Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-09-17
southern Kansas Railroad Time Card.
LOCAL NEWS.
DIR. Y ant-Dentist.

Try the New Meat Market for fresh
and sailed meats. IA
The newest and best line of gents
furnishing goods in town is at Books.
The cool weather for the past week
has retarded the ripening of the cane.
The late peaches are better and more
plentiful than anybody expected them
to be.
There has not been pound of Ice III
town for week. Mr.. Sparks is expect
ing carload.
Mr. Il. l.. Lindley and bride have re-
turned to their home, and settled down
to housekeeping.
The boys had a regular jamboree last
Saturday night. One arrest and the
trial postponed.
The latest, tenderest and best beef
at the Central meat market, opposite
LIST National bank. 4
Privileges to let-For the grand ALI
ance picnic at this place on the 9th.
Apply to Il. NJ. Sparks. 17t2
Don't overlook the Forest City Sun
day school picnic and the pole-raising,
on Friday, the 10Th inst.
ii. d. RECORDS is slowly improving,
and thinks he will be able to get around
on crutches in a couple of weeks.
Wanted-Five cords of wood, for the
barbecue. Must be dry elm or oak.
Apply to Il. M. Sparks or to this office.
And now if the Denton & Jones party
will do as well as the republicans did,
the peoples ticket will have plain sail
ing.
All sub-alliances which have their
beeYes made up, will please report as
soon AS possible, to II. NJ. Sparks, or to
this office. l7t2
The Ladies AID Society OF the Bap-
fist church will meet on Thursday, of
this week, with Mrs. w. A. Cain, to
plan for their fall work.
One day last week man called
Judge Hardy liar, and the Judge pro-
ceeded to give him a good kicking. The
Cresset did not mention the fact
The Loyal Temperance Legion will
meet next Saturday at the Presbyterian
church at 3 O'Clock p. m. Election of
officers will be part Of the work.
Every stock raiser in Barber county
ought to have a card in the Index. 1t
will cost but trifle, and other farmers
will know where to get what they want.
The turbine wheel at the Touring
mill has been set; the penstock is all
riveted together. and it looks as though
water might be turned on by the last
of this week.
For the first time in many years, dur
ing a county republican convention,
Tom McNeal, last Saturday, Sat around
like poor boy at froiic. He had
been knocked out completely.
Mr.. Cameron said, IN thanking the
convention for re-nominating him, that
he had not played the ferret act in hunt
ing out Violators of the whisky law.
lie did not mention the "bear" act,
with which our people are SO familiar.
Oscar Cochran, OF Anthony, killed a
five-foot snake in his store, last week,
so says the Republican. We looked all
over that paper and did not see Mr..
Cochran's advertisement, and so con-
cluded that his store is good place for
snakes and spiders.
The crowd at the picnic last Friday
was variously estimated at from 900 to
1000 people. The day was cold and
windy. If 500 were there, think of the
crowd that will be here on the 9th.
we advise the committee on barbecue
30 double their preparations.
T.. w. Bisbey, who lives three and a
half miles west of town, brought us four
freestOne seeding peaches, Saturday
which are hard to beat. He shipped
nine baskets to Minneapolis, Kansas,
that day, and says the ones he brought
US were not the largest nor best he had
They were fine enough.
a republican told an Alliance man, q
few days ago, that the republicans in
tended to put up ticket composed OF
farmers, and that it would be called the
Farmers ticket. The Alliance man re-
Piled that the farmers ticket was al
ready named, and there was no prospect
of farmer being nominated by the
other party if there was any hope of his
election.
ii. a. BOttleman, who lives neal
Crislield, in this county, sent us the
boss watermelon, last Saturday. He
also sent one for Jerry Simpson, but as
neither Mr.. Simpson nor his family
were in town, the INDEX took charge
of it for HIM. Mr.. Bottleman had sixty
acres in melons, and shipped them
east, west, north and south, and we are
glad to say, made big money by it.
There will be big Sunday school,
picnic at Forest City, next Friday. The
program will commence at 10 O'Clock in
the morning. "A hrst-class dinner is
guaranteed to all who are present. AZ
two O'Clock an Alliance pole will bt
raised. Speeches will be made by Col
Hickox, Mr.. Lands, Mr. DeGeer, Mr.
Hahn and Others. The whole country
will turn out, and an enthusiastic tim'
is part of the program.
Uncle ES Howard says: THE In.
DEN can say for sc that the ladies whC
prepared the dinner i,ccSred to eat, a
the big picnic last Friday, wercc lie bes
cooks in the world, except my woman.
Uncle Ben Vaughn heard the remark
and replied: They were no better
cooks than who prepared the dinner
l helped to eat" And everybody is
Dragging on the good dinner, and the