Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-05-02
BARBER COUNTY INDEX,
WEDNESDAY, MAY 2. 1894.
Al .&s.P. R.R. TIME GARD.
LOCAL NEWS.

Twill "GBBOs
Bob Lebrecht returned Sunday from
Harper.
DIR. Wisner was over from Sharon
Saturday.
&C. S. Jobes returned from Kansas
City Saturday.
Seward Field went to Kansas City
Sunday morning.
Mrs. Barbara Karr spent Sunday
with relatives at Sharon.
j. &. Davis is building a barn at
his place on Walnut street.
DR.. Kari came ND from Alva Sat
urday and returned Sunday.
Chester |. Long returned from a
trip to Kansas City, Saturday.
MIR. Kennedy, our barber, spent
Sunday with home folks at Sharon.
Sam Stewart shipped car load of
hogs out Of Sharon, Sunday morning.
II. NJ. Kidd moved Monday into the
Lytle property in the southeast part Of
the city.
Miss Gertie Ellis and Miss Lena
O'Bryan returned from Kansas City
Monday.
"A. l.. Herr attorney from Klowa,
was in the city Saturday, attending to
legal business in the probate court.
E. :. Dickerson came up from the
Strip last Saturday and returned Mon
day with the balance Of his household
goods.
Will Huffaker was over from Sharon
Monday, arranging for a game of ball
between Sharon and our boys in the
near futurS.
Wanted $50 head OF cattle to sum-
ner, good pasture, Watered by the
Medicine river. y. NJ. Circle, Hazel
ton, Kansas.
j. F. Sherman special master in
chancery, of Wichita, came in Satur-
day, and sold some real estate which
has been advertised in this paper.
Uncle Billy Brown called Saturday
and ordered number OF extra copies
of this weeks INDEX. Uncle Billy IA
vored us with a copy Of the spicy SER
mon we publish this week.
Mrs. H. X. Hooker and two sons
left Sunday for Decatur. Illinois. Mrs.
Hooker received a telegram stating
that her mother had severe stroke
OF para lysis and death was expected at
any time.
The council met in special session
Thursday. The bill of Shaw Bros. was
rejected. The water-works question
was discussed at some length but no
definite action was taken. The coun-
oil adjourned to the first Monday in
May.
We are in the receipt OF a letter
from j. Il. Fleming. He is now com.
fortably located at Fort Scott. He says
everything looks well, with the excep
ton of wheat, which will be rather
light. They are having plenty of rain
and the people In high and hopeful
spirits. We hope Mr.. Fleming will
meet with success In his new location.
1t is probable that the commission
ers will have several offices in the court
house changed in the near future with
respect to position. The plan agreed
upon is 10 move the office of probate
into the office now occupied by the treas
ure, the clerks into the present probate
judge Office and the treasurer's into the
clerks. There will be an entrance
from the clerk S into the treasures office
This will make it convenient for the
officers as well as for those having
business with them.
The printer is expected to buy his
groceries, dry goods, coal, etc, at home.
He never asks for a cut in prices. Yet
many men-business men. toO-will
jay the home printer To the last cent
and tinally go to some city office where
cOnvicts labor is employed, and get
their work done. Yet they expect
their puffs and notices Of their business
transactions in their local papers free
and feel sighted If they do not get them.
Money spent at home returns to you.
Money spent away is gone. AS corn is
to the farmer, so is type to the printer.
his stock is trade.-Ex.
We publish. this week, very in
terCstlng sermon which we commend to
each and every one Of our readers. 1t
was delivered in Austin, Texas, and
published in a reform paper OF New
York. We are indebted 70 one Of our
patrons for the copy and We are indeed
very thankful to receive it. Especially
do we hope that our friends will do a
part, IL possible, to gets copy of the
true AnaliZation OF the word OF God In
to the hands Of the theological Quacks
who seem to be welded TO the terms Of
master and servant. The church is
largely responsible today, for the exist
ing evils and it is gratifying to know
that the truth, at least sometimes, en-
anates from the pulpit,