Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-09-07

MISS EVA Bllck leaves tO-m0rIOW Tor
Wichita to be gone several days.
Kiowa is arranging for a grand rally
on the 9Th of October. Jerry will be there.
Mr.. w. NJ. Polk, editor of the Topeka
Call, was among our callers Yesterday.
The Willing Workers will meet with
Mrs. Gregg Wednesday, September 14th.
Miss MoIlie Starkie departed Wednes-
day last for Emporia to attend school.
A temperance meeting, at the court
house, is announced for Tuesday night.
The cane wagon is now making itself
numerous, and the sugar season is fully
opened.
Mr.. Geo. ElKins, general agent for
the Railroad Company, came in Mon
day night.
For sale-a good water tank, together
with tower. For part 'culars apply at
this office. 14-3
The sugar mill had to stop Monday
owing to the breaking of some of the
machinery.
Wallace Lowry is taking in the sights
at Wichita for a few days. He left
yesterday.
Can Squire Cameron tell us WHISTLER
or not he made successful speech last
Tuesday night?
Mrs. Harry Lands and family have
been spending several days in the coun
try with relatives.
Bernice Woodward, instead of Mr..
Geo. Sellers, as we announced, has the
Franklin school.
Capt. Fair, the good natured all
round merchant of Sharon, made our
town a call yesterday.
A report yesterday from Mr.. CARR
son states that he is i'll and may not be
home for several days.
The children of DR.. Karr, of Sharon.
went to EmpOria, Kansas, Monday last
to continue their school.
Mrs. Jacob Romig, with her sister.
Miss Blick, spent Friday last visiting
among friends in Lake City:
Seeding has commenced for next
years crop. The acreage which will be
sown to wheat will be immense.
DIR. Harbour has changed his office
Heis now located near the meat mark
ct on the west side of the street.
Mr.. Ed. Pfost came in from Deerhead
Monday evening to have his arm
dressed. 1t is improving very slowly.
Threshing is about finished in the
Julian neignborhood, and now about
everybody is busy plowing, sowing, &c.
Hon. Judge Mckay come in Yester-
day to open and adjourn court, it being
intended that no session shall be held.
If you want knives or cutlery of any
kind, Chase 81 Allen have a new stock,
the best in the county. Call and see
them. loft
The ladies of the Presbyterian church
will give an Ice Cream Social Thursday
evening, September Sth, at the Cook
building.
Uncle Steve Dickerson made us a
pleasant call yesterday. He expects to
leave soon on visit to his old home in
Indiana, and we wish him most pleas
ant trip.
Messrs. Hyder Fair and Jack Davis
depart Sunday for st. Joseph, Mo. Mr..
d. c. Book leaves also for Chicago.
Business and pleasure are the objects of
! their trips.
Mr.. Russ, who is conductor of the
waits home at Topeka, made an inter-
esting talk Sunday night in behalf of
the home. On Monday night he made
an interesting talk on the penitentiary.
Mr.. Higginbotham, brother to H. S.
Higginbotham, of Hazelton, has come
to Barber county to locate. His oldest
daughters, May and Florence, are
teachers, and we'll qualified for their
work.
Mr.. Hoffman, of the Harper Advo-
cate, called in Saturday evening. He
was over with thirteen others from
Harper and Attica, to organize new
lodge of the Modern Woodmen of
| America.
Mr.. Jap Underwood has a card stat
ing that Mr.. Lands was to speak here
after Mr.. Madison got through. This
report was also continuously circulated
by rumor. This is one of the under
handed ways Of getting crowd.
Mr.. o. G. Howe reports himself we'll
pleased for the most part with his trip
to Iowa, his old home. His father, now
90 years of age, is still in good health.
Mr.. Howe attended very pleasant re-
union of his old regiment.
Mr.. Henry Sommers, of Kiowa, who
has for some time been i'll with typhoid
fever, died rather unexpectedly on Fri
day evening last. The funeral Geremo-
ny was held Sunday. In his death Bar
Der county has lost good citizen.
The patent medicine fakir the other
night is said to have scooped in about
500. There seems always to be plenty
to bite. The local doctors and drug
gists complain that such fakes ought
to be made more expensive, as they pay
their occupation taxes and claim they
ought to be protected.
Mr.. Marcellus Bryan. of London,
Ohio, is visiting with Otis Lorton and
other acquaintanees. He is a printer
by trade and assists in the Office Of the
Madison County Democrat, published
by his father and three older brothers.
He is delighted with Barber county and
says he has enjoyed his visit exceeding
ly. He Will return home in few days.
Married-at Mingona, on Sunday, the
4th, Mr.. Jacob Root and Miss Mary
! Smith. Both of these young people are
well known in the community where