Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-04-06
Go to the masquerade ball.

rabbit.
We noticed a few peach trees in
bloom Sunday.
The jail is empty. the first time in
twenty-three months.
The final tax notice for Kingman
county fills 80 columns.
Farmers, insure your growing crops
against hail with Cook & Palmer. A
Rev. J. B. North left last Wednes-
day, for Kingfsher, his future home.
For Sale-A pair of good work mules
and good work horse. Apply at this
office. ATT
For sale, registered short-horn bull,
aged. For sale cheap. Call early. T.
b. Stockstill. 46-t4*
We feel sure that the backbone of
winter is broken when we see the boys
going fishing.
The city council ought to order the
loose boards in the sidewalks nailed
down, before somebody breaks a leg
and sues for damages.
Mrs. Ezra Perry, of College Hill,
Barber county, has been granted pat
ent for flexible fire escape ladder.
We hope she will make a fortune out
of it.
COlsOn s. Ously will, no doubt, be
greeted with the largest house of the
season on April Goth. In their presenta-
ton OF The Cashier" They are de-
serving OF all they get.
Aud now, DR.. KOcielI comes in and
says he can cure all affections of the
lungs and throat. either with compound
Oxygen or by constitutional homeo-
pathic treatment. Try him. 46tf
All children who have made carpet
balls for the Ladies' Aid society, are re-
quested to hand in their balls and
names at Sunday school next Sunday
morning. Mrs. John S. Runyan.
+. b. Peck, our county treasurer,
writes long article tor this issue of
the INDEX. 1t Is headed Final Tax
Notice." and will prove interesting to
those whose names are mentioned.
Sam Lyons, sentenced to six months
in jail for shooting at Jacob Lime
borne, last fall, was released from Jail
yesterday. Sam is not half as bad 8
man as he would nave people believe.
Every day the reports from the storm
of last Thursday night grow worse.
Many small places were damaged, and
persons hurt which were not mention
ed in the first reports. The dead will
now number about so.
Joe Owens two most regular board
ers quit him yesterday morning. They
never missed a meal or paid a cent.
They were prisoners, but were released.
May they both try to live better lives
than they have done heretofore.
Yesterday afternoon was bright,
warm and quiet. The weather did not
have the appearance of picking nails
out of sidewalks, or taking barbs off OF
fences. Kansas weather is a great
thing. 1t is always the best or worst
ever seen.
Eli Benedict tells us that his oats are
up, wheat growing finely, is sowing al
falfa, planting potatoes, listing corn,
building fence, and has plenty of work
He says he never saw better prospect
for all kinds of crops. The ground is
full of moisture.
Died, near this city, Monday night, OF
old age, Mrs. Jacob Horn, aged SO years
Funeral service will be held at 2 O'Clock
this afternoon, at the residence, two
miles south of town, and the remains
Will then be brought to this city for in
ment.
The sugar mill has about q car and ;
half of second sugar bagged and ready
to be inspected, branded and shipped
There is steady demand for the sirul
after the second sugar is thrown out
and the demand for the strip is bette
since the clarifying process has beer
adopted.
One day last week r. V. Bloom pick
ed up two five dollar bills on the sire ct
he exhibited them to the crowd arounC
him, but found no owner. He thel
came to the INDEX Office and left al
advertisement, but as we afterwar,
learned that j. B. Gano had lost tn
wad, we did not insert it. 1t show
| Mr.. Bloom to be strictly honest man
The Cresset wants to know how
many persons were present at the Med
icine Lodge sub-alliance meeting whel
the st. Louis platform was ratified
Perhaps we may be censured for giving
away secrets but we will say there wer
not many,-probably not more tina
four or five times as many as atten
: the usual meeting of the reciprocit
jimblaine anti-politicai, anti-secret-so
ciety clubs.
The Colson & Ously Comedy Co. VIII
played the "Vagabond" here on DE-
cember 3lst, to very small house, O
account of the prevalence OF Ia gripp
, and diphtheria, were pronounced b
, those who saw them, to be the bes
! troup ever in our city. They WILL al
pear here again on Wednesday nigh
April Goth, in The Cashier" a come
dy written especially for them, an
will have with them their celebrate
: Continental band and fine orchestr,
Reserved seats now on sale at Day
j Records, price soc.
D Married-At the home of w. ]
= Wheat, five miles north east of Med
> cine Lodge, April 3rd. 1892. MIR. Ulysst
I G.Rogers and Miss Villa Mckinney, a
q of Barber county, W. A. Cain Officia
8 ing. The groom is young man I
temperate and economical habits, an
II is known as one of the prosperor