Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-01-08

$50 test coal oil at 10 cents per galloI
at 5. y E. 80
Attorney Frank Shannon was u
from KIowa, yesterday.
Cunninghams want all the yearly in
terest farm loans they can get Al
See Hubbard the jeweler for sewn,
machine needles, oils, repairs, etc. 8
The McNeal Mortgage Compan,
makes speciality of short time loans.
See L. l.. Lindley. manager, for year
ly interest farm loans; also short tim
chattel loans. 3
Ladies Aid Society of the Methods
church will meet with Mrs. Scott AlleI
on Friday, Jan. 10.
The latest, tenderest and best bee
at the Central meat market, oppOsit,
lst National bank. A
There is stray yearling steer, brand
ed ) on the right hip, at the Medicine
Valley Stock Farm, j. o. Clark, mana.
ger.
Mrs. Sadie Hutchins, stenographer fol-
the First National bank, has returned
after short visit to her home in Mimi
eapolis, Kansas.
Conductor Frank Beers has rented
and moved into the Sheldon property
on Second avenue, one of the most de-
sirable houses in town.
Some one suggested that as there is
supposed to be no bar-roOms in Kansas
that the play Friday night should be
called Ten Nights in a Kansas Drug
store"
Oh. Boyd, who is to be under sheriff
under J. w. Dobson, has moved up
from KiOwa with his family, having
rented the Macdonald place, on South
Main street.
District court adjourned for the term
Monday, and Judge Ellis and the court
stenographer, Miss Cartan, at once
started to Anthony. There will be
another term of court here in February
The Baptist church held it's annual
election on Monday evening. The year
has been successful one. 1t numbers
81 members and has raised for all pur-
poses about one thousand dollars dur
ing the past year.
Sixty pairs of skates were sold bY No
bic u Nixon one day last week. There
is no town in Kansas that has better
skating than Medicine Lodge. About
twenty acres of smooth, clear ice can
utilized, right in the edge of town.
In answer TO a mathematical problem
published in recent number of the
INDEX, we have received the right ans
wer from Sam Goddard, teacher at
Mingona. Ans: Area enclosed in first
triangle is 94.9O6 acres. To include 100
acres the point of beginning should be
moved 45o west 23.6l6 rods.
a mild sleet, or coarse snow, fell dur
ing most of Monday and covered the
ground to the depth Of an inch and "A
half. The temperature moderated con-
siderably yesterday, the sun came out
and another pleasant day was exper-
| fenced. 1t appears that no ice Will be
gathered during the present spell.
The article descriptive of the horses
at Rosewood Park, Kiowa, in this issue
of the INDEX, should be read and pre-
served by every lover of good horses in
Barber county. From the stock of hor-
SEES owned at Rosewood Park, Barber
county will una uestionably get repu-
tatiOn as breeding center in coming
| years.
Sunday, at mail time, the alarm of
| fire was sounded on the street and big
crowd rushed up North Main street to
find ODDS secondhand store the scene of
the trouble, stovepipe running through
the ceiling having ignited the floor in
the room above, used by Brannan's ho-
tel for sleeping apartment, A few
buckets of water squelched the confla-
grafton.
Jno. II. Roller and Miss Eva B. Blake,
two well known and popular young
people, were married at Lake City yes
terday, January 7th, by Rev. Owen, of
Sun City. Mr.. Roller formerly lived in
this county. but is now i'll business at
Oklahoma City, where he and his bride
went yesterday. The lady is a sister of
G. G. Blake, formerly of Deerhead. The
INDEX extends congratulations.
A big horse and land trade was made
Monday by Cook & Palmer, by which
G. II. Eldred becomes the owner of s
stations and mares, of the lot brought
here from Illinois by Winter Bros. Sew
en- of the stations are French Draft and
one English Draft. three of the former
being imported horses. The mares are
all imported French Draft. Winter
Bros. get the Richards q Rogers ranch
of ,4S0 acres, south of here six miles,
taking it at SIS an acre, or So, 200.
At its regular meeting Monday night
the city council spent several hours con
siderin@ the water rate ORDINANCE, and
adjourned until next Monday night
when it Is believed that the ordinance
| will be passed. The council are also
considering the adyisability of having
the water pipe laid straight north from
the end of Spring street to Kansas ave
nue., instead of north through the court.
house park. The change would accom-.
modate the residents east of the court.
house on Kansas avenue.
The new county officers will take
charge next Monday. This reminds us
that Barber county viii go 2 long time
without having more competent, more
accommodating and more faithful pub
! lie servants than the retiring register OF
deeds, sheriff and surveyor. j. p. Hal
has filed the Office of register for foul
years, and We have never heard a com
plant against his management of thai
Office. He found the Office in state OF