Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-05-28
willing Workers. dinner to-day.

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Dodson s. Hills choice catsup, mixed
pickles, chow-chOw, ETC., ETC., at II.
O'Brian's. SO
Mrs. d. j. Aber and two of the small
er children started to Indiana, Sunday,
on visit to her folks.
Rev. A. Axllne was down from Pratt
county, last week. visiting his son, l..
NJ. AXline and family.
Sunday. June lst, will be "Children's
Day. at the Christian church. 1t will
be appropriately observed.
Rev. Haworth returned yesterday
from a prospecting trip to Guthrie,
Oklahoma. He thinks that is coming
city.
r. NJ. Smith returned yesterday from
a weeks visit to Missouri, on business.
He did not make trade he had in con-
temptation.
The probability is that the creamery
management and operation will be re-
organized in few days and new life
put into the establishment.
A car load of foot stone for the mill
foundation arrived this week from Au-
gusta. The blasting for the turbine
wheel pit was started yesterday.
I'll. O'Bryan has fenced the school
quarter, north of town and Will have it
plowed. The road to Fields now runs
directly north from the end of Walnut
street.
2. d. Cunningham was at Larned,
last week. He says crops i'll Barber
county look better than those Of any
county or locality along the line of the
d. NJ. & A. road.
John Lees and family are here from
Columbus, Kansas, on a visit to his
brOther-in-law, Richard Newell. He
found several army comrades here,
among them j. w. Upperman.
NJ. E. Roddy is continuing his exper-
iments in coloring Roblnson's cement
and he thinks now that he can say
Eureka" He showed us specimen
blocks colored blue and carmine, yes
terday, that were perfectly marbled
and says the color will last as long as
the cement does.
Around the World i'll three Hours"
is what Prof. Reds entertainment at
the opera house next Monday and Tues
day evenings will amount to. But
more than this, it will be an education
oil llOftIro a mil nVhi hifinn
of the Worlds Wonders combined and
all for one price of admission. Chill
dren especially should see it.
7. II. Logan yesterday sold his place
in the northwest part of town, a house,
barn and six lots, to Thos. Warwick,
for $1,000. Mr.. Warwick is machinist
and engineer at the cement works.
Mr.. Logan expects to locate at Grand
junction, Colorado, 300 miles southwest
of Denver at the intersection of the
Denver and Rio Grande and Colorado
Midland railroads.
Lovers of entertainments should re-
member that Prof. F. Stanley Reid will
| be at the opera house III this city, next
Monday and Tuesday evenings with
his great and beautiful panometric eX
| hibition, using the only pair of Rubron
stereopticons in America, supplied
with oxy-hydrogen light. This is not
| all ordinary stereOcOpic entertainment,
but an art exhibition, requiring the SER
vices of four people and oyer 1000 pounds
of scenery and machinery. The large
bills will give the particulars and a list
of the scenes to be witnessed. Admis-
sion 10, % and 80 cents. Reserved
seats at the postotfice.
A heavy rain visited Barber county
! last Thursday night and Friday morn
| ing. 1t was hardest in the eastern and
| southern portions of the county. In
the vicinity of Sharon, it was the hard
est rain experienced there in eight
years and many listed fields of corn
were actually leveled. One farmer
claims to have lost planting of 200
acres. at Kiowa and up the river to
Roundup, the rain lasted all night. AT
HaZelton it was long and steady. An
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Barber county, commenced falling at
daylight Monday, 26th inst, and con-
tinued until noon. A vast amount of
water fell. There is not a weather
kicker left in the county.
Wheat harvest will commence in Bar
Der county by Monday, June 9th, and
continue four weeks, anyway. There
is but one opinion as to what the crop
will be this season. 1t stands thicker
on the ground than last year and the
heads are much longer. Last year il
averaged in Barber county % bushels
and this year 80 bushels will probably
be the average while many fields will
yield 90 bushels. The binder trade has
been good, too, the firms in this city
having sold twenty or more and sever
al headers, to say nothing of what Kio
wa and Hazelton may have placed
Then, there were @anEassers here from
Harper, Kingman and Pratt conAtie!
who sold several machines, it is be
lieved,
| AIlOIHO9S NoHCIoh "uh OOliSS az
pointed by the county commissioner!
to look into the alleged S14, 600 shortage
during the incumbency of John Roger!
as county treasurer, have prepared thei
report in which they say that the settle
ment may DE re-opened and actor
maintained upon either or both of TIT
bonds given by the treasurer, each bono
being responsible for that part of thu
shortage occurring during the times TO
which the bond was given. They furth
. er find that the attempted discharge o
, Rogers by the commissioners was no
, binding on the county ana is in no wa.
or manner bar to any SUIT the count,
may see proper to bring. 1t will nov