Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-04-12
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LOCAL NEWS.

Mrs. Higgins millinery store.
Mr.. u. 7. l.. burns was in the city
Saturday, looking after business.
DR.. Southwick and wife Of Harper
were i'll he city last week visiting.
II you want n first-cIass autioneer
just address Ed. Pfost, Deerhead.
Mr.. Levi Beals left for Topkea last
week intending to return about harvest
time.
Bring your old chairs around to J. II
Williams if you want them neatly re.
paired. 80
Write to Bailey andButman, Eldred.
Kansas, if you want fine short-h horn
bull. II
Lanes Medicine moves the bowels
each day. In order to be healthy this
10 necessary. 81
If you want organs go to l.. T. Will
liams furniture store. He has them
all the way from S45 to $500, to sell for
cash or by instalments.
The drouth all over Kansas and Mis-
souri, has been considered very serious.
Barber county is standing it much bet
ter than might be expected.
Mr.. Easom, who was recalled to
Sharon and permitted to stay by rea-
son OF his wife's sickness. is intending
to depart soon for Meade county.
For SALE spans of Kansas mares,
all weighing from 10 to II hundred.
Will take cash or good security or will
trade for cattle. J. NJ. DeLIsle. Agent.
JIM. White, of Sharon, was in town
with his wife last week. He was feel
ing little worse than usual. He has
been afflicted with paralysis a long
time.
Squire Porter of Sharon, was in Sat-
urday, making a transcript of the pre-
liminary proceedings in the state
against Ed McReynolds and Orville
Brown.
Senator III. 5. Lands and Representa-
tive VIM. Garrison departed for An
thony, Friday to attend a meeting Of
the alliance and the peoples party at
that place.
Mr.. j. ii. Williams is giving the best
Of satisfaction to everyone who gets
him to mend furniture or frame pic
lures. lie is rustler at the business.
Don't be bashful, give him call. If
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.
Samuel Henton, trustee of Sharon
township, was in town Monday to pre-
sent pauper bill to the commissioners.
1t the first case Sharon has had tor a
long time; and most deserving one.
Mr.. MeCOrkle, a calamityite who
has been employed on the Burlington
Courier, in Coffey county, has babe
farewell to the printing business for
the summer, and is in the city in the
interest of the Star Nursery Of Ottawa.
Davis Il Davis have received a fine
large stock Of new goods, which they
are unlocking in their new quarters in
the Cook block. They are also moving
the remainder of their stock. Their
new quarters are very commodious and
will enable them to display their goods
TO much better advantage.
Wanted--All kinds of sewing, max
ing, repairing or cleaning of clothing.
Having served seven years as a dress
maker and tailOress in Sunderland,
England. am prepared to make any
thing from hemp carpet TO baby's
lace dress, or from a mans shirt to an
Overcoat. Prices reasonable. Lizzie
Fishburn. AZ
The Hazelton postoffice is still the
theme OF local politics. Most people
believe that Afford the stal"wart" is
not in it, There is objection to Mr..
Gamble because 1t is claimed he is
practically a nonresident, Mr.. Irwin
has Withdrawn. A new candidate in
the person of young Mr.. Fullerton is
now in the ring.
The county commissioners came In
Friday to confer with the state board.
The honorable state board stopped
about one hour and left. or course we
feel honored, but how much benefited
remains to be seen. The question IS:
will they lower railroad assessments in
this county So, 900, and away out of
proportion to all other property. The
experience of the former board, we
trust will be valuable and profitable to
them.
AT Sharon, Mr.. HentOn the old-time
posttl aster who kept the Office for years
when It VISA nuisance, seems to be
the only candidate the people endorse.
If there is a man IN the county deserves
n postofiice, it is Nj. Henton. Despite
his past services, he was dTed by the
partisan civil-service reform aIminis'
tration OF Mr.. Harrison, because Re
would vote as he pleased. When
threatened with loss of his Office, he
replied that he knew he was Old, but
would crawl on the ground and eat
grass before he would have his vote
dictated.
Brother Il. V. Cant, councilman that
was to be and IS not, says he thought,
considering how profitable the CreSset
had made farming ION paper) and how
our merchants complained of hard
times when asked for a little credit
and what hard time the "stand up's''
sometimes had to pay their debts, and
how bad the city needed money to
Tighten taxes, it would be grand and
profitable scheme to plant the streets
an pumpkins; and he intended to put a
anocial match ~ Uo,, rdc nd v1;a voalIo,,c