Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-09-03

Cook u Palmer give lowest rates on
farm and CITY loans. %
e. w. Hendrickson left for Wichita,
Monday, on business trip.
The newest and best line of gent IS
furnishing goods in town is at Books.
Geo. w. Vickers, leading legal light,
of Coldwater, was here last Thursday
on business.
Miss Belle Hart has taken charge of
the school at Roundup, which com.
menced Monday.
Wanted-A good organ. l will pay
for it in hogs, cattle or farm imple-
ments. f. Martin. 1t
Born-In this city, on the 3Oth ult.,
to the wife of VIM. II. sherwood, a
girl. Dr. Burney in attendance.
The w. G. T. u. meets Tuesday, Sep
TENDER 8, at 4 O'Clock, in the Christian
church. Mrs. NJ. L. Houchin, Sec'y.
f. NJ. Layton is here on visit to his
old stamping ground. He looks better
and younger that he did four years ago.
DR.. Moore has moved his Office into
the room recently vacated by Henry
Morgan, two doors south of Davis u
Davis.
ID. r. Streeter shipped out from Kio-
wa, one day last week, whole train
load of cattle. They went to Kansas
City.
The Golden Rod Social" given by
the ladies of the Baptist church, last
Thursday evening, was successful and
very pleasant affair.
Henry Morgan has gone to Missouri
OH prospecting tour, and will proba-
| bly, locate somewhere i'll the south
western part of that state.
Ed. Faris, an old time cowboy, was
here this week, visiting old friends.
He made this his headquarters eigh-
teen or twenty years ago.
Tickets to the Kansas State fair, at
Topeka, September 18th to Goth can be
bought at one fare for the round trip.
For further information call on w. O..
HOrr, agent.
Z. ~. Men cal, John McGregor and a
few of the faithful left, yesterday
morning, for Topeka, to attend the
republican state convention, which
meets to-day.
A few young folks gathered at the
residence of VIM. Palmer last Thursday
night, to surprise Miss Daisy Moore on
her sweet sixteenth birthday. All had
IA very pleasant evening.
OF all the people who die in the Unit
ed States between the ages of fifteen
and twenty-five One-third die of con-
sumption. Oxygen is the only positive
cure for it. Do not tail to see DR.. KO-
ciell about it. 152t
Last Monday three covered wagons,
filed with household goods, and three
buggies, filled with women and child
rem, all from Michigan, passed through
our streets, gong south. They would
not stop long enough to tell where they
were going.
w. II. Worland got splinter in his
right eye, last Saturday, and suffered
with it till Monday, when he came to
town and DR.. Karr removed it. The
eye was SO painful that Mr.. Worland
| could scarcely see how to get to town.
We hope he is all right by this time.
| Mr.. and Mrs. John VanBuskirk and
Mr.. and Mrs. D. S. Mcfarland, of
Sweet Springs, No, are here on visit
to the family of Mr.. Isaac VanBus-
kirk. The ladies came in on the 22d,
and waited here while their husbands
pIospeeted in Texas. They will prOba-
bly start home this week.
Married-At the residence of the Off
clatiGg minister, i'll this city. August
2sth, b9 Rev. r. Hahn, Z. L. Curry and
Miss EVA Butler, both of Pratt county.
This was evidently a runaway couple.
They attracted 30 little attention as
they passed along the streets. They
we're married about three o'clock In the
AFTERNOON, and started Immediately to-
ward home Two other young couples
accompanied them.
John G.. Cash, wife and son, of Jop-
lin, Mo-, came in Monday, on a short
visit to Johns uncle, w. G. Musgrove.
They are on their way home from a yis-
it to his brother at Coldwater. John
started the Coldw2ter Star, and III his
brief experience of about eight years
has started, bought and sold more
newspapers than any man in Kansas.
He is a good printer, good business
man, and natural ruStler. They left
this morning for Joplin.
Several families in this county, who
came from Lafayette county, Mo-, Will
be panied to hear that Uncle AS. Hlg-
gins was stabbed last Friday, at Hlg-
ginsville, and died in half an hour. On
Thursday night a negro went into the
store of Mr.. Parker, at MAYHEM, and
killed Parker with corn-knife. On
Friday the people of the neIghborhooo
caught him and hung him to a telegraph
pole. Three violent deaths IN this con-
servative neIghborhood in about TWEEN
ty-four hours is frightful record.
Kansas City Times: lone of the
prettiest wedding of the season occurred
Thursday evening, August IS, 1890, at
6 O'Clock at the residence of Mr.. and
Mrs. p. a. Simmons, 2OOS East Seventh
street, at which time their daughter
jessie was married to Mr.. Arthur d.
| Shaw, prosperous young business
man of Medicine Lodge, Kans. Rela-
tiVes and intimate friends to the num-
Der of about fifty were present. The
Rev. DIR. Jesse b. Young, pronounced
a beautiful and impressive ceremony
that united the happy couple. The