Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-01-01
M0NrV Be sure and see BRONSON &
MUM Il j $ HoUCHIN il you want to make
a farm loan. They give privilege of paying at
any interest payment after three years. Is

"a farm loan. They give privilege of paying at
any interest payment after three years. Is
Cook Il Palmer give lowest rates ON
farm and city loans. q
Attorney Sample spent part of last
week IN Kansas CITY.
The old year was watched out at the
Methodist church, last night.
Mrs. I. G. MoIloy and the children
are visiting her mother in Kansas City,
Mo.
Judge Ellis will hold court again next
Monday-One day-to dispose of a lot
of motions.
Sturgeon & Co. lost one of their fine
horses the other night from injuries re-
ceived on the cars.
A marriage license was issued yester-
day to John Reid, of Comanche county.
and Miss Loula Serber, of this county.
StanditOrd, Youmans 4 Eldred have
purchased the B. X. Harrington stock
OF general merchandise, including the
fixtures.
r. S. Brewer is in Oklahoma He and
a. S. McClearey are figuring ON estab-
fishing public libraries at the larger
towns down there.
Arthur Shaw and Jim Dobbs returned
from Kansas City, Sunday, the latter
all sound, but Arthur suffering with the
new-fashioned influenza.
&. e. Hahn returned to Topeka, Mon
day. He delivered sermon or lecture
at the Presbyterian church Sunday
evening. He was educated for the min
istry.
If you want the benefit of the bar
gains in the Harrington stock of goods,
go to StandifOrd, Youmans & Eldred.
They have purchased the entire outfit,
and moved it to their store. 80
The shooting match at the Field
place. to-day, Will likely be we'll atten-
ded. There will be classes for squirrel
rifles, WincheSterS and target guns and,
probably, there will be shotgun prac-
tice.
Cal. Orner was here this week, two
days, renewing old acquaintance. He
was here i'll the drug business at the
stand now occupied by j. r. Young &
Co., until 1888. He is now travelling for
a Kansas City house.
The big ice house formerly owned by
Mr.. McClearey, has been moved by q.
w. Hendrickson to the west side of the
lake, near the railroad. 1t will be filled
with thousand tons of ice, much of
which will probably be shipped next
season.
Letters are being received here from
Oklahoma inquiring if certain home
steaders voted in Barber county at the
November election. Where they did
vote they will likely lose their Oklaho-
ma claims. A man cannot claim two
places for a residense and make it win.
Another new lot of stationery re-
ceived by the INDEX this week. We
now have the extra heavy MANILA Off
cial envelopes so much In demand lately
and cheap grade of white MANILA en-
yelOpeS; also something extra good in
typewriter paper. Come in and leave
your orders few hours before you need
the work.
Frank l.. Gordon, a prominent stock
man of this county, was taken suddenly
and seriously sick at Lake City, Mon
day, with something like partial paral-
ysis. He had been suffering with pleu-
risy and had started to Medicine Lodge
but was overcome at Lake City. DIR.
Burney went up to attend him and yes
terday Mr.. Gordon was about we'll
This section was visited by very
hard southwest wind last Saturday and
hay stacks were damaged in many pia-
ces and occasionally an insecure build.
ing was tumbled oyer. AT this place,
the windmill in the courthouse park
was blown down and badly damaged.
The dust was very thick all day and en-
tered offices, stores and residences to
the disgust of the occupants.
The officers of Cyprus Chapter, No.
50, r. A. NJ, of this city, for 1890, are
Chester [. Long, High Priest; Z. p.
Caruthers, King; IL. NJ. Ingraham,
Scribe; ID. VanSlyke, c. H.; F. Beers,
Z. S.; S. E. Stone, r. A. c.; E. III. |
Nixon, Treas: Z. b. Peck, Sec'y; Rev. |
r. Sanderson, Chap; Frank Holmes,
M. Sd "; Fred. Merrell, NJ. I'd v; l..
F. Pearson, NJ. 1st V. The officers
present were installed last Thursday
evening by Past High Priest C. 1. Hin
man.
t. A. McClearey last week perfected
trade with Elder David Nation, by
which he disposes of his home place in
Medicine Lodge, 100 acres of land two
miles west of town, and $40 acres four
miles northwest. and secures the Ma |
tional hotel, at Richmond. Texas, a |
furnished house. containing 80 rooms,
and doing a good business. Medicine |
Lodge Will lose a good citizen in the
person OF L. a. McClearey, and society
will miss his interesting family. They
are good people, valuable in the church,
and always on the side or right and of
good morals.
Early in December, several residents |
or Mingona township complained tothe
county authorities here that VIM. Frs
cher, man who had once lived here,
but who had been out west several
years, was insane. He claimed TO be |
on his way to his home at Ottawa, ILL., |
The county commissioners advanced |
the money to him aud ne went to Otta
wa. This week letter was received by |
Reconnaissance Youmans from the I