Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-07-01
A. T. q ST. K. R. TIME CARD.
LOCAL NEWS.
Water rents are now due.
Farmers. stack your wheat

Ihe ladies' OF the NJ. +. aid society
will have a fair during the autumn.
Cook ~ Palmer will insure your wheat
crop against all damage by hail. AZ
H. w. Whitehead, OF PENNSYLVANIA.
is visiting his brother, w. o., at Hazel
ton.
BE careful with your fireworks. Have
all the fun you can, but do not injure
anyone else.
Now is your time to get those fine
Cabinet Photos taken at Young's Gal
lery. Best grades 50 per dozen. 2Stf
There have not been enough spring
chickens on the market at any time this
year to supply the demand. Are chick
ems scarce?
Misses Jennie and Nellie Currie and
Angie Lowry departed Tuesday for a
weeks visit with friends and relatives
at Wellington.
a three-y ear-old son Of w. II. Lucas.
who lives ten miles south of this city
was run over by a wagon, and danger
Ously hurt last week.
Colorado Mineral Palace, ut Pueblo
one fare for round trip. Tickets on
sale July lst and 2nd, good to return
July 20. w. y. uOrr, agent.
The Cresset has a very poor opinion
of its readers If it thinks it can make
any capital by mean little insinuatiOns
which everyone knows to be untrue.
Dick Wilson, of Weber's mill, went
to Harper Saturday, returning Sunday
His best girl'' has gone back on the
other fellow, and he enjoys a trip to
that town.
The Ilazelton Express says Mrs. j. H.
Sanders preserved a bushel of early
peaches last Wednesday. She is the
most previous lady we have heard of
this season.
Sam. Campbell, clerk at the Airing
ton hotel, of Wellington, was here Wis
lting home folks and friends, Sunday
and Monday. He says there will be no
place like Wellington the Fourth.
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cents will be out in about sixty days.
The INDEX will receive orders for these
books, to be paid for when delivered.
Price 30 cents. About 800 pages of inn
portant campaign literature. You need
1T. Let us have your order. 5
Wichita Eagle: NV. II. Rouse, coun-
ty clerk and banker of Medicine Lodge.
was in the city yesterday. On being
Intercepted as to how things were in
Barber, his face Immediately became
wreathed with smiles, as he answered
lirst-class, could not be better. Wheat
all harvested, oats soon be ripe, corn in
fine shape, fruit unequaled, potatoes
immense, everything dying high
Mr.. +. +. Mullen wrote to the IIiggs
Commission company, of Kansas City,
asking the price of an elevator of 80 900
bushels capacity. They replied that it
would probably he from $4,000 to IS, 900,
according to improvements, or the ma
chiuery put in. We think the house
can be built for great deal less money.
We want it for store house more than
anything else, and a six-horse engine is
all the machinery needed.
IIazelton Express: The seven-year-
OLD son of Il. II. MaltbIe, four miles
southeast, had a miraculous escape by
arunaway horse a few days ago. He
was riding the horse and it scared at
a. l,i fhA HnI1 hn1e a
mile and just before reaching the barn
ran under peach tree limb and knock
ed the boy off and his foot hung in the
stirrup, but he grasped the harness and
kept himself from dragging until he
got his foot free. lie was somewhat
scratched and bruised, but not serious
ly hurt
The Cresset claims that Senator Long
his speech at Sharon. We have con-
versed with several alliance men who
heard the speech, and they admit that
they blushed. The first cause of blush
ing was the erroneous statements of
the speaker, and the second cause was
the weakness of his speech, aside from
these mis-statements. We know an
alliance man who expects to speak at
Sharon soon, and his subject will be:
"What the Legislature didn't do, and
Why" If Mr.. Long wants to hear the
trnth of the matter, he is invited to at
tend.
The ladi, g of the Baptist church or
ganized a We. Nan's Missionary Society,
last FRIDAY. June 26th. The object shall
be to aid the Won ans Baptist Home
and Foreign Missiona v Society of the
West in the elevation anu Christianlza-
tion of women in home and foreign
lands. Officers: Mrs. w. y. Ca VI, presl-
dent; Mrs. Mary DAYS, vice-pres 'deht;
Mrs. j. o. Hahn, secretary; Mrs. w. u
Sellers, treasurer; Mrs w. q. Mus
grove, superintendent of literature;
Mrs Granville Morris, superintendent
of membership. The next meeting Will
be at Mrs J. y. Hams, on the last
Friday in July.
The INDEX editor would be glad if
lie could attend all the Fourth of July
gatherings IN this county. The day is
one upon which all sectional partisan
prejudIces should be forgotten, and
friendships should be renewed. There
is not. an old soldier in Barber county,
of either army, who can carry gun.
who would not volunteer at the first
call to arms if our country were in
danger. There are different opinions
among men as to the best manner OF
conducting our government affairs. but
all are patriotic. There is but one
flag, but one country, and that is om
country. We need one day each year
in which we can all meet as patriots