Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-12-09

Burnett has just received fine stock
of gents furnishing goods; also boots
anu SHOES Is
Elder Nation will preach at Sharon
next Sunday morning and night. De-
cember 18th.
Uncle Toms Cabin at the opera house
tonight. Seats on sale at Day & Rec
ords drug store.
Earl Young left Saturday for Wichi-
Ia, where he has position with man.
tie and fire place maker.
Game Wanted-WIll pay highest
market price for ali kinds of game.
% DoHRER 81 SoUTHwoRTH.
Don't wear window glass for specta-
cles. but get you good pair of pebble
lenses at Sellers, the jewelers.. 26t4
Monday morning was one of the cold
est of the winter. The water ditch was
partly frozen, and it takes cool wealth
er TO do that.
Master Don Carmichael was the host
to a merry crowd of little folks last Fri
day evening, who had come to enjoy an
evening of game ard prattle.
Found-A couple of honest alliance
men found some money, and turned it
over to the INDEX. Let the owner
describe the property and take it.
II you want nice Christmas present
for friend, you cannot afford to miss
seeing the stock of Day & Records.
The best in town, and tn cheapest. 292
Santa Claus evidently has big treat
in store for the children of Medicine
Lodge. Nearly every store in town is
crowded with Christmas goods. Read
the INDEX advertisements, and he gov
erned thereby.
\ private letter from Mrs. c. @.
Chandler. ST., of Sioux City, Iowa, says
she has just returned from Las Vegas,
y. NJ, and is entirely well of eczema,
and her general health is better than it
has been for 10 years.
f. +. Mullen desires To jog the men,
DRY of his customers. He sold coal,
liour. etc, with the understanding that
the bill would ''be paid in day or
lwo," and he needs the money. Please
call ana settle at once. %
Adam Bahr says that the peoples
patty destroyed the soul of the repub-
lican party when it destroyed the
whisky captured at Kiowa. He thinks
the republicans should set up a tomb
stone over the place where their hopes
lie buried.
Our Touring mill will give 80 pounds
of best -four in exchange for a bushel
Of wheat testing 60; 35 pounds of Crys-
al, or 40 pounds of Clipper -four for a
Dushel of wheat testing 90. -Four, bran
and shorts always on hand at the mill,
tor sale or exchange. 13-tf
Ladies, do you want to make your
husbands, brothers or best fellows nice
Christmas presents? If so 90 to
Young's drug store, where you will
ind the largest and neatest stock of
Christmas goods ever brought to this
city. Call in and look over the stock
before making your purchases. 20
y good story is being told around on
the streets, on the sly, about lady in
his city making descent on gam
bling dive, and how the crowd scatter.
ed, and how some of them jumped off
of An awning of wonderful height. and
escaped without breaking any legs. Do
you ask who was therep We will
not give away the names we have
heard.
The INDEX is doing its best to furnish
the alliance and peoples party with
IN organ-a reliable. readable newspa-
per. Gentlemen, are you all doing ouI
duty toward the paper? Are you tax.
ing and paying for the INDEX? Could
you not send us one paying subscriber
Do you patrOnize the merchants who
advertise in these columns? Let's get
move on ourselves, and if we go to the
wall, let us all go together.
Our local weather prophets say that
the first three days of December con
troll the winter AS the first two days
we're warm and pleasant, we are to
nave warm and pleasant weather dur
ing December and January. The third
Of December was bright in the morn
lug, and cold and blustry in the after
noon and night. So February is to be
pleasant during the first half, and un-
pleasant the last half. The prophets
say we are to have as many frOsts il
May as we have peals of thunder in
December. We fear May Will not be
long enough to allow this scheme t
work out December is only One-tourtl
gone, and we have had about a doZer
,hunder peals.
The Kiowa Journal persist IN tryinS
70 misunderstood the INDEX. We have
alked very plainly on the temperance
question, hoping TO reach the befuddleC
intellect Of the Journal. When an of
10 enforce the law to best Of his ability
Ii there Is law against joints he sweaTt
enforce that, as much as any other
The joint keepers are violators of law
II a posse arrest gang of horse
hieves, and bring in stolen plumber
and lot of goods that was not stolen
nobody blames the posse for exceedinG
authority in capturing what was not
stolen. But tap law defying JOINT
and take an empty cigar box, and a
howl is raised. If Kiowa can enforce
the law, why don't she do it. Is the
county attorney to sit and listen to the
hundreds of complaints from that
town, and not try to enforce the law
because some joint keepers organ says
''Kiow2 can enforce the law to suit her.
self?" You are opposed to IAN unwise
enforcement OF the law" and you are