Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-12-11
J. ". Elder Of Kiowa county draws.

- ~ 1iuoE % NOVA county drays
q pension of $50 month.
Chautauqua county ships dra #,
horses to Rochester New York.
The Topeka Mail prints an elegant.
likeness OF Bob Kepley's dimple.
Coffeyville is planting trees in it's
cemetery at a cost of ten cents apiece.
Not to be behind Ottawa, Ellsworth
has discovered remedy for hog chol-
:, era.
Miss Whsle McNaughton has taken
editorial charge of the Vermilion Rec
ord.
Twenty-six car loads of grain and
stock were shipped from Goffs last
week.
Sedgwic,x county produce compa-
ny is shipping poultry to Manchester,
England.
Charley Sheldon has bought q coal
mine at Burlingame and will crowd
it this winter.
Charley Scotts new Babcock press is
now doing business and he is printing
an all at home paper.
Webb McNall has gone into the cider
business at Gaylord, but he gets no
stock from Doniphan county.
The pecan crop was so abundant in
Montgomery county this year that they
are selling at four cents a pound.
Ed Howe has learned to play whist.
One of the delegates to the Dairy
mems Association was named Bull.
5Vernon ]. Rose is the name of an
evangelist who is saving sinners down
in Dan McTaggart's neighborhood.
Gracia Hart, one of Topeka's rustling
lieutenants of the woman suffrage
cause, captured Tom Morgan all right
during the recent Eureka meeting.
The Danton Champion does not IN
tend to let the Rock Island town com
pany escape its city taxes by having
its addition to Canton vacated-pot by
a ''town" sight.
! According to local papers Atchison
has healer named Wentworth who
has performed some wonderful cures.
The story will be received however
with hesitency.
The Westmoreland News is without
an editor, Wallace having quit because
there was no money in the treasury.
j. P. Easterly of Manhattan will be
invited to mount the vacant tripod.
The Old Settlers association of Tope-
ka and Shawne county held their an
nual reunion in Topeka Friday, in the
hall at 7O4 Kansas avenue. Friday
was the forty-first anniversary of the
founding of the city of Topeka.
Will White gets credit for all the
bright things in his Lyons county Ga
zette. Many of them are written by
Mrs. White, who gets up nearly all
of the Saturday paper each week.
The Kansas City Cattle company has
fled its charter with the secretary Of
state. F. Burleigh johnson of Topeka
is one of the promoters of this company
which is authorized to do business with
a capital stock of 81, $50, 900.
A holster house, which in the mines
means covering which stands over
piece of machinery, was blown up by
an explosion of giant powder at Gale
ma last week. The Telegraph used a
cap Fl in holster, and thus the plate
papers got story headed ga Galena
| Hotel Burned
S. 81. Hill member of the legislature
from Leavenworth says their saloons
are of no benefit to the town as the
revenue not only fails to support the
city government, but the saloons add
fully as much expense to the city and
county as the city derives in it's license
and fines. Mr.. Hill says he looks on
all efforts to enforce the prohibitory
law in Missouri river towns as useless |
A story is told that once when Rein
hart was president of the Santa Fe a,
rich countryman, who owned bonds of
one of the branch sand hill lines.
called on him in his New York Office to
make some inquiry abont his holding
Reinhart had the report on that branch
at hand and he was able to talk glibly.
After the man had departed, Reinhart
turned to his clerk, saying: 'tWhere
the hell is that road? / never heard
of it before
w. II. A. Freeman of Harper county
has turned his Sunday school class
over to a substitute and will spend the
winter at the Soldiers home.
The Usage Carbon companys pay roll
on Saturday was $50, 1920. They al
so paid 1859 to the Scandinavian COM
pany. At Scranton their pay roll was
Sc, ss9.73.
The Rev. Father Hayden of Solomon
recently protested to the authorities
that there was too much drunkenness
in town, especially on Sunday. The
next day the buns were cleaned out.
| A barefooted tramp passed through
Fulton one day last week. Assistance
was offered, but he refused it, saying
that he could steal what he wanted.
Kansas man is nothing if not proud.
The Rock Island railroad company
is just completing the largest dam in
northwest Kansas across a branch of
the Solomon river at Phillipsburg. 1t
} will be 800 feet long, IS feet at the
bottom and 80 feet wide at the top, of
} solid masonry, and impound about 100
acres of water. The supply will be
used for the engines of the road and