Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-03-25
Some of the cowley county farmers

Some of the Cowley county farmers
are sowing oats
William Howe is the name of the
daring man who will risk his all in
paper at Greenleaf.
One farmer at Monett will plant tlir-
ty acres of castor beans. This is a
sure crop and profitable one in
Southern Kansas.
The Atchison school board have
abolished the ESSAY AID Grafton busi-
ness" in the graduating exercises of
the public schools.
Charley Lobdell is president of a
cattle company stocked at 500. 600.
Charley is not staying in the short
grass country for his health.
Grandma Hedges of Monett, who is
&c years old, walked four miles on an
errand last Monday, rather than have
her team taken from the plow.
Columbus society claims ''Nellye, :"
and the spoiled beauty frequently
breaks in on Joplin as the guest of
Mae" who now has become back
number.
The town of Springfield. out in the
sand hill country, is now a barren
waste known on the tax rolls as a part
of Springfield township. 1t once had
water works.
There were 947,745 hogs shipped in
to Kansas City stock yards during the
season days ending February 90. Of
these, S6s,244 head were packed by
local packers.
A Topeka oculist says the eyes should
not be used in sickness. The doctor
would no doubt have his patients un-
button their eyes and hang them on
the back of chair
A potato social was a presby terrain
novelty in Coffeyville the other night.
The door receipts resulted in bushel
of potatoes. which will be planted.
and the crop sold for the benefit of
the missionary society.
An elevator containing 10000 BUSH
els of corn was destroyed by fire last
week. In q country where people
throw corn upon the ground and tramp
it into the mud, little loss of that
kind is of no moment.
Buffalo Bill declnres that he was
the first child born in Leavenworth.
Its no wonder Bill was SO handy with
a gun. The man who made his APP
pearance in Kansas those days, could
always draw a Bead
David Coulter, who shot and killed
15-year-old Edward Illston near Tope-
ka last October, was sentenced Thu rs
day by Judge Hazen to u years in the
penitentiary. He killed Ilston to
gain possession of team which the
boy was driving along country road.
The STANDARD Oil company's prospect
drillers struck oil Friday night near
Uniontown, fourteen miles west of
Fort Scott, and the people of that vi
cinity are much excited. The drillers
are working night and day and the
company's expert has been called to
make an analysis. Price of land has
risen.
The Indian school teachers of the
south and west are to meet in Law
renee July 1918. There will be about
200 present, and they will come from
all over the country, the most of them
being from schools in the southwest.
DIR. w. n. Hailmann, superintendent
of Indian schools, will be there, and
also number of the supervisors.
There is no absolute proof that Solo
mon ever lived on ella i'm in western
Kansas, but careful reading of one
verse in the first chapter of Ecclesias-
ties convinces us that he did. This is
what he says; 1.-The wind goeth to-
ward the south and turneth about
unto the north; it whirleth about con
tinually and the wind returneth again
according to his circuits -
Peter Lowrie of Hamilton county.
who is said to have struck it rich al
Cripple Creek, is son of the Lowrie
of Pennsylvania who, desiring to look
through Girard college, was barred
because he wore the aspect of a clergy
man, that profession being prohibited
in old Girard's will. you can't en-
ter said the doorkeeper 1.-The hell
l can't!'' exclaimed Lowrie. "Pass in, y
said the doorkeeper.
In one southern Kansas town the
jointists are fined monthly, and the
formal charge against them is ''les
majestic"
A man has bobbed up at Clay Center
who claims to be able to stop hot
w ndS.
At a meeting held few nights age
at Pawnce Rock contract was made
for the location of a branch of the
Heller creamery. The county com
missioners have also decided to build
bridge across the Arkansas at that
point.
The farm house of Mrs. S. d. Smith
on Tuay creek, east of Ottawa, wa.
totally destroyed by fire early Satur
day morning. Mrs. Smith, who is ar
aged lady. was alone at home, and
unaided was unable to subdue tho
flames or save any considerable por
ton of the contents of the house BE
fore neighbors could arrive the house
| and all it contained. together with &
well stocked out building were de
stroyed. BY hard exertion the barr
was saved. An insurance of 5000 wa.
on the house and contents. The orr
gin of the fire is unknown.
The Lawrence journal says ga pho
tographer took the depot from tn,
! implement platform stand" VIVA
the dickens was the depot on the i'm
plement platform for and why did tn,
photographer take it from its place?
| Kansas papers are running an ad
vertisement, How to get to Crippl,
/ Creek" Kansas men who are strand
ed in the big camp are writing to thei
/ friends to know how to get away from
| there.
T. W. Wellhouse, the apple king O
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