Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-06-04
Gasoline, at Burnett's $.

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A Riding Cultivator for sale cheap.
Granville Morris. /
Cook & Palmer give lowest rates on
farm and CITY loans. %
Sunday will be "Children's Day. at
the Baptist church.
For Sale-A new Homemade CARPET.
good pattern, cheap. Mrs. j. II. Yenni.
Miss Jessie X. Burgess was called to
Kansas City, last week, to the bedside
of her sister in-law.
Born, Saturday, May 31st, 1890, to
the wife of NJ. Z. Roddy, a 1l-pound
son. DIR. Moore in attendance.
Jacob U. Romig and Miss Annie
Blickenderfer were married in this city
last Sunday, by Rev. d. w. Phillips, of
the NJ. Z. church.
The postal clerks having been taken
off of the railroad here, letters to insure
prompt transmission, east, must be in
the Office before 7 a. m.
Tell your nelghbors about the big
Fourth of July celebration to be held
at Medicine Lodge, under the manage
meRt of the G.. A. r., S. of ", and the
Alliance.
a. 5. McClearey came over from
| Carthage, Mo-, Sunday to get his fami-
| ly. He will leave with them Thursday.
His sister, Miss Minnie will accompa-
ny them and spend the summer in
Carthage.
Now is the time to travel. The San
ia Fe is selling tickets from here to all
points east or west at greatly reduced
rates. Agent Horr gives these figures:
To st. Louis, $3.50; Kansas City, 1915;
Denver, $685.; Chicago, $8.75-all first
class limited.
Miss Minnie Barton, of Ashland, is
here on visit to Mr. Stones family,
and will remain quite a while. AT pres
ent she is assisting Mr.. Crossen, special
census agent on mortgage Indebtedness,
i'll his collection of figures from the
records of Barber county.
NJ. Dargan and family have sold out
and left here. He has gone to Fort
Worth on a prospecting tour. Mrs.
Dargan is on visit to her mother in
Virginia. Bert will be placed in a
Catholic school and educated. Mr..
Greer occupies the Dargan place.
Last Sunday was "Children's Day
at the Christian church. The exercises
were very appropriate, consisting of
songs and recitations by the children,
and an address to young people, by Ed.
Nicholson. The church was prettily
decorated with evergreens and natural
flowers. A large audience was present,
and all enjoyed the exercises.
Tourists to Colorado and New Mexi-
co and Cheyenne, Wyoming, can now
buy round trip tickets at Medicine
Lodge for about one fare. with the stop
oyer privileges west of La Junta, good
until October 3lst, 1890. Reduced rates
to all points east. The cut is on and
travellers who want to take advantage
of the reduction should pack up now
and go somewhere.
Memorial day was appropriately OBJ
served at Medicine Lodge. Thompson S
opera house was packed by / O'Clock
and many could not get seats inside.
The G.. a. 4. and Sons of Veterans
marched there in body and occupied
reserved seats. The procession to the
cemetery was as large as ever passed
out of this city; but a sudden storm
drove many from the cemetery before
the exercises were over.
The last social club organized in this
city Is known as the ''Sunfower Club, .
having for its objects literary and mus
zeal studies and cultivation. 1t will
meet twice in each month, on Tuesday
evenings. The officers elected for the
first term are as follows: President,
Mrs. j. Is. North; yice-president, Mr..
thinner; secretary, MTs. il. l.. Shan
non; treasurer, Miss Octa Gibson: crit
ic, Mrs. w. II. McCague.
a party of three government survey
OFFS arrived in this county, Monday, to
complete the preliminary geological
survey, commenced last year. They
are taking the altitude Of hills, width
of valleys. course and volume OF
streams and many other surface notes
but paying no attention to the charac'
ter Of soil or mineral prospects. They
have completed Southern Kansas, with
the exception of Barber, Comanche and
Clark counties. Their present field OF
labor is up the Medicine riyer to Belvi
dere and then the Turkey creek valley
and oyer &c the head of Elm creek
This place Will bs headquarters for the
outnc.
Attorney a. n. Cherry, of Anthony
was here last weeS on professional bus
mess. 1t was his first visit and ne was
we'll pleased with this city. Mr.. merry
is democrat and good one, and it is
among the possibilities that he may be a
candidate for district judge this fall:
though he says that if Hon. Geo. L
McMahon Of Anthony desires the nom
ination he, Mr.. Cherry. Will not be in
his way. He is of the opinion that the
ItpuUlIChtlo VI AoAPOA NOuheJ VIII ho'A
monte to the extent of agreeing on g
, Harper county candidate for judge at
the Harper convention, July LIST. He
guessed that it would be Love or Nc
Colloch.
Rev. j. B. North preached the bacca
: laureate sermon before the graduating
class of the city high school, at the op
era house last Sunday night. A large
audience was present, nearly ever!
st being taken, and many persons
wero il, the gallery. A picked choir o
a.ixteen Of the best voices in the cit
furnished the Ia slc, and 1t was wei
render ed throughout. MISS Lulu ham
was to have rendered son. ou' w"
too boarse tn do so, All the chu. che