Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-07-02

III. O'Brian's. 5
Oats are better than anybody expect
ed, two weeks ago.
Gasoline at III cents per gallon at
Standiford, Youmans 81 Eldred's. 5
John c. Thurman came down from
Kansas City, yesterday, on business.
Born, June q, to the wife of AL.
Snodderly, girl. DIR. Karr in attend
ance.
Both sides charge the other with at
tempted bribery. Both sides are prob
ably right.
Henry Morgan sold the Ham house,
Medicine Boulevard, this week, to Mr..
Widner, for $500.
Mrs. GRANVILLE Morris and Master
Guy are spending two months at Ok
ford, with her sisters.
For SALE-A good skiff, now on the
sugar mill lake. Call early and get a
bargain. John DOhrer. 5tf
The alliance delegates to the state
convention will be nominated Saturday
by the county alliance.
If you have chronic Bronchial cough,
that has been troubling you for years,
Compound Oxygen will cure 1T. 6t2
1t has never been necessary yet to call
the sheriff in to quell riot in demo-
cratic convention in Barber county.
1t is very evident that republicans In
some of the townships of Barber coun-
ty are getting as scarce as hens teeth.
John King, of Hazelton, and John
Wagner, of Kiowa, are to shoot a 500
match at Peoria blarkbirds on the
| Fourth.
The delegates to the alliance nominal
ing convention will be selected by sub
alliances the last Saturday in July, in
the afternoon.
Miss Jessie Ellis, aged ten, enter
tanned a number of little friends yester-
day evening at a birthday party. Re-
freshments were served.
The democrats some time have lively
times in their conventions; but they
never have to call in the sheriff and his
posse to command peace.
The Chandler family, of this city, is
doubly related to Roger @. Mills, OF
Texas, being cousins through both the
Quarles and Mills families
The party of law and order made a
bad showing last Saturday night and
Sunday in Medicine Lodge. Whisky
democrats were never so disorderly.
Democrats ever remember the Sab.
bath day and keep it holy. Barber
county republication conventions pay
no heed to any commandment, divine
or otherwise.
Alonzo Lowry and Miss Minnie Win
chester went to Wellington, yesterday
to get married. From there they ex-
pect to go to Kingfsher, Oklahoma, to
| make their home.
There is mad dog scare i'll Moore
township, north OF Kiowa. A rabid
dog bit cat, other dogs and several
head of stock, in the Julian neighbor-
hood, week ago last Sunday.
The first Barber county peaches
marketed here this season were sold
last Friday. They were raised on the
Martin place, west of town three miles
the place bought of r. 7. Lee.
Capt. N. b. Blanton gave the index
three boxes of homegrown Barber
county peaches, this week. He has
probably the best fruit farm in the
county, two miles north of Hazelton.
Parties contemplating running lunch
July, should call on II. O'Brian anC
get prices on Lemons, oranges, soda
pop, ginger ale, candies, etc. Order
early. 5
j. Il. Young is the first man to try &
cement sidewalk. He had one made
at his residence, in the north end Of
town, which looks well, and is as hare
as stone. Some of our business house!
should try it.
Book, the Friend of Perspirlng HUI
manity," is what he is. No other firm
or house ever displayed such stock Of
summer goods in Medicine Lodge. GC
and get your Fourth of July outfit o.
Book. Go now. 3
A Kiowa firm set up three new
threshing machines last week. 1t ap
pears that there are too many machine
in this county, especially when it is re
membered that nearly al of them hav'
been bought ON credit.
The wheat yield in the south part o
the county will not be as large, to tn
acre, as last year; but the gram is
better quality than last year. TWEEN
ty-fiye bushels to the acre will be con
sidercd q good yield in the vicinity o
Kiowa.
At one point northwest OF town, on
can look down and see the FIGURING
mill. the cement works, the sugar mil
and the creamery. There are severa
pretty good towns in Southern Kansa
: that have net even one manufacturing
establishment.
Riley Lake received, from Kansa
City this week new threshing ma
chine and horse power. He and hi
father have about 10000 bushels o
wheat to thresh and the neighborhoot
will have enough to keep the machin
busy during the season.
Henry w. Scott, late of the land of
. fee, has opened law office Ill LarDed
aud will make a speciality of contes
cases and other business before the Ian,
office. Mr.. Scott is . very competen
man, tlreless worker and business en-
trusted to him will be faithfully attend
ed to.