Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-02-26
Wild fowls arc plenty ON the Chey-


The Northeast Kansas Teachers
association is endeavoring to secure
Henry Watterson for lecture some
time during their meeting at Atchison
in April.
Tim Mccarthy entertained his ''gen-
turkey one evening last week. Now,
what sort of hen does Timothy pro-
pose to set?
c. Wood Davis has got back into the
newspapers. Davis. like a comet,
moves in an irregular orbit, but he
gets around often enough to keep his
memory green.
That Butler county coal hole is Gre
ating a great amount of curiosity be-
cause of the secret Kramer in which
the work is prosecuted; all boring is
done after dark.
Marriage in a number of cases does
not seem TO have been a success in
Labcttc county. There are twenty
one cases for divorce on the docket for
the next term of court.
An Atchison girl gads about visit
ing at Leavenworth, Topeka and 9TH
or places near by SO much that Jerry
Black and Charley Styles give her re-
duced IA ties on the trains.
Charles Bush, a poor man at Santa
Fe, has fallen heir to $4,000 Bush's
father raised a waif who grew up and
did well. He recently died and left
this sum to Bush of Santa Fe.
AT COrbin. in Sumner county, sl1unks
! have invaded the cemetery and eaten
the hands and feet off the dead people
buried there. If this is one of their
tricks, they deserve their name.
l.. c. Boyle of Fort Scott was admit
| ted into the cell to see" his client
Colean, the bank wrecller, Just three
minutes The jailor locked them in,
and forgetting them, kept them there
| three hours.
The ''HOusehold Communion Metho-
! dists" are having a great run of luck
among the negroes of Leavenworth.
| They believe in weekly baths, and the
white folks are giving them all the
encouragement possible.
| 1t is reported that Webb McNall
! has been riding in second class coach
! es ever since his return from Cripple
! Creek, just to keep the boys out in
| Sixth district from finding out that he
! is Il millionaire mine-owner.
Nathan f. Brown, aged II, is being
| tried at Lawrence for bigamy The
/ jury will try the case in full on Mon
! day afternoon. Mr. Brown is well
| known in Lawrence. He was married
in 1884. Last April he married Ellen
! Fisher of Kansas City
! Railroad Commissioner Loves name
| is pronounced ''Lo,' and Railroad
! Commissioner Howes How" The
other day a granger, who has slight
acquaintance with Mr.. Lowe, called.
and while waiting for him remarked
! to Secretary Flenniken: ''Ain't it
funny that you have Mr.. Lo and Il
! Mr.. IIo on the board at the same
! time
a Butler county school teacher
named Art Peff1ey, has 4 bright school
of willing hands as well as earnest
hearts. The teacher and boys have
laid "a nice stone walk from the school
house to the road. Now they are en-
gagged in cutting the high grown hedge
into fence posts and wood which are to
be sold and the proceeds to be applied
to the purchase of books for the dis
! trict library.
Major ]. G. Pangborn, at one time a
celebrated Kansas newspaper man,
was, when last heard from, in Haban-
Offsk, the seat of government of East
ern Siberia, being the guest there OF
the governor general, at the executive
mansion. At Bangkok. the capital of
7 Siam. royal attentions were extended
one of His Majesty's steam dispatch
boats being placed at the command OF
Major Pangborn, who. before depart
ure, was granted an extended audience
with the king, being the first foreigner
so honored in many months.
Mrs. Roseberry of Linn county
widow of Captain Thomas H. Roseber
, ry, was in Washington recently an(
obtained permission from the War de
partment to be buried beside her hus
, band in the national cemetery at Fort
. Scott when she dies. Mrs Roseberry
is 81 years old. Her father, Colone
Reese Hill, served under General liar
rison in the war of 1912, and her hus
band in a Missouri infantry regiment
When the social season opened il
Marion Ed Hoch sprung a scheme t,
invite the children, and it carried
The expectation was that the young
people would acquire a stock of man
ners from their elders, but the expert
ment has been sore disappointment
Mr.. Hoch says at one house they
used up bottle of perfumery:" a
another ''they destroyed some house
hold ornaments at another they 90
S into the refreshments before it wa
Il time for the refreshments to get int,
L them. The moral of it is that boy
r will be boys, and girls will be girls
and they ought to herd by themselves
: 1t must come to that, Mr.. Hoch argue
o ''or what is worse, make people il
: self defense, refuse to open thei
homes to promiscious socials.'
e The Ottawa school board has Jus
\ closed contract for new $1,000
It school building. The strength of Kan
S sas lies in her school houses.
The Galena lead and zinc mines con