Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-09-10
LOCAL NEWS.
DIR. y ant-Dentist.

streets last SATURDAY.
Cook u Palmer give lowest rates on
farm and city loans. %
The Willing workers will meet with
Mrs. Nicholson, Wednesday, Sept. 18th.
The newest and best lire of gents
furnishing goods in town is at Books.
Last Saturday the city was full of
farmers, and the INDEX Office was
headquarters.
Miss Hattie Coyle left, Saturday, for
Winfield, where she will attend bust
ness college this winter.
Robt Taliaferro and wife and little
Master Ed. IIickox Taliaferro were
among our callers last Friday.
DIR. Karr don't think the alliance has
boycotted him. He saysh he never auth
Orzed any such statement to be made.
The delegates to the Topeka cOnven-
ton all came home safely, but we have
heard no blowing about their popular
ticket"
German Jones, a prominent young
cattleman of LebO, Kansas, was here
this week and bought two cars of cattle
to feed of n. s. Priest.
j. G. Troutman shipped two cars of
cattle Monday night, and Conner Jones
shipped three cars at the same time
All went to Kansas City.
Tickets to the Kansas State fair, al
Topeka, September 18th to 10th can be
A. bought at one fare for the round trip.
For further information call on w. q
Horr, agent.
The Sovereign Grand Lodge, |. o. o.
f., meets at Topeka, sept. 18th to Goth.
Tickets on sale Sept. 18th and 14th.
good to return on or before Sept. 22nd,
at one fare for round trip.
The republican resubmlssion conven-
tion at the court house last Saturday
was not a conspicuous success. Three
delegates were selected, however, to
attend the state convention at Wichita.
Uncle Bob Smith brought us four
Seeding peaches, yesterday, that were
beauties. They were large, smooth,
pretty, finely dayOred, and equal to the
best budded fruit. They are the best
we have seen this season.
Doc. Bronson will soon locate at
Guthrie, Oklahoma, in the abstract
business. lie will retain his interest
III the firm here. Doc. is good bust
ness man and clever gentleman, and
we dislike to have him leave us.
There will be an adjourned meeting
of the Medicine Lodge surveillance
next Saturday afternoon, at 2 O'Clock,
at the alliance hall. Important bust
ness Will be up. and full attendance
requested. by order Of secretary.
Katie Denton had been at Kiowa a
couple of weeks, and last Thursday
Mrs. Denton went down after Katie,
and stayed several days, on visit to
relatives and friends. In the meantime
Mr.. Denton and Mr.. Molloy are making
it hot for all the game they can find.
If you want to see enthusiasm, and
have il good time, go TO the picnic, Fri
Jlav. the 18th, at the head of Bear creek,
l4miles west of this city. We will
warrant a Cine programme, good
speeches, good dinner, and one OF
the iolliest, best natuIed crowds that
ever met in the county.
ii. ID. Records il still confined to his
bed from the dislocatiOn OF his knee
Joint, which occurred OH the 18th OF
August The dislocation was complete;
the foot TUNED out and up, and when
he fell his thigh rested on the foot. He
now has plaster-of-paris jacket on the
JOINT, and hopes TO be out III three or
four weeks.
Hon Geo. L. Mcmahon, OF Harper
county, was here several days last week,
and called on the INDEX. Mr.. McMa-
hon seems to think that lie is demo-
cratic candidate for district Judge.
Barber county would like TO know
where he got his nomination. We be-
lieve that he has no idea of election,
but thinks he will keep votes from Nc
Kay, and thus elect Love.
1t may be little provoking to say IT,
but we took i'm sixty dollars OH sub
scriptions last Saturday morning. y
pretty good half days work. And the
afternoon was not barren of results
81 being dropped INTO our Golfers.
We cont say tins to paralyze anybody,
but Just 20 let alliance men know what
their organ is doing. In all our news
paper career of more than % years as a
publisher, we have never known such
spontaneous movement. One man
sent in a list of IA new subscribers, and
sent S25 along, saying we could give
him credit for $25, and he would get
the other ii subscribers. Another list
of 80 subscribers and $50 in cash was
handed in by another alliance friend
And so 1t goes.
S. L. Roach, Ben Teal and viii
Wheat have dug a silo hole for Col
Eldred, at the sugar works. The hole
Is 40 feet long, I6 feet wide and Is feel
deep 1t win be filled with fodder from
the pile blown from the sugar mill. AT
ter being filed and crammed in, an i'm
mense weight Will be placed on top, anC
the mass will be pressed into solic
cake. Sllo has for years been an inn
: portant factor in the older states, bu
out west, where feed is cheap and silc
holes are costly, but little attention ha;
been paid to this mode of saving anC
improving feed. All the silo made
here will bc clear gain tn Col. Eldred
as the sugar miu fan blows the fodder
into the lot, and if not taken care Of. i
is mostly wasted and trodden unde
foot