Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-10-24

the Great Sunhower State-A Gem
eral Summary of Kansas New.
The Devils Auction played at Win
field last week
Paola and Egarton are being con-
nected by telephone.
The Eunice Goodrich Co., is playing
Southern Kansas again.
The journeyman tailors at Leaven-
worth are out on strike.
An Ellis county man bears the eu-
phonious name of Gid Joy.
Ed Howe of the Atchison Globe is
much opposed to woman suffrage.
Bourbon county pay $3.50 each per
week for the maintenance of its pa
ers.
The Parsons city council has passed
an ordinance prohibiting the sale of
cigarettes.
Rev. Ketchum is the U. B. trap set
for the devil in Russell.-Hays City
Sentinel.
The giddy social season has been
soap bubble party.
The Reflector says that pretty
fair horse sold on the streets of Abb
lene the other day for $13.25
1t is quite fitting that Mr.. Divilbliss
who lives at Salina, should nearly al
ways have h of time.
New camp of Modern Woodmen,
with membership of seventy five has
been instituted at Strong City.
The Atchison Y. NJ. C. A. is in trou-
BILE. A mechanics lien for S244 has
been filed upon its bath department.
The G. A. r. post at junction City
will place memorial window in the
new Methodist church at that place
Oberlin has butcher named Gross
nicklans. He probably haggled his
name that way Hwhen learning the
trade.
Cove county has farmers institute
that meets monthly. The next meet
ing will be held the first Saturday in
November at Cove City.
Talk about carrying Goals to New
castle! An Ellsworth merchant re-
ceived consignment of salt straight
from Guild England the other day.
Police Officer Pratt at Leavenworth
didn't want to be married. but the
girls father desired it very much, and
to save an embarrassing trial Mr.. Pratt
consented.
Burton Smith, the treasurer of Lo-
gan county, who was $4,000 short in
his accounts, but who claimed it was
from some error in bookkeeping, lit
out for parts unknown the other
night.
Lacrosse has minister who drives
six miles morning and night, five
days in the week, to teach school,
breaches two or three sermons each
Sunday and plays ball and talks poll
tics on Saturday.
Rev. Duncan McGregor, the famous
Philadelphia orator, will lecture at
Atchison this week on "Sea of Crys-
tails. or the Grip and Grapple of Great
Men and Great Nations. Great guns.
Where is Jim Lane?
Edward Chalk, city marshal of Wa
Keeney, bases his clam to fame un-
dying on the fact that he is the least
remote paternal ancestor of eighteen
young Chalks, most of them born in
Trego county.
There are compensations in this life
even for the country newspaper pub
Usher. Editor Bristow of Ethe Wet
more Spectator, had 1000 bushels OF
corn on hand when the Jump was
made from "a to so cents bushel.
The scrap between the city of New
ton and the water works company
is still on. The city demands pure
water in abundance and the company
demands possession of its property.
The city is still operating the plant.
The October number of the Brew.
er's Journal gives some interesting
statistics of beer sales in Kansas
which show that during the year end
ing June 30, 1894, there were shipped
into the state twice as MANY barrels
of beer as there were during the pre-.
ceeding year.
Williamsburg people are preparing
for their annual wolf hunt, which is
to come off next Saturday. The fes.
Invites will include a game supper al
., concert ut 8, and a dance at o o.
clock. +. G. Welch, the new editor Of
the Williamsburg Star, is the moving
spirit in the affair
LaCrosse, not to be outdone by
Goodland and Great Bend, has made
/ preparations for a coursinp meet
which will be held October 30 and fol
lowing days There will be thre.
stakes, with 500 added to each. The
entrance fee to club members will b,
$40 and to outsiders SI2 so. Basi
Hayman of Chicago. will act as judg,
Ralph Taylor of Colorado Springs, a.
slipper.
The encampment of the First Regi
ment Kansas National Guard, which
was 10 have been held in Forest Park
Ottawa, this week, has been postpon
ed indefinitely. This action is owing
to the refusal of the railroads to gran
a rate of half fare for the round trip
A firm of Chicago capitalists have
come into possession of the Manhat
tan electric plant and John E. Hes
sin has been made the local manager
. The Dillon Republican says that tn,
stucco aud cement mills of South
Dickinson county, that have been idlS
are now running Night and day.