Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-10-16

A Lawrence citizen boasts of having
violin made by Nichols Amati in
1923.
Dighton has started broom corn
factory, and will manufacture part of
county crop at home.
During the next three months Kan
sas people will have better weather
than any other people in the world
The state of Kansas has the police
force of Pittsburg under arrest and
the Smelter says sit is pretty mess
A citizen of Goodland has fallen heir
nounces that he viii stay in Kansas
and spend it
According to the World the cost of
sandwiches tied with ribbon, pink iced
cakes and sailed peanuts for fifty
women at Girard is $50.
W. II. Savery, who was once county
attorney of Cloud county, has located
at Butte City, Montana. But he will
Lottie Bowes of Topeka, o hand
some and a very bright young girl,
has joined the Alabama company, un-
der the name of Charlotte Crane.
Thirteen divorce cases are set for
trial at the next term of the Doniphan
county district court. A great deal of
n 1lka;1 o1r n L..
Preparations are being made by the
business men of Beloit to hold Mitch
ell county corn carnival in Beloit
some time during the present month.
Adjoining counties will be invited to
participate.
Harry Lowe, q Santa Fe fireman,
Mccormick at Sharon last week. At
the wedding hour note was discov-
cred from Miss Mccormick bidding the
crowd adieu and telling them that she
did not love Harry. Harry is to be
congratulated. Divorces cost money.
Ralph Brook OF Oarnett, who receiv-
ed cadet appointment to Annapolis
has returned. He lacked just half
point in Algebra of making the re-
CURED grade to be admitted to ca
detship. He averaged three and a
fourth points. or within three-quarters
of the No. 1 mark in all the other
branches and was the highest of an
that failed
nd Low
convicted at Seneca of ENLIGHTENMENT.
had a mania for holding Office. He be-
gan as city attorney of Sebetha, then
when he was close-pressed by the law
for his crime he fled. In Colorado lie
became postmaster as Edward Dunbar
at the town of Dallas. Here he stole
again, and was sent 10 the peniten
tiary. Then he d1ifted to Oklahoma
where he was elected city attorney OF
one of the new towns. His opponent
contested the election, which brought
out the Sebetha story, and his arrest
| followed.
Lawrence World: ''Ha, this is my
kind of weather., said Judge Norton
rubbing his hands as Whit of cole
morning air followed the entrance O
the reporter. This is the weather fo
squirrel hunting There's nothin
like it; if had an old Kentucky rifle
| would go up the Wakarusa to-day to
place l know where they are thick
The only way to hunt squirrels is will
old-fashioned long-barreled rifles Xix,
we used to use on the Ohio in Maso1
! R1., a1rn I 10 e4o
out in the morning with ten bullet
and never come back with less thar
nine squirrels. We took piece o
creased patching and rammed it dow
with bullet, and never brought bacl
less than nine, you understand, ant
nearly always ten. One day 1 brough
back eleven:two squirrels were fighting
over hickory nut and they boil
turnbled. Yes, sir, it was so tam
shooting ten squirrels that got t,
shooting off their tails and would brin.
in ten tails for my bullets, until finall,
there was new species of bunty tale.
squirrels in that country" and tn
judge was lost in "reminiscences an,
cigar smoke.
The Rev. S. Y. Lum, 70 years old
who conducted the first religious ser
vices ever held in Lawrence, and VIII
organized the Congregational churcl
there, was killed by train at Ruth
erford, n. S. last week
A farmer living in Mcpherson count,
says that the thousands of blaclxbird
which gather in that section this fall
are destructive to the cane crop. II
says that in one field the birds ha,
stripped nearly every head. If thes
crops could be harvested and got on
of reach, the blackbirds would be com
PEELED to live on insects and woul,
keep down the pests which become s.
abundant in the fall
The wheat feeding" report issue
by the Kansas state agricultural dc
partment has been adopted as a tex
book in four agricultural colleges, an
now the Massachusetts, agriculture
college desires to make the report G
Secretary Coburn on alfalfa it's tex
book on that subject. If there is an
thing else the rest of the world want.
, it has only to let Kansas understan
what it is, and the want will h
promptly supplied.
!, The Shelter says there were 500
people in Pittsburg to see Ringing
show.