Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-10-25
KANSAS MATTERS.
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Neosho Falls is proud of the fact
that there is not an empty house in
the city.
There are twelve inmates of the
Linn county poor farm, five of whom
are insane,
independence has war between
the transfer lines. and the public is
riding cheap.
a Mount Hope 'nan advertises the
loss of pair of nose glasses" what
ever they may be.
Bicycle races are the biggest sports
ing events FIT. Scott has been able to
muster this year.
| The Newton Turn Verein will ccle-
brate the tenth anniversary of its
founding on Nov. 10.
The Eldorado creamery pays so
cents a hundred for milk. Eleven
gallons weigh la) pounds.
The officials of Wilson county col
lected about 300 from the prOsecu-
ton OF liquor dealers last year.
The total school population OF But
Ter county is s.4S6. OF the number
LII arc residents of Eldorado.
The town in southeast Kansas that
has not been we'll represented ut the
worlds fair is yet to be heard from.
The new Episcopal church at Har-
per was consecrated Tuesday, Bishop
Thomas of the Topeka diocese offici.
ating.
The new Coffeyville milling compa-
ny has been chartered under the title
of the Sehrt & Patterson Milling com
pany.
The denizens of Fl Scott are evil
IDENTIFY good livers. 1t requires $780,
600 worth of meat annually to satisfy
their appetites.
The ladies OF the Arkansas City
Congregational church have an indus.
trial school for young motherless girls
once week.
The Newton bank provides pair of
public spectacles at its desk, tied
there with string just as the combs
are at hotels.
A hartland mans horse bucked with
him, the other day and when the man
was picked up both arms and both
legc were broken.
A town must be simply :.wful when
1t gets so bad that colored citizens are
driven to suicide. What's the matter
with Topeka, anyway.
Oscar Heath was awarded the first
premium on the display of corn left at
the Neosho Falls bank, and George +.
Wilson second premium.
The Rev. Taw preached in Law.
renee the other day. lie just knocked
down to business and there was nc
Judging during the service.
The old government mill at Paw
huska was purchased some time ago
by VIM. Mathews and is being remod.
eled and put in running order
Tom Ryan has gone to Washington
to live, but it is said he will leave his
POLITICAL lightning rod in Topeka,
where 1T can be used at any time.
Leavenworth has a woman candi.
date for coroner. By the time she is
through questioning witnesses there
will be no question about the verdict.
The churches are still holding ice
cream festivals at Lawrence. They
just prepare the cream and set it out
for few hours; the weather does the
icing.
The new state banking law which
gives the bank commissioner control
of all private banks, has been decided
constitutional by Judge west of Fort
Scott.
Governor Lewelling will address the
people of La Cygne in the afternoon
of October 90. He will also make an
address at Pleasanton the same eve
ming.
The Bride family that left Oberlin
a month ago for the strip has not been
heard from. 1t is feared that in try
to see some sooner's blind their reign
was cut of.
The anniversary IN citing of the A.
| O. [. w. of the district composed of
the counties of Wilson, Montgomery.
Chautauqua and Elk, will be held at
independence, October %
The Kansas Odd Fellows own $780,
3l5 worth of gilt edge property. The
secret societies of Kansas are not only
prosper Gus, but do a vast deal of good
20 society and their members.
1t is Ex-Governor Thomas A. Os-
Borne that is preparing for trip to
southern Europe, Egypt and the Holy
land, and not the present state offic.
al OF that rame. lie will start in
'cbruary. and will go alone.
The A. o, L. w. of Cedarvale pre-,
'cuted Earl Brown with a handsome
old pin with the emblem of the
)rdcr thereon in concentration of
his faithful work IN bringing William
Klaus home from the Strip.
A meeting of old soldiers OF Wilson
.ounty was held at the residence of
drs ID. i. i. Owens, near Altoona
Thursday. The organization was
made permanent by the election of
I. i. q. Dn1d as in1.nsidnnt nnd Gaono.a