Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-04-11
LOCAL NEWS.

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Norman Gilbert was up from the
Strip last week.
Steve Oliver and DR.. Cloud came up
from Kiowa yesterday.
b. B. Daugherty and wife were
over from Sharon, Monday.
Attorney Rees, of Emporia, was
transacting business here Monday.
&C. w. Ellis came from Alva on the
evening train Saturday to visit his fam
lily.
Mrs. ThOs. Doran went to Wood
ward, Monday, where her husband is
located.
DR.. Kociell reports 104 pound boy
baby to Mr.. and Mrs. John Lyle on
March 20.
Ben Kaufman went to Arkansas
City. on business trip, Sunday, re-
turning yesterday.
Ed. Sample was at Woodward sew
eral days last week On legal business,
returning Saturday.
j. z. Massey and Geo. Lott, OF Sun
City, came down Monday, having bust
ness with the commissioners.
Mrs. Briggs, teacher of the Pixley
school, Sundayed with Mrs. Dargan.
Her school will close in few weeks.
Wanted $50 head of cattle to sum-
mer, good pasture, watered by the
Medicine river. d. NJ. Circle, Hazel
ton, Kansas.
j. ID. FAIR and l.. 5. Smith, two of
Sharon's energetic business men were
doing business before the county com
missioners Monday and Tuesday.
Mr.. j. Is. Romig. Sr., returned
from his claim near Alva, last week.
He is erecting comfortable sod house
and will return in a few days to COM
plete it.
Mrs. +. NJ. Woodward and Mrs
Lowry left yesterday morning for their
claims in the Strip. Mr.. Woodward
says some Of his family will make that
their home for the next five years.
Mrs. Martin, of Deerhead, came to
town Monday, with her household Ell
fects, preparatory to moving to Ne
braska where her husband is employed
by the railroad company. They retain
their interests in Barber county and
their return will be only question of
time and better seasons.
Geo. Sherman had narrow escape
from death Tuesday evening. He was
Shearing mules tail at Chas Sherman's
barn at his residence, when said mule
shot both hind feet out-one of the
hoofS striking him in the face cutting
the bone at the root of the nose and
making an ugly cash, the otner hoOf
glanced on the side of his head-mak-
ing good sized lump. Geo. was taken
to DIR. Halliday's Office and the wound
dressed. No matter how docile a mule
Is in all other respects, his hind feet
cannot be tanned. AS some one re-
marked the other day: "A mule will be
as meek as a lamb for quarter of a
century in order to get a good chance
Enterprise.
Has 1t ever occurred to our delin-
Quent subscribers that they are in duty
bound to call around and pay for the pa
per for which they are IN arrears. They
may think we are governed by Yagaries
when we say that even printer must
have something, occasionally, upon
which to subsist besides wind; but it
remains fact nevertheless, however
fallacious and Incompatible with hui
man nature it may seem. We are es-
pecially surprised to find that so many
who pass our Office weekly 1--WE might
say daily are one TO three years behind
on our subscription books. Our foreign
list Is thing of which we are ashamed
If our subscribers are not. Ashamed
because the INDEX has been so mer.
cilessly duDed. In scanning our sub
Scription, we find that fully as per cent
are In arrears, many from three to five
years. At first we thought it was ar
optical deluslon but n careful research
has convinced US that it is an astOund
ing reality. Why not stop in and ge
straightp We know 1t is negligene,
upon the part OF most of them, anC
this is intended as gentle reminder
We are aware of the fact that times
are hard but we are also confident tha
there is scarcely one on our books wht
Is unable TO "scaIe up" one small dol
lar. 1t is but a small thing to you in
dividually, while the amount outstand
ing is great deal to us. There ar
some who are just mean enough to dis
regard the debt and who never inten,
to pay; however there are few of thl
class. To those of that faith, we vii
say that you are very near to the en-,
Of the string. Pay your subscription
II there is anyone TO whom st. Pete
will turn a cold shoulder at the judg
ment bar, it is a chronic deIinquen
subscriber TO a newspaper.