Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-08-23

"A. b. Allen came In last week from
the Cherokee Nation, and will remain
until the opening of the Strip.
Meeting OF INDEX stockholders
next Saturday, August Goth. Attend,
as many as can make it convenient to
do so.
Clarence Thompson was parading
the streets Saturday with added vim to
his gait, owing to the arrival of a boy
at his place.
Dave Gregg moved the remainder
of his goods to Kingfsher this week,
starting yesterday. J. G. Walstad &C
cOmpanied hun.
Ladies, If you want dress made to
fit you, or coat cleaned and refined, or
a good job of sewing done, call on Liz
Fishburn.
In stating last week that o. c. Ew-
arts mother had arrived from Ohio, we
were misinformed. 1t should have
been stated Mrs. Jobes.
Letters from Irwin Lands state
that he is progressing finely i'll the US.
Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md, and
Is well pleased with the place. He has
been attending about month.
Kidneys. DR.. Kociell.
bladder. DR.. Kociell.
If you don't know which of the two
ails you go and see DR.. Kociell. 1t will
not cost you anything to consult about
your trouble.
The material and Superintendent
for the Kiowa registration booth ar
rived in that city Sunday evening, and
work begun on it Monday. 1t will be
opened for use ten days after the proc
lamation is issued.
-Messrs Noble and Nixon came
back last Thursday from their Okla
homa trip. They have about decided
to open a hardware business in the
Strip, as Mr.. NixOn's term of Office ex-
pires this year and leaves him free to
business.
C. ii. Douglass arrived last week
from OHIO, where he has been for some
time. He says in that old settled
country the cry of "hard times" is
abroad in the land. 1t is his calcula-
tiOn TO return to the Buckeye state in
the near future.
There will be an ice cream festival
and social at Roundup school house on
Friday evening, August 18th, given by
Roundup Sunday school. Will have
good music and general good time Is
expected. Everybody invited. Miss
Tory Myers, secretary.
A request is made for tie COM
mittee on program to meet at the Co.,
superintendent Office, August Goth.
The first County Teachers Associa-
ton will be held the last Saturday in
September and the program should be
made out at least three weeks before
that date.
Mayor Wilson of Kiowa paid this
city visit last Thursday. MIR. Wilson
has the honor of being the highest mu.
nicipal official IN a city whose future
promises to be commensurate with its
desefts. Lilly of the Border" is GER
tainly an appropriate appellation foI
that coming metropolis, and lucky il
the individual who secures quarte
section near its borders.
B. b. Graves, J. L. Jesse and Jot
Hargis completed their inspection o
the Cheyenne country last week ant
returned to Barber. They visited Lex
Bradley and Wayne Mckinney during
their absence, and say old Ban be-
boys have nice farms although com
planning of hard times. Mr.. Jesse con
templates moving his stock to tn
CHEYENNE country to winter.
The we'll known figure of SPUR
Durbin, the Lodi postmaster, invaded
our sanctum one day last week, to cha
over old times. Mr.. Durbin says b
will have plenty of corn for his owI
use this year, and that his watermel
ons, for the raising of which he ha
had long established reputa
ton, are coming up to the usual stand
ard. He has rendered his resignation
as postmaster at Lodi, and as yet n
one has been found to take the Office
In case no one can be induced to accept
the Squire will recommend the discoI
tinuance of the Lodi Office, as he ha
about concluded to go to the Strip.
Married, on the 10Th inst, by tn
Rev. III. Chas. Dunsmore and in hi
study at Hotel Bennett, Mr.. j "
Winsett and Miss Anna l.. Smith
both of Kicwa. The happy couple lei
the following morning for st. Louis
Missouri .-Anthony Republican.
/ The above item of news was con
plete surprise to Kiowa people in GEL
eral. jim Winsett for several year
in the employ of Ii. G.. Waltner at HI,
wa, ard lately of the York Key Me
camille Co.; beng one of the p0puI;
boys" The bride is the daughter {
5. II. Smith, living three miles west {
the city. When jim left lie said h
calculations were to enter the emplC
Of Bates Shoe CO., as travelling sale
man, consequently the total surpri:
at his marriage.
= During the past week the most
,. Barber county has been thorough
. wet, the first time this year. c
d Thursday evening occurred the fir
d and heaviest rainfall, being greatest
+ the south half of the county. At HI
: wa nearly two inches of water fe
Y growing less 10 the north until at tn
= place there was less than one inch, ar
d in the northern part there was non
t Sunday AFTERNOON southern Barber VI
: again visited by short but very hea'
e fall, being little less than an inch
e Kiowa. Sharon and vicinity also w
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