Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-09-04

Sedgwick county's beer trade is now
itinerating.
Editors taltogether1; We thank Mr..
Tor the basket of lucious, etc.
Atchison is going into the o'clock
curfew, copper-get-the-boy business.
Ben Harrod of Cowley county has
been appointed guard at the state
penitentiary.
Secretary of State Edwards coyotes
are bowling at the Baxter Springs re-
union this week.
Morton county had more rain dur
ing July than any other county in the
state-21.3 81 inches.
A Westmoreland man will try "a ship
ment OF twenty horses to the Scotland
market as an experiment.
Some man at Lone Tree found time
TO count the grains on an ear of this
years corn and found LAOS.
The women of Atchison have COM
blned on scheme 70 discourage the
habit in men losing their jobs.
The joints of Goodland have been
closed, which causes the thirsty to go
all the way to Colby for drink
The last crop report from Kansas
was the best. And when the shekels
begin to pour in it will be still better.
The Times cows fba 1;ef;Ilo-,, - -,
erected in Leavenworth will make al
cohol only, and that for lawful pur-
poses.
A divorce is asked in the Wind fam
lily at Lawrence. The wife should be
patient. 1t is an ill wind which blows
no good.
The well on the Butler farm north
OF Neodesha was finished last week
and will furnish 5000, 900 cubic feet of
gas daily.
A missionary society in Butler coun-
ty has already begun to raise money
to expose more missionaries to mas
sacre in China.
A Topeka man bought a farm last
spring and paid $4,000 for it. Last
week he was offered $4,000 for one
half of the same farm.
Governor Morrill, has appointed Lare
Dean, of Smith Center, director of the
state penitentiary to succeed J. j.
Barnes of Pratt county.
Tom Richardson, the Galveston
boomer, has hired a stenographer and
settled down in Topeka to whoop up
the Western states conference.
Sol Miller says his idea of a smart
is one who can spread newspa-
pers on her pantry shelves without
stopping to read every poem and story
in them.
The colored men of Baldwin have
organized. They call themselves the
Sunfiower club and the only article
of faith is ''to vote together on all
uestions.
Ed Hoch says the people who have
the old fashioned fireplaces in their
houses are now in luck. What fine
back logs the corn cobs will make
this winter.
The power of the press has been IL
[ustrated at Coffeyville where a local
paper came out with a long editorial
headed 'Wil1 play ball." and the next
day the club disbanded.
A ST. Louis boy who is visiting in
Fort Scott was taken ''snipe hunting
the other night and now knows there
are some things one doesn't know if
they do live in a big city.
The officers of the law arrested a
dealer in fresh meats at Holton the
other day, for selling diseased, cor
rupt, unwholesome, poisonous meats"
and jury found him guilty in one
hour.
+. c. Prescott of Saline county has
been elected to the position of as
sistant in the department of English
N Harvard university. II. L. Prescott
IT the same county has been elected
TO professorship in the Indiana state
at Bloomington, Ind.
An old maid in Cowley county who
tried carbolic acid for her corns last
month is able to walk with crutches.
A long letter telling of the improve
nent of Nall and Lynch at the peni-
5entiary'' is published in the Abilene
Reflector which would seem to show
hat as an institution of correction it
vas not yet a failure.
1t is announced in the Cowley coun-
~ papers that the county seat fire de-
oartment was out trying their new
nose. AS that county boasts of hav-
ng fire company composed of wo-
men the statement is incomplete and
Gen. ii. G. Wolf who owns a large
arm at Maple City presented editor
Eckert, of the Traveller with several
baskets OF peaches with the question
lble compliment Il thought 1 would
the old devil as well as the
7oung devil"
James McAdams, a travelling spec
well known throughout the
'tate was found dead on the Rock Island
rain on its arrival at Topeka, Wednes-
lay evening. He was taken ill on the
rain and some medicine in his pack was
to him. An inquest was
leld.
Nelson Ackers intends to establish a
putty factoryat Lynn. He says he ex-
,ects touse the entire product in stop
,ing the mouths of the Allen coun-