Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-10-14
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LOCAL NEWS.

the wife Of Jas hurry, girl.
Mr.. Garrison will be at Lake City OF
the 18th, and at Kiowa on the 3lst.
v. j. Miller, of Coldwater, passed
through town, Sunday, OH his way home
from Wellington.
Isaac VanBuskirk will auction off 8
lot Of cattle at the stock yards in this
city, on Saturday, October oath.
The ladies of st. Marks Guild viii
meet with Mrs. A. l.. Noble, Tuesday
afternoon next. Mrs. Chase, sec'y.
Lake City picnic will be held half a
mile south Of Lake City, near the
bridge. All arrangements have been
perfected.
The probate judge issued license,
last Saturday, for the marriage of Geo
Duel, of Lodi, and Miss Cora A. Smith
Of Hazelton.
Remember the people party picnics-
one at Lake City, on Saturday, Octo-
Der 18th, and one at Klowa on Satur.
day, October 3lst.
A lot of new furniture at the "Sec
Ond Hand Store" 1 bought this stock
80 cheap that can sell it at second
hand prices. Call and see it. 20
The Kiowa Journal says that Mr..
Campbell cannot have Electioneer at
the Kiowa races, and that the races
have been indefinitely postponed.
Burnett 4 Co. want all the chickens
they can get. Spring chickens, old
hens or ROSTERS. Don't be afraid OF
Cutting the market. We want all you
have. Is
Married, at the office OF the pro-
bate judge, in this city, on the 7th
inst, by Judge Stevens, Jonas Potter
and Miss Eta Peters, both of Pratt
county.
RObt. Gibson, Of Sharon, has sold his
farm, and he will probably move east
pretty soon. His wife is now on pro-
tracted eastern visit. We hope he will
conclude to stay here.
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.
Didn't Plumb sweat. He mopped
his face and neck continually, but could
not keep dry. Didn't he look stunning
with collar thrown back, cravat flying
loose, and his broad expanse of under
shirt open for lnspection2
John G. Thurman, formerly of this
city, came in Monday, on short visit
20 his many friends. He left his wife
at Kansas City, to visit her parents
while he made the run out here. He
will start for home to-day.
Hold your wheat. Some Of our farm
ers are holding their wheat, and we
know OF two men who have bought seed
wheat, and do not intend to thresh
their own crops till prices are more
satisfactory. They will make money
by the transaction.
J.P. Dennis, of Eureka, Illinois, who
has been looking after his farm near
Deerhead, for a couple of weeks, left
for home Monday. He has rented his
farm for one-third the crop, in the bin.
He says the alliance is growing rapidly
In Illinois, and when It's starts in a
place it spreads like small pox, and
holds on like death.
John Wanamaker says: 81 never In
my life used such thing as poster or
dodger, or handful. NV plan for fif-
teen years has been to buy so much
space in a newspaper and fill it up with
what want. would not give an ad-
vertlsement in newspaper of 500 circu-
lation for 5000 dodgers or posters"
This is the experience of all business
men.
The Hazelton Express says 1.-THE IN
DEX didn't get to Hazelton until Fri
day, last week" We can't see how It
failed to arrive on Thursday. Two
weeks ago we missed the early mail,
but we only missed it an hour. and
there was no reason for our paper not
reaching Hazelton on Thursday. We
try to get our paper in the early mail
every Wednesday, and haye only miss
ed once or twice in six months.
Capt. n. b. Blanton, of Hazelton,
brought us ten apples, last Saturday
of the Ben Davis variety. They are
the finest we haYe seen in the state.
There is not speck on them, and they
are large, hard and healthy. Mr.
Blanton has large orchard, $40 apples,
and $50 of them are Ben Davis. He
sold out wagon load on the street.
Saturday, at 81 per bushel. Barber
county is rapidly coming to the front
as fruit county. She is already at
the top on corn, wheat. sorghum and
horses.
James Crouch and Ed. Williams got
home last Tuesday, from wagon ride
of two weeks in Oklahoma and the
newly opened Indian lands. They saw
everything that was to be seen, and
bilO AhOAOhVC 0bAlD do Adi
superior to anything else. Mr.. Will
liams found a claim of so acres of fine
timber and so acres OF tirstclass bottom
land which had been overlooked, and
ne is thinking of locating 1T with a sol.
dier's claim. They will return to that
country pretty soon, and probably take
claims, though they have not yet taken
them.
Equity" whoever he may be, feels
hurt because the INDEX gave Indiana a
little touch Of what Kansas has taken
for years. In Indiana they talk about
hanging Ipen in Kansas, and trying
them afterwaEd, and call it 1.-THE Kan.
sas idee." Whist a fuss Equity
would have made over the outrage If il