Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-12-06
MEDICINE LODGE KANSAS WEDNESDAY DECEMBER6 1898
KANSAS MATTERS.
Items OF Interest Condensed for Hurried
Readers.

Parsons Christians are holding re-
vival services. II
An Arkansas City boy five years old
weighs ninety-five pounds.
What has become of the man who
used to discover gold in Oklahoma? 81
A Hutchinson barber strictly pro-
hlbits cigarette smoking in his shop.
Next.
1t cost Douglas county so43.3O to
maintain its poor farm during the last
fiscal year.
The highest vote cast for any candi-
date on the Prohibition ticket in
Franklin county was 1873.
Eudora boasts of seven secret socie-
ties and 7l0 population. Surely the
grip prevails in that town to some ex-
tent.
The annual Thanksgiving meeting
of the Southwestern Teachers associ-
alton washeld at Winfield Novem-
Der 30.
The Globe thinks it worthy of men
tion that an Atchison women sixty
five years old is jealous of her hus-
band.
Thirteen Kansas counties were hon
ored by awards for their exhibits in
the educational department at the |
worlds fair.
The pupils of the Abilene have |
! organized choir, which interests the |
early attendants each morning before |
the hour of fstudy arrives.
The express companies doing bust
N, k<~l
make a ten per cent reduction in |
their charges after January /.
The De Bossier Odd Fellows Or
phans' home will be opened the first |
of next year, and already forty appli |
cations for admission have been made, |
A Kansas bred yearling filly, Pansy |
McGregor, recently trotted mile in |
the very fast time of 2.23A. She is |
owned by William Bradbury, of To- |
peka.
The sensation in Newton just now
is = breach of promise suit for SIS, 900, |
instituted by Pennsylvania spinster |
against prominent resident ply |
Sician.
The people of Havenville have COM
planned to the state board of railroad |
they are receiving from the Kansas |
Central road. i
farmer in Usage county dropped |
dead in his cornfield day or two ago.
The local paper adds; In the midst of
life we are in death" In the midst
of the cornfield, too, it seems.
At Chicago Saturday J. A. Donahoe
" Co., sued out attachment proceed
ings against the Colorado worlds fair
commissioners for claim of an un-
paid bill for services and material.
Mcpherson county has arranged to
build court house and jail and con-
tract has been let for the same. 1t it
understood that the building will be
modelled after the Reno county jail
The latest article considered suita-
BILE in Kansas for theft is a house.
| Several vacant houses in Wichita have
been removed from their place with
out the consent or knowledge of the
| owner.
American authors will soon come
for their share of the attention of
| the sophomore class in the Abilene
high school. Each author studied will
be noticed" to the extent of 5000
words.
doctor at Erie won S. ZOO prize
offered by prominent tobacco firm
for the nearest guess to the worlds
| fair attendance. The actual figures
were Il 460, 141 and he guessed only 20
less.
1t was Lawrence girl who went
into book store the other day and
asked for ''Barnyard Klippings" bound
in calf. They deny, though, that she
was looking for a treatise on buffalo
chips.
Atchison Globe: A charitable woman
in town keeps pot of soup constant
boiling and gives bowl okit to every
tramp. She never says anything about
the Lord to those she feeds, but some
how her kindness reminds them OF
| him.
Wheat sowing Is still in nrogress in
Finney county and will continue for
some time yet if the weather will per-
NIT. The Garden City Imprint says
the acreage sown to wheat this fall
will be equal to that of any former
year.
The eighth annual session of the
| Central Kansas Teachers association,
comprising the counties of Harvey,
Barton, Mcpherson. Chase, Ellsworth,
! Marion, Pawnee, Pratt, Rice, Reno,
Saline and Stafford, convened in
the opera house at Mcpherson on Nov
ember 30.
The local editor of the Independ-
ence Reporter is very smooth adver-
tiser. Hear him: ''Along about this
time the country editor begins to ad-
vertise for big fat gobbler to be talk
en- on subscription" OF course it is
only the country" editors who do
this.
Newton Republicans: The slick
swindler now takes the job of repair
| ing the farmers organ or piano at
from S5 upward. After fooling with
the instrument for time he collects
his pay and leaves, telling the family
not to use the instrument for half
day. as glue was used in making the
repairs and it must have time to hard
en-. AT the end of a half day the in
strument is found to be in the same
condition as before it was fixed.
Ellis claims to be the only county in
the state which has named a town
| ship after a woman
The Santa Fe will issue about 5000
annual passes from its Topeka offices
before January l. But they won't all
be to residents of Kansas.
A charter was filed in the secreta-
rvs Office yesterday for the Choctaw
Mining company of Wichita. 1t is
formed to develop leads of silver, gold.
copper, zine, lead and coal The cap
ital of the company is fixed at $50. 600.
an6 the directors are James C. Has
sell, Mark L. Hobson. John Il. Ken
worthy and j. c. Milton, all of
Wichita.
The lecture of Professor Blackmar
to the people of Lawrence on Money
and Its Uses did not deter the Kansas
university boys from blowing theirs N