Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-07-15
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LOCAL NEWS.
Normal school next week

inquent tax list.
Born-At Hazelton, July 9TH, to the
wife of w. l.. Peck, girl.
Miss Ida Mccoy is at home from bel
southern visit of about a year.
Attorney Denton was at Coldwater
last week and part of this week.
Tomatoes, solid packed, STANDARD,
10 cents per can, at w. II. Harmon &
Co.'S.
The rebel yell" at the courthouse
last Saturday afternoon was quite
weak.
The wheat crop Of Barber county will
thresh out better than was expected of
1t two weeks ago.
Elder Nicholson will preach at the
Christian church next Sunday and the
Sunday following.
Don't ask anybody the question sis
this hot enough for your" Pc ople get
tired of hearing that remark.
Now is your time to get those line
Cabinet Photos taken at Youngs Gal
lery. Best grades SO per dozen. 2Stf
Remember the Barber and Pratt Sun
day school picnic on Saturday, the first
day of August, at Ferguson's grove.
Best patent flour $1.35 per sack; End
grade flour SIPS per sack; good flour
$l.W per sack, at w. IL. Harmon q Co.
Last Sunday was hot. Had it not
been for the good breeze that blew ali
day, there would have been much suf-
fering.
The county commissioners adjourned
last Friday afternoon, after being in
session all week. A good deal of bust
ness was transacted.
We want 200 subscribers during the
campaign which is opening. Our alli-
ance friends will please make an effort
among their neighbors.
II. A. Burnett is having a serious
time this summer. He spends half a
day at the store and three days at
home wrestling with asthma.
Farmers, when you come to town to
trade, look over the advertising COL
umns of the INDEx-your own paper
and trade with those who trade with
you.
We ask sub-alliances to examine our
alliance directory, and if they are not
correctly reported to notify us. We
want to keep this directory correct for
the benefit of all concerned.
We don't advise anybody to read the
Topeka Capital, but if anybody wants
To read it, the INDEX will furnish it for
less money than any one else can. IN
DEx and Weekly Capital one year $1.5O.
Hon. Chester L. Long is a nice gen.
tleman, and the INDEX will not at
tempt TO ridicule him or his clothes, but
he can't draw crowd like Jerry does.
Brass bands are unnecessary to get a
crowd for Jerry.
w. II. Worland informs us that he
has a number of cows and calves that
are blind and partially blind with
''pink-eye." 1t is asserted that one
half the cattle OH some of the ranges
Farmers, stack your wheat and hold
it. by going through the sweat in the
stack the grain is improved, and by
holding 1T off OF the market a few
months there will surely be a perman-
ent improvement in prices.
There IS no place this side Of the riv-
or Nile that can produce more corn per
acre than Barber county when we have
Reasonable rains. So far the rains have
beea seasonable, and the prospects for
an immense yield are very hattering.
Republican, )" writing for the Cres-
set in speaking of the INDEX, puts
quotation marks on lot of rubbish. to
show that the language was copied ex
actly from the INDEX. We deny using
the words in quotation, and which it is
charged we used. The idea Of manu-
featuring quotations Is contemplated
A. ID. Donnie, of Sharon, has brought
us one of the circulars, announcing
Jerry Simpsons speech. The Medicine
Lodge pOst-maTk is July 2, and the
Sharon pOst-mark is July s. Mr.. Den
ME sent to the postofiice onJu July 9th and
July 7th, aud when he received the cir
cular on the S:h he asked the pOstmas-
ter how long it haG been there. and was
told that the postmark showed it was
received on the Sth. Perhaps some of
the other circulars got lost on the road.
Judge Mckay came over last Friday.
and held short term of court, return
ing to Attica on Saturday. He heard
motion to appoint receiver for the
Louis Lockard ranch, and motion to
appoint receiver for the TevIs Il Proc
tor ranch; both applications were grant
ed. Judge Mckay will be here to-day,
when he will probably name the re-
ceivers. This afternoon he Will hear
arguments from the attorneys in the
bridge injunction case. This case is
getting interesting and we predict
good crowd at the courthouse.
We believe our correspondent was
'Onest in his statement, last week, that
=. >oked like an attempt to pack Jury
~ Heer. We are now satisfied that
~, DoO ~taken. We had a talk with
~, 81 IL ~e published his article,
I oololo &c were given in good
Fai,h - 10 S1,' sGld more, he was
Ialth as he believed, t5as time and he
In the room nearly all ~ ea,d and
thought he knew what $500 e.
done. Mr.. Lands has expl - are
matter to our satisfaction, and -
glad to state that Mr.. Dobson has
ed fairly in that jury business.
DIR. 4. p. Miller Is an old greenback
editor. He endorses nearly every princi-