Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-06-25

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WANTED-lOOO spring chickens at
II. O'Brian's.
Silverware your own figures. Hub
bard, the Jeweler. 8
The e.. A. Il. and S. of V. will all be
here on the Fourth.
L. >. Eldred started this week on his
return trip to Illinois.
Dal. Morris is expected home next
week. His foot is about well.
Arrange to come here on the Fourth,
and tell your neighbors about it.
Gasoline at III cents per gallon at
Stamford, Youmans & Eldred's.
Attorney A. J. Jones Will make his
maiden Fourth of July speech at Kiowa.
For SALE-A good skiff, now on the
sugar mill lake. Call early and get a
bargain. John Dohrer. 5tf
Sheriff Dobson and Deputy District
Clerk Allen are in Topeka, this week
attending meeting of sheriffs.
1 positively pack all goods not sold by
July Ist. Call at once if you want bar
gains. HUBBARD, the Jeweler. 8
That farmer is the exception who
does not claim that he has the largest
growing corn OF any one in the county.
The coolest grove in Barber county
will be used for the celebration on the
Fourth, at Medicine Lodge. Plenty of
water.
There were three persons baptized
into the Christian church, by Ed Mich
olson, last Sunday afternoon, and they
were received into the fellowship of the
church at the evening service.
Parties contemplating running lunch
and lemonade stands on the Fourth of
July, should call on III. O'Brian and
get prices OH Lemons, oranges, soda
pop, ginger ale, candies, etc. Order
early. 5
Book, the Friend of Perspiring HUI
manity," is what he is. No other firm
or house ever displayed such a stock of
summer goods in Medicine Lodge. Go
and get your Fourth of July outfit of
Book. Go now. 3
A basis of settlement has been agreed
on by the building association stock
holders and September I'd is the time
agreed on for closing the association
affairs. All but two or three of the
stockholders have agreed on basis of
settlement.
Born, Friday night, June Goth, to the
wife OF Eli g Benedict, of the Medicine
Lodge stock farm, son. The farm is
large, as is his house, but it required
the full capacity of both to contain
Eli and his exhuberant spirits. DR..
Karr was in attendance.
The city of New KiOwa has petitioned
the district court for permission to
change its name to Kiowa. The organ
lied town of Kiowa was located in 1872
two miles and half up the river from
the present town; the old slte'has been
vacated and now New Kiowa wants
the name.
To-day is the time set for the mar
riage Of Dan. b. Croll and Miss Sallie
BlantOn, both of HaZelton. Mr.. Croll
is merchant of that city, and Miss
BlantOn is a daughter of Hon. n. B.
Blanton. This is very popular young
couple, and their many friends will
hope to see them succeed in life.
The mill building is covered and
painted. 1t may be seen from Main
street. While not a mammoth affair
1t is large enough for present demands
The machinery will be here and in
position and the mill in full running
order by the middle of September, any
way and probably by September LIST.
Eagle: Hon. Joseph McNeal, for.
merly of Medicine Lodge, one of Guth,
rie's leading bankers, of the firm OF
McNeal, Little & Co.. was in the city
yesterday, looking alter business inter
ests. McNeaI, Little & Co., will
henceforth be known as the Guthrie
National bank, which is the first bank
in the territory to natiOnalize.
We took trip to Isabel, Saturday,
and saw many fields of good corn and
wheat, and few fields of thin wheat
and poor corn. The poorest corn is SUI :
rounded by fields OF good corn, showing
that the farmer was more to b4aEGa than
tho soil or the weather. Wheat cutting
was progressing, and the fields were
fully ripe. We saw bit little oats, and
that was short straw, bat thrifty look
ing, and with good head.
The Sunflower Club met at Rev.
North's, last Thursday evening. The
programme included dialogue be-
tween Miss Theda North and Miss Flos-
sic Hitchcock, recitation by Miss
Cora Byerley and reading from Ben
Hnr by Mrs. North. The next meet
ing will be In tbs club room, the old
Cresset office, Monday evening, goth inst.
That room has been secured and will
be fitted up as reading room. Con-
tributiOns of books, periodicals and
pictures from any source will be thank
fully received by the Sunho~eT club.
The school board of this district, No.
/, have selected four of the six teachers
for the term commencing next fall,
these being Miss Ada Lawrence, Mrs.
Mary DeLlsle, Miss Ella Reynolds and
Mrs. Mamie V. O'Bryan. A principal
and one other teacher is to be selected.
The understanding is that Mr.. Beeson.
the principal here during the past four
years, can retain the place if he desires
it but he is in some douot DC TO what
he may decide to do. He did contem-
plate making the race for county super
intendent subject to the republican
nomination; but since the alliance