Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-09-11

Ice cream, fruits, soda wator and everything
In the confectionery line. AZ
Read Cunnlngham's new money ad.
Go to Henry Morgan for your farm
loans. IL
The Harper fair will commence Sep
TENDER 18th.
Call on Cook Il Palmer for farm and
city loans. %
Old papers for sale at this Office
for 10 cents. II
Fifty men were regularly employed
at the sugarworks, Monday morning.
The McNeal Mortgage Company
makes a Especially of short time loans. 3
Boardman f. Smith was over from
Coldwater this week, and on business,
too.
Mems suits, every size. for the stout
or slim, the best stock ever shown here,
by far. S. Y. Il f. Is
See Il. l.. Lindley, manager, for year
ly interest farm loans; also short time
chattel loans. 3
Ladies Aid Society of the NJ. E.
church meets Friday afternoon with
Mrs. IIouchin.
George Weaver, printer who worked
in this Office several years ago, died at
Harper, last week.
The latest, tenderest and best beef
NJ the Central meat market, opposite
LIST National bank.
w. NJ. Carroll has moved his furni-
.tdre repair shop into the rear of Ingra-
ham 81 O'Brian's office, on Main street.
The Willing Workers will meet with
Mrs. Al. Jones, Wednesday afternoon,
Sept. 18th. Mrs. II. G. Thompson,
Secretary.
We are taking orders now for hard
and soft coal for September delivery.
Save from 81 to So per ton by ordering
now, Of DObbs Bros. Is
For ReI!t-A good farm; 100 acres
ready for wheat; II miles from railroad
depot 4; possession given at once. l.. F..
Pearson, Medicine Lodge. il D..
Mrs. Noble. ST.. and two children,
came home Friday, after four weenSs OF
ranching on their Harper county farm
where they put up much fruit.
A marriage license was issued this
week to G.. S. Purcival and Lottie
Reames, both OF the Lodi neighbor-
hood. The lady is but Is years old.
Miss Agnes O'Day, the sister, and
John O'Day, Jr., his son, were out last
week with Hon. John O'Day, and it
should have been so published last
week.
Eli Benedict, of the Medicine Lodge
stock farm, sold, last week, 81, $50 worth
of feeding steers. In the last three
weeks he has sold 500 worth of breed
ing hogs.
J0hn McKeever has gone to his claim
near Hennesy, Oklahoma, and this fall
he will SOW big field of rye on sod.
lie thinks il VIII do well and make
good winter pasture.
The lake stands now at s feet
and $3.50 cubic feet of water runs out
at the waste-gates every minute. The
overflow of water here would supply
every sorghum sugar plant in Kansas.
w. NJ. Cash, of the Coldwater Star,
was over two days last week, visiting
at Mr.. Musgrove's. lie was shown
through the sugar works and like every
one who goes there, expressed himself
astonished at the immensely of the en-
terprise.
II sou want to see the largest ears of
white corn eyer raised in the county,
drop in the INDEX Office and see lot
raised by John Southland, 3 miles south
of Sharon. a sample stalk has two big
ears on it, each one having nearly a
thousand grains.
Mr.. Wray, st Best Bros. & Co.. the
gypsum men, started this week TO Eng
land to remain several months. The
three months he spent ia this country
gave him an exalted idea of its posi-
bilities and it is certain that he will say
many good words for Barber county.
In stating that the democrats Domina-
ted candidate for coroner and that
they did not nominate candidate for
surveyor, the Kiowa Herald came as
near being correct as it ever is. Judge
Hall, its editor, was secretary of the
convention, and he certainly should
have remembered who were the nomi-
nees.
The creamery was leased, Monday, TO
Il. j. Cole, for term of six months.
He gets the use of the building and
machinery free of rent, he agreeing to
keep it running. The price for milk
and cream will remain the same for the
present, at least--50 cents for mix and
10 cents per gauge for cream. G. L.
Freeman will remain as manager, and
Mr.. Brewer will attend to the mechan-
ical and scientific department. 1t is
believedthat by next spring the cream
cry VIII be in much better shape, as it
will then have It's own ice.