Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-03-28
Sun and Lake City Happenings
Cor. INDEX

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Mrs. Eugene Bullock was quite sick
last week.
Mrs. Doc Koark was seriously sick
last Wednesday.
Mrs. William Nichols rolled into
Lake last Saturday afternoon.
Mr.. Knowles has acted sociaple by
placing a phone in his residence.
A. j. HargIs is to have sale of
horses and colts soon. Get ready for It.
Miss Goldie Ward - sufficiently re-
covered from her sickness TO make jolly
again.
Robt. Bargin and wife "plum' from
the head of the Mulberry were in Lake
last Saturday.
The recent cold weather is making
the cattlemen look down their nose on
account of scarcity of feed.
With Uncle Ruben Lake to boss the
job, the hardware building at Lake
City is going up in rack.
Mrs, Meaders and children have re-
turned home after several days visit
with Mrs. James Smith Of Coats.
Wortie Bbb of Coats has been drag.
gng around over his fathers dominion
near Sun City during the past week.
George Myers of Burns, Kansas, IS
here dehorning the cattle recently pur-
chased by Mrs. Barker of Riley Lake.
Fred Fullington is moving his earth
~ stuff 10 the MeaderS ranch where he
will make things buzz for the next year.
The little daughter of George Walker
had the misfortune to break her arm
last week. DIR. Hutchinson set it right
gain.
Frank Eager is enjoying a visit with
his parents. lie has a good job at Pratt
and is the kind of boy that will hold
it down.
Master Donald Skinner came out to
the old familiar ranch last week and
with an air rifl3 is making the pigs
squeal and cows bawl.
Mrs Olive Thomas is mighty good
saleswoman IN the absence of her 'hub-
be-" she turned several head of cattle
last week and received cash in hand.
Friday, Saturday aud Sunday-such
dtizzly liZZiy grizzly days they were but
stop growing about the weather, the
sender of these things is author of us
all.
Miss PAttie Cooke left tho city last
Saturday for home and 1t looks strange
that Mr.. Cooper can always tell when
Miss Pattie wants to go any place, but
he surely can.
Every Lake Cityite should Lear Frank
Dixon at Medicine Lodge, Monday
evening, April oh. He carries some OF
the best recommendations known to
platform orators.
Got any old thing that the raying ap-
petite of Kansan may desire. For
big herds of various kinds of cattle go
to a. j. Hargis, Riley Lake or II. w.
Skinner, but for the genuine clean
white face" drop in at Tonk Mills,
he has 'em all the way from nothing
old to three years. Yes, and there is
IL. M. Blankenship, D. j. Corliss, Joe
Massey, George Lott, Charles Marty
and many others who are by no means
the caboose in the cattle business. But
the cattlernen haven't the world blythe
tail yet. There's Lewis Bissantz,
mercantile man, who has the Sun City
country monopoliZed-all but one little
corner-and Is making ''slathers" OF
money. Yes-sir. ee- bob and there's G..
g. Shlgley who has been playing store
keeper for nearly score of years and
is turning more goods, making more
money, than any merchant in the state
of the same amount of capital. That's
no lie. Joining G. G.. is the hardware
tirm-we call them 1.-The Boys" They
started up oyer a year ago strapped"
you might say. but their business has
grown immensely, so much so, they
find it necessary to build larger ware.
house. But hold on there, these store
men haven't their heel on the United
States yet. by a little. There's the
Pierce and Lahey hotels that are doing
hourishlng independent business and
don't ask any one to daddy them. So
much for Pierce aud Lahey, but even
they should bear in mind that they're
not the whole cheese by long shot, for
there is Charley McLaln, the best black
smith in town, who gets more pound.
ing than he can do sometimes-0ther
times not enough. Pardon us for
breaking the yarn but if an fastener
should come around making sport of
these gyp nobs, bad roads and small
towns say unto him, Thou fool" but
pay for his dinner and lend him
money to get home.
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