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


Try our Mocha Blend coffee, lbs.
for 81 20. Woodward.
Arthur Shaw went to Kansas City
Saturday on business trip.
For SALE. A good Western Cot
tage organ. VIII sell cheap. W. M.
Carol. 2t
i can winter number of cattle Of
sell the feed at reasonable prices.
G. j. Skeen, Roundup.
Claude Snoddy departed Monday
for Alva; after rejuvenating himself
IN our salubrlous cline.
The county printing for N county
has been awarded to the Pioneer, pub
lished by w. F. Hatfield.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Nilsson are the
parents of an attractive young lady,
who arrived Thursday morning.
-Brough Wilkins moved his house
hold effects to Alva last week and will
reside there permanently i'll the future.
"A speciality made of cleaning and
repairing sewing machines. One door
north of Williams furniture store.
15-tf ". FLEMING.
-Sam'l. Madden was in the city Sat
urday from his farm near Canema, and
stopped to pay his respects to the
INDEX.
Sam MCsshart was in from Aetna
Saturday, making preparationsito 90 TO
the Strip and attend to his cattle there
this winter.
Sheriff Dobson returned Saturday
from trip to Wichita. He says the
report that he intends to move to that
city is unwarranted.
Emil Ostler arrived from Emporia
Saturday. He has purchased farm
near that city and his visit here was
for the purpose of moving some pro-
perty.
F. g. Van VaIkenburg, special
agent of the Liverpool, London & Globe
Insurance Co., was in the city from To-
peka last week looking after the bust
ness of his company.
Ladies interested in dress cutting
will do we'll 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. 1t
About twenty of her young friends
inaugurated surprise in honor of Miss
Rose Arteburn last Thursday evening.
The party met with Miss Daisy Moore
and proceeded from her residence, eff
fecting a genuine surprise.
&C. G. VanDeventer went down to
Medicine Lodge Tuesday to give his
testimony in foreclosure case. YAM
had already testified in the same case
three times and it has been hanging fire
since go -Kingman Leader Courier.
w. II. Worland returned last week
from a sojourn in the Strip. He was
at Alva on Tuesday when the snow
fell, and expected to to see this county
covered with the fieecy flakes; but six
miles this side of Alva the roads W ere
dryand We hadn't even shower.
Will Julian was up from Nippa.
walla Friday. He says they have $50
acres of wheat that needs rain very had
| ly If the crop next year is to excel in
any great degree that of the past sea
son. This year he raised ASS bushels
from the same acreage that last year
produced 2SG0 bushels.
II. y. McNeal returned from Wich-
tia Thursday. He says the interview
published in the Eagle and credited to
him was almost purely fabrication
the outcropping of Dave Leahy's i'm
agative genius. We are glad that Tom
was not responsible for the rot, because
we always believe him above such mis-
representations.
Occasionally the conflicting relig
ious views entertained by adherents OF
the Christian religion affords subject
for levity. The Free Methodists haye
been holding a protracted meeting in
this city, and their radical views re
garding the souls transportation t
paradise upon the death of the body en-
tered largely, as is their usual custom
into the appeals by both ministers anC
the laity. On Friday evening n. b
Bla;ton, of Hazelton, whose antago
nism to the immortal soul theory is a!
radical as the Free Methodist advocacy
attended the services and listened in
tently to the glowing dissertations upor
the righteous spirits fight after dealt
70 that celestial abode, and the castin,
Of the obstreperous into an eterna
hell. Finally the preacher asked for ;
collection to pay rent of the buildin,
and the hat was passed, which. wheI
handed to the pulpit, was found to con
tain 81 cents. There was a shade o
disappointment evident as the ministe
laid away the meagre fund. and he ex
pressed such feeling in words. Al
opportunity was then given for testi
mony, if any one had anything to say
Mr.. Blanton arose and with all tn,
earnestness imaginable said: Fifty
one cents from all you people who at,
going to heaven. 1t is surprising.
am going TO stay here but will give /;
dollar" And he suited his words b,
the act of placing silver dollar on tn
pulpit.