Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-07-08
Citizen, g alliance to-morrow night

Watermelons have appeared in the
market.
For Rent-Two houses. Apply to
Henry burst. 5tf
Grapes will be unusually fine and
! plentiful this year.
Is lbs. granulated sugar S1.OO at w.
| II. Harmon Il Co.'S. 6
The market is well supplied with
roasting ears, new cabbage and other
vegetables.
Cherries, raspberries. aprIcots, peach
es and apples, all of home growth, give
us good choice of fruits.
Miss Georgia Roberts. of Kiowa, left
for home, Monday, after visit of sew
eral weeks to her sister, Mrs. Denton.
The picnic at the Mingona bridge was
not as we'll attended as was expected,
but those who were there had a very
| pleasant time.
The INDEX authorizes and defes the
Cresset TO 'particularize" all it can in
regard to its ''pOkerat" revelations. Is
that plain enough?
Mrs. Z. J. Thayer, who had been here
tor about ten days on a visit to her
brother, Eli Benedict, left for home at
lola, Kansas, yesterday.
Uncle Ben Vaughn has taken charge
of the feed store to run it on commits
sion. He asks his many friends to re-
member him when they want flour,
meal or any kind of feed.
Messrs. Blanton and Mobley have
finished their argument and will, as
soon as they can, set time and place
for reading their manuscripts. The
reading will occupy about three hours.
Some complaint has been made to us
that many thoughtless persons are in
the habit of picking flowers in the
cemetery. Those flowers are put there
at considerable trouble and expense,
and it is wrong to take them.
The Ladies Aid Society of the Bap-
fist church will meet at the Chapel on
Thursday, July 9th, at 2 O'Clock p. m.
\ good attendance is desired, as there
is work and business of Importance to
attend to. Mrs. J. S. Runyan Sec.
New Hope" is the name of So
called republican alliance. mo Hope"
would be better and more appropriate.
We want it understood that there is
no such alliance, and it is simply a re-
publican scheme to bring discredit on
the alliance.
George Sexton seems to have a poor
memory. After giving in his property
to the assessor, the assessor took the
necessary steps to investigate the mat
ter, and then George comes to town
and adds a long list of proper
ty to the list he gave the assessor. 1t
looks like slight contradiction. viii
the CreSset explain it.
Kiowa Journal: During the rain
early Monday morning the residence Of
A. l.. Circle, who lives a few miles
northeast of kiOwa, was struck by
lightning. The lightning struck the
chimney, splitting it from top to bot
tom, and passed down through the
stove pipe into the stove, the top of
which was torn off. No further dam
age was done. Andy says the house
was filled with smoke and smelled as
though gun had been discharged in
the room.
The speech of Jerry Simpson at the
courthouse, Monday afternoon, was
conceded, by all who heard it to have
been the best he ever delivered in this
city. 1t was not so long, and did cover
so much ground as his set speeches US
ually do, but it was thoughtful, IN
structive and well delivered. He was
full of his subject, as he always is, but
his words flowed smoother than form
erly, showing that his great experience
for the past year has been beneficial to
him. jerry has PLAIN way of speak
ing, without any effort, but his reason
ngs are always logical and convincing.
His picture of the degradation and
suffering IN the slums of the cities, and
his sketch of the oppressed laboring
men and women in the cities was an
effort that would have done credit to
any orator in the United States. He
riddled the old parties for their hypo-
| critical promises, which were always
| broken when the time came for them
to do something for the people. He
| gave fine explanation of his free
trade" views, and that, too in man
ner that was unanswerable. He claim
ed that the cost of transportation was
robbing the farmer and western man
by charging one-half Of his grain and
cattle for delivering the other half at
place of market. and then charging
him one-half of his purchases for bring
! ing the other half to his home. Every
thing produced by labor meets a rob-
Der. Mr.. ingalls, declares that men
cannot be legislated rich, but men have
been given special privileges till they
have rolled up riches by the millions.
| He declared that ever state in the I'm
| ion would be represented at the CIncin-
natl convention next February, and
that the south is now falling into line
as fast as Kansas did last year. He
SAID the working people all over this
country were hailing this movement,
as they can now have a great center
around which they can all gather and
harmonize. We would like to make a
longer sketch OF his speech, but no
sketch would do 1t justice. Every SEN
tence was matter of Importance, and
all the sentences were logically linked
together. 1t was cheered again and
| again. We could detect a smile
of satisfaction when Jerry nos. the
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