOn's. As
A firm in this city last week adver-
tised special article for sale in the two
papers, and on Saturday, alone, sold
500 worth of this article. 1t pays to
advertise.
Ladies, at no place in the county can
you have such variety from which to
select your shoes. We are well stocked
up in this line. The finest and best are
the cheapest. S. Y. & E. so
1t is understood that there are six APP
plicants for the Office of marshal and
street commissioner, these being L. l..
O'Bryan, 7. NJ. Kidd, John Shannon,
b. T. Woodland, Lee Corson and George
Conlisk.
Our new clothing, for spring and sum-
mer, better selected than ever before,
in light diagonals, worsteds, cheviOts,
and other popular patterns, just receiv-
ed and we'll worth examining. Standi-
ford, Youmans 81 Eldred. so
\ 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. 48
Ambrose Lawrence is finishing mp a
neat residence in the north end of town.
1t contains three rooms above ground,
two basement rooms, and cellar. The
walls are filled with concrete, from the
foundation up to the windows in the
second story. Wind can have no effect
on such buildings.
Noble & Nixon are headquarters for
the Deerlng all steel Irvine Binders,
the best and most popular binders on
earth. More Deerings in use in Kan
sas than any other. More Deerings IN
use IN Barber county than any other
WHY? Because they are an all steel
machine, and are more durable than
other makes. 49,
Our gypsum hills, which have always
been pointed at in ridIcule by our neigh.
boring counties, will soon be a source
of great wealth. Marble quarries will
be developed, beyond any doubt; and
when the gypsum works begin to ship
their products. the money coming into
the county from that source will be fell
in every avenue of trade.
Attorney T. G. Cutlip returned from
Guthrie, Ok, this week, to look after
his business in the district court. He
expects to return to Guthrie in a few
weeks. He is delighted with the out.
look In the new country and says thai
all reports of murders, starvation and
suffering are untrue; that there is much
valuable land there and that thousands
of people who have gone there have bet
tered their condition. He thinks it is
the disappointed ones who can see nc
good in Oklahoma.
In connection with the waterworks
being constructed by the sugarworks
proprietors, Eldred & Human, they
think OF establishing an extensive sysl
TEN of baths, west of the works, in the
beautiful grove, to be supplied also with
hot water from the boilers. The lake
will be fitted up with neat boats as
soon as completed, and picnic grounds
will be cleared out for use this year
The indications are that this will be
the greatest pleasure resort in South.
ern Kansas. 1t viii only be 3 question
of time when summer hotel will be
built near the lake.
There are no idle men on the streets
of Medicine Lodge, begging for work
There is plenty of work for all now
and the probability is that laborers will
have to be brought in to supply the
demand. Our farmers are cultlvatine
more land than usual, and are using
more chelp. The work on the sugar
plant and its accessories has absorbed
about all the help to be found in town