Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-08-01
Sharon items.
Everything in the Valley is flourish

&C. Fair and Jack Trice drove to
the Lodge Tuesday.
Joe Murphy has his wheat ground
nearly all plowed, about 20 acres.
F. E. chatham of Hutchinson visited
in Sharon several days last week.
James Wood and wife went to Wich-
ita Saturday to visit his mother.
The Catholics are going to have the
finest looking church in town when it
is finished.
A wagon show came to town to-day
(Monday). Little boys will want
quarter now.
A large crowd was in town Saturday
to attend the ball game between Attica
and Sharon mines.
Fl. II. Fair has returned from Gueda
Springs, where he has been taking
treatment for rheumatism.
Clarence McCune hauled out the first
load of new furniture Friday since he
arrived home with that Missouri bride
of his.
Rev. Hamlln of Fort Scott returned
home Saturday after holding success
full series of meetings at the Church of
God.
Mrs. Emerson Lieurence OF Drift.
wood, Oklahoma, sister of Mrs. Chas.
Fair, died. They have gone to attend
her funeral.
Hundreds of bushels of unripe apples
are going to waste in the orchards of
Sharon Valley since the hard wind sey
eral nights ago.
Mrs. Murray Parres East st. Louis,
sister of Mrs. II. H. Fair, who has been
visiting here for several days past, left
for home Monday.
Rev. Robinson went to the Strip Sat-
urday to accompany his better half
home who has been visiting her chill
dren the past few weeks.
CSome parts of Nebraska are very dry,
corn already burned up, according to
Mrs. Lucy Woods. Didd't they have
the same "wet" moon we had here.
ElmerT homas was back in this valley
from Franklin county, this state, the
past week. We guess that girl OF his is
the main cause of his return so soon.
Mrs. Lucy Woods, Mrs. Sarah Hayes
and Tom Hayes were all down from
Nebraska Tuesday to attend the pro-
batting of the estate of their father, the
late 1. B. Hayes.
The stork land rain together) brought
another baby to the town of Sharon.
This TINA girl to Mrs. Rena Fuller.
ton who is at tits time staying with her
mother, Mrs. DAVID Clough.
Sheriff came over Wednesday and ar
rested Albert Ogier for contempt of
court. 1t seems that Albert went over
to the Lodge Tuesday but didn't 60 and
report to the judge as he ought but
went home again.
All we'll wishers of the relatives of
the late 1. B. Hayes, would like to see
the different parties interested get to.
gether on some equitable understand.
ing and not drag the affairs of the set
Element through long litigation and
the lawyers get the lions share.
How much better our roads would
look if the weeds were kept moved
down. May the time soon come in Sha.
ron Valley when every property owner
will take pride in keeping all weeds
down around his fences, not only the
Russian thlsle, but sunfiowers and
cookie burrs.
Merrill A. Tague in August Every
bodys pays his respects to the bucket.
shop thieves in fine style. He names
the firms who are running an illigiti-
mate gambling business and promises
next month to tell the victims of
these thieves how to recover their mon.
ey. We doubt if Sharon has even one
person who has so little sense as to lose
money that way.
Charles Edward Russell In August
Everybodys tells how Japan Is acquir
ing the ownership of nearly all the
large industries and constantly reach
ing out after more. 1t teaches the PEG.
pie of this country that in order to
keep little japan from outstripping us
in the commerce of the world we should
have government ownership of every
thing like railroads, oil wells. gold and
silver mines and in fact every indus.
try that is being gobbled up by a trust.
A writer in July Review of Reviews.
says concerning the patent medicine
evil: I'VE hang murderers In order
that they may find no further victims;
we lock up thieves that our property
may remain safe; we allow patent
medicine monsters to murder and to
steal without restraint. The proprie.
tors of these nostrums are to be class.
ed as moral perverts, for while they