Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-04-11
Sharon items.

ton.
Frank Rucker is putting down well
on the block he purchased of Grandpa
b lackmore. viii build soon.
Bud Crews, Sherman Roach and Jno.
Bdrkett all went to break prairie on
the Walton ranch Tuesday.
Wheat and alfalfa are simply boom
ing since spring opened up. Another
week and the fruit trees will be in full
bloom.
Jno. Luthy put up porch fer Uncle
Billie Wilson Friday. Auntte and Uncle
Billie expect to move into thel- new
home this week.
Frank Brayton, one of Harper coun.
ty 8 prosperous young farmers, was
over to Sharon Saturday looking about
manure spreader.
Geo. Jones got the house he bought
from Howard Stone into town Sunday
after three or four days delay and bad
luck. He had on six teams.
The man who neglects to feed and
care for his faithful horses regularly,
while he at the same time INDUCES in
the luxuries of life, rs not very good
steward.
Dawson Brown came in Monday from
New Mexico where he took up a home
stead. He returned to that country
again Tuesday evening .-Attica indie.
pendent.
A. w. Schaelle took four loads of fat
cattle to market Wednesday. On his
return he stopped ia Greenwood county,
where he has farm, to look after bus
mess there.
Herbert Newsom is troubled with a
hurting in his side the last week. 1t
has been botherlng him every spring
for some two or three years. Nothing
serious we hope.
We are told that the Catholic fratern.
ity did not buy ground of Geo. Stewart
for cemetery. We make this correc.
ton for the benefit of interested parties.
We told 1t 1t was told to US.
Nicholas Brown got home Thursday
after three weeks absence in New Mex.
leo. He filed on claim while there.
He thinks that great country and a
good place to make money fast.
Mrs. VIM. Rule is able to be up again
after long, hard spell of sickness, hut
Mrs. Reynolds is still no better. Her
nurse, Mrs. johnson, informs US she
IS not suffering as much as formerly.
MIR. and Mrs. Jas. Crawford were in
Sharon Friday getting some new furni
ture. They will live in one of Marvin
Crawford's houses, where the Widow
Walgamott, now Mrs. Aaron Schnelle,
used to live.
Lon Gibbs has purchased some lots
OF Frank Rucker just across the stree.
in front of 'Pa" Trice's. 1t Will soon
be in order for some more treats, ha!
ha. Hope Wen get an Invite" to the
wedding. Say, Lon, do we stand in?
The writer knew VIM. McMurtry IN
Rice county years ago, before he came
one fall. We understand he was the
organizer of the Enon Baptist church
The members are fixing it up by paint
ing and improving it at present. Get.
ting ready for the event of the 18th
instant.
April 18th will be the Goth anniver-
sary of the organization of the Enon
Baptist church east of Sharon, and the
occasion will be celebrated by having
every living minister who ever preached
there to be presen VIM. McMurtry
a noble old man, for merly of Rice
county, who organized that church,
died some years ago.
Grandpa Schnelle came out from Mis-
souri, Thursday to visit with his child.
rem for few days. He is still enjoy.
ing good health. Said he to the writer,
you are not doing your duty very
well. We are taking the Index espec-
tally to get the news from here, try and
give US more news" He doesn't know
how modest the people are here about
telling the news, even when asked. or
he would have praised us "a little bit''
for doing as we'll as we do.
Herbert Hobble says he will head a
subscription list with SO to go for work
on tie street in the center of town. It's
not street, man, it's mud hole, a
cistern. The business men had just
as well submit to having the street
graded up from each side, the only
practical method at this time. 1t will
be much better to have the bitches on
either side than to have it so low in the
center that there is no way for the
water to escape, except to sink down
and leave quagmire in the street.
Some seem to think there is no use to
fill it up with dirt; they'll simply have
to be shown, that's all. 1t can be sue.
cessfully demonstrated in short time