Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-11-18
HAPPENINGS IN KANSAS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO Dwell
LERS IN THE SUNFLOWER.
The Weeks Review of Personal and Gen.
0eal News Condensed to Paragraphs.
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.
DAISY THE MISSOURI GIRL.

One of the November attractions at
the Crawford Grand, Wichita, Is the
above named company, From an ex-
change we clip the following: Sadie
Raymond and her company received an
ovation at Chattertons last night that
they should be proud of. Never before
in the history of Springfield has n COM
pany been awarded such a reception.
The house was crowded and hundreds
turned away unable to obtain seats.
The company was here three weeks
ago and made such favorable impress
sion that Manager Chatterton induced
them to play return engagement
which proved highly satisfactorily to
everybody concerned. The vast audi
ence came to see a good performance
east seemed to put forth every effort
in their power to please the people and
the applause they received showed
how well they succeeded. Sadie Ray
mond, as DAISY" played her part to
perfection and sustained her already
well earned reputation as tirst-class
artist Fred Raymond in his ever pop
ular work as a comedian kept his hear
ers in continuous round of laughter
The other characters kept the piece
well balanced through the entire pro-
duction.-State Register, Springfield,
Ill.
Topeka girls have adopted the sensi-
BILE practice of taking walks before
breakfast Their mothers cook the
breakfasts.
A young Topeka man and his girl
have found scheme to correspond
and dodge everybody. The young man
has rented lock box at the post-office
and both he and the girl have keys to
it. The notes never see the post-office
people.
j. N. Moran, of Sherman county, 70
years old, was caught in the blizzard
last Wednesday and the next day n boy
found his dead body shrouded in snow.
AT the eastern end of the state cold
dash of rain was about the extent of
the storm.
Two Leavenworth friends met on
election day. ''Have you voted?"
ask ed one of them, 81 guess so,'' re-
piled the other. "They gave me a
map of Kansas and 1 made a few
marks on it and gave it to man who
put it in cider barrel. 1 don't think
much of this ostrich system of vot-
ing"
The city council of Fort Scott has
ordered the first payment of the
company, paid, with the understand
ing that a mutual agreement be drawn
up between the city and the company
that it is not to cause prejudice in the
suit now pending of the city against
Che water company.
A Topeka man lost his job recently
in the cutting down of force and as he
had a family dependent on him he was
much pitied by his friends who won
dered how the man would live through
the winter. In few days he appear
ed with team and carriage which he
had purchased and has bought a lot
and is putting up a house on it. He
had saved his money.
A man down in Sumner county
voted this ticket: "Set ychr affect
tions on things above and not on the
things of the earth. Col, 3:2. "For
our conversation is in heaven from
whence also we look for the Savior
the Lord Jesus Christ. Phil. 500
Looking for that blessed hope, and
the glorious appearing of the great
God and our Savior Jesus Christ. y
Titus 2:13. The judges were unde-
cided as to which one of the presiden
tial candidates the man wished to vote
for.
Frank Daniels in "The Wizard of the
Nile" is this season duplicating the re-
markable success that attended the
performances of this strikingly origin
al comic opera last year Messrs. La
Shelle & Clark have re-engaged the
cast of last season and have invested
the performance with the charm of new
costumes and scenery. On the heels OF
the information that "The Wizard OF
the Nile" has scored an emphatic sue
cess in Vienna comes the news that ne
gotiations are about closed for the op-
era's production in London in the
Spring. 1t would seem that after hav-
ing had things their own way for years
the authors and composers of comic op.
era in England and Europe are to have
their own domain invaded by the
Americans. Perhaps in time the bal.
ance of trade in the comic opera line
may rest with the United States after
an
The proprietor of a hotel at Arkansas
City identified guest so he could get
check cashed. H. now develops that
the cheSk was forgery. 1t has also
been learned that this same man beat
prominent hotels both at Winfield and
Wichita.
The ranchers of the southwestern
counties are shipping large numbers OF
cattle from Arizona this fall. PLENTY