Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-11-19
LOCAL NEWS.

Wanted-l0, 900 turkeys by Burnett x
Co. To be delivered between the 10th
and 18th of this month.
John McGrath passed our Office Mon
day morning with wild goose. Such
game is not plentiful here.
Our merchants are approaching the
value Of the INDEX as an advertising
medium, and the demand for space is
increasing.
Henry burst says he don't know
whether to give the alliance the credit
or not, but the day after the election
he rented three of his houses.
Everybody is complaining of the
scarcity of eggs. The hens ought to
get to work if they expect to help to
celebrate Thanksgiving.
We hereby thank w. III. Worland for
a nice lot of sparerib. He knew we
needed something to stick our ribs, and
he did not shave them close.
The RAIN of last Friday night and
Saturday morning will be of great ben
eft to the wheat The crop was not
suffering, but this rain will put it in
4 fine condition to go through the winter.
The rain which began on Friday
night continued all day Saturday and
Sunday. Though there was not much
rain, it came in such a manner as will
do the most good. The ground is in
fine condition for wheat.
Try 12-pound sack of Weber's new
Graham Flour. Also try his new corn
! meal. For sale at the mill or at Bur-
Eett's store. Any article bought at the
mill will be delivered free of charge to
any part of town. %
Two loads of beets were brought in
last week, for experimental purposes,
out they were not used. About ten
loads were brought in Monday, and
twenty loads yesterday. The highest
test made so far is 1874 per cent.
Jerry Simpson and Geo. w. Mckay
were helping the people of Anthony,
last Monday, to celebrate the great
victory, and on Monday they went upto
Harper and continued the celebration.
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+, places.
The INDEX would like to have cor
respondent in every sub alliance in the
county, to send US all the general news.
We don't care for local jokes, but want
the news. The INDEX is the peoples
paper, and is printed for the benefit Of
people now living.
u. j. Aber says the prettlest picture
he ever saw was the lake last Monday
evening, at O'Clock. The town was
perfectly mirrored; and chickens, one
hundred yards from the lake, were seen
more distinctly by looking into the wa
ter than by looking directly at them.
Mr.. T.. Beeton, who lives six miles
southeast of town, brought us couple
of radishes, yesterday, which are hard
to beat. One weighs ~ pounds, and
the other 81 pounds. They were plant
ed about the last of May, and would
have been quite large had not the
drought interfered with their growth.
Our new Touring mill is having a
greater run of custom than it anticipat-
y ed. Our farmers keep the bran and
ship stuff cleaned up, and the city pa
irons can hardly get enough to feed
their chickens. Wagon loads of wheat
come from every part of this county,
and some from other counties.
The Central Hotel has had good
run Of farmer patronage for the past
month, and II. Nj. Kidd, the proprietor,
desires TO thus return his thanks, and
to ask a continuance OF the same. His
table is the best, his beds the cleanest,
and he will always treat you right.
Farmers, when you want good hot
dirnar give him a call. 25t4*
WI. jackson, county attorney-elect
of Comanche counttv. was III our city a
few days the first of tde week lie
was a pleasant caller at the .NDEA OIL
flee, and congratulated himself OH ne
Ing one of the lucky democrats who
escaped the alliance avalanche in Kan
sas this year. Mr.. Jackson had for his
opponent G.. Wash. Vickers, formerly
an attorney of Medicine Lodge.
Our stock men should remember that
F. G.. Steck has bought out the live
stock commission firm of James ii
Campbell ~ Co., at Wichita. Mr.. StecF
is well known here, and has some claim:
.on the consideration of our cattle ship
pers. Don't be in a hurry to send YOU
cattle to Kansas City, but stop a
Wichita, and give Mr.. Steck a chance
to make you an offer You will los'
nothing by it.
Last week we mentioned that tn
daughter of Widow Stevens had starte,
TO neighbours and had not since beer
heard from. The girl found her wa
there all right. She started out expect
ing TO walk about four miles. She wa
overtaken by young man in buggy
who offered her a ride. When he foun
where she was going, he told her it wa
fourteen miles, instead of four. II
took her to her to her destination, an
left her there all right. The mothe
heard one part of the story and not th
other, and concluded that her daughte
had been kidnapped, and of course sh
waS greatly alarmed
Wichita Beacon; ED Sample, Q
Medicine Lodge, stopped few hour
in the city yesterday, while enroute
Kansas City on legal business. He
considerably dlsfigured from the effect
of the recent political landslide, an
says he has lost faith in himself as pC
litlcal prognosticator. And this ism
all he lost, either, by several dollar
Ed.started out in the campaign to dow
j Honest Jerry Simpson, but he says tn