Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-03-04
KANSAS TIME CARD.
LOCAL NEWS.

Horse -ORraphS ana Jdck-OJypeS AT
the INDEX office. Al
Cook & Palmer give lowest rates on
farm and city loans. %
Col. Eldred and Z. Sample were at
Wichita last Saturday.
Fodder and straw for sale. Drop
postal card to Eli Benedict. 81 If
Born-Near Hazelton, Feb. oath, to
the wife of John DeArmond, a girl.
Dr. Yant--Dentist. Will he back in
his Office March 7, ready to do best den
tai work. 80
Drop in and see McClearey 81 Stau-
bus, and leave your order for flour,
meal, feed, etc. 20
The latest, tenderest and best beef
at the Central meat market, opposite
1st National bank. 4
Have you tried the Wichita Steam
Laundry It's work Is excellent. MedI-
cine Lodge News Co., agents. 80
The county commissioners are adver-
Using for bids for building a bridge
across Medicine, south Of Mingona.
Charles Gronemier and wife, who
have been on a visit TO relatives in Ohio
and Kentucky, have returned home.
Drs. Turner ~ Mckee, dentists. Of
flee over Davis ~ Davis store. Best
work and lowest prices guaranteed. 80
1t is feared that the recent sudden
cold snaps have injured the early fruit.
AS it was a dry cold we do no not think
any damage has been done.
l.. G. Peck, of Hazelton, has been in
poor health for some weeks. f. b.
Peck and wife were visiting him last
week for a couple of days.
Renew your subscription for the IN
DEX. Quite number of subscriptions
expire within week or two. You will
save so cents by paying in advance. 2
Anthony Enterprise: Court Steno-
grapher Allison spent Sunday and Mon
day in the city with his wife, returning
to Medicine Lodge, Tuesday morning.
VIII. Durret, young printer of this
city, left last Wednesday, to seek work.
His first stopping place was Winfield.
We hope he will find work and do well,
for he is good boy.
J.B. Gallagher, of Lyons. young
printer who came here last week to act
as foreman of the Cresset office, only
remainded couple of days. He thought
the hole too big for the peg.
John McMillen was hardly out of jail
before he was arrested and put back.
The city had fine of S75 against him.
and he was committed till the payment
OF the fine. That's tough on John.
Try l2-pound sack of Weber's new
Graham Flour. Also try his new corn
meal. For sale at the mill or ut Bur
nett's store. Any article bought at the
mill will be delivered free of charge to
any part of town. %
Correspondents must sign their
names. We have thrown several let
ters In the waste basket this week, be-
cause there was no name signed. We
will not publish the names, but we in
sist on knowing who writes for us.
Mrs. w. G., Musgrove left here last
Thursday for Kansas City. She had
received dispatches stating that her
sisters baby was beyond hope of recov-
cry. Letters received from her state
that the child is still aliye, but there is
little prospect for improvement.
Ben. HaEbangh, who has been absent
about six weeks. visiting in Kentucky
and Iowa, returned Tuesday, bringing
with him a carload Of fine Iowa horses.
Ben. is a rustler. and is judge OF horse
flesh, and lac bought these animals for
himself and his neighbors. The Ian
dis farm will get several OF them.
Last Friday night the SCOT in a Chin
ney of the store Of Davis u Davis,
caught fire, and created considerable
excitement. The wind was blowing
a northern blast, and if the honse had
caught fire half the town would proba-
bly, have been burned. The fire was
soon extingIished, with no damage,
except to give the store good smoking
Last Friday was quite a pleasant
day. About four o'clock it began to
grow cool, and by five O'Clock fires felt
comfortable; the wind was bowling
from the north, and the THERMOMETER
was falling degree a minute. At
O'Clock the air was full of sand and
gravel, making it dangerous to ones
eyes. The night was nearly as bad as
the night of December 81, last, which
Ior., ,a
The Hazelton Express makes a des-
perate effort to be funny, and says, in
speaking of jointists, that none but
niggers are convicted. We heye never
heard of a Niger jointist being convict
ed in this county. Two white men
were convicted of selling liquor unlaw-
fully, and were sent to Jail only week
before last. We can't see where the
Express joke comes In, but suppose
there must be fun somewhere.
Free homes for million. Eighteen
million acres of Indian lands soon to be
opened for settlement in the Indian
Territory The "Homeseeker's Guide
contains a complete description OF
them, tells what the laws are and how
20 take claim. and is accompanied by
n correct sectional map of the Cherokee
strip and all other lands (which alone
has sold for sly. Price % cents. FREQ
l.. Wenner, Publisher, Arkansas City
Kansas.
Mrs. w. I. Rouse received o letter
from her sister, a few days ago, iI
which she gives little of her expert
ence in an insane asylum, The sister
is head assistant of an asylum at Ag