Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1904-11-23

Her father had taken his gun, a few
Of his clothes, and had left for parts
unknown
Then the girl, old enough to know
the bitter feeling that existed between
her father and uncle, took refuge with
her mothers older sister, widow liv-
ing farther down the valley, and the
little house by the mill was closed:
and for many days and weeks the en-
tire village waited and watched for
the missing mans return. but in vain.
Mrs. Comfort Day, or Aunt Comfort,
to whom the child had flown, was adj
vised to take legal action, but refused.
THE Lords wrath II overtake him
some day" she said, on while we're
waitin' I'll take care o. Angle
She adopted the girl, rearing her as
her own; and SO, to all intents and
purposes, the heritage of AMI re-
verted to David |
But it carried a curse, for a sense of
justice, beyond the power of foolish
wills or law, existed in that simple vii
lage, and all considered David Curtis
responsible for the strange disappear
ance of his brother. In time he re-
built the dam, for grist must be
ground, attended to his saving, went
regularly to church, as usual, grew
more exacting, avaricious and mean
than ever, if that were possible; re-
fused to pay the debts Amzi had in
Cured, held converse with but few, and
that solely on business, and seemed to
defy the tide of public opinion which
he knew was setting against him.
When his mother, about the only
friend left him in the village, died, an
old negress was imported to keep house
for him; and If lack of social recogni-
ton and probable gnawing of con-
science could be considered as wrath
Of God, Aunt Comforts benedfction
seemed likely of fulfillment
In the meantime Greenvale slowly
increased in size; the falls of the
Mizzy shouted in the spring and muir
INJURED in summer; winter evenings
found many of the villagers gathered
in Capt. Tobey's tavern, swapping
news and slipping toddy; crops and
silos and the cheapest fertilizers were
here discussed; the village was divided
into districts, and each district was
furnished with more modern and
framed schoolhouse, and Angie Curtis,
now grown to young womanhood, was
installed as teacher in one of them.
A new orthodox church, fitted with
a tall spire, larger bell, and also
mortgage, had been erected; another
and smaller, Unitarian church, also
arose, fiourished meagerly for two
years and then closed, also in debt
Solomon Finch, a qufck-witted though
understood young man, who had gone
away to study medicine, returned to
dispense pills, paregoric, and plausi-
bilities to- Greenvaleites; village de-
batting society started, and the need Of
paved sidewalks, a system Of sewers,
water supply and an academy dis
cussed. An annual town-meeting was
held, where the momentous' questions
of who should be first selectman, SUI
pervisor Of road making, pound-keep-
er, hog-reeve, field-drivers, and school
committee men, were settled; and more.
than all this in Importance, railroad
had crept up to within 20 miles of
Greenvale, with promise of extension,
to it in the near future
All this is but a series of marginal.
notes showing Greenvale's evolution
from The Forks, and when DIR. Sol de-
serted his patients for the first time
since he began practice, and went away
for an outing with Martin Frisbie, an
old schoolmate, the village was as
prosperous as one so far from a rail-
road could be.
ITO Be Continued.l