Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-10-11
Sun and Lake City Happenings
Cor. INDEX

at HaZelt0n.
Tonk Mills arrived Saturday from
Kansas City.
r. A. Spencer is attending confer.
ence at Norwich.
Judge Lester made a trip to the
Lodge last week.
Miss Belle Redwine anticipates a
trip to Ohio soon.
Fred Waltz and Herman Smith visit.
ed Sunday school at Sun last Sunday a
week.
Owing to sickness at Sun City, Sun
day school was suspended for while
but is moving again in progressive Oh
der.
Suppose Mr.. Harmon Sr., has re-
turned from his western voyage as we
noticed his barque anchored at the old
homestead.
We understand Frank Lockert and
family intend locating in Coats. Frank
IS working on the livery barn at pres.
ent at that place.
Cbas. McLain talks of growing whisk-
ers on The fashion that our fathers used
to wear them Let 'em come. | repeat
it, "let them come"
Mr.. and Mrs. Oliver Blankenship
have their family circle slightly aug
mented of late, ten pound BOY. Pref
ty good, pass the cigars please.
Mrs. Minnie Meaders will unload the
responsibilities of ranch life and move
to the city where she will be convenient
to school and can enjoy much needed
recreation.
The James Frazier threshlng outfit
has been keeping the Lake City com.
munity on the hump for the last two
weeks. Another week Will clean UP
the work here.
Mrs. Olive Thomas who had severe
attack of sickness during the summer
has sufficiently recovered to resume her
music studies. She also begins a new
epoch by subscribing, for the Index.
DIR. Rodgers and your scribe were
honored to complimentary dinner at
the Lahey hotel last Wednesday which
was tip top in every particular, and
that doctor-the way he can eat is a
caution.
Mr.. Clark, the mail man, has treated
himself to an up.to date double seated
hack. This is a big improvement over
the old and good investment. Pas
sengers who patronize him will be tick.
led to death.
That show at Lake City must have
been all right. We know two fellows
by the name of Jan Skinner and Dell
Buck who took it in to their full capaci.
ty at Coats and then made a 26 mile
drive Monday night to absorb 1t again.
That Sun City Cresset correspondent
is firing from ambush. We know not
who they are, nor from whence they
came. Please step out so we can look
upon you that we may exchange con.
CALCULATIONS and talk about things to
be.
Riley Lake leaves this week for
Greenwood county where he has near
ly 700 head of cattle which he will ship
to Kansas City provided the market is
favorable. Mr.. Lake is one of the
most extensive cattle dealers of this
part of the country and any old time he
doesn't make a good deal it isn't Riley.
Homer Hastings was driving along
the road one day when fellow over IN
the field with demijohn in hand made
signs for him to come over and have a
drink. Homer said he "never did re.
fuse good thing" and in his excite
ment and hurry getting to the fellow
knocked down two rows of corn. 1t
happened to be machine oil.
Had chat with Prof Shell the other
day and Notwithstanding he is keeping
guard over nearly As pupils his courage
is undaunted. The Prof. has had "a
years experience as teacher and super.
intendent of public schools, but forty
five pupils are too many for him, not
only for him but for any one, unless we
wish for them to be herded. We have
good school board, however, and they
are awake to this fact and different ar.
rangements are soon to be made.
I'm so bizzy.n IS a common lamen-
tation issuing from the heads of some
people who were never known to do
anything. The very manner In which
they express the sentence accompanied
by, yawn) cortradicts their state
ment. People who are busy as a rule,
never mention it, but luckily this part
OF the country has but few of those
"bizzy bodies" Most all are straight
down the road honest, hard working
people. He that will not work shall
not eat, tho spoken of many years ago,
has not been forgotten.