Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-10-07
Another big frost This m,rninp.

Inc eastern mail gets here on time
nearly as often as it fails.
Don't forget the basket social next
Wednesday night at FairYIew.
Riley Lake was representative from
the west part of the county to the
Wichita fair.
Judge Pierce is attending the county
commissioners meeting, but is not feel
ing as well as usual.
Our cement works shipped two cars
Of cement to St. Louis. last week which
will help advertise our city.
Wanted-I want to buy four gooo
young mares, TO weigh from ZOO to
200 pounds. S. A. Hayes. Is
We do not doubt the election of eY-
cry man on our ticket. The question
is about the size of the majority.
We devote all of our surplus space
this week to Mr.. Plumb's old SIP eches.
They make good reading just now.
Nowis your time to get those fine
Cabinet Photos taken at Youmg's Gal
lery. Best grades So per dozen. 28tf
Board. F. Smith and Vernon j., Mil
Ter, two of COldwater's business men
and capitalists, were in the city last
Friday.
r. A. Cameron took in the wet" day
Of the Wichita fair last Saturday, and
went from there to Topeka on legal
business.
Jim DObbs has been reported twice
as having gone back into business in
this city, but has not yet made up his
mind TO do SO.
DR.. Yant will leave the first of next
month to attend dental college. All
persons wishing first-class dental work
should call at once. 1914
Kiowa will probably turn her picnic
into big barbecue. We will keep our
readers posted. But barbecue or not,
it will be a rousing picnic.
blind Amos, who was on the bill
boards for the opera house, for Mon
day evening failed to fill his engage
ment for some unknown reason.
There Will be a mush and milk social
at the school house at the head of Bear
creek, on the 10th of October, for the
benefit of Union Sunday school. I'd
Cory Cool carries his right arm in a
sling now, and the machinery at the
sugar mill runs on just as though he
hadn't "monkeyed with the buzz-saw."
The county commissioners met, last
Monday afternoon, and will probably
remain in session couple of weeks.
Considerable business is to be transact
ed.
One fare for round trip tickets to the
Interstate fair, at Kansas City, Mo.
Tickets on sale October 5th to 18th,
good to return to the 18th. w. o. Horr,
agent. 10
Wanted-A farm; will pay good rent
for large or small farm. Must have
at least three room house and a stable.
Address j. L. M. INDEX Office, Medi-
cine Lodge. Is
The old Boyd cattle cases have all
been settled up and dismissed from the
docket. This matter was compromis-
ed, and the money paid over. We are
glad the matter has been settled.
The First National Bank at Coldwa-
ter, was closed last Sat urday, a week.
and is now in the hands of the examin-
er. Too much real estate, speculation,
and boom days is the cause Of the sus-
pension.
The Medicine Lodge News Co. occu-
by space among our advertisers this
week, and call the attention of the
children to their school supplies and
the public in general TO their new goods
lately received.
James Dobbs left here yesterday, for
Wellington, where he will spend one
night with relatives, and from there he
goes to Kansas City on business and
will also take In the Kansas City inter-
state fair and exposition now in pro-
gress there.
Dispatches state that thousands are
starving in Russia. If the spectators
can get possession of our wheat crops
the price will 90 up to $3.50 or 50 per
bushel. Russia will pay our price when
she can't get wheat at her own price,
and our farmers are better entitled to
the rise than the spectators. Farm
ers, hold your wheat.
DIR. E. P. Miller and Eli Benedict,
two of Barber's most enterprising citi-
zens, were at Wichita, last week, tax
ing in the great Southern Kansas fair,
and looking at the fat cattle. the pink
nosed pigs, the big "muel," the NAM
moth corn and large pumpkins, and
never Forgetting to say good word for
Barber, Medicine Lodge and our sugar
industries.
,Hyder II. Fair, J. NJ. Fair, U. Kemp
and Billie Huffaker were jolly crowd
of Sharon young gentlemen who took
in the Wichita fair. The 'boys" re-
port way-up time, and Hyder Fair
tells an Indian story that can climax
IHC 1lil ming CuCOuuIClo VI Aib OdIoOH
or put the kibosh on the daring deeds
of Col. Sam Houston and his Indian
days. The story will shortly appear in
book form, and is entitled: THE Indian
L Drowned at Midnight. or An En-
counter on the Banks of Dixie
Geo. w. Orndorff, of Cherubusco,
Ind, owns farm in Barber county,
and reads the INDEX. He read about
that big corn grown by John I. Jesse,
where each stalk had two big ears, and
gourd holding quart of shelled corn,
grew up with each stalk. He came out
Monday, and made straight run from
the train to the INDEX Office. where he
saw the samples of corn. Mr.. Jesse
dropped in just then. and they talked