Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-10-15
LOCAL NEWS.

A wet winter makes a good crop the
next summer.
Book is making a speciality of Chill
dren's school shoes. 10
AS an offensive partisan our pOstmas-
ter is big success.
The place to buy School Shoes is at
w. ii. Harmon 81 Co.'S. Is
Mr.. DeGeer's article shows that he
is able to hoe his own row.
The newest and best line of gents
furnishing goods in town is at Books.
Mr.. Streeter lived at Klowa, but his
interests were all III the Cherokee strip.
Baptist Sunday school next Sunday
morning at the usual hour. Nopreach-
ing.
If there is any glory in being Stunned
for ungentlemanly conduct, we fail to
discover it.
John w. Ainick and Miss Jane Ster-
ling were married by Squire Greever. at
Kiowa last week
Col. Eldred is pledged to work and
vote for ingalls,. NJ anti-Ingalls man
can vote for Eldred.
The latest, tenderest and best beef
at the Central meat market, opposite
1st National bank 4
That bomb IS very apt TO smell terri
bly,, whether it hurts anybody OF not.
The &. o. p. campaign is being made
from back yards.
l.. M. AXline returned, Saturday,
from an absence of several days some
where. We suppose he was at Wichl-
ia, looking after that bomb.
The Helping Hands will meet with
Miss Fannie Mills, Saturday afternoon,
Oct 18th. All members are requested
to be present. Mary Mills, secretary.
Judge Howe may have been lawyer
once, but he forgot his legal attain
ments several years ago. AS police
judge his decisions have been anything
but just.
Mrs. Gibbs, who had been here sever
al weeks, visiting her grand daughter,
Miss Inis Gibbs, and the family of j. II.
Young, left for home last Wednesday
morning.
John McGregor ought TO be good re-
publican authority. He feels dead sure
there is no vacancy in the office of city
marshal of Medicine Lodge. We don't
know what others think of the matter
a very pleasant surprise party was
given Misses Callie and Minnie MinIck,
at their home in the north part of the
city last Thursday evening. The num-
erous friends present report a splendid
time.
If any prohibitionist votes for Mr..
Cameron in preference to Mr.. DeGeer,
. 1T ought to forever put a stop to his
complaint at the violations of the law.
You know Mr.. Cameron willnotenforce
the law.
Henry Oldfather, Of the Coldwater
Review, has been nominated for town
ship clerk. We hope he will be elected,
and if so, we know he will make good
officer. We had rather it had been
county clerk.
Tue alliance resolved to boycott the
Cresset because it was SO unworthy of
decent support. 1t charges that paper
with lying and slandering. The Cres-
set glories III being bpycotted under
such circumstances.
f. Nj. Shell authorizes us to say that
he endores the statement made by Sam.
Stewart last week. He says he knows
it to be fact that Sam. Robison's hogs
did nearly all the damage to Simpsons
wheat.
+. II. German, of HazeltOn, sent us
n list Of nine subscribers and nine dol
lars, yesterday, and says it is all false
about any alliance man in that vicinity
going back on the ticket. You bet it
is. IIazelton and Sharon are o. X.
l.. w. Storey, of Sharon, says he has
sent for w. \. Power, to come and adj
dress tile G.. y. II. and :. V. at this
place, and that he will be here on the
22d. Mr. Power is an old soldier, anG
is said to be fine speaker. He will
probably also speak at the opera house
at night.
Married-At the residence of the
brides parents, near Sharon, October
9Th, 10y G.. w. Nelson, j. p, Mr.. Chas.
NJ. Porter and Miss Ida 5. Lewis.
Quite "A number of valuable presents
were given to the young couple,
and an elegant supper was served to
The guests.
Some slick scOundrel cut out half a
pane of glass III the show window OF
Noble Il Cases store, last Friday night
and took the finest gun they had. Other
guns were close by, and the thief could
have taken all four, but he only wanted
one. lie reached through the hole and
took Out the gun. The glass shows
marks of having been cut. 1t was q
bold piece of work.
A large number of our farmers anC
stOckmen met last Wednesday after
noon at Finley Bros ranch in Aetna
township and formed stOckmen's as
ISOLATION. The object of the associa
ton is to protect their range and tC
keep infected stock from being brought
into the county. The organization is ;
good one, and should be encouraged b,
all the people having the good of th'
county at heart.
AS fine a rain as ever fell in Kansas
commenced falling here at 5 o'clocl
Sunday morning, and there were show
ers all Gay Sunday and until about mid
night of Sunday night. There was II,
thunder or lightning, and but littl,
wind. 1t was gentle, generous rain
The ground is full OF water, and tn
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