Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-04-02

week.
1000 Bushels of Oats for sale. See H.
O'Brian. As
Rev. North is looking for his family
this week.
Cook & Palmer give lowest rates on
farm and city loans. %
A gentle rain set In yesterday after
noon. and it is continuing to-day.
"A. w. Little was down from Kansas
City, Kansas, last week, accompanied
by his son, Lon.
Weiner Wurst, Bologna, Pigs Feet,
picked tongue, Swiss Cheese, Limbur-
ger, at H. O'Brian's. As
Oscar Trulock has gone to Kiowa TO
look after two of Col. Eldred's horses
that will be there this season.
Sam Luallen, brother of John, came
in from Carroll, Iowa, last week, and
will remain during the summer.
Tomorrow right is the time for the
next regular meeting of the fire COM
pany. All members VIII be at the hose
room promptly at o'clock.
Miss Leila Stevens and Mrs. Harry
Stevens were thrown backward from a
buggy, at the farm, Sunday, but fortu-
nately were not seriously hurt.
Jacob Dewitt. of Salina, Kansas,
grand lecturer of the Royal Arch chap
tiers of Kansas, was here last Friday
and Saturday, instructing the chapters
at this place.
Dial. Morris was down town, last
Wednesday, the first time since Decem-
Der 18th, when his ankle was broken.
His foot is not as straight as 1t should
be, and little better than no foot.
II. Frazee, who has a contract for
grading the II. o. G.. road, south of
Kingman, writes Granville Morris that
he wants 20 men and teams, and that
the wages will be $3.50 and So per day.
A citizen of Trinidad, Colorado, the
other day wrote to the authorities of
this place to recover for him a fine dog,
brought here by Johnnie Aver. Sheriff
Dobson and J. b. Gano went down and
got the dog Saturday.
DIR. Gould returned from his three
months visit east, Sunday. While
away he took special surgical course
at a Philadelphia medical college, his
alma mater, and spent several weeks at
his old home, Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Frank Beers has been changed from
the run between here and Attica and
placed on the Texas route, south from
Newton. Mr.. Beers will likely move
his family to Newton. Mr.. Knight will
probably run the train between here
and Attica.
Speaking of hogs: Isaac VanBuskirk
marketed two at this place, Saturday,
exactly one year old, that weighed S12
pounds. The same day Robert Smith,
of Mule creek, sold four here, 10 months
old, that weighed 1,525, an average of
38l. That is what we would call max
ing pork rapidly.
/ The much hopedfor change of time
on the Santa Fe has not yet occurred,
and passengers going to Wichita, or
north of there, must stop at Attica two
hours and at Wellington two hours.
Returning here, two hours more must
be spent at each place. Nineteen hours
are consumed between Kansas City and
Medicine Lodge-330 miles. Think of
II miles an hour in this fast age!
Ed. Wiley was here Friday, establish
ing all agency for Wellman & Dwire to-
bacco company, of Quincy, Ill. They
make the W. & d. Plug, the Sweet Lo-
tus, Uncle Toms CABIN. and that best
of all fine cut, Mule Ear. Burnett was
made their sole agent, and will handle
all these brands. The best agent and
the best goods Will soon make these
goods quite popular. Mr.. Wiley Is a
thorough business man. 45t2
The hard wind last Thursday, March
9th, at this place, did considerable
damage to tin roofs, chimnevs, wind
mills and OuthOpseS, but nothing really
serious. The wind blew at the rate of
80 miles an hour during the entire day,
aud sand and dust gathered in Colorado
before noon, reached here before night,
and several scraps of paper swept out
of the pOStOtfice at Salt Lake City,
Thursday morning, were found here
the next morning. Oh. it was strong
wind.
Thayer & Gilmore, the mill men here
last week. We're fayorably impressed
with the outlook, and announced that
they would submit proposition to the
city to build a 50-barrel mill. Mr..
Thayer is holding his second term as
mayor of lola, and the people want him
to again take the Office. He has lived
there ten years and in Kansas twenty
five years. He is brother-in-law Of
Eli Benedict, of this place. Mr.. Gill
more is publisher of the st. Louis Mag
azine, a popular publication that has a
large circulation.
Thos. Best, of the cement and plaster
hOih VI tbio ptdSOs lido a piCCO VI pIdS-
ter put on wall in Scotland oyer three
hundred years ago, the lime and hair
being laid on bedding of heavy stalks
of grass, which were tied to the walls
He also has sample of plaster used in
that country now, and he exhibits with
these sample of highly finished, paint
ed and polished Robinson's cement that
he is DESTROYS OF haying the world use.
There is quite a difference in the ap-
pearanee of the building material of
three centuries ago and that In use to-
day
The Mozart club, at its meeting at
the home of Judge Howe, last night.
decided TO give public concert, next
Thursday evening, April 10, at Thomp-
sons opera house, the proceeds to be
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