Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-08-27
LOCAL NEWS.
See Book about shoes.

Gasoline ID cents per gallon at Noble
IL Cases.
Elder Nicholson spent Sunday at Col
lege Hill.
Tablets, every kind, every price, at
Day & Records. 10
Frank Haynes family left last Thurs
day morning, for visit in Cowley
county.
The latest, tenderest and best beef
at the Central meat market, opposite
1st National bank. 4
Mrs. Yant returned home, last week,
from her visit to Kansas City and the
eastern part of this state.
The rain of Saturday night will ma
terially benefit the late corn, and will
be the making of the late sorghum.
There was another slight shower of
rain last Wednesday night, enough to
lay the dust for few hours.
There were no evening services by the
Baptlsts last Sunday evening, and
there will be none next Sunday evening.
Remember the Sharon Sunday school
institute which commences Friday
night of this week, and lasts over Sun
day. 1t will pay you to attend.
The Normal school was photographs
ed, at the school building last Friday
morning. We should think copies of
the picture would be III demand.
Mr. j. NJ. Reagin is not acting as a
democratic committeeman. The dem
ocratic committee have known for a
long time that the place was vacant.
The Helping bands will meet with
Miss Fannie Mills, Thursday, August
18th, at =. D. IN. All members are re-
quested to be present. Miss Belle Hart,
secretary.
Mr.. j. a. Lyon, of the Sharon neigh
borhood, brought us a sample of his
corn, last Saturday, that shows no sign
of drouth. 1t is good enough for any
season or any country.
We have received a copy of the Fifth
Annual Report of the State Board of
Health The book is we'll printed and
well bound, but life is to short too tor
us to attempt to read the work.
The Hutchinson far will be held
September 9th, 10th, 18th and 18th.
ON the 18th Judge PETER, the great al
lance orator, will address the people
Col. Ilall0well will speak Friday
Good races each day.
Mrs. o. NJ. Sopene and daughter, of
Manhattan, who have been here a cou-
pie of months on visit to the family
of Mrs. Sopene's father, Mr.. a. Jack
son, left for home Thursday last.
Harper Sentinel: The Kiowa Her
aid has been moved to Medicine Lodge
That city now has three newspapers
and is just about able to support one. y
1t has supported two quite cOmforta-
bly, for the past ten years.
One fare for round trip to the Denver
Genealogical Association, at Denver
September 2nd. Tickets on sale Au-
gust 81, good to return till September
18th. Call on w. o. IIorr for further
information. II
Col. Hallowell denies that he ever
made resubmissiOn speech, or that he
ever intends doing so. Was he ''jovial'
or WAS the reporter drunk who reported
the resubmission talk? What will the
Barber county resubmIssion republi.
cans say to this?
The fish commissioners were here one
day last week, and dumped lot of fish
IN the sugar mill lake; also in the lake
north OF town, and in Elm creek at the
dam. There are some pretty gooC
sized carp in the various streams anC
ponds in the county.
The camp meeting at Elm Mills was
well attended last Sunday, considering
the rain on the night before, and the
threatening appearance of the weather
The meeting will continue all thi.
week, till after Sunday.
Last Saturday at noon there was ;
nice prospect for rain, but It passed
away, as hundreds of other ram pros
poets have passed this summer. Rair
or no rain, we will have corn TO keer
and corn to sell. Since the above wa,
in type we have had two good rains.
Ask your family physician wha
means the persistent accumulation il
your throat, of clear starchy mucus
lie will tell you it is the symptom O
incipient tubercular laryngitis O.
consumption in the throat. DIR. Ko
.ciell uses Oxygen gas in the treatmen
of all diseases of the lungs and throat
with perfect success. See him abou
terms. IA
ALtica Advocate: George w. Nil
Ter, the cattleman, was tried befor
Justice Cox. at Wellington, last Fri
day, charged with bringing cattle af
fected with Texas fever into Sumne
county, thereby communicating tn,
disease to other cattle, was found guilt,
and the penalty fixed at thirty DAYS il
jail and $500 fine. lie appealed tn
case to the district court"
There was splendid rain here las
Saturday night. The drouth had last
cd sixty-six days with only few ligh
showers, hardly enough at any ON
time to lay the dust, and it is a grea
wonder that all vegetation did not die
But Barber county. with tie longes
dronth period of any county IN til
state, will probably be the most pros
porous. Her diversified crops, her cat
Tie, hogs, sugar mill, gypsum mill an
other advantages now count for some
thing.