Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-09-19
Three women play in the Clay Cen.

solldate with the Belolt Gazette.
Arkansas City people are eating
Colorado potatoes already.
The Chapman Standard has discard
patent insides" and is now all home
print.
The State Agricultural college at
Manhattan will begin the yearly grind
this week.
Chelsea Park in Kansas City, Kan,
has been bought for $1,000 to save
claim of $34, 900.
The Girard Daily World has been
cut down one-half In size. The Press
holds Its old form.
The Spooner company will soon be
in Kansas again. Emporia will catch
them September II.
Canton, Mcpherson county, is MAX
ing an effort to secure big Touring
mill at that place.
A big excursion will be run from
Wichita to Neodesha, Sept. IS, to see
the new Kansas oil fields.
AhSIc 10 u COlOTcu WOudu dO hOCHA-
son nearly 100 years old who lives
alone in two-room house.
Early settlers in Dickinson county
are planning for grand reception in
Abilene some time this fall.
The Kansas City, Kansas, schools
opened Monday with an enrolment of
5,14O-5OO more than last year.
The taxes in Coldwater, Comma nche
county, this year amount to 90 per
cent on the assessed valuation.
A scheme is on foot to hold big
old soldiers reunion at Wichita a week
or two after the state fair in October.
The two apple evaporators which
recently began operations in Atchison
consume 700 bushels of apples a day.
Five boys were fined S. each in the
Concordia police court the other day
for maliciously destroying watcrmel-
ons.
The old soldiers and sailors rc-un-
ion of Phillips county, will be held in
Closes Grove on Plotner creek this
week.
An "Uncle Toms Cabin" company,
which the Columbus Advocate says is a
rank snide is doing southeast Kansas
towns
Salina is the latest town to reach
out for the big sleeping car shops that
it is said will be located in some Kan
SaS town.
John Johnson, the fellow who rode
off horse belonging to Judge Pattce
of Salina the other day, has been cap
tured at Salina.
A story comes from Caldwell of
man who dug a ffty-fve foot well and
found numerous cottonwood roots at
the bottom of it.
Talk about crop faiIures-seven set
of twins have been born in Clearwater
small town in Sedgwick county,
since New Years.
The playing card famine at Law
renee is off. Revenue stamps arrived
last Wednesday and the pastboards
are on sale as before.
A Lawrence secondhand dealer was
fined $50 and cost for violating the
law requiring the keeping of record
of everything, bought.
Historical Society"is the head that
the sporting editor of the Leaven.
worth Times put over a report of a
local horticultural meeting.
SThe Catholic parochial school Mt
Kansas City, Kans., will not be closed
as threatened some time ago. Bishop
Fink refuses to give his consent.
A two-year-old baby girl of Mrs.
Brockeveldt at Kansas City, Kan, fell
head first into bucket of water the
other morning and was drowned.
A new Catholic Monastery and par
sonage was formerly opened Sunday
at Usage Mission. Bishop Fink was
present and ordained twelve deacons
Addresses by Mrs. Carrie Lane
| Chapman Gait and Secretary +. ID.
Coburn of the state board of agricul
ture will rbe features of the Coffey
county fair at Burlington next week
There is well developed case of
smallpox in Leavenworth. 1t was inn
ported from Atchison. A young man
of 90 by the name of Brown is the vic
tim. Four residences are under quar-
anime restrictions.
! A Toledo firm which has been col
lecting statistics from Ohio, Michigan,
Illinois, Indiana, Kansas and Missouri
has developed that larger percentage
of the wheat crop will be fed in Kan.
sas than in any other state.
| Dan c. Nutting, jr., who went to the
Annapolis naval academy from Norton
several years ago, has been fortunate
enough to receive the further appoint
ment to the school of naval construc-
ton at Glasgow, where he will pursue
his studies in marine architecture and
shipbuilding for two years more.
The Winfield ball team which re-
Gently won the state championship by
defeating the Emporia Maroons. re.
fuses point blank to defend the pen.
nant until next spring. The excuse
is that the Winfield players are wide
~ scattered and cannot be gathered
together this fall-Capital.
Now Anderson county has the oil
and gas fever and wants someone to
do some boring Immediately.
A bicycle club has been organized
at Salina which proposes to hold a
state tournament there sometime in
October.
The Abilene city council has adopt
ed an ordinance which provides that
the city marshal shall have the power
to raid any place where il is suspected
that gambling is being done and that
/ gambling sirvices shall be DESTROYED
and pen engaged therein be
| brought ssicre the police Judge. :