Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-05-16
Sharon items.

The horse dentist is In Sharon again.
Mrs. Jno. Reynolds is not so well
again we are sorry to say.
The way the wind whipped up the
dust Saturday wasn't tame.
Miss Hattie Newsom got home Mon
day from visit to Norman, Oklahoma.
we are pleased to report Joe Robin.
son out of danger and rapidly recover
ing.
Billie Haun was in our midst Thurs.
day collecting taxes on warrant and
getting jurors.
The Shafonites vino have been break
ing prairie on the Walton ranch have
all come home as, it is too dry.
Mrs. Mary Bland returned Monday
from attending two weeks meeting of
the Church of God at Arkansas City.
Miss Madge Cory OF Harper who has
been visiting he Trices and Newsoms
the past week returned home Saturday
Theodore Williamson of near Terre
Haute, Indiana, is visiting his sister,
Mrs. l.. ID. Vandivler. He came Fri
day.
PAINTERS from Atticd have just fin
lshed painting III. I'll. Fairs residence.
Considering everything Hyder has the
incest property III town.
David ClOugh last week bought the
VIM. Rule alfalfa block in Sharon and
will build nice house on it soon after
harvest. Consideration $3.50.
There will be a meetin g at the Sha-
ron cemetery May Oath to clean up for
Decoration Day. All who are inter
ested should be on hand to help in the
| work.
The Catholic people have some of the
| lumber on the ground to build church.
1t will be on the same street with the
other two church buildings and on the
same side of the street, just in front of
Henry Rules house.
| Arthur Wier, first class barber, was
helping w. S. Dollard in his shop Sat
urday and will continue to do so every
Saturday the rest of the season. This
is good news for the boys, especially
since Wade Mayfeld has discontinued
shaving.
The city council met with the town
ship board Monday night and made ar
rangements to grade up the main street.
Some are kicking about their taking
the dirt from the sides but 1t is the on
ly feasible way at present, as there is
but little money available for such pur.
poses.
In his letter to his parents from San
Francisco Ralph Wisner says: the sight
OF ruined buildings was simply awful.
He was sent from Leavenworth with
his company of signal and linemen to
help put up the wires that had been
destroyed in the earthquake. Ralph
says he enjoyed the trip out there.
Grandma Robinson came very near
being fatally burned one day last week
while burning out chicken roosts and
nest boxes Her dress caught fire in
the back and she didn't know it until
her dress was burned to her waist she
went into the house when the folks
discovered she was afire and put it out.
lie was narrow escape.
Rev. VOsberg said in bis sermon Sun.
day morning that some people thought
because God was merciful he would al.
low them to enter into heaven some
way even if they did fail to comply
strictly with his word, or experience
salvation, in this world, but God could
not go back on his word and allow sin
ners to enter heaven. as sin co ming in
to the world is what worked havoc here
and it would do the same in heaven.
A. G. Brown and Jas. Huffaker each
circulated petition last week fayorine
the free denaturalized alcohol bill
Nearly everyone signed one or the othel
, of the petitions. The bill has ALREADY
passed the house by vote of 224 to Z
but in the senate the bill has been re
ferred to the finance committee. Sena
tor Aldrich, chairman of the com
> mittee, is connected with Standard o.
J and will probably attempt to strangl,
, the bill in committee, as the alcohol is
intended to be used for fuel.