Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-07-29
TOWNSHIP;
Normal attendance 101.


Mrs. E. Youmans is slowly but sure
ly improving.
II. Hills and wife of Emporia, were
here this week.
Boardman F. Smith, the Coldwater
banker, Is III the city.
There were two or three boxing
matches at the rink last night.
Harry 1. Tllden. of Wellington, SON
in-law or Thos. Edes, of Amber, was
here this week.
Prof. Cowgirl was here last Thurs
day, to see how the sugar prospects
were progressing.
John w. Lake, of Plttsburg, Kansas,
a brother of Riley Lake, of Lake City,
was here Monday.
Our sugar mill is in apple-pie order,
and expects to begin making sugar by
the 18th or Goth of August.
R. II. Hahn sells apricot, plum, cher
ry and crab-apple trees at So per dozen.
hold your orders for him. ct
MIR. and Mrs. Dresser had Raymond
out driving Sunday evening. He Is yet
very weak, but is recovering his
strength.
Each surveillance in the county should
try to increase the circulation of the
INDEX. The paper is the property of
alliance men.
DIR. NJ. E. Phillips. president of the
Winfield College, at Winfield, is to
preach at the M. E. church next Sun
day, both morning and evening.
The political handbook of the Vim
cents will soon be out. Every farmer
in the county should have one. Leave
your orders at the INDEX Office. Only
| so cents. 10
Charlie Taliferro brought us water
bucket full of peaches, last Thursday,
that were the finest and best we have
seen this year. 1t took our whole force
two hours to eat them.
Sunday night, the 10Th, lightning
struck the barn of John A. White. kill
ing COW, hog and two chickens for
him, and horse for Lew Bragg, which
was loose In the pasture.
Though the summer has been cool
and rainy, the sorghum crop is further
advanced than it has ever been at this
time in the season. The crop will be
much heavier than any previous crop.
While sociability is encouraged at the
normal, the instructors discourage the
waste of time in frivilous conversation.
| AS result, the whole body, with very
few exceptions, takes hearty interest
in the regular institute work.
p. D. Cunningham was arrested Mon
day on five different complaints, by the
Colonial Mortgage Company, and gave
bond of $500 in each case. He was also
arrested last week on complaint OF the
First National Bank, and gave bond.
The charges against him are of embez-
Element.
There will be an election at our
school building next Thursday. Two
members of the present board, MeSsrs.
| Burnett and Chase, will have served
out their terms. w. T. Rouse, holds
over. This is the regular annual meet
ing of the school board for this district.
Two o'clock i'll the afternoon is the
time of the meeting.
If you want your land patents, take
your receipts to the county register of
deeds, MIR. E. H. 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-
ty, and everyone of them ought to be
recorded here. Don't forget the mat
ter. Attend to 1t now, or it may cause
future trouble. loft
j. w. McNeal, left for home, at Guth-
rie, Ok, last Thursday, after a pleas
ant visit of four or five days to relatives
and friends in this city. He and his
family are very well pleased with their
new home. Medicine Lodge lost val
ued citizen when Joe McNeal left here.
We could never agree with him politi-
cally, but he was always ready to help
in every public enterprise.
Charlie Gronemier brought us fish,
last Monday morning, that is curiosi-
ty, to say the least. 1t is about eight
inches long, and has the body of cat
fish, though it has four well-developed
legs and feet, like those Of a frog.
There is ridge on it's back like that of
an alligator. There are no fins. The
tail is like that of a catfish, except that
it runs to fiat point, while a fish tail
is expanded like fan. This fish has
very small eyes, close to the end of its
nose, the eyes are bright and look like
small pin heads. The head and mouth
are almost Identical with a catfish, but
it has small gills on the outside of its
throat, and on each side attached to
the gills, are three small feelers, about
an inch long, and as large as a match.
The rain of Sunday night overflowed
Mr.. Gronemler's pond, and on Monday
he found this fish trying to get back to
the pond. 1t can waddle about on its
feet, but makes poor Roadway. We
took the fish to SOuthworth's drugstore,
where it died Monday night, and is now
IN alcohol.
- For Sale.
! / offer for sale, on easy terms, $50
acres of good land, two and one-half
miles west of Medicine Lodge. For
particulars see T. l.. Lindley, agent, or
address Steinberg & Bro, Lawrence.
Kansas. 9t4
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