Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-04-06
LOCAL NEWS.

ton.
Flannel net shirts 35cts at Wood.
wards. Att
Corn planting is now being pushed
vigorously.
G. G. Hudson, Of the Kiowa Review,
made Us a short call last Wednesday.
Buy your wife New Home Sewing
Machine. John Higgins keeps them for
sale. 43tf
The Baptist aid society meets at the
chapel every Thursday afternoon at 2
O'Clock. tt
Harmony alliance will hold an open
meeting Saturday night. Everybody
invited.
DR.. Aver says March came in like
lion, and went out like the devil. And
he was about right.
If you want to have fun get mas
Querade suit and take in the ball Fri
day night, April 9Th.
A brother of Mr.. II. Selling, of the
City Feed mill, is here on visit. He
arrived last week from Iowa.
Hendley's photos are $3.50 for twelve
cabinets and one panel for ten days
longer. He also makes tin types. As
Farmers Headquarters first door
north OF the z. O. Highest market price
paid for country produce. L. NJ. Wood
ward. ATT
"Old Hutch" had a busy day last
Saturday. Besides attending to selling
seed, etc, he bought dozen Car loads
of wheat.
Medicine Lodge surveillance meets
Saturday night at o'clock, at Judge
Stevens office. Every member ought
to be present.
For sale-Seed oats at 80 cents per
bushel; and early seed corn at so cents
per bushel. Samples at Burnett's store.
G. J. Skeen, Roundup, Kansas. tf-4l
T. L. O'Bryan and j. 2. Gibson got
home last Wednesday from Wichita,
where they had been u couple of weeks
rs U. S. jurors. They report pleasant
time.
DIR. Phillips left last week, for Win
field, where he has been assigned to
work in the Methodist theological COL
leRe. His family will remain here for
few weeks.
As soon rs it began to rain last
Thursday night It caused the fire alarm
to sound at the sugar mill. This settles
the matter of having the wires crossed
and getting them wet
Alex Harris brought us nice lot of
sweet potatoes, last Saturday. They
are as sound IS they were the day they
were dug out OF the ground. He sold a
wagon load in town Saturday.
Those who witnessed the "Vaga-
bond" on December 3lst, can tell you
OF the excellence of the COlson & Ously
Company. who will present The Cash
Ter" at our opera house on April 10th.
The Anthony Bulletin came to us Sat-
nrday doubled in size to Is pages. 1t
has AZ columns of advertising, nearly
all home advertising. Anthony is
spreading herself, and the Bulletin is
having a we'll deserved boom.
j. A. Lockard received 500 worth of
trees last week; Riley Lake received
$40 worth, and Z. b. Cole received
over 500 worth. In ten years from
now Barber county will be famous foI
90 Oh do 20 Rnn frtti arlu oxy
cry land owner is putting out frui
trees.
The sugar mill company have agreed
on the following schedule of prices t.
be paid for cane. For cane testing II
per cent. by pOlariscope, $3.50 per ton
IL per cent, $l.70 per ton; II per cent.
So per ton; 13 per cent, $40 per ton
IA per cent, 30 per ton; Is per cent.
and upwards $3.50.
The basis of representation in thu
peoples party state convention wa
fixed on the vote of Willis and Ives
added, and divided by two. In Barbe
county Willis received $50 votes; I've
received | 1906 votes; total 2,235. Thi
divided by gives an average III. an,
one delegate for $50 votes. or majo
fraction would entltle us to delegate
in the state convention.
The entertainment given at the cOur
house last Saturday night by the YOun
Peoples Society, WAS well attended
though the room was not crowded, an
the long programme was very well rer
dered. The audience was well enter
tanned between the pieces on the pre-
Rramme by watching the shadows 0
the white curtain, and guessing VIII
madH them, and what they were doin
behind the curtain. These entertain
ments should be well patroniLed in Of
der to encourage the young people j
their work.
IL our eastern and northern FRIEND
want to see Kansas In her beauty, no
IL the time to start west. In one wee
moro our fruit trees will ne In III
bloom; the fields OF wheat and oats wi
wave a pleasant welcome; the gree
prairies will be beautiful sighN to
man whose home in Iowa, Illinol
Indiana or Missouri is locked in II
HTms OF winter, or where the cloud
weather and muddy roads make life
burden. Sunny Southern Kansas bea
Oklahoma or the Cherokee strip, ar
you can buy land here for less than yc
can make home in raw prairie. Ba
Der county is the best all-purpose cou
ty in the state.
Southwark the star of empire TAX
ats way. The California fever OF
struck this country two years ago WHIT
Oklahoma was opened. It struck
again when the ArrapahOe lands we
about to open, and it will strike us vii