Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-12-10

Eli Benedict t,'ok run over to Atti
ca yesterday.
Cook 81 Palmer give lowest rates OF
farm and CITY loans. %
Go to the old reliable S. Y. & E. fol
your holiday groceries. %
For fine watch and jewelry repairing
go to Sellers, the jeweler. 1872
Subscribe for the INDEX. Only one
dollar year, if paid in advance.
Christmas goods, large stock and
endless variety at Young's drug store
McClearey & Staubus will sell you
feed and mill stuff at bottom prices. g
The regular county meeting of the
Alliance will be held January 9Th. 28tt
l.. Munson is engaged in plastering a
new house for Mr.. Grouse, five miles
southeast of town.
A few flakes of snow fell here last
Saturday morning, not enough to be
seen on the ground.
Mr.. WattleS, who has been here for
some months, at the sugar mill, left
yesterday for ArgoDia.
w. &. Sellers is once more able to
work. You will find him at the old
Rogers building, south Main st. 2S-2
Toys, pictures, perfumes. workboxes.
hand painted plaques, books, and a
thousand holiday presents, at Young's.
Our rustling merchants, d. G.. Book
and w. II. Harmon q Co., are doing
their best at editing the INDEX this
week.
Now is the time to select your Christ
mas presents. Look over the INDEX,
and put your money where your are in
vited to trade.
Weare informed by popular young
man of our city, that the wedding bells
will peal forth their sweetest chimes,
Christmas week.
Fred Merrill's old engine, which has
been ill the repair shops for three
weeks, came in Monday, looking as
bright as rev pin.
A highly colored young man was ar
rested and put in Jail last Saturday
morning, charged with stealing a pair
of clippers from one of our city barber
shops.
Married-At the Usage Hotel, in this
city, at noon, on Thursday, December
4th, by Elder j. E. Nicholson, Mr.. Asa
TT Raruar1 aD6 Mice Marx, Il LVa+SoC
all of Sharon, in this county.
The first number of the Kiowa Re-
view Will probably make it's appearance
to-day. Byrd Watrus, one of the pro-
prietors, was among the many callers
who have frequented the INDEX office
this week.
Miss Ella EsmoGd will leaye Satur
day for her home at Omaha, Neb, after
a protracted visit in our city. Miss
Esmond has always been favOrite il
Medicine Lodge society, and will be
missed by her many friends here, and
to one young man in particular.
There is no dentist in town, and ev-
cry old snag of tooth in the county
has set up jumping misery" for its
owner. DIR. Gould pulled more teeth
last week than regular dentist would
get to pull in a month. DIR. Gould
don't like to pull teeth, but he does ii
in scientific manner when he has il
to do.
Peter Ruffing and wife reached home
Thursday, from their two months Wis,
it TO Ft. Wayne, Ind, and their old
home, Columbus, Ohio. Mr.. Ruffine
says he would not like to live in that
muddy country, and is glad to get
home. When people live in Barber
county one year and leave here, they
always have q longing to get back.
Wichita Star. Geo. Finney and
Miss Laura Vaughn, of MedicineLodge
eloped few days ago and went to St
Louis. Both were of age, and there
would have been no opposition to their
marriage, but ever since Jerry Simp-
son good luck has turned things up
side down, at that town, we may expect
to hear of such strange proceeding"
The races at Hazelton were success
full in every respect. There were good
horses present from Harper, Kiowa
and Medicine Lodge and surrounding
cities. The weather was pleasant, the
order good, the racing fair and exciting
and everybody vas satisfied. Barber
county is full of good horses, and these
public races for reasonable purses il
not like the gambling affairs in the
eastern cities, but simply stimulant
for our horsemen to improve their stock
Kiowa~ Journal; ~, w. Potes came
in this morning with an unusually
broad smile upon his cOuntenance. Up
on inquiry he informed US that he hat
every reason to be happy and did no
care who knew it. He said he had jus
paid off tins mortgage upon his farm
he still had all of his this years whea
crop, a good bunch of cattle and hogs
with plenty of feed to fatten them, hi
cellar was full of potatoes, cabbage
ETC., aud he has enough hoqr in th'
house to do until next summer. Mr.
Potes has put in four years at hare
work IL this county and we are glad t.
note his success"
The Cresset don't generally get any
sympathy from the INDEX, but We
think it deserves some this week. The
Wichita Eagle and other republican
papers are firing hot shot from the east
and the Herald, of this city is pouring
in canister from the west. In one fit
tie squib the Herald hurls Shakespeare
Juyenal, Solomon, and Horace at the
Cresset, and uses such words as ''hom
ogeneous,'i ''gaberlunzie," and Sin
quail vocabulary" And the Cresset j,