Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-07-23


makes speciality of Farm Loans and Colec-
tons. Call on him.
See Book about shoes. 9
Gasoline Is cents per gallon at Noble
s. Cases. 6.
Homegrown watermelons are on sale
in this city.
Call on Cook & Palmer for farm and
city loans. %
DIR. E. z. Miller came back from
Carthage, Mo-, Sunday.
Elder Nicholson will preach at the
courthouse next Sunday night.
Gasoline at II! cents per gallon at
StandifOrd, L oumans & Eldred's. 5
There will be big sale of horses and
cattle at the stock yards in this city
next Saturday.
No need of going barefooted any Ion
ger. Book has a wagon load of new
boots and shoes. 9
The Cresset, dated last Friday, did
not get out until Sunday afternoon, on
account of the tax-list.
w. w. Cook is in ST. Louis, this week,
working up big real estate deal for
his firm, Cook & Palmer.
A. j. Hargis is over from Eureka,
Kansas, looking after some un finished
business in the vicinity of Lake City.
Mrs. y. II. Dunbar is up here
from HaZelton, stopping at the Grand,
under the medical treatment of DIR.
kociell.
The Ladies' Aid society of the NJ. E.
church will hold a lawn social on or
about the Sth of August. Full particu-
lars next week.
Lost, light grey sack coat, some
where between Medicine Lodge and
miles southeast of Sharon. Re turn
TO this Office and be rewarded. g
Tickets to the congressional cOnven-
ton at Dodge City, July both, good for
round trip, $3.50, on sale July 10Th;
good to return until August End.
II. A. Burnett arrived at Colorado
Springs, safely, and commenced to i'm
prove in health at once. He will go to
Denver and other points of interest.
The annual Sunday school picnic for
Pratt and Barber county will be held at
Fergason's grove, on Elm creek, 9miles
northwest of Medicine Lodge, on Satur-
day, August 2, 1890.
Noble & Case received a car load of
wagons, carts and implements this
week, including number of grain
drills. Their Implement trade does not
let up on account of a little dry
weather.
Cattlemen say that cattle were never
so fat at this season of the year, in the
history of the county. When the buff
falO grass is dry and curled up, so that
it will burn, it is then most nutritious,
and makes great rolls of fat.
Medicine Lodge and vicinity has been
furnishing Attica, Pratt Center and
other neighbOring towns with vegeta-
bles during the past three weeks. No
matter how severe the drOuth, this
community always grows plenty of
green truck.
The machinery for the mill and the
turbine wheel for the water power has
been shipped and will probably be here
this week. Mr.. Weber thinks the mill
Will be i'll operation by September 1st.
Ii is mill-wright, Mr.. Vultz, arrived
from Warrensburg, Mo-, last Saturday.
The Hendrickson cattle have been
moved to the Stone pasture, eight miles
down the river, on the east side. Some
of the residents of that nelghborhood
and others holding cattle there, were
inclined to object to the HendrIckson
stock on the ground that they were liza
BILE to communicate Texas or splenic
fever and the sheriff was notified to
quarantine them. However, Mr.. Hen
Erickson satisfied the DIRECTORS that the
cattle came from far north of the dead
line and so the matter was dropped.
The cattle will be held closely in the
pasture, for the present, however. If
they were infectious, the town cows
here would be the first to suffer, for the
catti2 we're unlOaded here on the 10th
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