Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-05-22

across the Missouri bridge has written
q short story with the plot laid in Par-
Is.
Fifty converts were immersed in the
river at Fredonia and now every time
any one turns on a watcrworks dydrant
they expect to find sins which were
washed away.
The recent frosts in Southwestern
Kansas appear to have done but little
damage to crops except in the low
lands, where the fruit was injured to
some extent. and corn in very low
places was hurt. In the Cottonwood
Valley the frost killed potatoes and
garden truck and injured the fruit and
corn. In the low lands along the Wal
nut, Kansas and Arkansas rivers small
fruit, vegetables and young grains
were injured. In the extreme South
eastern part of the state along the
Arkansas river, there was frost, but
no perceptible damage, though it was
thought at first that young corn was
badly hurt. In Sedgwick and the ad-
Jacent counties, the crops have escaped
injury from the frost almost together.
The weather has been 30 cool as to re-
tard their growth to some extent.
The annual State conclave of the
Grand Commandery, knights Templar,
held in Wichita, was a grand success.
Over 1,500 knights and ladies were
in attendance. The full commander
les of Topeka, Newton, Wellington,
Anthony, Hutchinson, Ellsworth and
Winfield were there together with
Representatives. from almost every
sommandcry in the State, There was
competitive drill in which Newton
Drill Corps took first prize, SO 90; Wichi-
Ia Corps, second prize, $3.50, und Well
ngton Corps, third prize, 500. The
ninth annual meeting of the Grand
Chapter and Order of the Eastern Star
were also in session. a grand ball
wus given at the Auditorium in honor
Of the two organizations. The pa,udc
was one of the largest and finest ever
witnessed in that city. The following
officers were elected for the ensuing
gear: Grand Master, Robert +. Tor
:ington of Wichita; Deputy Grand Com
mander. w. c. lIolms of Parsons;
Grand Generalisimo, w. G. Chaffie of
Topeka; Grand Captain General, Geo.
u. Jenkins of Kansas City, Kas; Grand
Prclate, 5. T.. Busser of Dodge City;
Grand Recorder, A. NJ. Callahan, of
Topeka; Grand Treasurer, w. :. Cor.
.oett of Wichita; Grand Senior Warden,
ed. Hays OF Wellington; Grand junior
Warden, c. VI. Jones of Wichita.
The next conclnve will be held al
Lawrence on the second Tuesday in
May 1896. Dispensations were grant
ed TO commander at Junction City
tnd Chanute. Over 100 candidates
Joined the shriners Officers elected
by the Eastern Star are as follows
Grand Mutron, Mrs Helen B. Farms
worth of Topeka; Grand Patron, J. A.
Rcgnell of Mcpherson; Associated
Grand Matron, Mrs. Helen Kermer o.
Eureka; Associate Grand Patron, A.
Anderson, of Wichita; Grand Treasur
er, Mrs. Jesse Pearsall of TT. Scott
Grand Secretary, Mrs. Myra Motron
Of Ottawa; Grand Conductrcss, Mrs
Della Bennett of Hutchinson; Asso
slate Grand Conductress, Mrs Libbit
Iount OF Kansas City, KaS; Crane
Chaplain, Eliza :. Werner of Olathe
Grand Marshal. Mrs. Belle IIaines O
Emporia; Graud Warden, Mrs. Emln,
Fulton of Winfield; Grand Organist
Miss Emma Vetis, of Girard; Crane
Adah, Mrs. a. Sutherland OF Beloit
Grand Ruth, Mrs. Eva Foster of Inde
ocndcncc; Grand Esther, Mrs. Jenni
L. White of Paola; Grand Martha
Mrs. Rachel Passon of Lawrence
Grand Electa, Mrs. Eva Wheeler o
Norton.
The law and order league has inaug
urated another war on drug stores n
Emporia.
The cyclone which visited Haltea
was so effective IN its destroying O
property that the following call 70
aid has been made public: The cy
.lone of May /, which swept across tn
West part of our QIarvey) count
from the Southwest to the Northcas
for n distance of eighteen miles, GOV
ering Il space of about one quartz
mile in width, completely destroyin
everything in its path, in which twer
tv-hvc or more homes were laid waste
the entire household effects were t
tally destroyed and in most cases tn
stock. machinery and crops were sweI
from the face of the earth. Seve
people are known to have lost the
lives and others are badly injured en
may yet die. We appeal TO you fC
immediate aid. About twenty fam
lies are destitute and must be provit
ed for. Please send contributions I
II IN at A
meeting of citizens authorized tt
mayor and council to distribute I'll
aid and appointed the undersigne
committee TO issue this appeal: Re
J. ID. Woods, pastor M. L. church,
]. Bookwalter, c. j. Gram, j. Ii. NJ
Nair.
An Abilene man is drawing s14
week accident insurance because a CO
kicked him on the hand. Abilene me
all milk with one hand now and ho
the other temptingly behind the coy
Samuel Brown, young colorC
man who recently graduated from Il
Fort Scott high school, was arraign,
in the United States district court
that city recently and pleaded gull
TO sending a letter to young viii
woman of a family prominent in s
ciety.
United States Senator Lucieu Bak
has become Mason.
The trial of Clint C. Osborne for Il
killing of Charles Hamble at Holto
last June. was begun in the Dougl
county district court having been Ia
en- there on n change of venue. J.
Burton and Eugene Hagen are the a
torneys for the defense and the pros
cutting attorneys, Mitchell and Graz
Of Douglas and jackson counties, a
assisted by Joseph G. Walters al
Sam Hishnn A snecinl inru LIST