Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-09-19

lola mas voted her bonds again TO
build a waterworks and electric light
plant.
| Wichita will be asked to add S5o,0Oe
to its Indebtedness in order to build
new school house.
! An endowment of 100000 is expected
by Baker University from the settle
ment of the Christian estate
| A gas well has been struck at Cha
mute that thus far cannot be harnessed.
1t ought to be called Broncho
The requirement of switch engine
is better advertisement for Great
Bend than the census figures.
An Abilene man, in the Belgian hare
business, has bought a lightning cal.
culator TO keep tab on his stock
Pointers for betting men may be OBJ
tanned when the Mckinley term and
the Bryan min play ball at Ell Dorado.
1t has been decided at Burlington
that children in arms will be not be
permitted to attend the public scools.
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The Atchison street commissioners
devoted their first appropriation to the
mpl ovement of the road to the GENE,
trrY.
The G. A. G. of Kansas usually fixes
of Of k,
obtain the benefit of the cquinoxiaI
storms.
The Hutchinson News resorted to q
double loaded notice to announce the
arrival of the masculine shirt waist
in that town.
Across from Atchison. in Missouri,
most of the fences are rail Some Of
them are fifty years old. and still in
serUceable shape.
An eight year old burglar in Inde.
pendence will make a more thorough
study of his chosen profession at the
state reform school,
A mad dog at Highland displayed
the sagacity to bite only the man who
carried more life insurance than any.
one else in the town.
J. Randolph of Emporia is dead
He wenf to Emporia in 1857 and pre-.
empted homestead southeast Of Em.
por;a, now a part of the city
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In England where Kansas wheat 1,
attracting attention. it Is called Kan.
sas corn" Our corn is unknown, but
when spoken of is called maize.
Newt Ury of Fort Scott has beer
placed at the head of twelve appraiser
under the Dawes Commission and has
made connection with $1,000 a yeaI
salary.
There was Barney" Kelly among
the dead at Galveston OF course this
was not the Kansas Bernard Kelly
but the sameness in names Is Q cur.
ious thing.
Recently. at Abilene. a vote on the
taken among the young people aud
'Old Slewth' got e67 votes and the New
Testament 1.
!. Dick Olney is SO cold that a Topeks
man who once called on him offered
him flask Of whiskey and Olney took
am ice pick and hacked off lump OF
, two and ate it.
James Livingston, Coffeyville boy,
has become barber in Manila and il
making $75 a month. He writes home
chat he cut General MacArthur's hair
recently and Macarthur gave him Q
dollar.
In opening the Ottawa University
with a speech entitled "The Strenuous
, Life" President Riggs probably meant
20 admcnish the foot ball team that ii
, is expected to trounce the Baker elev.
| en- las itaA.
"Well, ma" writes a Kansas boy to
. his mother, 81 was just joking wheu
/ wrote you that was going to marry
one of these beautiful damsels of the
Philippine group" And the old lady az
: she read it heaved sigh of relief thai
, shook dirt down the well.
The English people who adored Shel
don's book did not like him when they
met him, and one English newspaper
. man says he is one of the poorest
) public speakers England ever listened
r to. England is mad because Sheldor
said she was drinking herself to death
Last April man stopped at the Rem
nett House, Anthony. and told Myrtl,
Meade that he was collecting the auto
graphs Of all the mattresses of tht
!, United States. So she signed up. Las
week she received notice from the
Bank of Topeka that they held hel
note for $32 for hail insurance on 16t
acres of wheat. She owns no farm OF
wheat, and never did. But she nov
knows what the autograph was for.
The following strange kick was
handed the Gazette few days ago:
1.-THE writer has not heard any ex
: preston of thanks from the pulpit fol
/, the abundant rains lately received ia
!. our neighborhood. Nor has he heard
n from the Sunday School, prayer meet