Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-04-23
More rain Monday.


Many shade trees were set out this
spring.
There was a drizzIy rain falling
Tuesday morning
Cook & Palmer give lowest rates on
farm and city loans. IS
The McNeal Mortgage Company
makes specially of short time loans. 3
Everybody has plenty of work to do.
There are no loafers on the street cor
ners.
Cash paid for hides and furs at the
meat market opposite First National
bank. %
Reetie and AL. McClearey started,
Sunday. on business trip to Carthage,
Missouri.
Mrs. G. j. Skeen left, yesterday, tor
few weeks visit with friends at Dan
vile, Kansas.
The city park is being improved, but
it will never look all right till a neat
fence is put around it.
There was a baptizing in the pond
east of the city, last Sunday afternoon.
Quite crowd was present.
All reports say that there were never
as good prospects for wheat in Barber
county as can be seen here at the pres
ent time.
For alfalfa, timothy, clover, blue
GRASS and all kinds IF cror,Ian ond 6ol6
seeds in bulk or small quantities at No
bic u Cases. As
Write Caruthers was completely sur
prised, last Wednesday night, when all
her young friends came in to help her
celebrate her birthday.
Fishing and hunting at the big pond,
north of town, is popular with the boys,
few little fish and an occasional duck
being sufficient reward for their toll.
We examined a few peach trees,
few days ago, and on one twig, an inch
and half long, found seven small
peaches. This does not look discoura-
ging.
From the number of mill men who
are figuring on building a Touring mill
here this spring, we should Judge that
somebody will build one. We hope so,
at least.
Elder Nicholson will preach on 1.-The
Manner Of Choosing Elders" next
Sunday morning. At the close of the
morning services three elders and three
deacons will be chosen.
w. s. Denton and A. J. Jones, who
had been looking after some legal bust
ness at Wichita, returned, Saturday.
Mrs. Denton went with her husband,
and had VISIT there from Wednesday
to Saturday.
y nice spring suit good for Sunday
wear for five years, at the price you
used to pay for a work suit. Our styles
are the latest, our prices the cheapest
our goods the best. Stamford, You
mans Il Eldred. As
Harper Enterprise: Estate Senator
Chester /. Long was in the city for
few days this week. We had the
pleasure of making has acquaintance,
and aside from being a bitter republi-
can partisan, we found him a very
pleasant gentleman"
Our first bid was very low on all work
the county has to pay for. The county
does not make or lose a cent in paying
for the tax-list and final tax notice, and
both papers bid legal rates. Both bids
were rejected, not because they were
too high, but because the INDEX was
fairly entitled to the work.
Shoes for the plowman; shoes for the
ball room; shoes for school children
and shoes for the old shoes for ladies
ranging from 81 to IS, and the first
mentioned are finer and better than our
grandmothers ever dreamed of. We
cannot be beaten on shoes-fOr we have
more than all the other firms IN this
market put together. StandIford, You
mans IL Eldred. 46
Cresset: Had they rejected the
INDEX's first bid and accepted the Cres-
sets. 1t would only have been matter
of $50 year" I'VE figured the
county printing down to a living basis
and expected to get 1T; but because the
Inder'S bid 'cds about $50 a year cheaper,
the commissioners did not act" That is
the reason they did not act. They did
not intend giving the INDEX the work
at any price, and didn't want to openly
! rriUa II fn tha hinhoct h1HIor
Cresset: "What paper in Medicine
Lodge has always favored the tickets
that were favorable to saloons OF
JOINTS He then answers his own
question by saying "the INDEX" This
is foolish question, falsely answered
Was the last city ticket supported by
the INDEX favorable to joints? Name
any ticket we ever supported that was
not as good morally and financially as
the one you supported in the same cleo
ton. The Cresset has habit of calling
men whisky men If it don't like them
If such men as Holmes, Cook, Thomp
son, UDSe, Brown, Shaw and Wood
! ward can afford to be called whisky
men, we can stand the shame of havin!
voted for them. A year ago the Crosse
fought some OF the men it supported
this year.
The Greensburg Times has cores
pondeut at Click. who writes: "Fron
what we can learn the county printing
contract was a sort of an underhandeC
niggeF-jp, the-wood-p business. Boil
ton gets it aud will have the brazen gal
J to give himself credit feg securing il
But people in the county know bette
than this, for if he had TO work his ewI
. scheme he would soon be dependent o.
the county. If the commissioners ha
dealt fairly with all bidders the Time