Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1904-06-22
Lake City items.

Alfalfa thursday.
Scott Buck took short vacation in
Wichita last week.
Harry Campbell was too i'll to even
go fishing last week.
o. Mills began the week by branding
forty head of calves.
CO Chandler, of Medicine Lodge,
was in Lake City on Friday.
Miss Jane Doherty spent few days
with friends in Sun City last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Fulton of Sun
were shopping in Lake last Wednesday.
The chiggers have arrived and Tom
Marsh gives the currant bushes wide
berth.
Miss Goldie Ward brought down an
extra good lot of cherries from Sun last
Thursday.
Mrs. w. S. Ball, from the Marty
ranch, was taking in the sights of Lake
City last Tuesday.
Lake City was pretty we'll represent
ed at the Sunday School convention in
Sun on the 18th.
Judge Lester made the round trip to
Coats last Wednesday without being
caught in the rain.
Miss Lena Shigley and Miss Gertrude
Durfee attended the ice cream social
at Sun Saturday night.
Fred Lake stopped work in his corn
field last Tuesday just long enough to
make trip to Medicine Lodge.
Mrs. Hattie Buck gave an informal
party Thursday night in honor of Ter
guest, Miss Haun, of Medicine Lodge.
Rev. r. A. spencer is getting ready
to go to work. He purchased a fine
new buggy from Scott Buck few days
| ago.
Miss Ida Hargis returned home last
Thursday from Wichita. where she has
been attending the Mount Carmel Con-
vent.
The members of the Epworth League
have sent for their new organ, so pre-
pare for some good church music after
its arrival.
In anticipation of the coming rail
road the people Of Lake are becoming
extravaganza and are Hivestlng rather
heavily in strawberries This summer.
Two men from Guthrie, Ok stopped
here Wednesday. Tlev were looking
up Il railroad route to extend from
Guthrie to the Northwest by way of
! KiOwa and Medicine Lodge.
The road was long and the way was
dreary, Sc thought Grant Shigley last
Sunday as he drove from Lake to Sun
thence to Deerhead, ARRIVING home il
the twilight, too utterly exhausted ev-
en- to taste of his favorite dish-escal
l1ped oysters.
When we heard the shutting of feet
in the hall of the school house the 9th
er day, we imagined we were at min
strel show and glanced around expect
ing to see one of the end men coming
in with his banjo; but OF! the disap
pointment. 1t was only Jan Skinner
The Hazelton correspondent men
tons the fact that 1.-The school board OF
district % are pasturing calves on the
school grounds" That is the Identical
way they do in Lake. and aSevery pas
sing gust Of wind blows open the door,
we expect to go to church some Sunday
and find white faced COW cOntentedly
| chewing copy books instead of grass
The annual school meeting was hello
Thursday afternoon at the schoo
house, Riley Lake acting as chairman.
The usual business routine was gone
through, Riley Lake being elected Dl-
rector, seven mouths school being de
clded upon, the time Of beginning be
ing left with the board. A tax of nine
mills for the purpose OF paying teacher
and Incidental expenses was levied.
| Everything passed off harmonlously
excepting when the Pierce ambassador
put on his big straw hatiand solemnlS
and majestically walked out of the
room, causing for few moments q
gentle ripple of excitement.