Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-12-13

"A lance is on tapis for Christmas
night at the opera house. Announce
ments will be made IN due time, but it
is the intention of the Originators to
make it recherche affair.
The G. A. r. elected the following
officers last Saturday evening, for the
ensuing year: Commander Joe Owens;
senior vice, Pete Chenoweth; junior
vice John Shannon; chaplain o. c..
Howe; surgeon DIR. w. II. Moore.
e. Cox rode up from Aetna Mon
day night to take measures to recover
So head of cattle which were stolen
from him Saturday. He thinks they
were driven off to some railway point
and shipped. A reward has been of
fered.
License to wed was issued by the
probate judge last Friday to R. L.
Jackson and Miss Lucy A. Reid, both
of Aetna township. They were to be
married Sunday and we suppose that
ere this they have entered upon the
first week of the honeymoon.
List of letters remaining uncalled
for in the postoffice at Medicine Lodge,
for the week ending December. 9th:
j. 7. Allensworth, w. J. Brewster, l..
G. Burson, J. II. Davis, Mrs. Ida
GoOdale, Lille Hamilton, Jim Jonson,
Charles Mahin, G. M. Wiley, j. M.
Young. l.. M. Axline, p. M.
DIR. Moore returned from st. Louis
Sunday, where he had taken his daugh-
ter Gail for treatment. We are pleased
to state that the specialist pronounced
the little girls eyes in no serious con-
dition, and cure only a matter of
time. The doctor says everybody
through the Mississippi states are COM
planning of dry weather. and that the
streams are lower than they have been
for years.
Word came to j. B. Gano Monday
informing him that Jack Sutherland.
formerly of this city, had committed
suicide by hanging at his home in Mis-
souri,. He was carpenteriDg at the time
in the building of a house, and did not
stop for dinner when the rest did.
When the other workmen returned they
found him hanging from rafter. 1t
Will be remembered that he once be-
came temporarily demented but was
thought to have recovered. He married
a Miss Clark of this city.
Unless one is appointed to fill the
vacancy there will be but two county
commissioners for the first week of the
January meeting. This arises from
the fact that Mr. Roessler was appoint
ed to serve only until Mr.. Reagln's
successor should be elected and quail
fed, and although that is now the case
the commissioner does not take
his seat until the second week In jan
uary. A commissioner for the short
term should have been elected; but it
is very probable that the county can
worry along with two until Mr.. Murray
takes his seat.
The Pythian Sisters are preparing
to give series of public entertainments
on the evenings of December 81, % and
% respectively. On Friday evening
they expect to put on the play Damon
and Pythias' and the others will be de-
voted to drills and other sorts of enter
tainment. About fifty people will be in
the various plays, etc. w. w. Heath
cote, of Hutchinson, one of the best
stage performers in the southwest, Will
give the instructions and will play the
part OF Damon in damon and
Pythias." His ability is unqueslioned,
and entertainments given under his d.
rection are sure to be success.
Three years ago Monday the Grand
Hotel passed into to hands of it's pres
ent proprietor, w. G. Bristow. Some
time ago the gentle host concluded to
celebrate the event. and accordingly on
the date mentioned a fine dinner was
prepared to which a number of friends
were invited. Those who participated
in the spread as guests of the house
were Mr.. and Mrs. Day, Mr.. and Mrs.
Chase, Mr.. and Mrs. Ellis, Mrs Holmes,
Mrs. O'Bryan, Mrs. Eby, Miss Jessie
O'Bryan, c. l. Human, Roy Binman,
tIerbie Day and Wash. Shaw. MIR.
Brlstow enjoys the distinction of hav-
ing run the hotel longer than any of
his predecessors, and during the time
he has had control the doors have never
been locked against custom. He has
succeeded In establishing an enyiable
reputation for the Grand among the
hotels OF Southern Kansas.