Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-09-16
George Cranes Excelsior Readers

ing machine In McPherSOn county.
The Rev. Mr.. Sly, of Kansas City,
was married last week.
Miss Lemon lives at Cullison and the
boys know what to do with lemons.
The American Volunteers are going
to do what they can to save Lawrence.
Webb McNall, in addition to his du-
ties as public man, has nine boys to
! be responsible for.
Grant Shaw calls old maids "spare
TBS" Grant ought to be ashamed of
himself Wait until he sees ''us''
Ed Howe says there is woman in
his town who is praying for a husband
who swears. 1t strikes US that it
would be easy to get a husband who
swears without praying for him
In Kansas City girl announced hen
engagement through the Sunday pa
pers, but over in Atchison, girl made
her announcement by picking the lint
off her steady's coat in some public
place.
An Atchison preacher preached from
/ the text, Separate Yourself From
Yourself" last Sunday and the very
next day one of the women members
of the congregation had 4O-pound tu-
NOR removed.
One Council Grove boy put the noz-
zle of the garden hose in his mouth
while another Council Grove boy turn
ed on the water, and it took Council
Grove doctor thirty minutes to resus-
cicate the boy at the nozzle
The two Poppen girls of Cawker
City were married at the same cere-
mony the other day, and fellow who
was looking over our shoulder suggests
that there must have been a lot of
poppen as preliminary to the affair.
The Bachelors, of Atchison, has
outlived all other social organizatio MS
and has just leased the quarters occu-
pied by its last rival in the club line.
And the fact that the Bachelors club
is such powerful institution leads
naturally and easily up to the question
whats the matter with the Atchison
girls?
In another column we run this week
the cards of the leading merchants of
Wichita, who invite you to call and
see them while attending the Great
Kansas State Fair. The Fair promises
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attractions of all kinds to suit every
| class, but these merchants can show
you goods at prices equally attractive.
| Call and see them.
! Atchison is putting on airs over her
! less successful rivals because our of
! her well known citizens is about to be
hung in Montana for murder. His
name is Tom Lanier and he had only
| been in Montana three months, which
! goes to show that with industry and
| frugality at the helm time cuts no fig
ure with the swing man may take.
Ft. Scott springs to the front with
the story of a 3O-foot snake which was
seen in that city the other day. About
a month ago Et. Scott gave out story
concerning cottonwood tree there
which grew sixty eight inches in six
days. All of which leads us to believe
that the quality of tamarack dispensed
in the Fort Scott joints is something
perfectly awful.
There is a man in Atchison who is
so cordially hated by the wome., that
he don't dare go to a church social for
fear OF being poisoned. He has been
dry goods clerk SO long that he
knows the cost of every thing a wo-
man wears and he talks about it to the
other men. Here comes girl whose
dress cost IS cents a yard, he said the
other cay, as one of Atchison's sweet
est buds tloated down the street. She
has on it six yards of lace at % cents
a yard, which together with the hooks
eyes and thread, makes a total of
1857. She is an economical girl, as
the lace has been put on without much
cutting, which indicates that she will
trim another dress with it next sum-
mer."
a Lawrence man came out in a card
in the World, in which he kicks against
tn progress of science. What seems to
have particularly stirred up his ire is
the fact that recently, by means of a
cathode rays, a cat which was suppos-
ed to be dead. was restored to life. and
he fears that the same thing will be
done with the human race: that the
dead will be restored to life, and that
death will become a thing of the past.
His kick is made on the grounds that
there are already too many people IN
the world and that science is PLAYING
low down trick on humanity in this
last act. The Lawrence man should
keep his clothes on. Science will 90
right on progressing in spite of kicks.
1t may be that death will soon be a
thing of the past, although we doubt
it, but if that is true, all the kicking
in the world won't alter it, or stop the
march of science.
The Lyon county girl who has a
champagne cork which was pulled by
Chauncy Depew doesn't take rank with