Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-05-16


Frank Gordon came down from
Lake City Monday morning.
M. E. Roddy is kaIsomining the
post-office building this week.
e. NJ Martin made trip to Wich-
ita Sunday returning Monday.
Louis Walton and A. T. Barton, OF
Harper, were in the city last Friday.
w. H. Harmon drove down to Alva
last Thursday and returned Sunday.
B. V. Kelly. the Hazelton editor
was in tn Q city Saturday and Sunday.
Alpha Updegraff is spending a few
days visiting with his mother in the
Strip.
H. A. Noah came up from Alva
Saturday to spend a few days with his
family.
DIR. Koci ell reports a boy baby born
to Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Willard, on Tues
day morning
Knight Campbell returned to Alva
Monday, after few days visit with his
parents in tn is city.
-Comar.ch e county has IS $50. 81 tied
up in the State National Bank of WITCH.
ita, which coD apsed last week.
-Attor ney Hills of Emporia. came in
Thursday to look after the Colonial
Mortgage Company's interests in the
district court.
Miss. Lola NJ. Berry came in from
Arkansas City yesterday, where she
has been engaged in the city schools for
the past three years.
Doc. Bronson and family came up
from Gutarie Monday on a visit to
Frank Strong and family. Mrs. Bron-
son and Mrs. Strong are sisters.
-DR. WANTS DENTAL OFFICE
Amalgs.m filings so cents; gold and
platina filings 81; gold filings 50 and
up; best rubber plates $40. Work guar
anteed. AZ
Cheap rates to Houston and San
Antonio via Santa Fe Route. First
class one way tickets for $21.6O. Silver
City $2I.90, Ell Paso and Deming $1,000
w. o. Horr, Agent.
The Earnest Workers of the Pres
byterian church will give an ice-cream
social at the Charley Currie building
on Main street, Thursday evening, May
18th. All are invited.
Louise, daughter of T. A. McNeal,
while out playing, Saturday, fell and
broke liar arm. DR. Kociell was called
to set the broken arm and the little
girl is getting along as we'll as could be
expected.
The ball at the opera house last
Friday evening was we'll attended, and
a gratifying success in every particular.
The orchestra furnished excellent
music Ind an enjoyable time was had
by all Imesent.
Allen Herr came up from Klowa
Thursday as a witness in the Hendrick-
son vs.. Santa Fe case, having the stem
ograph zeal notes of the testimony of
wItnes ses that are not now living. He
returndh Saturday.
Ed itor Davis, of the Chronoscope,
went Down to Medicine Lodge last
week o see Chester 1. Well probably
see Oh ester's picture in his paper this
week The new one with the Brock
inridgB pose.-Larned Eagle Optic.
1t is fun to see Tom Doran and NJ.
Bristow dressed in colored shirts and
blue overalls, start out with pick axe
and shovel to work on the Woodward
Fair grounds. They look like two
oye1g rown railroad Irishmen on the
dump. But they have succeeded in
finish ing one of the best race tracks to
be found in Oklahoma. Woodward
leads all public Observation-Disclosures
~ fire consumed the house occu-
pied by Charley Rankin and owned by
Lem Moore, Monday morning. The
fire tiginated on the roof and not be-
ing discovered in its incipiency. all
effor Ia to quench the flames proved
futile. The household effects were all
resc ned from the flames. The fire IS
to have been caused by a de-
feet i've fue. We understand the prop
erty was insured.
- a woman speaking at woman's
suff3 age meeting is quoted as saying:
A man goes slowly around subject,
Will a woman jumps OYER" Well, that
Dope nds entirely on what the subject is.
For i,nstance, man is not going very
slowly around pretty woman, if there
Is any chance to get up real close to her
quic klJ: and a woman isn't going to
jun D over live mouse, unless there
are walls in every other direction
Kinfxman Democrat.
= Mrs. Otis Lorton departed Monday,
for aan extended visit east. She will
stop a short time at Mud Springs, In
dian a, and from thence will 60 to Lon
don,l Ohio, to be gone for several
months. Otis will necessarily be COM
PEELED to undergo some of the trials
and tri bulations incident to life's vicis-
of bacheloriSm which, if we
don't guess amiss, will be a powerful
cOntrit 'utor to the deterioration of his
anaton heal structure.
DROWNED: The little daughter of
MIR. AMI Mrs. j. f. Mcdaniel of Clay
postofi &c p miles southeast of Alva,
fell int spring near their house and
drowned en- April 2Sth. Funeral SER
vices were conducted by Rev. Brown of
that vi cinity and the little body was
buried on the farm on the 18th. She
was a bright and interesting child ard
her de ath occurred on the day that she
was four years old. The parents have
the sincere sympathy of all their neigh
bors and acquaintances.-A Pioneer.