Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-09-23
LOCAL NEWS.

night.
Simpson and Utley will be here on
the 10Th.
John A. Zahm was quite sick at last
accounts.
BRING all your flags, banners and mot
toes next Tuesday.
Peoples party picnic and parade next
Tuesday, Sept. 10Th.
Mares and horses for sale, private
sale, by L. l.. O'Bryan. is
Rain or no rain, come in early Tues
day, and make day of it.
Geo. r.. kellogg, state sugar inspec-
tor, has been here the past week.
Basket picnic, parade and speeches,
Tuesday, Sept. 10Th, at Medicine Lodge.
1--WE are coming, Father Abraham -
about three thousand strong, next
Tuesday.
Don't forget the grand ball Tuesday
night, ut opera house. Good music,
good order.
J. w. POtes, the next treasurer of
Barber county, came in from Kiowa,
last night.
Miss Jessie O'Bryan is doing clerical
work in the abstract Office of Bronson
q HOuchin.
ID. II. Streeter and DIR. Cloud, OF KiO-
wa, were autographed at the Grand last
Wednesday.
Tnera was good rain in the vicinity
Hazelton last Saturday evening. There
was none here.
Put your boys on horses, and your
girls in wagons and all hands come in
early next Tuesday.
J. B. GanO is putting in 5-tOn wagon
scale on Kansas avenue in the rear of
the First National Bank.
The Willing Workers of the Christian
church, will. meet with Mrs. w. L.
Rouse, Wednesday afternoon next.
A young daughter was made welcome
in the home of l.. G. Balding, last Tues
day, the 18th. Mrs. NJ. Wilt, M. ID. in
attendance.
We can save you money on
every purchase made now.
w. II. Harmon & Co.
DIR. Yant will leave the first of next
month to attend dental college. All
persons wishing first-class dental work
should call at once. 1874
Some of the friends of S. S. Funk are
looking around for residence in town
for him, and they say he will want a
good drying horse.
Wanted-At once, good steady man
to work on farm. Steady work by the
year, and good wages to good man.
j. z. Hall, at the First NATIONAL Bank.
BENZ. Melchi, of Lake City township,
was pleasant caller at this Office last
Saturday. Our latch string always
hangs out to the horny-handed sons of
toll.
w. IL. Old, the second hand man,
keeps all kinds of repairs for stoves. If
you want a new crate for your old
stove, he will furnish you at the lowest
price.
Burnett & Co. want all the chickens
they can get. Spring chickens, old
hens or ROSTERS. Don't be afraid of
Quitting the market. We want all YOU
have. Is
Chas. w. Cox, formerly a Medicine
Lodge boy but now of Wellington, was
here Thursday and Friday in the inter
ests OF the Wellington Produce Com
pany and his pop factory.
Miss Ida Dobbs, lovely young lady
from Oxford, Kans., arrived here last
Friday, on a visit to her brothers, Jim
and Bruce, and is also the guest of Miss
Carrie Carmichael. She leaves to-day
for home in company with Jim.
Wanted-A wife, by man six feet
high, tolerably good looking, 35 years
old; In good circumstances. Cores
pondence may be opened by addressing
FRANK" care Of the INDEX, Medicine
Lodge, Kansas. photographs ex-
changed. tt.
Our Touring mill will give 30 pounds
of best flour in exchange for a bushel
of wheat testing go; 35 pounds of Crys-
tai, or 40 pounds of Clipper flour for a
bushel OF wheat testing 60. -Four, bran
and shorts always on hand at the mill
for sale or exchange. 13-tf
Lem Moore, an old citizen of this
place, returned last week, and has gone
to work at the government mill. He
resigned his Office as county superin.
tendent of Stevens county. His fami.
~ will be here as soon as they car
straighten up business, and get here.
There was a rain at Hazelton last
week, aud the Express says that since
the rain the farmers have adopted the
eight hour system-that is eight hours
in the forenoon and eight in the after
noon. And yet some people think 6
farmer ought to be satisfied with &
mere living.
If you want your land patents, take
your receipts to the county register o.
deeds, Mr.. +. II. Nixon, who will Sc
cure your patent for you without any
cost to you. There are hundreds Of
patents at Larned tor land in this coun
", and everyone of them ought to b.
recorded here. Don't forget the mat
ter. Attend to it now, or it may caus,
future trouble. loft
Last September, at the picnic, wher
the republicans looked over on Gem
etery hill, they declared that the deaC
had come to life. They were right
The old hayseeders who had let tn,
politicians do their thinking, had wax
ed up. They made the ground rumbl
as they paraded through town. The.
amnfa the q q N hin and hInh at tn.