Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-24

Arbor day was not neglected at the
Soldiers home at Dodge City; 500
fruit trees are there that were not
there before.
Burglars raided the residence of
Rev. P. L. Jones, pastor of the Univcr,
salist church of Seneca. last week, Sc
curing small sum of money, some
jewelry and clothing.
Mabel Benton, the lG-year-old daucht.
or of c. NJ. Benton of Effingham, was
severely burned Saturday morning
while burning some rubbish at her
home. Her clothes were burned al.
most off before she could be rescued.
The people of Ottawa very sensiblv
destroyed the pest house before any.
body else could be taken to it. Civil.
lied people do not want their friends
or.rclatives taken from their homes
and put in such a place as the average
smallpox hospital.
Col. j. w. L. Hughes. hero of the
Legislative war" of 1893, afterward
court martialed and dismissed from
the militia service, has been appoint
cd by Governor Morrill, ma ior general
OF the Kansas national guard, succeed
ing eX-Lieutenant Governor Daniels.
The annual convention of the Kan
sas State Sunday School association
will be held this year at Salina, Nav
:, and 9. The music to be in charge
OF Professor Excel of Chicago. The
leading Sunday School workers of H.
inois, Missouri and Kansas are upon
the program.
Sheriff Glover of Olathe, captured
noted crook and horsethief, William
Fisher, who is over GO years old, near
there Thursday. Fisher stole valu,
bic horse and buggy from C. c. Doug
lass. leading merchant of Kansas
City, and was endcavoring to sell the
stolen property when arrested.
An excellent quality of clay for
modelling purposes has been discover.
ed in Geary county, and Miss Lizzie
hobart has been untilizing it. An at,
tractive display of fruits and flowers
made from this clay and colored by
this young lady, adorns the windows
Of junction City business house
VIM. Ratliff, who supplies Eft. Riley.
with milk, after trying some of the
most highly recommended families OF
milk stock, has decided to go back &c
the Short Horns as the most profitab bic
all around. He is also making some
experiments in feed and will try fax
seed meal mixed with bran.
Poodle Tote, Will Plunllett and
Fritz Tofte, were arrested at an CRY
hour Sunday morning for holding up
Il farmer named Orr at Atchison and
robbing him of $75. The money was
not found on the footpads, but it was
subsequently learned that Poodle
TOfte had left 500 with the night tele-
graph operator at the Union depot.
The Juvenile Literary Society of
Cedarvale presents an example of PER
emulation. They have been giving
ice cream socials and entertainments
of various kinds for three years tor
the purpose of raising funds to main
tain public school library. They
now have 81 volumes.
Mulching has been recommended
for a great many kinds of plants, but
Barton county farmer is perhaps the
first to apply the system to wheat.
Early last winter he hauled a lot of
CT, Cd h G.
and the result is that his crop is in ex-
cellent cond ition, while that of many
of his neighbors was destroyed wholly
or in part by the severe weather.
The colored Baptists of Douglas
county held four days bible insti-
tute in Lawrence last week, There
were number of prominent divines
of the state in attendance, and the ir
stitrte was conducted by Rev. w. H.
Grant, assisted by State Evangelist
Beasley and Rev. A. S. Green The
institute continued till Sunday when
lis converts were baptized in the Kan,
SaS river.
The removal of the tariff duty on
eggs does not seem to have affected
the industry in the west very serious
ly after all. S. +. Hunt, of Peabody.
last week shipped car load of eggs
to boston, right under the noses of
the Canadians as it were.
Miss Helen f. Price, TO rmerly of Ell
Dorado. was married September &c
last to Howard Ribinitzky of Washing
ton, but Washington knew nothing of
it until Saturday, as she feared She
would lose her place as copyist if the
marriage was discovered. She was
protege of the late Senator Perkins
The marriage was known from the
first by her father, W. NJ. Price, and
the rest of the family who live at FL
Dorado,
The exclusive distinction of possess.
ing class yells no longer rests with the
college boys. 1t has been taken MP
by the high schools, and il is evident
ly only question of time until the
air of Kansas will be rent by 5000
additional sepera tie and distinct class
yells, one for each district school.
Here is one adopted by the graduating
class of the ChffeyviIle high schhol:
"Trilby, dilby, diddledive. Coffeyville
high school, class '95.".
Every Abilene man in the peniten.
tiarY is either foreman or bookkeeper.
Half the wheat in Geary county
looks we'll; the big East end especial
ly.
The State Board of Public Works
has elected L. II. Lescher OF Topeka
to be State architect, succeeding Sey-
mour Davis. Mr.. Lesher IS a demo-
crat. He was the choice of Michael
Hecry, the Democratic member of the
board. Captain Seaton and Sol Miller
were unable to agree on a Republican
so they voted for Heery's candidate.
The position is worth 81, 500 year.
Caney, Montgomery county, is out of
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