Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-08-20
Gasoline, at Burnett's.

City last week.
Tablets, all kinds, cheaper than ever,
at Day Il Records. IL
Mrs. &. Q. Chandler has another at
tack of eczema.
Best Dental work at lowest prices, at
DR.. Wants Dental office. I3
Cook & Palmer give lowest rates on
farm and CITY loans. %
The ball at the opera house last Fri
day night was fairly well attended, and
all had good time.
BONN this city, August 18th, to
the wife of VIM. Axtell, daughter.
DIR. Burney in attendance.
The Miles murder case, of Coldwater.
viii be tried at the September term of
the Meade district court.
No need of going barefooted any Ion
ger. Book has a wagon load of new
boots and shoes. 8
&c. Walstad and wife and Mrs. Jas
Minnick left Monday for visit to
az 4CAdo'
Go to r. NJ. Woodward, first door
south of Davis 81 Davis, to buy your
Draft Harness and have your Saddles
made to order. 12-tf
+. NJ. Shell, of Sharon, last Wednes-
! d ay presented the INDEX with the boss
watermelon of the season. It was
large and just exactly ripe. Who
wants to beat 1t?
The Kiowa Herald has moved to this
city. and will be called the Barber
County Herald. 1t Will occupy the old
CTesset building, in the north part of
| town.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hill entertained num-
Der of young folks last Friday evening
! Cream and cake were served, and as
usual at Mr.. Hills, very pleasant time
was reported.
Messrs. Weidner and Harris went
down to Col. Eldred's ranch, last
Thursday, to haul the Colonel's five
thOusand-bushel wheat crop to Kiowa,
from which place it will be shipped to
market.
o. l.. Settles received word, Thurs
! day, that his father was very sick, and
on Friday morning he started to Fos-
toria, Ohio, to visit him. He will be
absent about six weeks.
Ifyou need Harness, Saddles, Collars,
WHIPS or anything in the Harness line
see Finney in his new shop. Prices
low. Three doors south of the old
stand 12tl
We have seen a private letter from a
gentleman in Stevens county, who says:
If the election should occur to-mOr-
row Jerry Simpson would get three
fourths of all the votes cast in that
county"
Mrs. Il. c. Williams and two children
started, yesterday, on visit to rela-
tiveS at Lawrence and Wichita, whom
she has not seen for nine years. They
will be absent six weeks, and will take
in the Wichita fair
Miss Lille Drysdale, who has been
here three months visiting her sister.
Mrs. w. G.. Musgrove, will leave to-mor-
row for a short visit to relatives at Kan
sas City and Lexington, and from
thence to her home at Sweet Springs
Mo.
! Well, you have seen the Alliance Of
! fetal organ, and we guess you are well
pleased with it, from the way adver-
tisements and subscriptions have come
in. We have room for few more.
The paper will grow better each week
we hope.
One man in Harper county has 16C
acres of melons. \ man in Barber
! county has 60 acres in melons. These
J two melon patches are going to make
their owners more money this year than
any other tracts of equal size in the
state will do for their owners.
The creamery was sold at auction,
Monday afternoon, by Sheriff DObson.
j. Il. Hall was the purchaser, and the
| price paid was 500. The First Nation
al Bank had a mortgage on it for about
81 ,755, and mortgage and costs amount
to nearly $1,000. 1t cost about 81 800.
Wichita Eagle: A generous Boston
lady has promised to endOw Garfield
! University with 81 100000 as soon as
the trustees clear it of its present in
debtedness. The indebtedness will be
cleared up" The above will be good
news to every member Of the Christian
church in this state.
The entertainment last Saturday
night. at the WOrland school house,
four miles north of town, was we'll at
tended, considering the threatening
appearance Of the weathes. Everything
passed off pleasantly, and all had a good
time. Mr.. Keene Crouch, bachelor
won the fine bed quilt, by being the best
guesser, What will he do with it?
Attica Advocate, "E, p. Caruthers
has sold his interest in the Barber
county Index to IL. Walker, of Elm
Mills township, agent and trustee fOl
| members of the farmers alliance, and
the paper becomes an organ of the ALI
ance. w. q. Musgrove retains his in,
terest in the paper and becomes editor
and business manager. By this move
the democracy. loses II strong paper and
the alliance gains one"
/ j. II, Young caught chicken thief
on his premises one night last week
and the question arose what to do with
him. lie finally shot the thief twice
He had to do so IN self defense, as the
thief was armed, and would allow nc
one to come near him. His name was
Americana Mephitis. Everybody agree:
that it served him right. Mephitis is