Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-08-23
Sharon Items.

On Saturday wheat sold i'll Sharon at
forty cents buShel.
Ross Graham is down sick with
attends him.
Frank McMurtry has plowed one
hundred and fifty acres of land since
harvest and put it III good shape for
sowing to wheat.
Last week a company took possession
Of Davis GOrdOn'S threShing machine
on a mortgage and | understand Nh
Gordon will replevin the machine.
Uncle Billie Brown was walking
across his sons place when he came
upon four boys who were in the melon
patch wastefully cutting the melons.
He demonstrated against such conduct
and hopes it will not be repeated.
Squire Porter has engage a six
months school in the district east from
HaZeltOn. He expects to commence
teaching some time next month and
will move his family there; but will
continue to hold his court in Sharon on
Saturdays. lie intends to come back
on his farm as soon as his school closes
therefore he will continue to regard
Sharon as his place of residence and
voting precinct.
There was good thunder shower on
Thursday night and the ground was
moist yet when we were blessed with
another nice thunder shower on Sun
| day. There is more moisture III the
ground than there has been all sum-
mer. These rains will help the corn
some and although it is late in the
season there will be more corn in this
valley than if the rains had held off.
There will be large area sown to
wheat this fall Elder McMurtry and
sons together will SOW over three hun
| dred acres this fall which is about
double the acreage they harvested this
year. MarYln McMurtry and Wesley
McMurtry who has been living near
| Sun City has come in and will probably
stay and assist in putting in the wheat
crop. Elder McMurtry talks of going
to Missouri in few weeks where he
will spend the winter in visiting a
brother and other relative. Mrs. Nc
| Murtry will accompany him as far rs
| Winfield where she will remain with
her children, Vincent and Myrtle Dye
who will attend college at Winfield
tt winter.
At the Baptist tabernacle last sun.
day, after Sabbath school Elder Tatum
preached to large and intelligent au-
dience from the words found in the
eighth chapter of Mark. For what
shall it profit man if he shall gain the
whole world and lose his own soul,
and again in the evening he preached 6
discourse on the final judgement, from
the words found in Paul's DISGUISE tC
the Athenians found in the 18th chap
ter of Acts. The tabernacle was near
ly filled on both OCCASIONS notwith
standing the rain, and many of the
people came from distance. 1t wa:
announced that Elder McMurtry vii
preach at the tabernacle next Sunday
an II O'Clock.
On Sunday, the 18th inst. while Mr.
Brown and most of his family were a
church some boys or young men came
to his farm and went to the grapes
where they began helping themselves
Grandmother Tatum. Mrs. Browns
mother, who was at home, went on
and expOstu,ated with the trespasseri
telling them that Mrs. Brown wanted ;
few of the grapes TO get ripe as sin
wished to use them herself WheI
they heard this they commenced swear
ing and using disrespectful language
Grandmother Tatum is about eight
years of age and am very sorry tina
there should be anv persons in thi:
community who will use profane o
disrespectful language in her presence
l understand the boys present did no
all take part in any disrespectful dem
, onStrations.
FIDELITY