Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-08-22
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The rain on Thursday wet the ground
down about three inches but it is too
dry again for easy blowing. There are
indications for more rain soon.
/ am told that S. ID. Fair. is still
improving and his family expect him
BONE now. We will be glad to see him
in his old place and hope he will re-
gain his wonted health.
The s. s. picnic in Garrison's grove
on Wednesday was a SPLENDID affair.
There was large number of people IN
attendance. The singing of all the
schools present was excellent but the
verdict of the audience IN general was
that the Mumford school rather excel
led in singing. The heat was so in
tense that several persons were over
come with it. Albert Pelton was so
badly overcome with heat that he was
for a time unconscious and taken home
Ole Mrs White was also overcome
with heat and also Mr.. MilIeney the
gentlemanly superintendent of the u.
ID. ounuay school.
Peaches are ripening very rapidly
and those who have peaches will har
vest most of their crop this week and
next. Late peaches seem to ripen a
little earlier this year than usual so the
next two weeks will pretty much finish
up the harvesting and shipping peaches.
L understand that l.. S. Smith pays fifty
cents a bushel for peaches to ship and
furnishes crates TO put them in. On
Saturday MIR. Smith was not receiving
peaches because he did not expect to
have load to send off before Mon
dav. Mr.. Galloway had a load of ripe
peaches on hand and could not very
well keep them over until Monday so
he took them all the way to Hazelton
and peddled them out or traded them
as best he could and did not meet as
much cash for them as MIR. Smith had
been paying. At Hazelton there is no
one buying peaches except 10 supply
the local demand. On Saturday we
took few peaches and apples to XII
iowa. We found only local demand
which had been pretty well supplied by
other vendors before our arrival. We
traded few apples for canned salmon
The tradesman was very eloquent in
his praise OF the virtues of canned sal.
mon and we interrupted him by asking
him what chemicals are used in pre-
pairing salmon to render the bones of
the fish so easiy masticated. He told
us he did not know. We have asked
other dealers in salmon this same ques-
ton without being enlightened.
On Sunday night Melvin Newland
preached at the Christian church.
The burden Of his discourse was to try
to prove that the book of Mormon is
given by inspiration of God. He holds
that in prehistoric times there were
two immigratiOns of men to America
The first immigration was Immediate
ly after the confusion of language at
the building Of the tower of Babel.
The second immigration was fifteen
hundred years later during the
reign of King Hesekiah or about that
time after the Ephriamites and other
tribes of Israel were conquered by the
assyrians. He holds that these Ephri.
antics became the American Indians
after their color was changed TO cop
per hue in punishment for their wick
edness and that tradition shows they
were in possession of a sacred book un.
til within few generations before the
Europeans came here. The Indians
for some cause hid this sacred volume
in the ground and if understand him
correctly this is the same sacred book
the plates of which the prophet Joseph
Smith miraculously found hidden in
the ground in the state of New York
in the year 1925. He cites many pas
sages from Bancroft Bondinat and 9TH
er authors to show that antiquarian re-
searches in America made since the
finding of the book of Mormon by
Joseph Smith confirm the historical
revelations made in said book. In the
book of Mormon the Indians are called
by the eurhonious name of Laminites.
FIDELITY