Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-10-03
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Ior the passage OF an antl-clgarette or
dinance.
3Noble Prentice lectured on cart for
the Artless" at Atchison last Friday
| afternoon.
The Woodson Gazette is a new Dem.
ocratic paper that has been started at
Yates Center.
The Fl. Riley hay contract, let in
400 to 900 ton lots, ranged from $40. sc
to S12. so per ton.
The smallpox scare at Leavenworth
reduced the receipts of the street car
lines nearly so per cent.
The Kansas City Schmelzers were
beaten by the Seneca Blues at COTS,
Thursday, by the score of to 4.
Horton has kindergarten in con-
nection with its public schools. The
attendance is twenty-six.
The Blue Valley Plaster company at
Blue Rapids is running night and day
to keep up with its orders.
hose coupler factory is new in
stitution- at Wichita. Six travelling
men are engaged selling the output.
Leavenworth's university extension
course will begin this week with a
lecture by Chancellor L. Ii. Snow
In some western counties farmers
are agreeing to give a fourth of the
prospective wheat crop for seed wheat.
A graduate of the University of Ber-
lin is giving lessons in language IN a
little Kansas town for so cents a les
sons.
The state meeting of the Anti
Horse Thief association is to be held
in Pittsburg, commencing Wednesday,
October 10.
"Whv are the Fishes in the Great
Cave in Kentucky BlInd?" was the
subject of Pittsburg minister's SER
mon Sunday.
The city council of FIT. Scott passed
a bells-on-bicycle ordinance the other
night and now every wheelman car
ries cow-bell.
A young lady from Russell, Kansas,
created sensation in Lawrence last
week by riding bicycle in dress re-
form costume.
The Cowley county fair commenced
the oath at Winfield. Large crowds
are expected daily and he races
plenty and good.
The Lawrence paper mil began OPP
Grafton again last Thursday after an
0f Of
a crowded warehouse.
Clay Sparks is on trial at Medicine
Lodge for killing his brother Emmett
over game of cards last month. 1t
took a week to secure Jury.
Mrs. Hattie Albert came near meet
ing her death from an overdose of
morphine at Winfield, Saturday even
ing, taken with suicidal intent
The Central Branch will run an ex-
cursion to Kansas City, October 6 at
remarlla bly, low rates. The ronnd
trip from Downs or Burr Oak will be
only So.
1t is said that Bailie Waggener will
he the Atchison nominee for Repre-.
sentative on the Democratic ticket at
the convention which will be held
next Saturday.
The Quenemo cob pipe factory re-
ceived recently one order from Ottawa
for 1900 dozen pipes, and another
from Denver firm for 1000 Dozen
Qucnemo Republican.
A sneak thief at Atchlson-probabl v
the same one that played similar
game at Lawrence Saturday-stole $50
worth of gold filling from DIR. Kel-
logg's dental Office last week.
An effort is being made to have the
interior department set aside the I'M
used portion of the Fort Hays military
reservation in Ellis county as public
park for Hays City.
The member of the Wyandottc
County Fruit Growers association
have resolved to put their apple crop
into cold storage unless they can get
S1.5O barrel at picking time.
MIR. Sunday lives in Scott county.
The name of the postof1ice at ALA
mead, Lincoln county, has been chang
ed to Yorktown. The postoffice at
PIywell, Finney county, and Weston,
Geary county, have been discontinued.
A fire of incendiary origin at Salina
Sunday night partially burned up
Eberhardts lumber yard and COM
pletely destroyed an adjoining resi-
dence owned by A. Schlotz. Eber-
hardt's loss is between So, 200 and
$4,000. Schlotz's loss is $1,000. Both
partially insured.
State Geologist Hay has completed
an examination of Reno county, and
reports to the Hutchinson Commercial
club that both oil and gas may be
found at depth of from /, 900 to 5000
feet below the surface. He says there
is oil and gas beneath the whole
county.
There is new book agent trick in
town. You are shown book and it
is left with you to examine. You sign
what purports to be receipt, and a
little later it turns out to be an order
for 81 book. Several people in Law
renee have been taken in by the
scheme Gazette.
Smith county has a new religious
sect who call themselves saints of
the Living God"
Rev. George w. Pepper, Howard
Saxby, John Temple Graves, Robert
Nourse and Locke Richardson are the
attractions that have been secul ed for
the Ottawa lecture course for the COM
ing season.
The society young ladies of Emporia
refused to attend a dancing party said
to have been arranged as a reception