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

O'Brian. As
10. Owens is the new janitor at the
courthouse.
A. S. McClearey returned from Kan
sas City, yesterday.
Cook & Palmer give lowest rates on
farm and city loans. %
Remember the horse show at Hazel
ton, Saturday, April, 10th.
The McNeal Mortgage Company
makes specially of short time loans. 3
Born, on the l4th inst, to the wife of
Geo. b. Childs, a daughter. Dr. Kari.
For Sale-A new Home made Carpet,
good pattern, cheap. Mrs. j. III. Yenni.
Cash paid for hides and furs at the
meat market opposite First National
bank. %
The sugar mills In Pratt county will
not be built this season. The bonds
could not be sold in the east.
A fine line of White Hats, the latest
braids and shapes, now on display at
the New York Millinery Store.
Eating Apples, Fresh Cocoanuts, Ba-
nanas, figs, oranges and lemons, at II &.
O'Brian's, No. Is south Main st. As
For alfalfa, timothy, clover, blue
grass, and all kinds of garden and field
seeds in bulk or small quantities at NO
BILE Il Cases. 43
Married, at the home of the brides
| father, in Sharon township, on Sunday,
! April 18th, 1890, by L. w. Davis, J. p,
Abraham Demott and Mintre Lucinda
Bernard, both of Sharon township.
L. p. Caruthers left, Sunday. for To-
peka, where he had been summoned to
appear as grand juror. This left the
INDEX force considerably weakened,
and that too at time when there was
work enough for all.
Frank Beers came down from New
ton, Friday, for his family, but received
a dispatch on arriving here stating that
his mother was lying at the point of
death, at her home, IN Indiana, He
left Saturday for her bedside.
At the last meeting ofthe county ALI
ance a committee was appointed to con-
slider the matter of establishing coun-
ty store. 1t is understood that the COM
mittee has recommended against such
a scheme, claiming that it is not advis-
able.
Capt. Pierce says that he will have
| plenty of peaches, this year, for while
| the trees are not loaded down, the size
and quality of the fruit will be much
better than when there are 50 many.
All along the Medicine valley peaches
will be plentiful, but back on the high
prairies there will be few peaches.
Shoes for the plowman; shoes for the
ball room; shoes for school children
and shoes for the old; shoes for ladies
ranging from 81 to So, and the first
mentioned are finer and better than our
grandmothers ever dreamed of. We
cannot be beaten on shoes-fOr we have
more than all the other firms IN this
market put together. StandlfOrd, You
mans IL Eldred. 46
Two hundred acres of sorghum cane
seed will be planted this week: two
hundred next week, and FIVE hundred
the week following the planting will
be continued at intervals until the 14th
of June. Twenty-Five hundred and
thirty-nine acres have been contracted
for. About two thousand acres were
planted mere last year. The mill viii
commence making syrup by the middle
of July. Last year it commenced or
the 10th of September. Early Amber
and Early Tennessee seed will be plant
ed the first three weeks Lynx Hybrid
the week ending May Sd; Early Orange
will be planted from May Sd to end o.
the season.
a business meeting was held at thu
Christian church last Sunday after
noon, for the purpose of selecting three
elders and three deacons. rs there wa:
not majority of the membership pres
ent. it WAS decided to postpone the cleo
ton two weeks. Next Sunday morn
ing Elder Nicholson will preach a ser
mon on the duties of Elders" and OF
the following Sunday he will preach oil
the Manner of Selecting Elders" I'm
mediately after the morning services
on Sunday, April Tth, the church will
proceed to elect officers. II Is hapeC
the members will try to be present ant
hear both sermons, and will then selec
good men for the offices.
The CFesset wants us to make on
opinion of the new city OFFICIALS NOR
concise. The English language nigh
be exhausted and more concise word
not be found. We hope the Cresset viii
have an opinion of it's own on FEY
: important questions. We will tell tn
Cresset that the new officials are gen
tlemen, taxpayers, good citizens, an
will probably be credit to the city
Now Will Postmaster Axline tell u
what he thinks of Editor Axline, VIII
sneaked in a second bid when beate
on the frst. Wlll Editor Axline. tn
Roasting friend OF the old soldier, teI
us what lie thinks OF Postmaster AK
line, who took an Cttice an old sOldie
would have gotten but for hind
: Attorney Sample started, Sunday, t
Paris, Texas, where he is to appear il
United States circuit court in defens
of G. w. Gillen and l.. l.. Seward
charged with participation in the hang
: ing of one John Montgomery, a sur
+, posed horse thief, in No-Man's-LanC
two years ago. Gillen and Seward wer
E, members of an anti-hoTse thief proteC
5 tive ASSOCIATION that existed in Nc
Mans Land. GiIlen was an Officer
=, elected by the people down there unde
z laws they had made for their own GOV
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