Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-10-07
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LOCAL NEWS.

tuOuys
Another slight rain on Tuesday
morning.
"Campbell's Electioneer, 2:l9," is the
way to write 1t now.
Mares and horses for sale, private
sale, by T. l.. O'Bryan. Is
Saturday evening, Oct. 3, at shutdown,
began the Jewish new year of $3.50.
Miss Pearl Thompson, of Lake City,
is visiting Miss Cora McClearey in this
city.
Farmers, the z. o. p. tries to ridicule
your parade. Will you now help them
TO got up crowd2
Plumb will be here next Tuesday.
That will be an awful good day for
farmers to stay at home.
II the peoples party of Medicine
Lodge township intends nominating
township ticket. it is time to do 1t now.
The Willing Workers of the Chris
tian church will meet with Mrs. II. E.
Noble, Wednesday afternoon. October
14th.
Cook & Palmer do a general real es-
tate business and make a specially of
renting and looking after farms for
non-resIdents A
The ladies aid society of the M. E.
church will meet every Friday after
noon until further notice. Mrs. M. L.
Houchin, Sec'y.
The cement works we're running last
week, and we understand they have
enough orders on hand to keep them
running all winter.
A lot Of new furniture at the "Sec-
Ond Hand Store" bought this stock
so cheap that can sell it at second
hand prices. Call and see it. 20
A small deposit will secure
you now the choice of the
stock. w. H. Harmon 81 Co.
Lost, between this city and the river,
south Of town, on Sunday night, OctO-
Der 4th, two side curtains for buggy.
Please leave them at Loye's stable. 10
Wanted-At once, a good steady man
to work on farm. Steady work by the
year, and good wages to good man.
j. =. Hall, at the First National Bank.
Burnett & Co. want all the chickens
they can get. Spring chickens, old
hens or roOsters. Don't be afraid of
Quitting the market. We want all you
have. Is
The INDEX is authorized to donate a
beef TO the repu blican party, If that
party will get up barbecue and pa
rade when Plumb comes. Do they
want itp
Pure Red Mediterranean wheat for
sale by s. l.. Tarr, miles southeast of
Medicine Lodge. Leaves orders at
Cook & Palmer's Office. Price 81 per
bushel. 17-4t
Mrs. r. v. Bloom and two children
left Sunday, week ago on visit to
the family Of John Smith, at Camp
Supply, l. T. Mrs. Smith is a daughter
OF Mrs. Bloom.
AT midnight last Friday night it was
uncomfertably warm; at 4 o'clock Sat-
urday morning it was uncomfOrta-
bly, cool, and there was a bowling
breeze from the north.
Plumb has been bowling calamity for
more than year, and the Cresset pub
lished his speech. Now both are tax
ing the back track, and it Ia hard to
tell which is in the lead.
The Barbecue and picnic, which was
to have been held at the head of Bear
creek on the oath of October, has been
consolidated with the Lake City picnic,
to be held on the 18th of October.
All the new and swell
styles in Cloaks for this Fall
and Winter, now on exhibit
ton at w. H. Harmon & Co.'S.
Mrs. A. j. Trotter left Monday for
PlttsburR, Kansas, on visit to her
mother. There will be family reunion
while she is there. The whole family
have not been together for ABOUT fifteen
years.
Sea Finney for handmade harness.
Pure oak leather used and wrrranted.
Do not send away for cheap factory
harness when he will sell you good har-
ness and save you money. All kinds
of harness to order. Repairing a spec
ialty. Off
Mr.. Herr says he only mentioned the
Dodge City platform incidentally, and
devoted most of his time to the Barber
county platform, but he will give the
editor of the Cresset So to meet him at
any place and publicly discuss the SIN
certify of either platform.
j. Z. Hall, of Kiowa, was here Mon
day and Tuesday. We suppose he was
looking after the interests of his new
newspaper venture. He has bought
the Journal and the Herald, CONSOLE
dated them, and will continue the busi-
ness. We don't know what the pollti.
cal character of the new paper will be.
We understand that a petition has
been circulated and numerously signed,
at Kiowa, asking the lady mayor, Mrs.
Paxson, to resign. The people there
object to her plans and efforts to shut
up the joints. The joints must go, just
the same, no matter what the expense,
and the coils are now tightening that
Will soon squeeze the life out of them.
Rain, yes, plenty of rain. On Satur-
day night, September 18th there was a
good rain, continuing till nearly noon
Sunday. On Wednesday, S0th, there
was rain; on Thursday night there was
a big rain; on Friday and Friday night
there was more rain, and it rained
mario All dav Saturday II there are