Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-08-16
Sharon items.

Almost flood Saturday afternoon.
Quite lot of sickness reported the
last week.
The Methodists are talking of holding
a camp meeting in Sharon in the near
future.
Sherman Roach returned from the
western part of the state with his
threshing outfit Saturday.
A tremendous downpour of rain Sat-
urday afternoon will benefit the late
corn and put the wheat and alfalfa
ground in splendid shape.
Chas. Cushenbery took unto himself
a "frou" last Wednesday. They went to
keeping house on the Atwell ranch. he
having rented it for one year.
Albert Pelton has contracted the i'm
provement fever (either from a mosqui.
to or humble bee) and is having new
house built on the old homestead.
IL. II. Fair is having some workmen
hanging paper in his store and other
wise improving it on the inside. 1t
when they get through.
The Crawford Cavanaugh land
swap has fallen through because MIR.
Barber who has the Cavanaugh farm
leased for three years, refuses to vacate
without valuable compensation.
Roscoe Davis has been removed to
his fathers home. his condition consid.
cred dangerous. He has typhoid. ma
laria about as bad as any one can have
it, and IS getting worse every day.
Newt McCune Is having his house re.
modelled and more built on. Will have
a seven room house when it is finished
all up which reminds us that he is 60
ing to be one of Barber county's per.
manent fixtures; good.
Frank Daum is having more trouble
than anybody since those twins made
their arrival Thursday, on account of
every one who sees them begging for
one of them. All are we'll and doing
we'll except Frank and he is nearly
crazy with joy.
Mrs. Mary Wood was taken suddenly
and violently i'll at her mothers home,
Mrs. 1. B. Hayes, and they tslegl aphed
for her husband. He came Saturday
morning. DR.. Coleman was sent for
but DR.. Atwell had the case under con.
troll before he arrived. She is Q tt Q r
now.
Sam Stewards new house is going to
be commodious dwelling when it is
finished. That high porch on the east
is dandy. Sam can sit out there in
the evening and look over the Sharon
valley and contemplate the rapid ad.
vance in real estate while admiring the
scenery in general.
Wednesday while in Medicine Lodge
in Seward Field Office we were made
acquainted with Col. John MacGregor
under rather amusing circumstances.
Several were talking about the proba-
BILE yield of corn IN Barber county when
theCol.came in and took part in the con
versatiOn. He said there wouldn't be
more corn raised IN Barber county than
would be used here. After mention.
ing other parts of the county where
there would be little corn, he said
Sharon valley was the most over esti.
mated strip of country in the world;
there were one or two good farms there
and little wormy fruit but the bal.
ance was n. G.. After naming a few
good farms, he began to name some of
the poor ones. He said A. w. Schnel.
les farm was poor, E. C. DAVIS and
Jas. Huffaker's we're no good. Then we
began to grin for he touched on two
sides of our farm land we are willing
to show corn with any one outside of
Sharon valley.) At this juncture Mr.
Field introduced us to the Col. and
told him we lived in Sharon valley,
which produced considerable mirth.
Then he gracefully begged our pardon
for what he had said about Sharon val
ley, especially the wormy fruit. We
believe the Col. is q good natured
whole souled, plain spoken fellow.