Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-07-09
LOCAL NEWS.

Guthrie, yesterday.
Cook a. Palmer give lowest rates on
farm and city loans. IS
Call for Deerhead Gilt Edge butter
at Davis and take no other.
Gasoline at l7l cents per gallon at
StandifOrd, YOumans ~ Eldred's.
The latest, tenderest and best beef
at the Central meat market, opposite
1st National bank. a
Catholic services will be held on
Wednesday, July %, at the Gobielle
building at the usual hour.
\ marriage license was granted on
the 9TH to James NJ. Demint and Miss
Enretta f. Sherk, of Cedar township.
Mrs. z. l.. Hansen and two children
are in from Colorado to spend the hot
months with her parents, DIR. Ayers
family.
Three persons have been lately re-
ceived into the Presbyterian church,
and five children received the rite of
baptism.
Mrs. Henderson Martin, of the Medi-
cine Valley country, brought the IN
DEX bushel of the first sand plums of
the season.
Miss Canaan will leave to-day for
Ada, Ohio, where she will instruct in
normal institute and afterwards teach
"a term of school there.
Miss Kathryn Smullen, of Kansas
City, is here OH a visit to the family of
j. IL. McCracken, old Pennsylvania
friends. She will remain several weeks.
Though republican paper, the Cres-
set last week, failed and neglected to
hoist the name of /. A. Love for dis
trict Judge. IT may have been an over
sight.
G. V. McClanathan, of Wichita, of
the Kansas National Loan company,
was here this week looking after the
crops on some of the company's Barber
county land.
j. u. Hall and wife, Mrs. j. 5. Run
van, G.. b. Runyan and daughter, Miss
Grace, Mrs. A. l.. Noble and her sister,
Miss Robbie, will leave next Tuesday
for months outing in Colorado.
The county commissioners are in ses-
sion. and Monday and yesterday they
wrestled oyer some hard and unusual
bills. Their proceedings will not be
completed before the end of the week,
1t now appears.
The Epworth League social at the
NJ. e. parsonage occurred last evening,
recitations and plans for future work
and a very pleasant time generally.
This organization will meet every
Tuesday night.
Commencing, next Sunday evening,
The union services by the four cOngre-
cations Of this city Will be commenced,
Rev. North occupying the NJ. +. pull
pit. The arrangements for the next
pneeting will then be announced.
Once more: Would Medicine Lodge
like TO have the fall meeting of the
Barber and Harper County Horse
breeders notwithstanding, run
ming and p.. cing for all classes? The
meeting at KiOwa, Saturday, will de-
eide the matter.
Geo. w. Hendrickson is coming IN
from Colorado, this week, with 4Ot
steers. three and fours, and so Navajo
ponies. The steers will be fed here
but no one knows what George wants
with so many ponies. The stock will
arrive this week.
The regular semi-annual meeting Of
the First National Bank, Of Medicine
Lodge, was held July 5th, last Satur
day. Directors present were A. w
Little. in person, o. c. Ewart and w
L.. Blair, by j. &. Thurman, and j. Z
Hall and p. ID. Cunningham, in person
On the Fourth there was very pref
ty quarter mile race at the Ellis tracs
between local horses, the contestants
being G.. a. o. Mills chestnut mare
George Browns gray geldIng, VIM
Nichols Jack Rabbit" and r. f.
Kathren's Barney" The horses came
out in the order named. The race was
for purse raised by the citizens Of
this city.
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A pair of shoes is one of the most typ
ical products of modern industry. L,
maze them the animal kingdom con
tributes from the herds of the western
plains; the vegetable, from groves o
oak and hemlock or from the great for
ests still left to us; great factories sun
ply cloth and thread; mines. furnace
and FORCES combine to furnish nails o
wire. Through scores of processes, ti'
forty-two pieces OF pair of shoes re
quire TO bring them together, heco-op
Grafton of fifty men and women, who's
division OF labor is so thoroughly sys
tematized that everything goes will
The same regularity attributed to TIL
works OF clock, until as result, you
we'll shod reader, who wears the w. l.
Douglas shoe, can buy pair from
three 10 five dollars that would hav'
cost your forefathers from six TO twelve