Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-11-01
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LOCAL NEWS.

VIII Julian marketed some wheat
at the Hour mill. Saturday.
Don't forget to come to town Fri
day to hear Hon. II. ). Osborne.
We have just received a car load of
Colorado potatoes. Harper Mercantile
Company.
Gus Schmidt and l.. w. DeGeer
went To Kiowa after court adjourned,
Saturday.
-McAdoO township was represented
here Saturday by b. F. Moore and Z.
L. IIagerman.
The Willing Workers will meet
with Mrs. II. f. Noble Wednesday az
teTnoon November Sth.
We handle corn, oats, bran and
shorts. Also are agents for FOntenac
coal. Harper Mercantile Company.
Ben Carr is again one of our citi-
zens, having arrived last week. He
says he came home to keep from dying.
Medicine Lodge appeared neare.,
her normal condition Saturday than at
any time since the opening. The streets
were crowded.
Will and Frank Dean, two of Bar
Der county's old timers, came In Friday
from Oklahoma. Both are states wit
nesses in the murder trial.
Steve Roach was up from Alva a
day or two last week. He is manager
of Shaw Bros. feed store at that point
and is quite sanguine as to her future.
j. r. Lee was in the city, Thurs
day, from Kiowa, on business with the
probate court, which, owing to the alb
sence of Judge Stevens, was Of course
delayed.
Scott Cummins, the bard of Canema
was in the city Saturday. Scott Sc
cured good claim on the Salt Fork
northwest of Alya and of course is feel
ing good.
Our secretary of state, who was ar
rested for libel by his political perse cut
Ors will speak at the opera house FRI
day afternoon and evening. Don't fail
to hear him.
Ladies interested in dress cutting
will do well to call on Mrs. Benning.
She will teach you in one hour how to
cut and fit any dress, free. Second
stairway north of Day " Records. At
Why pay $500 for wrought steele
Ranges of agents travelling through
the country, when Noble 81 Case will
sell you one for $500 with seventeen
gallon hot water tank all complete.
Jim Gano returned Friday from his
trip through Oklahoma summonng
witnesses for the state in the McQumn
case. lie had the exceptional good for
tune to bring nearly all he went after.
Medicine Lodge is recovering
great many of her old citizens who
were carried away on the wave of emf
grafton to the much advertised Ca
home.
1t is not it.
1t is not cough that causes consump-
tion but consumption causes cough.
by taking cough medicines and neglect
ing constitutional treatment you mere
ly pull down the signal of Danger
Ahead' See DIR. KoCIELL. 22w4
Judge O'Bryan has been appointed
one Of the commissioners of county n.
While congratulating the judge on his
appointment We will not forget to con-
graduate county N. Mr.. O'Bryan is a
good citizen and the people of Wood
ward will ever find him such.
w. II. Knisely, mining boss at
Lansing, arrived on Sundays train to
be present as a witness in the Depew
case. Mr.. KnIsely has been associated
in an official position with the prison
for fourteen years, and for the past
twelve years has only seen full daylight
on Sundays. He is a very pleasant
gentleman.
Us Lands was one Of those sum-
moned on the jury. He ascertained af-
ter arriving here that being q justice
of the peace entitled him to be exempt
ed from serving, and took advantage of
the fact. 1t brought the remark from
him some time afterward that It was
the Grst time since he had held the Of
flee but what it been al internal nuls-
ance.
Two boomer wagons OF genuine
''coons." the regular possum specie,
passed through the city to the northeast
Saturday. This migration nOrthward
of the sons of Ethiopia indicates either
warmer weather or a failure in the
land OF the Strip. This is not intended
as boomerang t. chase down the price
of coal but as a mere matter of in
formation.
Although Jerry's visit was unex
pected the people couldn't think of his
departure without giving us a speech.
Thursday evening, Notwithstanding
that practically no advertising had been
done, the court room was crowdedsto
hear the congressman, and they were
rewarded by good talk of two hours
duration. lie started out by saying
that he would abuse no party or indi-
yidual but would present facts. And he
kept his word, making a sound free sill
yer argument. In closing he referred
TO the anti option bill and explained
a his vote on the question. Considering
the fact of his unannounced arrival and
that ne was not expected to make a
speech the crowd was very large.
John McKeever, who was here some
time ago after horses, seems to have
had rather iard time getting across
the Strip. .Iohn might exaggerate just a
little ~ such an instance, bat the Hen
Messy Clipper tells of his troubles as