Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-03-02
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Go to D. S. Gregg for Sewing Ma
chine Needles and Repairs. SO
Found--At the Baptist chapel, a
shawl. Call at INDEX Office and get it.
Bones Wanted-Best price paid. E..
Martin. Photographer, Medicine Lodge.
Attorneys Sample and r. w. Gamer
on are at Kiowa, transacting legal bust
ness.
Lost. one beaver glove, finder please
return to ID. 5. Gregg, the gunsmith,
and get reward. So
There were 1897 acres of cane raised
in this county last year, according to
the state agricultural report.
Born, i'll Medicine Lodge township on
the 22d inst. to the wife of G.. Cannon,
twins. boys, pounds each.
Lost-A large shawl, in this city, last
Thursday. A liberal reward will be
paid for It's return to this office.
Rev. J. b. North left yesterday, for
a visit to Guthrie and Kingfsher, Ok,
and will be absent about ten days.
w. Il. Weaver and wife, of Bradford,
Pa, are here on a visit to +. b. Peck
and wife and w. L. Weaver and wife.
The cool, damp weather for the past
two weeks has not been very pleasant
for the ladies, but it has been boss
weather for wheat.
There Will be open alliance at the
Grandview school house miles north,
on the 9th of March, at 100 Every
body invited. A good supper Will be
served.
Grant Jones bought three lots, last
week, on Central avenue, from w. w.
Cook, administrator of the estate of
Clark Gilmore, deceased. The price
was 500.
Rev. w. a. Cain got home last Satur-
day from his visit to New York. Mrs.
Cain will remain about two months
longer and Will have her eyes doctored
in the meantime.
They were telling it on the street yes
terday that Deputy Sheriff Boyd was
out hunting for a supply of nursing
bottles, fearing that his next batch of
prisoners would be unweaned.
On Wednesday night, March Odd, our
theatre gOers will have an opportunity
OF witnessing one of the latest and
greatest laughing successes of the
age, the Swedish dialect comedy, "Ole
Olson"
At the approach of the spring season
those predisposed to consumption, or
those in whom weak lungs is predom-
inant ailment, are advised to apply to
DR.. Kociell, and take course of Oxy-
gen treatment, to tide them safely over
the changeable weather in March, April
and May. 3Stf
The "Ole Olson" company comes to
our opera house for one night on March
ODD, highly recommended by the press
and public. We have never seen the
play, but have every reason to believe it
first-class. Tickets now on sale; prices
75 cents, children 30 cents. No extra
charge for reserved seats.
The Cresset publishes, without com
ment, the following left-handed com
pliment 30 Senator Long, copied from
the Kansas City Journal. Being boss
poker player Is, no doubt, strong re-
publican argument: 1T is said in Ches-
ter Longs favor that should he go to
congress he would regain for the state
her old time place i'll the congressional
poker game. He can give the entire
delegation from Kansas and Prince
Ieems' cards and spades and beat them
without looking at his cards.
j. +. Hall says he does not owe the
democratic party anything, and the
ledger balances the other way. Nc
doubt this is true. The INDEX has &
bill against the same party, which is
non .cOllectable. ct there were so
called democrats whose democracy new
er cost them as much in a lifetime as
ours cost us each year, who were al
ways finding fault. We wish Mr.. Hal
would understand that we make ne
kick against his leaving democracy.
is criticism of his turn to republi
canism. How could you be a demo
crat in the fall and a republican in tn,
winter?
Sometime ago we made some remarl
! about the Kiowa Journal, and tina
paper, IN a supposed effort to answer
our remark, seems to be defending Kio
wa. We have never said or done any
thing against that city. He claims tina
his untiring work has made Klowa tax,
on steady growth in business and edu
cation. We doubt it. In fact very few
towns In Kansas have had any growtl
| for couple of years. But suppose j
has. What induced the Journal to say
"Kiowa has done more work and spen
more money in securing Barber count
a position among the leading countie
of the state than Medicine Lodge eve
dared to untertake." Now please te
us what Kiowa has done to deserve sue
| praise.
South Haven New Era: Most edi
tors are acquainted with the man VIII
takes more papers than he can read, re
marks man of wisdom, and conse
quently he has no use for his lOca
paper. He takes paper published 1
Portland, Maine. 1t contains all tn
latest news about The Smuggler's Las
Cruise" 1.-The Adventures of Ri
Moses, the Bandit King and while h
is storing his mind with such info
nation his wife is reading back numbe
almanacs. But Jet him get into troubl,
he rushes to the local paper to help hill
ont and he wants it bad. If his baby {
wife dies he wants column obituar.
vet he is taking so many papers he caI
not help his local paper out by subscril
ing for it. This is also the man VIII
wants fifteen line local puts in his HON