Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-07-18
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clubs of Kansas will be held insTope-
ka July i6.
Kansas Turner's secured the second
place in the national contests held at
Philadelphia.
Independence has pulled up her post
Office receipts until she is entitled to
free mail delivery.
Four hundred horses for the British
army in South Africa have Just been
shipped from Lawrence.
Thc attendance at the old soldiers
home. LcaSenworth, at the date of
last report. June 20, was 3,39S.
Down at Lyndon the boys of the
graduating class were in the ma ior1y.
boys.
The State Normal School debators
from Emporia won the interstate con,
test at~Peru, Neb., securing the unan-
imous decision of the judges.
Women teachers are paid better
| wages in Atchison county than men.
| The average salary of the women is
S42. 81 per month and of the men $42.11.
il is rather a peculiar coincidence
that Captain Ira Lacock of Hiawatha
fell dead while addressing a meeting
10 consider the project of establishing
new cemetery.
| Fredonia has votcd TO issue $50. eco
| in bonds to bore for gas The dit
! analyzed for gold, silver. diamonds.
building rock and other precious
stones.
W. H. Kelley of Edgerton is elated
over his victory against more than-10O
competitors in securing the contract
for the government to supply fifty
car loads of -four to the Indians of the
southwest.
| Sumner is the greatest wheat county y
in the state and two of the largest
mills in the state are located in Wei.
lington, The entire output Of these
two mills has been contracted for by
English buyers.
! DIR. Finch, a Saline county man, has
a drove of 600 turkeys and they make
him good living in peculiar sort of
way. For consideration he moves
them from farm TO farm to clean up
the grasshoppers.
The council at Almena prints piece
in the papers that violations of the IL
quor law must cease. Niolators are
asked to stop on their, own motion
but they are told that if the don't
drastic measures will be resorted to-
A Smith county man bobs up with
the story that he fatted IS head of
hogs on weeds alone. Now if he will
only improve the breed SO that it will
fatten off the Russian thistle north
western Kansas will rise up and call
him blessed.
Tire city council, at Sabetha has of.
i fered a reward of $50 for information
leading to the conviction of any boot.
logger. The man who sells intoXicat t.
ing liquor is playing in harder lines
in Kansas every year. 1t is only Il
question of time when his occupation
will be wholly gone.
The numerous telephone lines
through Dickinson county are giving
the farmers a chance to hear the mu-
sic of the band concerts in the towns
each week. The other people gather
at the farmers homes and listen to the
music with us much pleasure as if in
the street in front of the band stand.
What is known in Kansas as 4 shot
gun wedding" took place in the Fort
Scott Jail not long ago. This was fol
lowed speedily by divorce suit. i'll
the prosecution of which the aston
ishing fact was brought ou that the
bride had four sisters, each of whom
had been bride at ii similar wedding
| The biggest egg deal ever made in
the west has been closed at Hutchin'
son. H. +. Slayton of Manchester, n
H., has succeeded in buying $50 ear
! loads of eggs that are now in cold
storage. The amount paid the produc-
er for the eggs was little over 5000,
600. The eggs will be held until next
winter, and good profit is antcipat-
ed over the prices paid.
The state board of railroad assess
ors have increased the assessment oi
cent. Heretofore telephone property
board itemized it. Auditor Cole, who
is secretary of the board, says that
the system was changed because com
plant had been made that the assess
ments of the past were too low.
The old Parkinson sugar plant ot
Fort Scott, which was established by
the government at cost of $250,000 tc
experiment in the manufacture of sor
ghurn sugar, has been sold for $25 ,00t
to l.. p. Best,a wealthy glucose manu-
faeturer of Davenport, Ia, who recent
~ sold his plants to the trust for q mil
lion dollars. The plant h;,s just Eeer
converted into sorghum syrup fac
tory by local company. the intention
being to sell its product to glucose
mixers. Mr.. Best will operate it or
an extensive scale and make it an in
dependent glucose factory.