Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-06-17
More rain TUESDAY night.


"a Regular Fix" and My Fathers
WHIP at the opera house, Friday night.
Medicine Lodge township has enough
money in its treasury to pay every debt
she owes.
One acre of alfalfa is worth eight
acres of prairie grass. Let US have
more alfalfa.
Henry O'Bryan, of Englewood. ILL.,,
came in last week, on 8 visit to his re-
lations and many friends.
Thos. Best will represent Hugh De
Brass and his Regular Fix" at the en-
tertainmeDt Friday night.
Jacob Romig has opened a black
smith shop at Sawyer. He is a good
workman and a good citizen.
Two members of the city council
gambling with negro Is sight to
make the Prince of Wales weep.
Mrs. w. T. Rouse will leave here to-
day for Wichita. where she will consult
an occulist in regard to Earl's eyes.
Cook Il Palmer do general real es-
tate business and make a speciality of
renting and looking after farms for
non-resldents A
If the soil of Barber county Is not
wet down to sub-irrigation, there is
not much hope Of ever getting it in
that condition.
Stock raisers should read the notice
i'll another column of yearling bulls for
sale, if they want number-One animals
for breeding purposes.
a trip to the country last Friday
showed that nearly every farmer had
moved a sWath around his wheat, and
was ready for business.
Miss Katie McGrath arrived here last
Wednesday, from Illinois, to spend the
summer with her sister, Mrs. w. L..
Weaver, and the family of John Nc
Grath.
S. s. RoDinet, whose health has been
very poor all winter, left here Monday,
for visit to relatives in Virginia,
hoping to improve his health by the
change.
Mrs. John Stockstill, of Bates county,
Mo-, and Mrs Flora Marshall, of Lewis
burg, Kansas, arrived here yesterday,
on visit to the family of their uncle,
L. l.. O'Bryan.
Born-In this county yesterday, June
18th, to the wife of Frank Orion, boy.
The child lived only few hours. The
funeral services were conducted by
Elder Nation on Tuesday.
w. E. Williams last week received
word that his pension claim had been
allowed. He will get $12 per month,
and about 500 back pay. Mr.. Williams
spent about year in Libby prison.
New Feed Store-I have opened a
feed store, on Main street, where can
be found corn, oats, bran, flour and
meal, at the lowest prices. Ben Vaughn
is in charge of the feed store. Give him
a trial. n. Weber. 3
Elder Nation says he set out cherry
gathered enough cherries from it to
make pie, and in few days gathered
enough to make another pie. This, we
think, breaks the record.
Frank w. Long took the train yes
terday for his old home in Missouri. to
be absent about four weeks. Frank
wouldn't say what his trip is for, and
Madam Rumor has it that he had a
matrimonial squint in his eye.
We visited the ground yesterday,
where it is proposed to erect the gov
eminent experiment building. We
found chalk line stretched around a
spot about 30xS0 feet, but the sod had
not been broken. A half car load of
window sash and frames has been re-
ceived for the building.
Miss Catherine Fleming, who is TAX
ing the country by storm, as natural
vocalist, is cousin of Mrs. E. Z. Car
uthers, formerly of this city. Miss
Fleming was once a pupil of Miss Katie
Drysdale, who is well known here. She
is said to have the finest contralto
voice in the United States.
Superintendent D. H. Rhodes and
Travelling Agent Burdick, of the Santa
Fe, were here Saturday, to look after
the proposed spur which is asked for
on the land of p. B. Cole. The spur
will probably be put in to accommodate
the immense wheat crop in that neigh
| bOrhoOd
Col. Snoddy has a case in the district
court at Kansas City, involving $4,000.
He has won the case in several courts,
but it comes up for re-trial. The case
comes up this week. A man in Sedalia
sues the waterworks for damages for
destruction of property, caused by an
overflow.
Mrs. A. D. McNabb, of Richmond,
Texas, arrived here Monday, with her
infant daughter, on visit to her moth
er, Mrs. Carrie Nation. When Mrs.
McNabb left home last Sunday morn
ing, her husband telegraphed word to
| the family here. She was in the bus,
on the way up town when the telegram
was received. Elder Nation says she
made the quickest trip on record. She
came near beating the telegram.
Our citizens we're greatly shocked,
last Friday, when it was announced
that J. c. Jones. a gon-in-law of Judge
q. w Stevens, had shot and instantly
killed man at Denver, Colorado. All
that is known of the matter is what the
dispatches contained IN the Globe Dem
ocrat. Judge Stevens left here Monday,
for Denver. The dispatches say Jones
had been drinking, and was of jeal-
Gus, quarrelsome disposition, and his