Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-08-30

Coughing leads to consumption.
Kemps Baisam stops the coughing at
once. q
r. a. J. Goode and Emil Ostier
started for Chicago. the home Of the
former, Thursday.
Our public schools will commence
for the ensuing year on September l1th,
one week from next Monday.
The base ball season appears to be
about over, and so far has proven one
of victory for our home team.
Roy Stafford, the popular young lit
erary and society man of Kiowa, was in
the city Saturday and Sunday on bus
mess trip.
w. II. Walsh, representing r. e.
Dun q Co., made the city visit Mon
day and interviewed our business men
regarding their financial standing.
Why pay $500 for wrought steele
Ranges of agents travelling through
the country, when Noble s. Case will
sell you one for $500 with seventeen
gallon hot water tank all complete.
Fred Fash, one of Kansas best
teachers, was in the city Monday max
ing preparations to start for the Worlds
Fair to-day. He Will teach the Lone
Star school. on Drlftwood. this winter.
Alpha Updegraff and wife came up
from below Saturday to visit relatives.
Alpha says he hasn't been up since his
marriage and he thought it about time
to allow his relation to cultivate ac-
quantance.
A pleasant birth day surprise was
inaugurated in honor OF Miss Bernice
Woodward, Friday evening, in which
quite number Of friends participated.
Games of various kinds were INDUCED
in and refreshments served.
A young man named Charley
Rhodes was thrown from horse and
killed by breaking his neck, Saturday
afternoon about two O'Clock, five miles
south of COrwin. He was about 10 years
old. His parents live few miles east
of Capitalization Express.
From the tone of our Sharon cor
respondent we should judge that vicin-
ity TO be in a bad way with their orch
ards. Although thoroughly conVersant
with materia medica and prophylactic
science, we are unable to suggest rem
edy for the preservation of SharOn's
fruits from the hands of the despoller.
The horses along the southern bor-
der OF Kansas, if they think about it at
all, must be surprised at being taken
ont every day and rushed frantically
around at the top Of their speed. and
wonder if the state has been transform
Ell into vast lunatic asylum. 1t is
sight anywhere on the border
to see men training horses for the race
into the Strip.
Lands 4 Lands VIII this week
have finished blowing 100 acres for
wheat. Harry and his father have done
all the work themselves together with
the other labor on the farm. The sena-
tors clothes do not fit him quite so
tight as they did few months ago. and
his face is not milky by any means; but
he has not forgotten how to tell the
people what he thinks, as his speech
last Saturday clearly demonstrated.
The La Crosse Wis., Leader tells
of man who came into town with a
load Of 12-cent wool, and explained to a
crowd of I1en his new method of shear
ing sheep. Unit! this year it had been
his custom to begin at the head and
work backward, but this year he re-
versed the order and worked from the
rear forward. On being questioned as
to his reason for doing so, he said that
last fall he made such an all-around
fool of himself voting for Cleveland
that he was ashamed to look an honest
sheep In the face" The above IS a
SANDER on I'VE" democrats, but we pub
lish it for the consolation of our repub-
lican Reconsideration Express.
The Missouri Pacific is preparing
to put in new round table at this
point. The material Is now on the |
track in their yard.-KIowa Journal.
The public will doubtless be much |
to know what possible use
the Missouri Pacific can have for
round table," We should like to see
the thing and find out what the Miss
ouri Pacific proposes to do with it, |
it is an extension table or a |
four legged table with the |
corners sawed off. The Missouri Pa
cltc is becoming very capricious and
we shall expect soon to read in the |
Journals news columns that the road |
has put in new turn house at Kiowa.
Strange that the Journal is all the pa
per in that city that gives such remark
able items Of news, as the Review by
some glaring inadvertence called the
a turn table.
-kiowa held big ratification meet
ing last Thursday night to celebrate the
of the proclamation, at which
The boomers all exhibited their enthu-
siasm. n telegraphic report of the
meeting states that five thousand peo-
pie were in the jubilee, and although
there might be very little exaggera-
ton about 1t, there was undoubtedly
very large demonstration. Some of The
boomers have been at Kiowa for years,
for the great event of opening,
and consequently had ample cause for
rejoicing. OF late there has been a CON
slant influx of boomers into the Gate
City. thus aagmenting the number who
are waiting to enter the promised land.
All these homeseekers were of course
much eiated over the proclamation. and /
they had n perfect right to be. The
race from kiowa win be interesting
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