Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-11-28
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: Dora Herod is city marshal Of Cha.
uute.
siAtchison is agitating the question Of
a new court house.

Reform Order of Flambearx."
An Arkansas City man is burdened
with the name of Frinneyfrock.
DR.. P. S. Henson lectured the other
night at Newton on Fools"
The Catholic fair at Newton last
week netted between S4oo and $500.
The fourteenth paper has just been
started in Labette county at Edna.
The Coffey county vote at the last
election was the largest ever polled.
There are III civil cases on the
docket of the Sumner ,county district
court.
The swell Thanksgiving event in
Leavenworth will. be a big cooking
main.
The chrysanthemum show held in
Wichita last week paid in dollars and
cents.
The Y. M. C. A. of Leavenworth,
celebrated its twelfth anniversary last
Monday.
The Ottawa football team is anx-
ious for another game with the State
university.
Seve nth district paper says that
the disease jerry died of was of Long
standing.
Some sneakthiet robbed the poor
box of the Catholic church at Salina
the other day.
Minneapolis is going to hold a big
poultry show during the first week In
December.
Congressman-elect Long of .the Big
Seventh made l02 speeches during tho
campaign.
A team of good 3-year-old mules
was sold on the streets of Mound City
the other day for s55.
There are four Thirty-third degree
and thirty-five Thirty-second degree
Masons in Wichita.
John Burnett, an old resident of
Linn county, cho1ed the other day on
a piece of chicken gizzard.
A party of nine Ottawa nimrods
started the first of the week for a
bear hunt in Arkansas.
caravan of thirteen prairie schoon-
ers started overland from Clay county
for Mississippi last week.
The Allen Herald is a new Lyon
county newspaper venture. 1t needs
new type and new rollers already.
The Ottawa university boys have
taken to guying the X. L. football
team in verse-very fair verse too.
Another man supposed to have been
connected with the recent Sylvan
Grove bank robbery has been arres ted
ON suspicion.
Two young fellows were arrested
last week at Garden City and fined Sl3
each and costs for jumping off Santa
Fe train while it was in motion.
The Kansas institution for blind at
Kansas City, Kan, is to have new
pipe organ. The state board of chari-
ties ordered its purchase last week.
An Atchison county man recently
paid for an advertised" letter at the
postoffice, only to find inside request
from one os the late candidates to
vote for him.
Prof. Will, who fills the chair of
''new and advanced ideas in political
economy" at the Agricultural college
writes initiative and referendum ar
tlcles for the Arena.
The case of the county commission
ers of Gray county against the Dodge
City, Montezuma and Trinidad rail-
way company was decided in favor of
the railroad last week
Lawrence people don't seem to be
very cr;&y over football after all
There were only four hundred out to
see the. kansas Nebraska game Satur-
day, and many of these were from out
of town.
A knitting factory is the latest thing
that threatens to come to Fort Scott
E. E. Biglow of Wichita, is a pros
pective millionaire. His uncle. who is
90 years old, has remembered him in
his will to the extent of million, and
all that remains is for the old gentle
man to cross the river.
st. Johns Episcopal church al Par
sons has a choir of eighteen young
ladies who dress in uniform. The
main features of the uniform adopted
are long black gowns, bi Dad white
collars with long white sleeves to match
and academlcal caps.
A good many people who have not
had grace said at the table since the
Methodist conference was here are
breaking in the children so that they
can have company manners again
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vention meets.-Abilene Reflector.
John Decker, an Arkansas City mis-
er, who has $4,000 on deposit in the
bank, was arrested in Oklahoma City
the other day and fined s25 for vag-
rancy. When arrested he had $500
sewed up in his clothes. He is add
ing rapidly to his $4,000 by the pro-
ceeds of begging.
, A section gang was held up Wedues-
day three miles west of Sylvan Grove,
the scene of the sensational bank rob-
berry of Monday, by a band of robbers
heavily armed, and so cents secured
"A. C. Clawson of Ellsworth. who al
ready has 74c steers on feed, was in
Kansas City Thursday and purchased
253 more which he shipped home and
will rough through the winter. Mr..
Clawson is feeding his fattening steers
ration composed of two-thirds wheat
and one-thir6 corn. Last year he fed
800 steers on wheat ana corn, half
and half.
Ft. Riley has now the largest gar
rison of any military post in the Unit
ed States. There are present IS offic-
ers and 700 enlisted men, besides l3
officers and "a enlisted men whose
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