Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-11-08
KANSAS MATTERS.
Items OF Interest Condensed for Hurried
Readers.

Larned pays s., 900 a year for
twenty-six arc electric lights.
The tribe of Cad" teachers assoct-
alton belongs to Pawnee county:
Lyons will have lecture course this
winter for the public school library.
Finney county farmers claim that
alfa lfa-fattened hogs make the best
pork.
Pawnee county will increase her
wheat acreage at least 10 per cent
this year.
The United Presbyterians of Topeka
are getting ready to build new 81, 500
Mission church.
Franklin county is raising peanuts
One field it is estimated will yield 200
bushels per acre.
, Lawrence has free worlds fair d.
rectory in the person of a returned
Colum bian guar1.
The first original fried mush supper
must be placed to the credit of the
ladies of Garden City.
The jointists and prohibitionists are
bo.h writing anonymous letters to the
city officers at Mcpherson.
The southwestern Kansas district
convention of the Christian church
was held at Scott City last week.
a Mcpherson business man says he
has done credit business of S15OOOO
In that town and only lost 500.
y Reno county man who has long
had trouble with hers tearing up the
garden is now trying to teach them to
dig his potatoes.
The Champion declares that catch
ison is on the eve of the greatest pros
perity in her history" All right be-
low; let her d, op.
Past Grand CommanderPort of the
Knights Templar of Kansas died at
his home in Beloit Friday. Funeral
services were held Sunday.
Topeka has a club that takes its
name, 'All-of-it," from it's leading
characteristic; there is never any
ances.
The registration books show New
tons voting population to be 10 2, an
| increase of 110 over last year. Tope-
ka's is 1881 or 1000 less than last
year.
ThePratt Commercial club that was
| organized last week is going to fit up
| club rooms and prepare to gather in
all the good things it can for Pratt,
city, and county.
An Atchison woman has twenty
seven varieties of begonia, and an
other, whose taste runs to chrysan--
themums, is said to have the largest
collection in the state.
Bank Commissioner Breidenthal has
telegraphed from Meade that the
statement of the Stockgrowers and
Farmers bank at that place is salts
factory, and that it will resume busi-
ness Immediately.
Vox Studentum is the name of q pa-
per published in the interest of the
Southwest college at Winfield. If the
Studentum will conduct itself so as
not to appear vox ct praeterea nihil, it
may some day voX populi.
The president of the Rice county
Cemetery association in his call for a
| meeting says: Let every one that
| has the interest of the cemetery at
heart come out and try and make the
home of the dead an honor to our
city"
The Episcopal church at Harper was
| dedicated on Tuesday, Bishop Thorn
as, Rev. Hill and Dean Rhames being
present to conduct the conservation.
| Cornelius Vanderbilt donated the
money with which this church was
| built.
Henry Moehlripg, aged AZ years,
committed suicide by hanging him
| self to fence post about nine miles
southwest of Hoxie on the night of
| the 21st, ult His only relative in
this country is brother in the same
county.
The burglars have started the fall
campaign at Emporia. The Fort Scott
| Monitor says that is n safo place for
them to practice on, as out of the hun
drcds of burglaries there in the past
few years none of the burgulars have
ever boen caught.
At AtchtSon Professor Wynn is Ia
boring for the elevation of the human
! race in Midland college. At Holton.
professor Wynn is at the fair grounds
with balloon laboring for the same
purpose. Both depend for success
upon the same element.
The man with a skeleton key is do
ing Topeka al libitum, and to the
great annoyance and sacrifice of MANY
of the most prominent residents. His
favorite places of research are the
closets, but he carefully avoids dis
turbing the skeletons hidden therein.
A second crop of blossoms is a COM
mon freak for Kansas fruit trees, and
occasionally an apple tree gets so far as
to develop second crop of fruit Now
comes Edwin Martin of Sumner
county with sample of second
crop of peaches well matured, though
small, and ripe.
Owing to the scarcity of ministers
in the Lutheran church the old custom
of circuit riding will be resorted to
again. This plan was adopted bv the
Lutheran synod at Kansas city on the |
suggestion of DR.. Clutz. of the Mid
land college. There are eleven
charges in Kansas without pastors.
The supreme court has issued a !
peremptory writ of mandamus COM
handing the secretary of state. or his |
assistant, to issue a certificate of NOM |
ination in the case of William Th IN |
son, the nominee of the miners and |
laboring mems party for Judge. i'm |
Usage county, the Twenty-fifth dis |
trict.
When the equal suffrage association |
of Topeka opened Il room for the ben |
eht of the women voters of the city n |
special effort was made to get the col |
orSd women to go and take lessons
but the Journal says, not single one |
improved the opportunity of instruct /
ing themselves upon the new ballot |
law.
Carbondale has an enthusiastic Ger
man class CT fifteen members.
w. Il. Converse of Newton relates To
the Republican CURIOUS incident that
he witnessed while en- route to ButIer
county Tuesday. He says he saw
what appeared to be a bicvcle wheel |