Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-03-11
LOCAL NEWS.

Cook 81 Palmer give lowest rates on
farm and CITY loans. Is
Fodder and straw for sale. Drop
postal card to Eli Benedict. 81 If
For Sale-The Standiford, Youmans
81 Eldred scales. Inquire at the store.
DIR. Yant-Dentist. Will be back in
his office March II ready to do best den
tai work. 80
Drop in and see McClearey & Stau-
bus, and leave your order for -four,
meal, feed, etc. 20
II. NJ. Ingraham made visit to Par
sons, Kansas, last week, and returned
Sunday.
The latest, tenderest and best beef
at the Central meat market, opposite
1st National bank.
J. l.. Winters went to Westphalia,
Kansas, last week, on business, and
reached home Sunday.
Have you tried the Wichita Steam
Laundry Its work Is excellent. Medl-
cine Lodge News Co., agents. 80
Drs. Turner IL Mckee, dentists. Of
flee over Davis ~ Davis store. Best
work and lowest prices guaranteed. 80
Renew your subscription for the IN
DEX. Quite number of subscriptions
expire within week or two. You will
save 50 cents by paying in advance. 2
Mr.. and Mrs. North celebrated their
eighteenth wedding anniversary last
Thursday. The ladies of the Presby-
teri III church assisted them very ma
teri lily in the celebration.
John Fleming and / Johnson, both
formerly of this city, are running sa-
loon at Rouse Mines, near Trinidad,
Colorado. They are brothers-in-law,
having married two sisters.
One year ago to-day One-half the gar
deners in and about this city had their
gardens partly planted. So far we have
only heard of one man having planted
anything, and that was an onion patch.
Jack Poe and Startling Jarrett are
the only prisoners in Jail now, and the
sheriff expects to start this week with
Poe to take him to the pen. His SEN
tence is one year, the lowest that could
be gwen.
In Yesterdays mail we received ten
articles for publication. AS our forms
were about full, we will have to put
these communications over till next
week. We hope some of our cores
pondents Will try to get their letters to
AIS on Monday.
DR.. Wisner will sell out his house
hold furniture, horses, cattle, dai
~ outfit, ETC., on the 18th inst, at auc-
ton, at his farm, near Sharon. The
doctor will remove to Chicago to live,
but will hold his farms, and have them
locked after by tenants. He will keep
herd of feeding cattle.
f. F. Mullen and Judge O'Bryan
reached home last week from Topeka.
They were in the House when the Bot
kin measure was being discussed, and
they saw the elephant with all his trap
pings. They think "Old Man Elder
can sit down pretty hard on fellow
when he gets worked up to the fighting
notch. May his weight never grow less.
j. Ii. McCracken, of this city will
soon moveto Joplin, Mo. A. 5. Nc
Clearey, who is now at Carthage, Mo-.
has recently sold out there, Will also
move to Joplin, where he and Mr.. Nc
Cracker will engage in the marble
business together. We dislike to lose
Mr.. McCracken's family from oui
midst, but we wish success to the firm
of McClearey u McCracken.
John McMillen, who was re-arresteC
by the city, after the county commits
Bioners had turned him out of Jail, wa,
again released last Tuesday. The city
had a fine of $75 and costs booked
against him. Last Tuesday the coun
Gil agreed to reduce the fine to S37. so
and John paid that and the costs
aud was released. He is supposed t
have left the county Immediately.
About three years ago Mr.. Hogart
sold his splendid farm, ten miles NORTH
of this city. 1t changed hands two o.
three times, and week or two ago Mr.
Hogard re.purehased it. He will thi
year farm on more extensive scalt
than ever, and is now pushing ever.
team he can get breaking prairie. w,
wish for him big crops and high prices
If our land owners would live on thei
sands and cultivate them, it would b,
the means OF making the county pros
porous.
Cook Il Palmer, our rustling real es
tate men, who stay In the business al
the year around, negotiated trade las
week, The farm Of DIR. Rigg, abou
five miles southwest of town, consisting
Of $40 acres, was sold to Mr. Thomas Ii
Richardson, who recently came from
England, and who, we believe, is inter
ested in our cement works. The Ian,
is nicely situated 10 q rich valley, witt
a good stream flowing past the hous
and through the farm. There is n,
better land in the county, or anywher
else. Mr.. Richardson also purchases
the team, wagon and farm utensils, an,
will put IN crop this spring. III
terms were private, but such land i
cheap at almost any price.
KiOwa Journal: Capt. Paddock, o
the Fifth Cavalry arrived Wednesda
from Camp Supply. with his company
and will rendezvous here for a time
The captain and his troopers will keel
an eye on this part of the Strip. .. Tn
revival meetings WHICH have been hel,
by Rev. &. IL. Perry and Rev. w. II
Farrell during the past two week
closed on last Sabbath evening. a