Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-05-21
Gasoline, at Burnett's.

day and Sunday.
Discount sale continued this week at |
New York store.
Cook 81 Palmer give lowest rates on
farm and CITY loans. %
For Sale-A new Homemade Carpet,
good pattern, cheap. Mrs. j. ii. Yenni. |
DIR. Karr has moved into the Nc
Clearey house, in the south part of |
town.
The Willing Workers will meet with /
Mrs. Youmans, Wednesday afternoon,
May 28th.
Remember the building association
election tomorrow night. Every stock |
holder should be present.
G.. G. Shaver, assistant live stock
agent of the Santa Fe, was here last
Saturday on business.
Twenty per cent. discount on Trim
med Hats and Children's Sailors this
week, at the New York Millinery Store.
Dell Sparks is carrying one hand IN
a sling. His horse reared up and fell
on him last Saturday, hurting his right
hand severely.
Winter & Brown have the contract
for the wood work on the Touring mill.
The lumber will be furnished by the
Badger lumber company.
Twenty-Five hats at 20 per cent. dis
count, sold by n. Y. millinery store
last Saturday; plenty left at same dis
count. Call and get the pick.
A number of the friends of $. l.. OY-
eIstreet invaded his apartments Satur
day night and treated him to farewell
party that lasted until a late hour.
The condition of O.E. Davis, who was
discovered near Sharon attempting to
starye to death, on the IL INST, has i'm
proved and he will be taken on visit
to his mother in Ohio.
There will be a house cleaning picnic
at the Christian church tomorrow
morning, at o'clock. All members of
the church or Sunday school will be
admitted free. Come early.
n. b. Blanton will lecture at the
courthouse in Medicine Lodge, on Fri
day evening, May %, 1890, at 8 O'Clock.
Subject: The Gospel that Christ and
the Apostles Preached" All are in
Yited. 5lt2
The Willing Workers will hold one
OF their famous dinners at the residence
of Mrs. Youmans, Wednesday, May
18th. The delicacIes of the season Will
be served, including ice cream, all for
% cents.
S. S. WoOdcock, postmaster at Null
vane, K. w. Phillips, one of the Sedge-
wick county representatives in the leg
islature and VIM. Gregg, of Carbon
dale, Kansas, are here this week as wit
nesses for the plaintiff in the Zeiler
case.
Register of Deeds Nixon states that
from January 18th to May 18th the real
estate mortgages released i'll Barber
county number al, and aggregate S56,
1l2, while the new mortgages given
number 70, aggregating .65S-net re-
duction of recorded real estate indebt-
edness in months, 81 ,454.
Pratt county is very proud of steam
pillow that j. E. Simpson has introduced
on his farm, near Pratt. 1t consists of
six 14-inch plows, that turn seven feet
of ground at once and twenty-five acres
in day. The plOws are pulled by a
16-horse-power engine. The outfit is
guaranteed to do the work of six teams
of eighteen horses and six men.
Hon. r. l.. Carter was down from
Lake City, Monday. and in the course
of a pleasant talk he quoted what his
son-in-law, Mr.. Kendall, had written
him from Aurora, Illinois, lately. He
said ''If this years crop in Kansas
comes up to the published predictions,
| you folks will have to make beds down
OH the floor to accommodate the immi-
grafton that will flow into your state. {"
The work of laying the water pipe
for the Medicine Lodge system of wa
terworks was completed Monday even
ing at o'clock and now this city can
boast Of three miles of standard iron
pipe, thoroughly tested and in success
full operation. On Monday the pipe
line men put down 1885 feet and set two
bydrants. Until the turbine wheel at
the water power is in running order,
the pumping will continue to be done
at the sugarwOrks.
In the alimOny case of Nellie Pattee
against Joseph Z. Pattee, from whom
she obtained a divorce, in SedgwIck
county, before Probate Judge Edwards,
last week, the attorneys for plaintiff
hoped to find about $500 of property in
possession of defendant who now lives
in Barber county. He acknowledged
to owning fiddle, a saddle, muzzle-
loading shot gun, silver watch and SIC
in money. These items, by order of
the court, he turned over TO the sheriff.
The question is what to do with tine
fiddle.
Rev. Bitter, Catholic priest, OF Dan
vile, lectured at the court BOnse III this
city Sunday night to one of the largest
audiences that ever assembled in Medi-
cine Lodge. His subject was "Confes
SION" He took tine ground that confes-
sion was required by the word Of the
bible; that the apostles and their sue
cessors we're authorized to hear confess
sion and grant pardons and that nc
good catholic failed 10 its observance
He said that any catholic who did not
90 to confession would bear watching
in their walk in tho business world
Rev. Bitter is an educated gentlemen
and entertained his hearers for more
than an hour. The music of the even
ing was furnished by Mrs. A. l.. Noble
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