Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-10-01
Your water rent is due.

Your water rent is due.
Another light frost Tuesday.
The Wichita fair is in progress.
So far district court has been very
uninteresting.
John Briscoe returned Saturday from
aprotracted stay in Missouri.
Go to the New Meat Market for a
tender steak or choice roast. IA
Our School Shoes are warranted solid
leather. w. Fl. Harmon & Co. Is
If the repubs. have walkover why
the great commotion among themP
Wanted-A good girl for house work.
Inquire at harness shop. w. S. Finney.
The w. c. T. U. meets on next Tues
day afternoon at O'Clock, in the Chris
tian church. Mary Houchin, sec'y.
James Crouch, of Gorham's ranch,
Indian Territory, was visiting parents
in this county Saturday and Sunday.
H.H. Case and wife returned last
Thursday from an extended trip to
Colorado, and to the eastern part of this
state.
Mr.. Elliot, a hardware man from
Pratt county, is down this week on
business. He says the alliance ticket
is all D. X. in Pratt.
Fred Hinze is at Topeka, helping to
get the sugar works to running success
fully. He will go to New Orleans next
week. to superintend the building of q
sugar mill.
Remember that consumption may go
on developing in other organs while
the lungs may be healthy. Any physi-
clan will tell you that Oxygen is the
sure cure for consumption. 1t
r. c. Williams and family have
moved to Arkansas City, Kansas. They
are good, honest, hard working folks,
and we dislike to have them to leave
here.
On Thursday evening, September %,
a surveillance was organized at Aetna,
with w. B. Tyler, President; II. p.
Peterson, vice president; c. E. Wells,
secretary; o. Fritz, treasurer; j. w.
Watson, lecturer; j. Anderson, door
keeper.
Mr.. 2. b. Cole called on us Monday
and gave us this statement: Il had
the ditch contract, and took Jerry
Simpson in as partner. We paid the
men once month, and when they
wanted to quit before the month was
out, gave them an order to Jim Deal.
The total amount of all such orders did
not amount to $25. Mr.. Deal had Of
fered to discount my grocery orders 5
per cent. as L was keeping boarding
house, and my orders were large, and
paid everybody in full once month.
He did also discount the few pay or
ders he had from me. Every merchant
in town had come to me and offered to
make the same discount, but / had
dealt with Jim Deal. and continued
doing so. Jerry had always dealt with
Davis q Davis, and he wanted me to
take my trade there, but 1 would not.
Jerry had no more to do with these or
ders than you had. Jerry was very
kind and lenient to the men. He
loaned one old man team for three
days, and when the man offered to pay,
he would not take cent, because the
man was poor. At another time he
came to me and said: There is poor
fellow who has no breaches; let's buy
him a pair" I said, that is is a big
stout man; let him work for his breech-
es." The next morning Jerry came
out with pair of brooches rolled up
under his arm, and gave them TO the
man. And that's the way he did all
the time the work was going on. 3"
This statement is not quite so vigorous
as Mr.. Cole made it. but it will nail the
lie that Jerry got ten per cent. dis
count on the wages of the men. Will
the opposition papers now apologize for
the SANDER? No! They will never see
this article.