Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-06-04

What's the matter with a barbecue
on the Fourth?
H. NJ. Ingraham now offices with Ed
wards 81 Noble.
The alliance will nominate full
ticket in Barber county.
Cattle on the range don't look like
they ever had been poor.
The county clerk and county treasu-
rer are the busiest men in town this
week.
Our vegetable market is we'll suppl
ed with home grown vegetables of all
kinds.
The Willing Workers will meet with
Mrs. Cooper, Wednesday afternoon,
June 18th.
Thos. Best went to Wellington, yes
terday, to confer with Mr.. Turner
about freight rates.
This is the last week of public school
and pupils and teachers are very busy
with the examinations.
Prof. Reds grand panometric con-
Germ failed to come to time, as adyer-
tised. We have little bill and lot OF
tickets for sale very cheap.
Smythe & Schmidt have sold their
meat shop, fixtures and business, to j..
M. DeLisIe. Gus Schmidt will manage
the business for the purchaser.
"Children's Day. will be appropriate
ly observed at the Presbyterian church,
next Sunday, June Sth. The pro-
gramme Will be quite interesting.
All cut rates have been ordered re-
stored on the 9th, so people who expect
to take advantage of the cuts hereto
fore advertised must travel before next
Sunday.
r. Lake shipped four car loads OF
calves out of here last Saturday night.
This was the lot purchased in the Ter
rltory last winter, by Sparks & Hen
Erickson.
A party of young ladies and gentle
men went to Elm Mills, Friday. They
caught no fish, didn't expect any, and
didn't want any, but they all complain
of having mighty good time, just the
same.
Editor and Postmaster AXline started
west, yesterday, on two-fold mission
to attend meeting of the republican
congressional central committee, al
Dodge City, to-day, and to look after
his tree claim in Kearney county.
The dinner given by the Willing
Workers." at the residence of Mrs. E.
Youmans, last Wednesday, was fully
up to their high standard, and that is
saying good deal for 1t. A large num-
Der of business men dined there, and
all were well satisfied.
Mrs. r. NJ. Woodward and her broth
er, Vernon Lytle, started, this week,
overland, in "a wagon, on trip to north
central Kansas, hoping that the trip,
camping out and roughing it, would
benefit Mr.. Lytle's health, which has
been very poor for a year past.
r. NJ. Sparks was down in Comanche
county, last week, buying a bunch OF
cattle. He did not speak very highly
of the agricultural outlook there and
appeared to think that about one more
Oklahoma hegira would depopulate the
south part of the county.
The county commissioners are in SeS-
sion this week, as county board OF
equalization, and they have a large
amount of business before them. The
assessors returns were not all filed un-
til Monday, and there is no way, this
week, of arriving at the correct taxable
wealth of the county.
At Lake City, next Sunday afternoon,
at O'clock, there will be Children's
Day service consisting of recitations
and songs by the children and others.
In the evening at O'Clock, Rev. I. 5.
Hodgson, =. E. of the Winfield district
Will deliver a sermon and administer
the sacrament. Everybody invited to
attend.
A party of about twenty expected TO
go to the Eldred ranch, yesterday, tC
spend three or four days, but the trip
has been postponed. Last night the
proposed party went up to the Field
grove, north of town, and had a moon
light picnic, thus effectually dIspOsing
of the abundance of food prepared fol
the intended excursion.
1t is our guess that cattle stealing il
the southwest part of the county will
not be profitable business, hereafter
One substantial resident of that sec
! ton remarked to rs last week that the
people had stood the depredations a;
long as they could and that from now
on. the slow arm of the law Will not bt
utilized except az. :. last resort.
The understanding is that an agency
of the AnheuserB Busch i$reWiag Asso
citation, of st. Louis, will be opened il
this city, in the Rogers building, OF
South Main street, by r. b. Clark. L
Will be the first Original package
house in the county, and only beer il
cases, quarter dozens aud kegs will b'
handled. The opening will not be {
surprise here, where whisky and bee
have been sold in any desired quancit,,
ever since the town was large enough
to demand it.
There we've several sad-appearing re
publican politicians in Medicine Lodg'
last Monday when it was announced
| that the alliance would nominatea full
| county ticket. All calculations as t
democratic or republican majoritIe'
are now pure guess work, and the poll
ticians know it. Unsupported that there
was an informal conference of repub'
hcans at the court house Monday wher
it was estimated that there were bu
400 straight alliance votes in the coun
ty; that there would be added to tina
vote 200 independents; that the repub