Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-10-28
W. T. Collins is out on crutches.


were married last Thursday.
Funk is making an excellent race.
He Will make an excellent sheriff.
Be careful to vote for right road
overseer, and scratch off all others.
Frank Lewis is making friends every
day. He will be the next clerk of Bar
Der county.
You can only vote for the road over
seer in your own district. Scratch off
all others.
j. w. Elder has received notice that
he has been allowed an increase of pen
sion to $50 per month.
Mrs. G. C. Teagle is still receiving
new subscribers and renewals for the
Ladies' Home Journal.
Some people profess to believe that
Pinkston will be beaten, but nobody
has the courage to offer any bets.
If any illegal tickets make. their ap-
pearance, secure copies of them, and
the names of persons handling them.
Rev. Short, Baptist minister, of
Holton, Kansas, is here on a visit. He
is an old friend of the family of b. n.
Turk.
j. W. POtes will handle the county's
money for the next two years, and he
will show clean balance sheet when
he retires from Office.
The best surveyor Barber county
ever had is D. J. Aber. lie is the peo-
ple's choice for the place this year. He
ought to be. and will be elected.
! Township committeeman should ap-
point some man to get the tickets for
their townships, and send written Or
der to the INDEX for them. Don't neg
| lect it.
Voters in the Second commissioner
district are cautioned, to be on their
guard against surprises. See to it that
Burns name is not printed on any mixed
| ticket.
The Ladies' Missionary Society of the
Baptist church will meet next Satur-
day, at Mrs. Widner's at O'Clock P. NJ.
| CIuuIOo IHC Duh N1lSSlDIlS. Mis-.
j. 0. Hahn, Sec'y.
DR.. Rogers has the thanks of theHIN-
DEX force for several supplies. >of
peaches. He knows our weakness, and.
every day or two brings over about as
many as we all can eat.
Frank StOckstill has succeeded L. D.
Peoples as telegraph and express mes
senger at the depot. Mr.. Peoples has
been advanced to the station of check
ing clerk in the freight department.
If Burns name or Stranathan's name
should be printed on the democratic
ticket, the ticket will be illegal, unless
the democratic central committee or
ders it done, and it has not done so yet.
Remember brother alliance voters
that Mr.. Nixon is the man that would
not give one cent to the relief of Broth
er Root, the man that had all his chill
| dren burned to death. Samuel Muir
dock.
The INDEX has not a word of abuse
for republican officials or republican
candidates. Circumstances have forced
US, against our inclination, to publish
| some unpleasant facts shown by the
| records.
The INDEX received a letter a few
days ago, from a gentleman in Virginia,
saying, please rent house for me
| Will ship my piano and some furniture
| the first of next week. Will be at Med
icine Lodge with my family by the first
of November
w. II. Harmon & Co., l.. A. Eby, w.
II. Old and Chase & Allen are helping
us edit the INDEX this week, and have
something new to tell the people in
other parts of the paper. They are all
interesting writer's, and it Will pay you
to read what they have to say.
e. F. Brattaln is the candidate of the
peoples party for trustee of Medicine
Lodge township. He is a pushing
young farmer, who has pride to make
good record for himself. Vote for
Charley, and If he is elected we will
| guarantee that he will make as good
trustee as the township ever had.
A Dobson man approached a demo-
crat, a few days ago, and solicited his
vote. The democrat replied that he in
tended voting for Funk. The Dobson
man said that Funk had only lived here
eighteen months. The democrat re
piled that he had been a neighbor of
Sam Funk for thirteen years. That set
tied it.
The Baptist Young Peoples Union
will hold Gospel meetings every Sunday
afternoon at the court house. Subject
for next Sunday" Fruit Bearing;" John
l5:1-16. Bring your Bibles. Time $3.50
O'Clock. Sherman Short will lead the
meeting. All of the young people are
invited to these meetings. Mrs. w. A.
Cain.
Sam Funk used to be large tax pay
or. He mortgaged his farm to buy
another farm, and lost both. He is
poor man through misfortune, and not
through idleness. He was citizen of
Barber county thirteen years ago II
he does not pay as much taxes now as
some others, it is because he has not
| so much wealth.
Hazelton Express: Hon. T. A. Nc
Neal came down last Saturday to speak
for the republicans at their meeting ad-
vertised for that evening, but owing to
some unexplainable misunderstanding.
or inocuous desuetude, or unrepublican.
unconstitutional disinterestedness or
the part OF the parties who should have
taken part In this particular proceeding.
Mr.. McHeal had no audience to ad-
dress; and consequently he-he-he
| didn't address at ALL"