Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-03-05
Fred Merrell will occupy Mr.. Kidd's


house.
New hats just received at New York
Millinery Store.
There was good skating on the lake
Saturday and Sunday.
Born, March 1st, TO the wife of Enos
Winnett, daughter. DR.. Karr.
Frank Reed IS assisting in the county
clerks office during busy season.
DIR. Moore, of this city, has been gran
ted pension; but for how much is not
known.
DIR. Burney reports a nice daughter
to the wife of Dial. Morris, born on the
1st inst.
NJ. B. Singer, of Pomeroy, Ohio. is
out here on a visit to his brother, John
w. Singer.
Republicans are talking of running a
straight party ticket in the city election.
1t won't WIN.
Mrs. Ely Martin started. Saturday,
to Kansas City and st. Louis, to buy
spring goods.
There is talk here about large acre
age of flax being sown in the vicinity of
Medicine Lodge.
There is question if the resident Of
an incorporated city is eligible to mem
bership in the alliance.
AL Houchin will go to Nebraska, this
week, to see his grandfather, who has
been sick for long time.
Yesterday was pension day and the
old soldiers were thick around the
courthouse with their vouchers.
Lost, on Main street, pair of buck
skin gloves, Indian tanned and Indian
made, with gauntlets. j. w. Singer.
E. F. johnson left, last Saturday, for
Cortland, Ohio, to attend to some busl-
ness that will demand his attention for
about six months.
Judge Edwards performed the mar
rage ceremony Monday for Wesley S.
Winkler and Miss Lottie Maynard, bOtn
of McAdoo township.
Fred. HInze, the sugar expert, is here
this week. He is employed by the Kill
bys and assists Prof. Cowgirl in figuring
on plants for that firm.
T. G. Molloy came back from Joplin,
Missouri, last Thursday, and will re-
main here for the present. He is en-
plOyed as clerk and bookkeeper for
Dobbs Bros.
The old soldier resolutions we've pass
ed too late to do any good. Mr.. Peters,
Mr.. Ingalls, and Mr.. Plumb have per-
feet understanding and they will not
get in each others way.
Arthur Shaw and Doc. Bronson have
gone into the hog business, they having
purchased Judge Edwards stock, about
fifty head. They will try what there is
in turning cheap corn into pork.
The taxpayers league will take
hand in taxation matters and see that
township assessors do not let property
escape them this year. They will also
ask the county commissioners to make
the tax-levy just high enough to satisfy
all legal demands on the county, with
out creating surplus such as now ex-
lists in several funds in the treasury
the poor fund, for instance.
Waldron Chase and Ambrose Allen,
under the firm name of Chase 81 Allen,
have opened up business as plumbers
and gas and steam filters in this city.
They are both experienced in the bust
ness and arc amply supplied with tools.
They will do all the tapping and con-
nectiOn work for the city waterworks,
and Will take orders for any kind of
tools, machinery or material in their
line.
The ''C'' supper, last night, gwen by
the ladies of the Presbyterian church,
occurred as per programme and there
was good attendance and an enjoya-
BILE time. Medicine Lodge may be no.
ted for the frequency of its church sup
pers, but 1t is also noted for the superb
Ority of these affairs, and last nights
spread was better than usual. Every
thing commencing with "C'' could be
had there-eYerything TO eat or drink,
we Dlean.
A very interesting meeting has been
going on at the Christian church in this
city for the past fortnight, being con-
Quoted by Elder j. E. Nicholson, of
Douglass, Kansas. His audiences have
nearly filed the house at every service.
and from the close attention gwen the
speaker, show that they are well-enter-
tanned. Five additions We're made by
confession Monday night. The meet
ings are still in progress, and everybody
is invited to attend.