Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-12-04

Hubbard the JeWeler for Christmas
presents.
The McNeal Mortgage Company
makes speciality of short time loans. 8
Elder Nation will preach at the Chris
tian church next Sunday morning and
night.
Do not forget to see the line of novel
ties for Christmas presents at Hubbard
the jewelers..
Ladies, in giving outinvitatlons, etc.,
be careful to distinguish between after
noon and evening.
w. II. McCague is furnishing his en-
larged house in nice shape and he will
move there in January.
A boy was born to the wife of Frank
Strong, of the Grand hotel, Friday, No
yember 18th. DR.. Gould.
Born, to the wife of I. Lopez, a boy.
The event occurred on the 22d of last
month, DR.. KOciell says.
The old folks social meetings can
have more fun to the minute than any
combination we have ever attended.
1t is said that where cane seed was
thrown on the ground that voluntary
crop will srring up next season and give
the farmers much trouble.
The following were elected trustees
of the NJ E. church last week: DR..
Moore, w. w. Cook, John Higgins, A.
NJ. HOuchin and j. A. Vandermark.
There is an old saying that the first
three days of December rule the win
ter. If the saying should prove true
this season, we will have no winter TO
speak of.
w. E. Cook and wife entertained the
social club on thanksgiving night, in
honor of Mr.. Nair, of COIwich, who was
visiting them. This was their first en-
tertainment. and they succeeded like
old folks.
Mr.. Sanborn, government chemist,
having completed his labors at the SUI
earworks here, Will leave this week for
Washington. He made many friends
here and it is hoped he may be stationed
here next season.
Thanksgiving night, the young folks
from that neighborhood and several
from town, we're treated to an enjoya-
BILE dance at the home of Jared Hoag,
seven miles west 1t lasted until sun
up Friday morning.
That big lot of holiday goods that A.
! S. McClearey bought while east, will
be opened up at the Postoffice Book
store Saturday, November 30th. Eve
rybody invited to come in, whether they
want to buy or not q
1t appears that OF. Boyd, of Kiowa,
will be the under-sheriff under j. w.
Dobson. He is very pleasant and &C
commodating gentleman and will more
; than likely prove to be a popular official.
He is brother of Mrs. Frank Holmes,
/, of this city.
DR.. Kociell wishes to announce to
: those troubled with asthma, bronchitis
or consumption that he is making fresh
y oxygen almost daily, and he is now
: ready to treat those affected with chest
or lung troubles, for which oxygen gas
, is the best cure known. %
| Mrs. i. Dodge, of Wichita, accom-
panied by her daughter, Miss Fay, was
here last week visiting her sister, Mrs.
d. A. McCanless. She returned home,
Saturday, taking with her Maud Nc
Canless, who will spend the winter in
e Wichita.
The Watts divorce case from Hazel
g ton will probably be the richest case
ever tried in the district court of this
county. A preliminary motion will
come up Saturday, but the main case
J, will not come off until February. Mrs.
B, Watts did not burn the letters she re-
ceived, though it seems that she induced
r her husband to burn those she wrote.
q The courtship was conduced by cores
/. pOndence. Both parties to the case
have grown children.
q The Union Sunday school, at Mingo-
ma, Henry Shamberger, superintendent,
and j. A. Burner, secretary, closed Dec.
lst nine months term, commencing
| March list. Total number of scholars
, present for the term in class one, 274; in
class two, 3T9; in class three, 202; in
class four, 223. Average daily atten-
dance, SO. Number of verses commit
l. ted to memory from the bible in class
three, 237; in class four, l5o. Visitors,
: 06. The school will open again in the
spring, when the :ed weather is over.
Two young men of this city-one, We
. are sorry to say, an attache of the INDEX
a started out, last Thursday afternoon,
to hunt quails. their pointer being a
very pretty spotted coach-dOg, the prop
erty of NJ. w. Hunter. They had been
: told that the dog was especially bred
for hunting quSils, and they swallowed
the story. Just to show the dog what
was wanted, one of the party fired of
his gun, and the dog made blue streak
for home, and never stopped until he
: got there. Everybody but bank clerks
and printers knows that coach dog is
> unfit for anything on earth but to look
pretty, and to be whipped by ''yaller''
ours.
We are duly thankful that we have
the thriftiest town in Kansas, and that
!, we have the solid foundation on which
to build hopes for future prosperity.
: We have the best soil in the state fol-
j growing sorghum cane; the best for
: growing sugar beets, and the best sugar
mill in the world TO use up these pro-
ducts. We have unlimited piles of the
o 6nasf OvnSum and will soon have tho
!, finest gypsum WORKS in the United
: States. We have fine schools, good
= church buildings, a law-abiding people