Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-12-22
SUNFLOWERS.
Grown in the Different Coun>
ties Of Kansas.

How They Progress i'm the Winter Of
Their Prosperity. and Government
BY the People.
Topeka is demanding a reduction of
her police force,
Ottawa is to haze one additional
t-'ail carrier after January 1st.
Mr.
WINE son, Rite Mas nry at Topeka
kclock.
Robinson-fruit cak ,,o or,,+;,;as IS
- "a. J. Lamar-lamp..
Tervia Pitts-pair Of ~ s"i 'ouiiuinS
10" asolf--45.OO, look.
Major ~ erson, of Topeka,
was BON handsome, and is having
greatness thrust upon him.
A new National bank has been or
grnized at Seneca. Capital $500
Jacob E. Taylor, President.
The city of Burton has compro-
missed $14, 900 of bonds voted in aid of
the Kansas Midland Railway Co.
Bethany College, at Lyndsborg, has
been given until January 80 in which
to raise $4,000 by subscription.
Governor Leedy has been requested
n IA 1rn
sas exhibit at the Omaha Exhibition.
The post office at Ellinwood has been
raised from a fourth to a third class
office, and the salary has been raised
to ST 900.
new post office has been estab-
lished at Arnold, Brown county, and
James A. Rugbee has been appointed
post master.
The Smith county Poultry Assocla-
ton will meet in Smith Center. jan
uary 6-8. H. F1axbeard, Smith Center,
president.
Mrs. Leedy is i'll at her temporary
home in Lawrence. The Governor
has been at home considera BILE por-
ton of the week.
The Farmers and Merchants Bank
of Pratt, which recently went into
voluntary liquidation, has paid its de-
positors in full.
Only ten Kansas patriots are regis
tered at the Normandie in Washington,
while looking after interests in the
White House farm.
The Kansas State Poultry Associa-
ton will meet in Manhattan, Jan. a.
II. F. G. Tolnpkins, of North Topeka.
Kan, is. the secretary.
The state board of railroad commits
siouers is at work on its annual report
to the chief executive. 1t will be ready
about the last of this week.
Adjutant General Allen views with
alarm the growing sentiment among
Adjutant Generals of the United
States for an increase of the militia
Kansas City, Lawrence, Topeka,
Leavenworth, Newton and Wichita,
all report the commencement of the
usual round of winter hold ups and
burglaries.
January 14th at 10 o'clock a. M, al
the door of the court house in Hutch.
inson, Kan, is the date fixed for the
Railway.
The troops were lined up at For,
Leavenworth Wednesday, and the
reprimand, ordered by the court mar
tial for Capt. Leonard A. Lowering
was read to them.
d. K. Fal1ey, one of the band ot
pioneers who came to Kansas in SO
died in Lawrence Wednesday. Hi,
son, G. NJ. Fa11ey, is the proprietor O.
the Lawrence House.
The mayor of Winfield makes com
plant to the Board of Railroad Com
missioners that that city is being dis
criminated against in the matter O
freight rates.
Both the Rock Island and the SAINT
Fe will make the rate of one fare fo
the round trip, for the State Teacher
Association meeting, to be held in TIC
peka during the last week of thi
month.
/ Governor Leedy has been petitione
to issue his proclamation, making tn
city of Rosedale, in Wyandotte county
city the second class. The petitio
claims that the city has a population
of 1000.
The Judges of the Court of Appeal:
Northern department, eastern division
spent last week in consultation a
Topeka, preparatory to the fling G
written opinions in cases heretofor
submitted.
The lola manufacturing compan
has demonstrated the practicability q
casting iron with ma tura1 gas. Her,
tofore it has been supposed the ga
would not furnish sufficient dires
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