Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1904-03-16

ID 10, lJU4.
Mrs. Holmes returned from q visit
in Galveston on Monday.
Ed. Boots of Isabel was transacting
business in the city on Monday.
Mrs. j. NJ. Hellings returned Mon
day from visit with her son at Coats.
Wheat is LOOKING very good-much
better than it did last March. A rain is
needed but the wheat is not suffering
John Deere and Eagle Listers. the
best makes sold, can be bought at the
w. S. Benefiel Hardware store. Come
and get prices.
The gable end which was torn off
the court house by the storm two
weeks ago. has been replaced. Waldron
Chase had the contract.
w. l.. Utterback took very sick on
Monday. He had been working in a we'll
and took down with cold and fever.
Adams 8 Co. have a large variety of
carpet samples in Ingram, Brussels.
Mohair and Moquette. Price 35 cents
up. Mattings 124 cents up.
Late papers report that the Japs have
captured Port Arthur, but it Is denied
at st. Petersburg. If 1t should prove
true, it would be q great thing for
Japan.
DR.. Hedley has again come and gone,
No lecturer is so near or dear to the
hearts of Aurora people as DIR. Hedley.
Aurora, Neb., Republican.
J.L. Cant came in from the M,ngona
ranch on Monday sick man. He is
being cared for at the home OF his
parents, MIR. and Mrs. r. v. Cant.
His sickness is reported not serious.
Geo. G. Long, brother of Mrs. B. S..
Kaufman, visited in the city from last
Thursday until Monday. He is a
brakeman on the Chicago Sc Alton rail.
road. HIS home is at Slater, Mo.
Capt. j. D. Fair was over from Shar.
on on Monday. The Captain has been
30 busy this winter and spring buying
and selling real estate that he can
scarcely find time to come to the coun.
ty seat.
0. s. Boggs last week disposed OF
his residence and vineyard in the
north part of town. Dick Fuller
bought it for $3.50. This IS the cheapest
city property sold in Medicine Lodge
for several years.
A lot of school land in Elm Mills
township was sold at public sale BY
the county treasurer on Monday. II
sold all the way from 81 to So go pei
acre. Jas. Chadwick, John Chadwick
and s. Wysong were the buyers.
The citizens in the south part OF
town are trying to convince the city
dads that the proper thing to do is to
extend the water main down Main
street about 800 feet. The mayor and
councilmen are talking favorably.
Charley Larkin of. Deerhead took
down very sick with typhoid pneumonis
last Thursday. DR.. Kociell was witt
him Friday, Saturday and Sunday after
which he was relieved by DR.. Longe
| necker. It is thought he will recover
Elk. commissioner Rankin was il
from the ranch on Monday conferrins
with the politicians. We took horo
scope view of Hugh at long range ant
the signs show that he could be pre-
vailed upon to accept an Office If hand
cd to him on a machine platter.
The Barber county delegations which
attended the republican conventions a
| Wichita last week weren't entlrel,
ignored. j. B Gano was chairman o
the committee on rules and order o
business in the convention which re
nominated Congressman Murdock.
Mathew }. Artman and wife, Clar
Belle Artman. have suits pendln
against j. l.. G.. Smith of Elm Mill
township, in Justice Collins court
Mr.. Artman is suing for $40 which b
claims is due him for labor, and Mrs
Artman is suing for $35 which sh
claims is due on account of labor pei
formed for Mr.. Smith by her sons. Th
case was to have been heard last Wed
nesday but on account of the absenc