Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-03-19
ABSTRACTS a If you oom Mset a seFFsst
lcall on Bronson Houchin. They have the on
y complete set of abstract books I'm Barber
county. Il
Arbor day will be April 10Th.

LUX ~ rainier give lowest rates on
farm and city loans. IS
Mrs. j. w. McNeal and the children
are visiting in Guthrie, Ok.
A. S. McClearey is busy filling orders
for tombstones and monuments.
The McNeal Mortgage Company
makes speciality of short time loans. 3
Mrs. Kidd and Mrs. Lowry report
good trade at their new Central hotel.
Wanted, 1000 bushels OF corn, at best
market prices. Enquire of A. d. Shaw.
Cash paid for hides and furs at the
meat market opposite First National
bank. 2S
Three new members were elected in
the Masonic lodge, Saturday night, ON
cards.
Custom meal will be ground at the
creamery mill only on Saturday, here
after.
The hose company is now located in
the building next to Woodward's har-
ness shop.
Prof. Beeson and Postmaster Axline'
each have pretty new buggles purchased
of Noble 81 Case.
About thousand peach trees, seed
lings, large as twO-year-olds, for sale by
L. w. Stout, at prices to suit the times.
The first new potatoes of the season
were placed on the INDEX desk Mon
day, March 18th, by r. Lawrence, of
this place.
For alfalfa, timothy. clover, blue
grass, and all kinds of garden and field
seeds in bulk or small quantities at No
bic & Cases. 43
! The Cresset seems to have some spite
at John Upperman. Its mis-quotation
from the INDEX is specimen of polit-
ical obliquity.
Barber county can well accommodate
800 900 of the cattle that will have to
come out of the Strip. We have an
abundance of corn, grass and water.
Senator Chester l. Long, of this city.
is the choice of the Meade Republican
and the Clark County Citizen for con-
gresham from this, the seventh dis
| trict.
Coldwater Review: Jim Crouch,
who has been cook at the Gorham ranch
fol some time, will give dance and
supper at Comanche City tonight. This
is his farewell to the boys, as he goes to
Iowa in few days, to be married"
Spring must be here. The carp in
Benedict's pond have come out of the
mud, and Sunday were clamoring for
something to eat. 1t is said that these
fish do not leave their. winter quarters
in the mud until all danger from freez-
ing1s past.
G.. b. Ewart, on his farm two miles
northeast, is going to raise more hogs.
He has bought lot of hog fence and
cut off a pasture with plenty of water in
it, and he proposes feeding out all his
surplus corn in preference to selling it
at II cents.
Hon. w. III. Carter, of Coldwater,
well-known in this county as a promi-
nent democrat, having been candidate
for the senate in 1888, has moved with
his family TO Lexington, Mo-, to get the
benefit of better educational instltu-
tions for his children.
l.. b. Cole & Son will run the cream
cry until July, anyway, and probably
longer. They want all the milk posi-
BILE now, having, they think, found a
market for their butter product. They
have plenty of Ice, an advantage the
creamery did not have last year.
There is to be meeting of the farm
ers at the sugarwOrks to-day to consld.
Ell the cane and beet contracts. 1t is
believed that the company will have nc
trouble in getting all the cane and beets
that the factory can work up; in fact
the trouble is going to be to keep down
the acreage.
COldwater Star: About twenty of
the prominent ladies of Coldwater wait.
ed on Mrs. w. ID. Murphy, wife of the
late Dudley Murphy, last Saturday NOR.
ming, before train time, and asked hel
to leave the city. She promised them
we understand, she would do so as soo1
as she could pack her goods, which
would take her until about Monday
However she did not leave until Wed
nesday, when we learn she took thu
train for her fathers home in Ohio.n
5 Morgan Avery, the young man founC
2 dead in bed, at the Arlington hotel
Wellington, was nephew of Mrs. Kar
: of this city. Her daughter had received
l a letter stating that he would leave
Lake Creek, Illinois, about the 10th, TO
Kansas. DR.. Karr's folks did not rea(
the account of the finding of the youni
> man as it appeared in the daily papers
p but saw the account in the INDEX las
week. They notified the family in Iii
f nois, and likely the body will be dis
o inferred and removed from Wellington
Il In returning from the Stevens Dole
q wedding, last Thursday evening, ii. L
u Shannon and wife and her sister, Mis-
/ Stella Stevens, and Eugene Youmans
. were in surrey, drawn by one of Love
teams. In leaving the poles place, tn
II wrong road was taken and the tear
/ walked off of bank six feet high, TAX
/. ing the surrey and occupants along
4 All we're thrown out but none of then
t hurt except Mr.. Youmans, who wa
I caught by tbs vehicle in some way tina
= tore his clothes considerably and severe
o y bruised him, rendering HIM uncon
n scious for time. He was brought t
r town by j. b. Gano and taken to hi
: home and Or. Karr sent for. Saturda
}, he was able to go home and Sunday h
J was up town, rather sore and weak, bu
t with every hope of speedy and perma
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