Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-10-08
WEDNESDAY. OCT. 8, 1890.
Southern Kansas Railroad Time Card.
LOCAL NEWS.

Call Oh Cook 81 Palmer for farm and
CITY loans. %
Book is making a speciality Of Chill
dren's school shoes. 10
There was no butter to be found in
town last Thursday.
The latest, tenderest and best beef
at the Central meat market, opposite
1st National bank.
We Will save you money on Grocer
les. w. Ii. Harmon Il Co. IS
Go to the New Meat Market for a
tender steak or choice roast. IA
The county commissioners met last
Monday, and adjourned till next Mon
day.
There is twenty per cent more wheat
planted in this county than was sOwn
last year.
If anybody wants to buy some little
old tough, dead wild ducks, at Sl.66
each, call OH j. b. GanO.
Catholic services have been conduct
ed at the Sherlock hall this week, and
Will De continued IO-HlBuI.
The young peoples dancing club will
give their semi-monthly ball Friday
evening in the Sherlock hall.
5. Y. a. L. have loaded their store
with an unusually large and fine stock
of goods in every department.
Mrs. Cooley, of Nebraska, who came
in Friday nm a visit IN hpr Vinpp MrQ
Ed. Williams, lett for her home Mon
day.
Davis 81 Davis will duplicate any
bill that can be bought west Of Wichi-
Ia, and will give the best of goods and
honest weight.
John higgins invites you to call and
inspect his furniture. His stock is new
and elegant. 1t would be credit to a
town twice as large as this.
Wonder who carried that bomb to
Wichita? Our postmaster certainly
would not lay himself liable to be called
ian offensive PARTISAN In horn.
Lost-At Johnson's barn, Sharon,
Saturday night, Sept. 4th, blanket
brown on one side with blue spots and
blue on the other side with brown spots
Return to Mr.. johnson or this office.
The Ladies' Aid Society of the Bap-
tist church, will meet on Thursday
October 10th, at 2 O'Clock p. M, for
work. Our friends are cordially lnvit-
ed to come and help us at the Baptist
chapel.
Prof. Beeson's new buggy lost a
wheel on the railroad crossing, at the
south end OF Main street, last Friday
evening. 1t cOllided with Debbs' deliv-
cry wagon. Three spokes in the wheel
were not broken.
Rev. Mr.. Beatty, of the Episcopal de-
nomination, held service in this city
last Thursday. He had good congre-
cation and fine music. He was 80 well
pleased that he will try to hold regular
services here in the near future.
Such crowd as Sharon turned out
Forty-three men, women and children,
and nearly half of them from Medicine
Lodge. Advertise your meetings, gen.
tlemen, advertise! The INDEX is the
only medium which will reach the peo-
pile of Sharon.
Sam Robson expected to be nominal
ed for county superintendent, on the
democratic ticket. He did not get it,
but he had voted at the republican
primary. He may know more in a few
weeks than he does now, though 1t is
hard to teach such men anything.
Attica Advocate: 1.-The Cresset
dent seem to have been very success
full III getting Jerry into the last
ditch" If reports be true that are
brought back from Medicine Lodge by
those who attended the picnic last Sat
urday, as nearly all who worked on that
ditch say they will vote for Jerry"
II. n. Burner, living six miles west
of town, brought us d few samples of
his apple crop yesterday. Four of them
were winesaps, large, smooth and solid
AS good an apple for all purposes as
can be found. There were seven large
beautiful apples which Mr.. Burner
could not name, and he called them
Alliance" He has one hundred young
trees. and will get fifty bushels of fine
apples.
l. A. Love has challenged Geo. w.
Mckay to joint debate at seven diff
ferent places in Harper county. The
Attica advocate says it will disarrange
Mr.. McKay's whole campaign to &C
cept, but 1t is informed the challenge
10. oil ln a 70 biol he
because Mr.. McMahon is not Included
in the challenge. Perhaps Love thinks
that McMahon's canvass will reduce
the Mckay vote, and thereby let Love
slip in.
Attica Advocate: Last Sunday even
ing q train loaded with stock, from
Medicine Lodge, ran into an open
switch at the junction. The engine and
four cars ran off, demolishing the cow
catcher and the tender to such an ex-
tent that they had to be taken to tine
repair shops. and tipped one car SO
much that il had 10 be unloaded. A
large force Of men were soon on hand
and IN little while. after an engine
came, the cars were set on the track
but the engine was not got back until
Monday evening. The cause, the engi'
neer says, was that the air brakes would
not work IN time so as TO cheek the
train. The engineer in jumping spraln.
ed his ankle and otherwise bruised him.
self rather badly, but not seriously, and
was taken to the hospital the next
morning; also the fireman spralned his
ankle. A track was built from the
south switch to the main line to accom-