Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-05-30


Wichita is preparing for a grand
Fourth of July celebration.
The population of Minneapolis has
decreased from ! ,sO4 in 1893 to l,C47 in
1894.
Atchison county has Horse Thief
Protective association with a mem
bership of $50
Florence BARRIERS have entered into
an agreement to keep their shops
closed ON Sunday.
Eight pnpils-two girls and six
boys will graduate from the Russell
schools next week.
All of the old teachers in the Ab:-
lcnc schools have been reelected for
the coming year.
\ Seneca physldn has the contract
of caring for the Atchison smallpox
patients at sl5 Il day.
The old soldiers of Anderson county
Will hold their annual reunion at Gar
nett. August 1G-ls.
DR.. W. A. Leigh Of Stockton Is at last
formally announced IS a candidate
Tor secretary Of state.
Osborac citizens have raised Sl75
for a Fourth of July celebration
Horse racing will be the principal fea-
turc.
Osborne county will hold an agrIcul-
tural fair next fall. The premium
list IS being arranged and will be is
sued in Juno.
y. II. PiNley Of Wamego raises
sweet potato plants by the million
and ships them to all points from H.
linois to Texas.
ont Of the sixty-cight smith county
t a"hcrs who took The recent uniform
- ate examination. only ten passed
and received certificates
field day with athletic sports of
all kinds will be one of the features of
the annual meeting of the State Phar-
maceutical association the last Of the
month.
SiXty-three pupils applied for com-
mon school diplomas in Riley county
this spring. OF the siXty-three only
thrty-siX passed the req quired cxami-
nation.
Two Of General Sanders men be-
came SO ObStreprrouS at LeavenwOrth
on Monday that Marshal Neelcv had
them taken to the county Jail and
locked up
There are 80 people in Garfield
township, which was once Garfield
county but was made township and
attached to Finney county by the last
legislature.
Horton has Il bill of something like
5000 ID pay as damages and costs in
suit brought as the result of side
walk blowing over five years ago and
killing a child.
According to the ailidavits in the
county clerks Office the candidates in
the late Council Grove city election
were not under Il cent of expense in
the campaign.
The Epi copal church Of Arkansas
City was robbed of its communion ser
wee one day last week Entrance was
gained by breaking dCwn the front
door. There is no clue to the robbers
There has never been boy valedic.
torian among any of the graduates of
the Atchison high school. The race
for the honor this year was very close
between boy and girl. and the girl
won.
Some Rocks county farmers are be-
coming alarmed because of the pres
cncc of chinch bugs in large numbers
in their wheat fields. 1t seems that
there Is little danger of damage to tbe
wheat, however
H. +. Smith. the Lawrence straw
berry king" wilt have 1000 crates OF
>tra berries for market this year. He
will ship mainly To Colorado Springs
and Omaha. Some shipments will be
made to Topeka.
\ man at Nashville, Kingmau coun-
". found a $500 diamond stud in the
Stockyards there the other day. Thc
Jewel was lost two years ago by "A cat
,le king who WAS helping unload his
cattle 10 take out dead animal.
\ pcddlcr was arrested at Delphos
the other day charged with stealing
go fro:l a Mrs. Kohhlc. The next
dav Mrs. Robbie discovered her mon
~ and the pcddler was released aft er
being welt paid for his time and all
the expenses he had incurred III the
ease.
During the seven days ending Satur-
lay, the product. sale and shipment OF
Three Lawrence industries was rs fol
lows: BOwersock Milling Co., fou
s5O.OJO pounds; Consolidated Barb
Wire Co., wire and nails. GO0. .OOC
pounds; Lawrence Paper Co., straw
naper 10000 pounds.
Scranton Gazette: For the first
lime in years there will be plenty of
.ruit in the country. Late apples will
re aOundant; cherries will be plenti.
jTl, and everything except the real
carly variety OF fruit which was killed
~ fhe cold snap i'm the early part OF
april. will be Il good crop
Salina is having lot of fun with
~. graduating class of the high school.
seven members out of the eighteen in
the class were refused diplomas last
week ON account OF deficiency in one
study in their class work. and their
PARENTS have been making life a good
ccai OF IA burden for the superintend.
t1It and board of education. Abilene
reflector.
'Iiencral' Sanders OF the common.
veal army, who has been all over tn,
northern and western states from
past few months, says that Kansas j,
by far the most prosperous commuui
u that he has found
OF the fifty-ninc teachers who took
the teachers examination last Satur
day almost half failed to secure GER
tihcates. Only one first grade was
granted. The most of the failures
we're made on arithmetic. The high
est grade received by any applicant ir
that branch was 30 per cent.-McPher
e2n Republican.
Andrew Graham, author of the wei
known system of shorthand which
bears his name, died of Brights dis
ease at his home in Orange, n. j.. sun
day. lie was born in the township q
Green Creek in Sandusky county
OHIO.
'rhera never has been n hetter ,1,.,s