Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-11-04


of last week for Columbus, Kan.
Bring your poultry To me at Burnett's
and | will pay you cash. q. F. KAN.
NIER.
Mrs. Ambrose Alien and children re-
turned home on Sunday. Am is in
Kansas City.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Myers are the
parents of nice girl baby, born to
them on the 18th ult.
The INDEX would like a correspon-
dent i'll every part of the county. Come
in and get paper and furnish us the
news.
Get prices on hats, dry goods, grocer
les, ETC.. of Glasier IL Co.. as they are
cheap and of good quality. Read
9heir advertisement.
Saturday was flag day over the whole
nation. Members of all parties had
their flags out and Medicine Lodge was
strictly in The procession.
Otis Dayee was doing some good DO
litical work III the city first of the week.
Otis lives in McAdOo township and
has the pleasure of boastlng that there
are only three republicans in his pre-
cinct.
Why did the Cresset last week credit
a quotation on pensions to Bryan which
he neither wrote nor utterd? Deprav-
ity and iiIdecency seem to have COM
plete control of that sheet.
lie got out of town safe and it only
cost him fifteen. The telegram caught
him but he was mum.-CreSset.
But like the prOverbial cat the letter
came back and the ''rauZor" man said
nit.
Walter S. Cant came in from Win.
field on Monday to do his duty at the
polls. He returned home yesterday
Tuesday after leaving a straight Pop
uliSt vote In the ballot box.
The National Convention of the w.
G. L. u. will be held at st. Louis next
week. Miss Frances Willard will pre-
side and Lady Henry Somerset, of Eng
land, will make an address.
The regular meeting of the w. G. L.
U. on Saturday at 3 O'Clock, p. m. A
delegate will be appointed to attend the
national convention at st. Louis. Ev.
cry woman is invited. Sec'y.
A party of young ladies, with the use
of their voices and the aid of hand Or
gans, French harps and other like ms
truments of torture, contrIved to make
the night hideous for time on Hallow-
cen.
Allen Herr was up from Kiowa yes
terday Wednesday, He couldn't say
as to whether he was successful in
Woods county but so far as heard from
he was ahead. He thought his chances
were good.
Mrs. Mary E. Wood, of New York
City, who has been visiting Mr.. and
Mrs. w. ~. Cain, left here Friday for
st. Louis where she will visit and at
tend the national convention of the w.
G. T. u, and then return to her home.
She was much pleased with the West.
There is nothing wrong with Frank
Shell. The talk the republicans gave
us during the campaign about his op-
ponents superior qualifications was too
thin to swallow. Frank is a good off
Ger and his re election is not an unde-
served compliment.
Ed StandIford came in from Kansas
City on Tuesday to vote. He is at pres
ent employed in the Armour packing
house and likes his position. He says
he frequently meets Medicine Lodge
acquaintance in the City. He will re
turn home tomorrow CT next day.
The INDEX would like to have CORES.
pOndents from all parts of the county
during the coming year. Send in the
news from your neighborhood. We
furnish paper, envelopes and free sub
scriptlon to correspondents. We would
be pleased to have all parts of the coun
ty represented in our columns.
Luther Fleming, son of IT, Fleming
came In from California on Monday
Mr.. Fleming is good Populist anC
says he would have postponed his visi
until after the election if he haC
thought that his vote was necessary t
put California in the Bryan column
He has resided in that state during thu
past three years.
Report of the examination of the
pupils of the Lake City school for the
first Donth, ending Oct. 81, 1896
Grammar grade-Lizzie Lake, 92
Emelie Butcher, go; Gertie Durfree Sc
Pet Thompson, 81; Vera Buck, 81; Free
Lake, SO; Maud English, 81; Franz
Cooke, Il; Jessie Hargis, 81; Henri,
Durfree, ~; Fred Buck, IS; Patti
Cooke, So Lena Shigley IS.
Primary grade Hargie Thompson
So; Fred Durfree IS; Andrew Hargis
IS. Nellie Tatum Brewer; Teacher.
Sunday mornings Eagle says tina
one half of the people of Barber count
met Chester l. Long at the depot a
this place when he arrived on Saturda
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