Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-01-17
Sharon items.
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More like rainy Illinois than Sunny
Kansas these days.
Sheriff Haun was liz Sharon Wednes.
day on a cattle deal.
Chas. Porter, Tom Murphy and Joe
Stolebarger each hauled out quite a
lot Of hog fence last week.
Miss Ruth Good who has spent three
weeks visiting relatives here, returned
to Conwaj Springs Saturday.
Frank Newman began work for Jake
Spangler Monday. AS a general farm
hand he has worked for him before.
Mrs. Nettle Owens sold her Deerhead
| farm Friday to Mr.. Cook whose land
joins the farm he purchased of her.
Trice 81 Son have added a new i'm
| provement to their store in the shape
| of electric lights. Good Investment.
There is to be medicine show in
Sharon all this week. No doubt an.
other fake to rake in" the peoples
dollars, and leave no good in it's wake
Miss Lot,ie Good who has been visit
ing relatives In these parts the past
three weeks, went to the Lodge
Monday to work in the home of j. p.
Hall.
In the display window of the Sharon
Valley State Bank are great many old
COINS. confederate money and money
with history. Herbert Hobbies hob
| by is The Coin of the Rehn."
A gentleman from Newton was here
Friday and Saturday to purchase the
| thoroughbred French Draft mares Of
| A. W. Schnelle. He was too late. Mr..
Schnelle had just traded them for
Greenwood county farm land.
Gene Blackm ore has his house pretty
we'll under way. The frame is mostly
up. 1t is going to improve the appear
ance of that part of the town when he
gets everything fixed up. He Is doing
most Of his own carpentering.
| Tom Smith lost Is head of cattle from
pasturtng stalks mostly in one day.
There have been several heavy losses
| from the same cause in this vicinity
| this winter. Better cut the fodder; it
costs less in the long run. A fodder
shocker is the thing.
A. w. Schnelle has sold his land in
Texas. He realized profit of $500 on
the Investment. He states that his
son, Fred, has also sold out his Texas
holdings and made about 5000 in the
deal. Fred is coming to Sharon Valley
which again shows his good judgment.
Those sensational stories ''by another
correspondent" were such whoppers
| they created no sensation whatever.
The hole in the ground" the tape
worm,'' the Irish order for chickens, )"
the "$25 turkey, '"Sparks' acres of
strawberries, Fairs mammoth de-
partment store" are all wild visions.
We will wager guess that"another
correspondent" in last weeks Index
has been addicted to the bad habit Of
reading such papers as the Mail 81
Breeze, as most of his squlbs were fc-
ton pure and simple. A good many
persons have been accused of writing
them but everyone seems averse to
owning them.
There is on exhibition at The Sharon
| Valley State Bank great display of
old coins that Herbert Hobble has col
lected with great pains and expense.
| The collection contains about 200 coins
of which about $50 are foreign. Some
date back to 1898. The collection con-
tains money from every European ma
ton, parts Of Asia, South America,
China, Japan, Australia, Canada and
Mexico, and $1,000 in original Confed-
crate bills. The Spanish dollar is the
oldest coin in the collection. This dis
play is the finest that has eyer been
! shown in Sharon. Mr.. HObble also has
Chas. Danna Gibson's original draw
ing. "Who Cares,'' and Miss leila
Bays original pen drawing-Kansas'
most talented artist in pen drawing,
also pen used by Gov. Folk of Mis-.
souri,, human teeth secured from the
Iriquois disaster and many other valu-
able curios too numerous to mention
here. Mr.. Hobble is to be congratulate
ed on this fine display. Below is the
history of the Spanish dollar now in
Mr.. Hobbies possession:
HISTORY OF THE SPANISH DOLLAR.
This coin was among the spoils that
were captured by Commodore Perry
when he captured the English fleet a,
the battle of Lake Erie in september
1913. This was bright coin and was
given by him to Mrs. Madison, wife of
President Madison. She afterward
gave it to General Andrew jackson
when he returned to Washington after
the battle of New Orleans. He in re.
turn gave it to General Taylor a short
time before his death which occurred in
1915. General Taylor carried 1t through
the Mexican war as pocket piece and
after the war gave it to jefferson Davis
and the last time he (Davis) saw Gener.