Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-01-24

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Look out FOR fine pigs feet at
Woodward's.
H. A. Thompson made us profit
able call this morning.
Mrs. Henry Perry has been very
sick for the past week.
Mrs. A. E. Chandler visited at Alva
few days of last week.
Try our Mocha Blend coffee, lbs.
for $l.O0. Woodward.
The old familiar face of Bill Horn
is again seen on our streets.
MIR. and Mrs. Dobson have rented
a suit of rooms in the Cook block.
Sheriff Mills will soon move his
family into the rooms at the court
house.
The INDEX last week set fifteen and
a half feet of type on its local side
alone.
The answer of the defendant in the
Boyd Mills contest will soon be com.
pleted.
Born, to MIR. and Mrs. John Wheat,
Thursday. boy. This is the twelfth
child for John.
Tie Willing Workers will meet
with Mrs. John Brown Wednesday af-
ternoon, Jan. 3lst.
ID. g. FrllzIen and wife, formerly
of this county, have taken up their res
idence in Ashland.
C. |. Long and Ed. Sample went to
Wichita Sunday TO practise before the
L. $. district court.
II. B. Van Nest, Of Peabody, was
in the city Friday accompanied by y. J.
Warner, of Kn2man.
DR.. Moore is suffering from frozen
cheeks, the result Of driving four miles
facing the wind yesterday.
"A new stock of boots and shoes
have just been opened up at Wood
wards. Call and see ther1.
DIR. \ ant. dentist, is in his office
for a short time only, now is the time
to get your dental work done.
r.. +. Howard, manager of f. Elba
Wright, the comedian, was in the city
Saturday to see about giving the enter
tainment here.
The barn Of George MawsOn, west
of town, caught fire yesterday afternoon
but the flames were subdued before
much damage was done.
The cold bath to which our Italian
cline was subjected YESTERDAY was ten
degrees below at the the climax this
morning but is rapidly taking reac-
ton.
S. A. Hayes, of Medicine Lodge,
arrived in this city yesterday. He has
li;le claim three miles southwest Of
town. and intends improving the same
at once.-AlYa Chronicle.
The prOtracted meetings at the M.
+. church still continue with undated
interest, Rev. Hoover lett Thursday
for Winfield, since which time services
have been conducted by Rev. Parker.
w. A. Haynes, of Chcnoa, Illinois,
and II. J. Frantz, of Wellington, are in
the city. They haye been negotiating
for some land near Sun City and the
object of their visit is to look over the
property.
Marshal GanO has been nursing a
boiled arm for several days. He claims
to have had more friends cordially
grasp him by the afflicted member dur
ing the past week than in all his Prev.
Gus existence.
Episcopal Sunday school will be
held at the court house every Sunday at
3 .. IN. until further notice. Every
one very cordially invited. Those hav
ing service books and hymnals are re-
quested to bring them.
WIN. Brown, of Sharon township,
was in the city Saturday. lie wonders
if the republicans think he is not good
enough a citizen to remain here because
he was a Confederate soldier, and if
they want him to go back to Georgia.
Barber county has a sheriffalty con-
test. One of the claimants has begun
proceedings of custer in the supreme
court and alleges III his petition that
the Office is worth $1,000. Pretty good
salary that, these times.--Greensburg
Signal
The Free Methodist quarterly meet
ing Will be held in our usual place Of
worship in this city, commencing Fri
day evening, the 26th inst, and lasting
over the Sabbath. Rev &. Z. Harroon,
presiding elder, Is to be with us. We
invite all to be present. G. G.. Kessel.
We have all seen the man who
takes more papers now than he can
read' and stops his local newspaper,
says Bill Nye. When he comes town
he looks at jewelers. sign to see what
time it is, wipes his nose on the avn
ing, pays % cents for an almanac and
enquiries the price of -four at black
smith shop.
The long continued whistle of a
stock train last night had the effect of
rousing q number of our citizens, who
| mistOok it for fire alarm. Perform
ing negli9ee toilet with the mercury
! twelve below zero was not a very pleas
ant diversion, and there were some
wrathful men hurrying hOmeward after
the truth was known.
The State of Kansas VS.. Howard
Parker is the title OF an action which
engrossed the attention of the justice
court yesterday afternoon and today.
The complaining witness is Mrs. j.
Clark, who accuses Mr. Parker of as
sault and battery, while the defendant
claims that she was the aggressor and