Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-04-16
Gasoline. at Bnrnett,s.

Henry Sparks lost a valuable mule
last Sunday night.
Methodist prayer meeting has beer
changed from Wednesday to Thursday
night.
G. NJ. Martin has moved into his resi-
dence on the Boulevard, recently pur-
chased.
The city councilmen are not all pro-
hibitlonists. The mayors appointees
are not.
! R. E. Katherns and wife returned
Friday, from two weeks visit to his
{ father, at Holton, Kansas.
The ladies of the Presbyterian church
will give a social Tuesday, May 6. The
public will be duly informed where il
will be held.
Sheriff Dobson has sale in the INDEX
to-day. He gave it to US because he
had to save two days between Wednes-
day and Friday. 1t is no reward or
bride.
Frank Reed has been regularly APP
pointed deputy county clerk by Mr.
Rouse. He is an accommodating young
man, and fully competent to fill the
position.
| About one hundred men came up
town Monday morning with some gag
about tom and jerry" and each one
was surprised that nobody laughed at
the witticism.
S. G.. Isett, a prominent democrat,
and once candidate for lieutenant
governor, was here last week, and again
demonstrated that he had not lost the
power of speech. He travels for boot
and shoe house.
Sherry Hardy and Harry Lebrecht
are called upon to explain the cause of
the burning of their wagon few days
ago, it having caught on fire while
they were driving, and they not discov
ering it until Harry's hat had caught
on fire.
The concert last night. by the Mozart
Club, for the benefit of J.. G. Stevens.
was highly successful and creditable
affair. The night was dark and rainy.
yet good audience was present, and
every performer was applauded most
heartily, and several encores were de-
manGed. We would like to publish
the programme, and comment on each
piece, but time and space forbid.
The K. p. Ball and Banquet.
The finest and most successful ball
and banquet ever given in Medicine
Lodge, was that given by the Knights
of Pythias on last Friday night. The
order was determined to Guido any pre-
vious efforts, and good, working COM
mittees were appointed to look after
every detail. The large, appreciative,
intelligent and fashionable assembly
spoke words of praise and encourage
ment that could not fail to cheer the
hearts of the Knights, and especially
those who had worked SO hard to make
the event a success.
Upon entering the ball room the VS.
itor was at once struck with the ele-
CANT taste displayed in decorating the
room. The decoration of the south
wall and three columns In the center of
the room was done by Harry Kline and
Albert McClearey; Frank Chaplin and
James Minnick took the north wall !;
Doug. Records took the stage; w. s.
Finney took the curved wall on either
side of the stage; A. L. Noble and S. L..
Overstreet attended to the "Parlor,"
under the gallery. Each committee
strove to Guido all others, and the re-
suit was that the whole room was a
scene of elegance and harmony. Costly
pictures, fine carpets and rugs. elegant
furniture, profusion of flowers and
evergreens, a number of notices, en-
blems, wreathes and minor decorations,
all artistically arranged, made very
attractive scene; and when the room
became full of lovely women and stall
wart men, all in fashionable attire, it
presented all appearance such as was
never before witnessed in this city, and
we fear it may be long time before 1t
will again be equalled.
The music was on par with the dec
Orations, our own orchestra being rein
forced by the Galyean Juvenile Band
making ten instruments. and each in
the hands of an artist. Perhaps nc
combination could have been made
with the same number of instruments
that could have equalled the music pro.
duced by this archestrR:
The supper was just such an one as
master caterer delights to spread be.
fore tired and fastidious guests. Eve
rvthinq :" dAliOht the eye and tempt the
appetite. From the most substantial
to the most delicate, with tables orna.
mented with fruits and flowers, anC
trained walters. who anticipated every
want, with carpeted floors and decora
! ted walls, with plenty of time, plenty
of room aud good company, who coult
not enjoy such feast
The "Parlor" was favOrite resort Of
those who wearied of dancing, and Of
those who did not dance at all. Care
tables were here and there, the player:
being able to hear the music and Sc,
the dancing.
Quite angmber of persons from a dis
D lance were present. We will not at
2 tempt to give names, for fear our lis
] is defective. Our fashion reporter wen
/. prepared to write up the costumes O
the ladies, but the first glance at thu
brilliant array so confused him that b.
p | SpaOt tho avonfn0 Mo Usra ni1h five oDf
euchre. lie has since gone east for {
rest.
Altogether, the K. p. have every rea
son to feel gFatified at the complete sue
J sess of their entertainment. Everyone
I present speaks highly of the affair