Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-04-18
Sharon items.

ter-among the peach trees.
Jake Spangler drives as fine buggy
horse as is seen in this locality.
S. W. Alfred has nice little herd of
Angora goats. They are not so hard to
confine. An ordinary barb wire fence
turns them.
Nate Taylor has rented rs acres of
corn ground of Mr.. Catlin. Nate is an |
Intelligent, industrious young man
and deserves success.
Frank Stone is painting the inside of
bis fine new house this week. Frank is
doing quite business He keeps two
hands most of the time.
How foolish it is for man to work
and drudge for another and not have
spunk enough to demand his wages af-
ter the work is finished.
Wade May field expects to pull his
tent stakes before many days and HE
for the new town that Is to be- located
between Kiowa and Medicine Lodge.
Mrs. Mary Wood and her cousin, Miss
Bessie Watt, of Castleton, Kans, came
Monday to spend few days with Mrs.
Woods mother, the Widow 1. B. Hayes.
Mrs. LID. Vandivier went to Harper
Saturday in company with her grand
daughter and son In law, Andy Ander-
son, to spend few days at the home
Of the latter.
For fine looking alfalfa sown last fall
we refer you to Bob Gaddie's and Frank
Stones fields. They won't have to
wait long to get something to put into
those fine barns of theirs.
Chas. Page was transacting business
; in Sharon Saturday. He says he will
soon have town nearer to his place.
Glad for him, but sorry to lose a good
mans trade from Sharon.
In his remarks Sunday evening Rev.
Brown OF the Christian church said that
he wanted something from us that we
didn't need, that we could not give
away, or sell, or rrade-our sins.
Del Morgan has just gotten back from
trip to Idaho. He says it doesn't suit
MIN out there;there are too many Nor.
mons, Mexicans, ETC., and that Sharon
valley is good enough for him. Good
for Del.
Hiram House left with car of feed
and farm implements for Liberal, Stew
ems county, this state, last Tuesday.
wednesday his father, wife and child
rem followed on the passenger. They
bought 1900 acres out there short time
ago.
.. E. Hardesty, travelling representa-.
tive of the Illinois Life Insurance Co.,
dropped in here from Wichita. The
Illinois Life writes the incest contract
: on the market today. Being western
company, they are more liberal with
the policy holder than an eastern com
pany.
o There ought to be lot more yolun
teer work on the roads again this Spring
leading into Sharon, especially from
the west, On Sand creek west of Jos
StOlebarger's. A. w. Schnelle says he
is going to do his part to fix that road
:. He also intends to work the roads and
keep them in shape along his land
. That is the kind of spirit to manifest
IN this road business.
Chas. Dunkin, who has been making
his home with Chas. Porter for several
e years, had the misfortune to get his
thumb into cog wheel Cd corn
g shelter and had to- have it amputated
at the first joint. He came to Sharon
to have DR.. Atwell dress the wound
but Doc being out of town he went to
Medicine Lodge and DR.. Coleman did
the job. After it was all over he re-.
marked to Mr.. Porter, well. one con
o ISOLATION, I'll not have to 60 to war now
as I'm cripple"
It In the Sunday school lesson last Sun
day the question arose as to the origin
It of Easter Sunday and when and how it
5. is celebrated. Leaving out that part
f about the heather goddess, Ostara,
:, whose rites the Saxons were accus-
toned to celebrate. we will give it as il
!, is given in the encyclopedia: "a Chris
= tian festival held in commemoration OF
the resurrection of our Savior-called
Pasche by the Roman and Greek
u church. 1t is a movable feast, occur.
" ring at any date between March 21si
and April 25th, and by it the other
s. movable feasts of the ecclesiastical
e year are regulated. 1t is held about the
l. same time as the Jewish passover. OF
Paschal feast, although it very seldom
Y happens that the Christian and Jewish
d festivals are observed on the same day
t In the early church this festival lasted
for some days, and catechumens were
then usually admitted to the rite OF
baptism. At present Its celebration is
confined in the Church of England to