Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-11-15

Chicken pie soeials are good for
net SIS at Kirwin.
Nortonville has sent 212 visitors to
! the worlds fair.
Three new business blocks arc go.
ing up in Usage City.
Oskaloosa home talent is rehearsing
'The Spy of Atlanta"
Stockholm's new court house is
nearly ready for the roof.
The Oberlin high school boys have
organized militia company.
a great deal of wheat is being
drilled in Jewell county this fall.
Atchinson's registration is even
$500, gain of 116 over last year.
Overlook will dedicate the new
Congregational church, November 10.
Beloit people think it is time they
had court house and a Missouri Pa
cific depot
Rawlins county is having rass
band meetings to discuss the high
| school question.
Atwood viii dedicate her Fraternal
hall building November Is with elab-
| crate Gel emonies.
Nortonville has gotten far enough
along to have a club that gets kegs
| off the midnight train.
1t is not too cold for the Holiness
congregation to wash each others
feet In tent at Stockton.
Fred Beeler, the cattle king of jew
ell county, shipped a train load of
cattle to Chicago Monday.
Republic City is holding meeting
to-day to discuss the question of hav-
ing creamery OF that point.
The Atwood and Colby mail route
will probably be changed into daily
as soon as the land office is placed in
running order at Colby.
Hon. Chas. N. johnson, of Oska-
loosa, has to use pair of crutches to
assist his locomotion in consequence
of sprained ankle.
A blind man in jefferson county
built an entire barn with only the
help of ten-year old boy to hold the
lumber and do the marking.
Morton County, Its early History
and Settlement" by Hon. f. NJ. Lock.
ard, is an interesting article, the first
installment of which has appeared in
in the Norton Champion.
Lyndon Journal: The last one hun.
dred dollar city order issued for the pur.
chase of depot grounds was paid last
Saturday. 1t has been lost for four
years, but like poor penny, has re-
turned to be redeemed.
The Goodland coursing club got
home from Leoti Thursday ana
brought part of the stakes-third
money-wlth them. They were sure
of second with good show for first
when the bitch Rhea took sick.
Obcrlin is all right 1t matters not
if we are cut off from all the world
with only an occasional visit via hog
train. We have a "boy" here who
can write a play and put it on the
stage. We've got ''stuff' in US,
Some of the colored miners of Usage
county have commenced mining on
the co-operatiAe plan. They have
leased the Burkeville shaft and will
commence operations next week un.
der the name of the Burkeville Coal
and Mining company. S. A. Hunter,
president; Jos. Perkins treasurer; n.
Ii. Lee, secretary and superintendent
and Sam Marshall. pit boss.
Sunday A. w. Lift lost his large
barn one and half miles southeast of
Rossville by fire. 1t is supposed to
have started from spontaneous CON-
bustion. Only the horses were res
cued from the flames, and thirty tons
of hay, GOO bushels of corn, a buggy.
two wagons and number of farm
implements were burned. There was
an insurance of $500 in the Burlington
of Iowa.
Onion sscials are the latest agony
in fashionable circles in Fort Scott.
They are novel. This is how they are
conducted: Six young ladies stand in
a row and one bites chunk out of an
onion which is then turned over to
the young men for inspection The
one who guesses which one of the
young ladies bit the onion kisses the
other five ladies. If he fails to guess
he is allowed only to kiss the girl
who bit the onion.
Captain o. II. Eylor, 50 years of age,
and one of the first settlers in the
eastern portion of johnson county,
and of recent years highly esteemed
citizen of Olathe, died at his home on
East Park street late Saturday eve
ming, after an illness of several weeks.
Captain Eylor was brave captain of
an Ohio regiment during the war, and
was an active member of the G. A. r.
post of this city. He was an uncle of
John Cockrell, editor of the New York
Advertiser, formerly editor of the ST.
Louis Post-Dispatch.
Almost the entire business part of
the town of Latham in Butler county
was destroyed by fire Saturday morn
ing. The flames, which were evident
ly of incendiary origin, started in the
hay loft of Jackson's livery stable and
quickly spread to the adjoining build
ings, which we're one after another
reduced to ashes until Main street
was cleared The loss is S25, 900. with
little insurance. The heaviest losers
were: The Winfield Hardware COM
pany, q. c. Nelson Dry Goods COM
pany and the c. NJ. Keys Grocery COM
pany. Nearly all the horses IN Jack
sons stable were roasted.
was sold for twenty-five cents per
pound. 1t was made by Mr.. G.. H.
Pennington, eight miles southwest
of Pond Creek.
The quarterly pension payment will
begin Saturday at the Topeka agency.
In noting the circumstance that a
couple of Lawrence wheelmen rode to
Tonganoxie and back the other dav in
two hours and eighteen minutes, tho
distance being twenty miles, the K.
X. c. Star scores the touchdown that
the Lawrence sportsmen can do al
most anything but play football
A $4,000 damage suit has been fled
in the district conrt at Ft. Scott !
against the Memphis road by the
mother of boy who was killed LAST
spring by special officer in the EN-.
ploy of the company.
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