Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-10-16

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George and Andy Roberts came up
from Kiowa, Sunday, on a short visit
to relatives and friends.
E. b. and Mrs. Chopper, of Metropo
lis, Ills, are out here on a visit their
daughter, Mrs. A. j. Jones.
Miss Laura Payne entertained num-
Der Of her young friends at birthday
party last Thursday evening from to 8.
The Geppert & Stone stock of hard
ware is now being sold at lower prices
than you have ever obtained in Medi-
cine Lodge. 20
The Home Musicale" at the resi-
dence of Mr.. J. r. Young, last Thurs
cially and financially.
Owing to the inclement weather the
Molloy horses did not all sell last Satur-
day. and there are some good bargains
left yet. See L. G. Molloy.
Amos Linn, of Liberty, ILL.,, is out
here visiting his brother-in-law, Capt.
Garrison, of Sharon. He likes the
country and may decide to locate.
1t rained here all Saturday after
noon; shower on Sunday, and an all
day rain Monday, another all day yes
terday and last night and it has started
in this morning for another serge.
Jap. Underwood, returning from Elm
Mills, last Saturday, was thrown from
his wagon and sustained fracture of
the small bone in the right arm, near
the wrist. DR.. Karr attended him.
Mrs. U. B. Webster, of Benton Har-
Dor, Mich, arrived yesterday on visit
to her son, w. s. Falls, of the Citizens
National bank, and her sister, Mrs. G.
q. Chandler, Sr. She will remain sever
| al weeks.
w. A. Schiller started home Monday.
taking his boy along. He will spend
part of this winter in Cuba. His broth
ers have chartered a yacht, to be used
by themselves and friends in their hunt
for pleasure.
The infant son of Mr.. and Mrs. d.
F. Shipman died last Thursday at the
home of Mrs. Sith, near Inyo, and on
Friday was brought here for burial.
This is the second child this couple has
lost and they are bowed down with
grief.
A. S. McClearey returned this week
from Chicago, and St. Louis, where he
went to buy stock of new books, sta
tionery and holiday goods. He claims
to have struck the market just right,
and says that his stock of notions and
toys will excel anything ever shown
here.
Pratt has case of a prominent citi-
zen absconding. Thos. w. Giblin. of
the firm of Giblin, Bunnell & Co., dis
| appeared, owing the Lockwood Mort
gage Company $4,000, and the First
National Bank 81 900. He was a prom
inent politician. and stood we'll in the
community.
Commissioner John D. Fleming was
thrown from his horse last Thursday
evening, and sustained dislocation of
the left shoulder, very painful acct
dent. He was running after a COW
when his horse became entangled in an
old wire gate and threw the rider. DIR.
Karr had the patient on the street the
next day.
Montgomery county is furnishing
about all of the apples used here now.
There are thousands of trees planted in
Barber county, but they are hardly old
enough yet to bear. This county raises
the best peaches known in Kansas and
there is no reason why it may not excel
IN all kinds of fruit.
All of the molasses made at the SUI
gar works will be re-boiled and thirty
pounds of sugar per ton of cane handled
will be secured. There IS now in the
moIasses clstern, 2OK60 feet, a depth Of
5 feet Of syrup or molasses and it is so
thick with sugar that it cannot be
pumped until it is heated.
Best Bros. & Co. are getting out a
large lot of advertising matter for their
gypsum works, and it is just such as
will call especial attention to this as
the great gypsum cement manufacture
ing center OF the world. the celebra-
ted Robinson's cement, the greatest
fire-proof plaster known, will be manu-
featured here, and no where else in the
United States.
Big crops and bountiful harvests
make the raisers think of more substan-
tial merchandise and family supplies.
With the idea OF opt1tting half of the
population of Barber county Davis &
Davis have ordered and are now receiv-
ing the biggest, best and most complete
stock of general merchandise ever
opened here. They only ask a careful
examination into qualities and prices
and know then that they will sell the
goods. 16
j. F. Sherman, secretary of the
Equitable Trust and Investment Co. of
Wichita and Boston, spent several days
IN Medicine Lodge and vicinity last
week, looking into the resources of the
city and county, and in examining vari-
Gus securities for loans that his compa-
ny is making. He received a very ia
vorable impression of Medicine Lodge
and Barber county, and besides approx
ing number of very liberal loans, made
arrangements with Shannon & Shannon
to extend unusual inducements to Dor.
rowers.
Attention is again directed to the
card of Dobson 81 Campbell, contract
ors and builders, Reno City, Oklahoma.
The card Is exactly as 1t appeared in
the Reno City Capital, of Oct. 5, 1889.
Persons in Oklahoma having contracts
/ TO award NAV be sure of the services of