Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-05-24
LOCAL NEWS.


Mr.. VIM. Garrison was in severa
times, the past week, on legal business
For everything pertaining to Sewing
Machines, go to Gregg's Gun Store. 81
Uncle Billy Browns new house on
his east of Sharon is nearing compile
ton.
Write to Bailey and Buiman, Eldred
Kansas, IL you want fine short horn
bull. tt
n fine girl baby arrived at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. ThOs. Doran, on Mon
day, the 22nd.
Mrs. Davidson, an aunt Of Henry
Mobiles, came in Wednesday of last
week, for visit.
The committee of stockholders ap-
pointed TO make settlement with Mr.
Musgrove, did 80, Saturday.
The ladies of st. Marks Guild will
meet at Mrs. J. II. Young's Thursday,
May 18th. Mrs. Geo. IIibbaTd, Sec.
Mr. and Mrs. George Newman cele-
brated their wooden wedding Yesterday.
Quite number of their country friends
spent tire day with them.
DePew the man who made the con-
fesSion of murder in the penitentlary
was brought in last week from Yelling
ton by Sheriff Dobson.
a session of court IN Barber county
without II. Hills, would not be com
plete, so ho came III last week, to attend
TO his legal business here.
The Baptist ladies, on Friday night,
gave another of their delightful ice
cream socials. Though early in the sea-
son, they were well patronized.
The Empire Cordage Co. broke the
prices five years ago in their fight with
the American Co. and they are still
keeping up the racket. Send your Or
ders to Champaign, ILL., 81
DIR. Yant, dentist, is going the World g
Fair June LIST. So now is the time to
attend to your teeth and get best dent
al work. Prices lower on all work To
suit the times. Teeth $40 set.
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.
Prof. Cook came in for a short visit,
Wednesday. He is a delegate to a
lodge council, at Hutchinson, which he
will attend before returning to his
home, where the normal will be held in
June.
The taxable property of Hazelton
township has increased 1890 during
the past year. We are not surprised
when we recall the magnificent wheat.
fields we saw down there last year. We
never saw better showing for wheat.
Mr.. Thompson's new dry brick ma
chine has not yet been a perfect sue
cess. The fault is not in the plan of
the machine, as it has done sufficient
work to prove that the patent is q good
one. The only trouble was that, owing
to tho tremendous pressure required
the machine was rot constructed suf
ficently strong and heavy.
Ed. Sample went to Wichita last
week by way Of Isabel to consult his
client DePew. The county attorney
however, hearing of Samples depart
ure, telegraphed the sheriff at Wichita
to bring DePew to Wellington, and i'm
mediately boarded the train for that
place. When Sample at last found his
client at Wellington. he was being i'll
terviewed by the county attorney.
We were favored with quite delega.
ton from Kiowa. last week, consisting
of people interested in the suit of the
Town company, against Rumsey
Lawyers Hopkins, Wiley and Shannon
came along to guard them against lega
wrong. Among the others, was Messrs
Campbell. Rumsey, Streator, EwelI
and Shelley. Mrs. Shelley accompanied
her husband, to call on her many
friends here.
Mr.. Clark Hudson, of the Kiowa
Review, has gone to Utah, to accept O
position on a Salt Lake City daily
Clark is young, but has shown himself
well adopted to journalistic work, and
we cannot but think he is bound to sue.
coed. Mr.. Roy Stafford takes charge
OF the Review, and we doubt not it will
continue to prosper under its new man.
agement, as Roy is popular, and an all.
round good fellow.
4 few days ago there was a woman
and three children, on the Southern
Kansas train, coming west. One of the
children was a big featured, shock.
headed, one-legged boy. The train
stopped, for some purpose, near small
creek, with nothing but brush and rocks
IN sight. The boy had his head out OF
the window, of course, but when the
train stopped, he pulled himself back
into the car, and asked: "Onow, what
makes 'em stop here?' His mother re.
piled: Well, sometimes they stop be.
cause they batter, and sometimes they
stop because they wanter. l 'spect
they stopped here because they halter
fer can't see nothing else fer to make
'em stop" The answer seemed to sat
isfy the boy and all the passengers.
Two of the examining committee
on the treasurer's books, worry thei
brains, considering about our referenc,
TO the report of the committee. 1t twas
so far as we are concerned, merely al
item of news, and we have no desire Il
cast any insinuatiOns upon anyone, ant
clearly stated in what we said, that Mr.
Noah's investigation cast no reflection
on anybody. What we did resent, Il
the effort of that knOw-all nOsey sheet
called newspaper, that puff myself up