Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-01-15
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loans. IL
$50 test coal oil at Is cents per gallon
at 5. Y. &E. 80
Wash Shaw has gone to Indiana on a
visit to his folks.
Cook & Palmer give lowest rates on
farm and city loans. %
For sale or rent, my house in north
end of town. w. G Musgrove. q
NJ. w. Hunter has gone to Bedford,
Indiana, on few weeks visit.
The McNeal Mortgage Company
makes speciality of short time loans. 8
/ The mastering in of the Sons of Vet
Grams Will occur next saturday evening.
Miss Saunders, sister of Mrs. Rouse,
started, Monday, on her return tip to
California.
IL. M. Ingraham can now make farm
loans at per cent lower rate than any
agent in Barber county. "a
The ordinance regulating water rates
and governing the waterworks appears
III LnlS issue or The INDEX.
Sheriff Joe Duckworth, of Kearney
county, died on the train, of heart dis
ease, on the Sth. near Dodge City.
The Baptists will begin protracted
meeting at the courthouse tonight. 1t
will continne every night until further
notice.
If Saturday is pleasant day and not
muddy, the public will be invited to
visit and inspect the new school build
from 2 to o'clock p. m.
All members of Pioneer lodge, 1. o.
0. F., are requested to be present next
Tuesday evening to hear eulogy, by a
brother. on the memory of Jas. Both
well, deceased.
Chas. II. Butman and wife left yes
terday for Manchester, N. H., where
they Will remain this year. Mr.. Bailey
will look after the Bailey & Butman
interests, ranches and cattle.
The new school building was opened
and taken possession of by the schools
last Wednesday. The children are
proud of their new quarters but say the
rules are so strict that they can have
little fun.
E. NJ. Byerley is the deputy register
of deeds under E. H. Nixon. This tui-
fills the rumor in circulation about con-
ventiOn and election times. Mr.. Dyer
ley IS competent man and will make
an accommodating officer.
James T. Whltelaw, once resident
of this place, was married at Dodge City
on the Sth inst, to Miss Emma Warren,
of that city, a daughter of one of the
earliest settlers. Mr.. Whitelaw had
been widower about five years.
L. G. Bangs, banker of Carroll. Ia,
has been here several days visiting Mr..
Hinman and looking into the sorghum
sugar business. Mr.. Bangs is interest
ed with Messrs. Kentner and Wattles,
at Carroll, and they are part of the SUI
garworks company at this place.
Notwithstanding the very inclement
weather, Friday evening, the Sharon
Dramatic company played Ten Nights
in Bar-rOom" to good audience
one that was highly pleased with the
effort of the visitors. The troupe show
ed good training and Sharon may well
feel proud of it. The company more
than made expenses.
Jas. n. Deal and his family started,
Monday, to California, where they ex-
pect to establish home, In the hope
that Mr.. Deal may be restored to per-
manent health. They will first stop at
San Bernardlno. During their residence
here of about four years, this family
made many friends and everyone re-
grets that it was necessary that they
should leave.
Charlie Kidd killed his first deer in
the Territory, last week, and the INDEX
can testify that it was genuine deer
meat, for he left two messes with us.
While there he met with painful accI-
dent: A shell exploded in his Win
chester and flew out at the breech OF the
gun, hitting him over the right eye, in
ficting quite cut and powder-burning
his face considerably. His father, L.
M. Kidd, brought him home Saturday.
Messrs. Munson, John Owens and With
erspoon are down there yet.
Several cases of influenza or la grippe
are being treated in this city, and sew
eral patients have recovered. Rev.
North had a severe time with it the
senior OF this paper was down two days;
John S. Runyan was in bed several days
as was AL. McClearey. A number OF
children are out of school on account of
the disease. So far, the cases here have
usually been mild. The sufferer first
notices severe and continuous head
ache, aching bones, pains in the breast,
back and kidneys; high fever then sets
in and usually there is cough accom-
panying. No one is alarmed and there
is no reason to be.
The republicans are already figuring
, on candidates for the offices to be filled
} next fall, they appearing to think that
J they have dead sure thing on every
! thing. Within the past few days two
: republican leaders from different por
| tions of the county have stated that the
. friends of III. NJ. Ingraham would bring
him out for district clerk. Hank" die
not have very good success in his candi
dacy last year but no one denies thai
/, he is ''rustler" and if he does run hs
will probably make it lively for some
: body. He is undoubtedly as we'll known
in the county as any of them. Their,
! are several others who are figuring oil
the same office.