Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-05-28
Gasoline, at Burnetts. AZ
Willing Workers. dinner to-day.

spider Web" social tomorrow night.
The boat club has built boat house
at the lake.
Cook & Palmer give lowest rates on
farm and CITY loans. IS
The Arcadian Ideal ginger ale always
on ice, at III. O'BrIan's. 80
Attorneys Frank w. Long and E.
Sample spent Sunday In Wichita.
For Sale-A new Homemade Carpet,
good pattern, cheap. Mrs. j. II. Yenni.
The weed crop in the court house
park bids fair to make a wonderful
yield.
Mrs. J. II. McKeever and daughter
are over from Harper visiting the fam
lies of Noble & Case.
Willing Workers dinner to-day, at
Mrs. Youmans' residence. 1t will be a
good one. Price % cents.
SOuthworth's drug store has a very
pretty aquarium, the work of G.. j.
Southworth and Grant Jones.
Judge Ellis is to deliver an address
at Kiowa on Memorial day, May 3Oth.
Senator Long will speak at Harper.
Miss Lille Drysdale arrived here last
Friday, from Sweet Springs, Mo-, on a
visit to her sister, Mrs. VIC. MusgrOve.
LosT:-An Irish setter bird dog. A
liberal reward will be paid to the party
returning the same to w. NJ. Bronson.
Mr.. Hammond of Elk City, who was
here visiting his brother-in-law, G. O.
Chandler, left last Friday. He is on
his way to New Mexico, hoping to i'm
prove his health.
Mr.. Matthews, of Ohio, with his fam
lily of wife and four children, are here
visiting his brOther-in-law, Mr.. Roby.
Mr.. Matthews has been sick ever since
his arrival, and was somewhat worse
last Sunday.
a large fishing party will leave here
on Thursday morning of next week, OIL
their annual excursion to Elm Mills.
They expect to camp out one night, and
get home Friday evening Mr.. Coffman
will please take notice, and prepare for
trouble.
A years education may be obtained
at Prof. Reds panOmetric entertain
next week. 1t will include all of the
scenes witnessed by Nellie BLY,, and
George Francis Tram, besides the won
ders depicted in the bible and so ele-
gantly described in Ben Hur.
Strawberries were plentiful Friday
and Saturday and sold at two boxes for
a quarter. Home grown berries sold
for l24 cents a quartz real quart.
DObbs Bros. picked from II to Is gal
Ions day from their beds last week.
They will put out another acre this sea-
son.
The public school of this city will this
year send out its first graduates. The
friends of education ought to turn out
next Sunday night to do honor to this
class, and thus encourage others. 1t
is our duty, and should be great pleas
ure, to show our appreciation of the eff
forts of pupils and teachers.
The baccalaureate sermon to the first
graduating class of the Medicine Lodge
schools, will be preached by Rev. j. b.
MOI tn, on next Sunday evening, June
1st, in Thompson's opera hall. All the
churches have kindly consented to unite
in this service. a chorus of sixteen
voices, from the various choirs, will
furnish music. An interesting time is
expected. Everybody cordially invited
to be present.
Barber county was not represented at
the Topeka re-submission convention:
but it was not because there are no re-
submissionists here. When the papers
were circulated for names asking for a
special session of the legislature some
of the very best men in Barber county
signed the call-and not only few, but
more than hundred leading republi-
cans, farmers, stockmen, merchants
lawyers, bankers and capitalists. The
lists are in the hands of the re-submis
sion state club officers.
Ambrose Lawrence is a mechanical
genius. He has been night fireman al
the sugarworks all winter, and to keeI
himself from getting lonesome, has
made toy steam engine. 1t has a cyl
inder of one and three-eighths inches
with q stroke of one inch and a half
1t runs perfectly smooth and true. anC
when we examined it, last SATURDAY.
night, it was working under pressure
of sixty pounds of steam, and was ma
king about one thousand revolutions
per minute. 1t is quite curiosity, ant
many people have called IN to see it.
The veterans and sons OF veteran
and large audience Of other citizen
attended the beginning Of Memorla
exercises at ThOmpson's opera house
sunday, 25th inst, The music wa
supplied by choir composed of Mis-
Hahn. Mrs. Yant, E. s. Morris AM
Chas. Palmer with Miss Kercheval a
pianist. The sermon was delivered b
Rev. d. w. Phillips, pastor of the NJ
E. church and it was thoughtful
scholarly effort, we'll calculated to PIC
mote fraternal feeling among all goo
citizens apd act as balm for sore an
bleeding hearts. Elder Nicholson, o
the Christian church assisted in the ex
ercises.
During the trial of the Zeiler damag
suit, last week, the action of DIR. S. I
Shelley. of Mulvane, afforded caus
for some comment. He is the com
pany physician at IulYane and wait
ed on Zeller and amputated his foot
He went to Topeka, few weeks sine
when his deposition was taken by tn
defendant and in that deposition b
stated that deceased had sustained
severe brulse on the back and that