Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-06-10
Kansas has 1883 registered drug

The city assessor of Topeka only
found 649 pianos.
Buffalo grass butter gets the top
market price in central Kansas.
The cyclone in Brown county lifted
about evrything but the mortgages.
The youngest graduate in Kansas
was girl in Atchison-sevcnteen.
Argonia has jumped into the tide
and organized a local freight rate
club.
Four men recently left Lyon county
for England with four hundred head
of cattle.
An enterprising Russell county man
with salt well proposes to engage in
the cultivation of oysters.
Since the war in prices has been
raging among the Topeka undertakers
citizens of the capital are buying cof-
fms to use as bath tubs.
An Atchison woman is the fortunate
possessor of "a copy of the first issue of
the Atchison Globe and she thinks so
much of it that she keeps it in the
Bible.
Ottawa's real estate brokers are
running page advertisements and print
ing historical sketches of Kansas and
Franklin county. That sounds like
the boom de ayes.
The latest Topeka freak to claim
public attention is woman who re-
jected with scorn an offer of $4,000
spot cash for her interest in the An
neke Jams estate.
A La Cygne girl was married, re-
Gently in her bare feet. She probably
wanted her husband to know she was
possessed of a good understanding in
the case and was well heeled besides.
Ed Howe has taken such good care
of himself that he would pass for a
man of thirty in any crowd; yet he
was one of the big boys of the town
of Bethany, Mo-, when Sam Vandivert
of Kansas was a boy in short pants.
Vandivert confesses to A years. Van
divert has crop of boys who are get
ting beyond the ''knce pants age,
| while Howe has one big enough to
take the road for the Atchison Globe.
1t beats Anything how time flies.
Every merchant in Lawrence and a
number of other Kansas towns, who
/ handle n NJ Earr,, G. Co-e eooJ. l,ro
been served with a garnishment no.
tice by number of Finney county
farmers. Last year the Ferry compa-
ny entered into contract with the COM
plainants to furnish given quantities
Of certain designated seeds When
the seeds were ready, the company 1e-
fused to receive them, alleging as an
| excuse that the seeds were of inferior
quality. The plaintiffs found out later
that the trouble with the company
was that they were badly overstoclled
and straightway the disappointed
farmers brought suit for damages,
hence the garnishment service on
merchants selling Ferry's seeds
| I. c. Hecl1erman who lives on sec
ton eli hteen in Jackson township, in
Sumner county, has found new spe-
cies of worm that is playing havoc
with the wheat in that vicinity: The
worm is puzzler to every farmer who
has looked at it. 1t resembles the
army worm, but those who know the
pest we'll by sad experience say that it
is not the army worm. 1t also resem-
bles the web worm somewhat but has
no web and is different species The
worm is long and slender. The spec
linens are from an inch to an inch and
a half long. They vary in color; some
| are nearly white others are a bright
| green. 1t crawlS up the stalk to the
head and then eats out the soft wheat
grains cleaning out the rows as it
goes up. A Mr.. Fair has examined
the wheat crop on 90 different farms
in his neighborhood and finds them all
similarly affected.
Auditor Cole has set his face against
the scheme of an enterprising Topeka
salesman to cover Administer, Mo
quette and Brussels carpets which
adorn the new offices of the state
house with rugs. After the carpets
had been laid rugs were thought Of
and straightway the salesman smear
ed them over the floors by the wagon
load. He spread twenty beauties
in the four rooms occupied by the gov
ernor, and as many in the rooms of
the secretary of state, and in addition
a little S25 gem on the polished floor
of Mr.. Edwards cosy consultation
room. The offices of the attorney gen.
eral and of the treasurer of state were
given their full share, and that Mr..
Cole might not feel bad, his offices,
which had not been adorned with new
carpets, were given half dozen or
more. When Mr.. Cole found the floors
covered with rugs, he ordered them to
be rolled into bundle and promptly
telephoned the salesman to take them
away.
| A Greeley county young lady wants
| to know if its proper to sit in a ham
mock alone with young man. That