Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-08-22
Sharon items.


S. w. Alfred shipped car of melons
on Saturday.
cattle from here Monday.
Homer White went to Pratt last
Tuesday, returning Wednesday.
A. G. Brown started Saturday for
OsDorne, Kansas, TO attend conference.
A little girl got badly hurt at the ball
game Thursday by being hit by a ball.
Jake Walstad of the Lodge furnish
ed music for the dance Thursday night.
Jesse Hogue returned home from a
trip to his farm in the strip Wednesday.
A great sprinkling of Medicine Lodg
ers we're in evidence at the 5. S. picnic
Thursday.
When 1t comes to ball playing '.Oii
Man Davis'' is all right. Will Ormis.
ton is not slow.
A. l.. GRUMPY unloaded car of hors-
es and implements and household goods
here Friday. He is moving on the At
we'll ranch.
Gentlemen can't settle their Difficult.
ties by fighting, clawing and biting. It
makes matters worse.
Many a wise (?) guy acts as though
he thought he was somebody when in
reality he is only some thing.
Mr.. Baur from Nebraska and J. w.
Baur and son of LyOn county, Kans.,
were visitors last week at the Globe
Hotel.
3 f. BiackmOre has had his old resi-.
dence torn down and Is having a MOD
ern cottage erected in its place. Size
26x2S.
The Sunday school picnic last Thurs
day was well attended. Good exercises
and splendid speaking. This was the
2lst annua; picnic at this place.
Sharon's nine should get one or two
more good players and then challenge
Kiowa and Harper. There would be
crowd in the old town then.
If every farmer would take the
trouble that Marvin Crawford and his
father does to rid the county of Russian
thistles and cookie burs it would be
fine thing.
Jake Ketchder unloaded a car of
household goods and farming nipple.
mentS here Saturday. He comes from
Sedgw' OK and moves on the Dell Nor.
gan farm.
The engine on the east bound train
baked at Sharon Friday and they had
to send to Attica for another engine be-
fore thew could go any farther.
Will Robinson of Cherokee. Oklaho-
ma, is visiting his parents and brother.
Joe. at this place He started home
FRIDAY but the old engine played out so
he had to wait until Monday.
Will RDdertck IS the last man In this
| vicinity to sell himself out of house and
home. He sold to an eastern man one
dav last week. Will hasen't the re
hottest idea what he will do or where
he will go.
Mrs. Dora Hayes of Superior. Neb,
who has been here some weeks putting
up some of the Sharon Valley fruit that
was otherwise going to waste, started
home Friday with her fruit.
Quite crowd left here Friday for
the Klngman fair, among which were
Miss Kate Roderick. Miss Minnie
Kemp, Claude Stockstlll and his girl.
| Ounce Reynolds, Walt Brewer, Will
| LIndner. John Burgett. Jim Brown and
| wife, Arthur Maddox, Frank Barber.
Owen Dawson got home Saturday
from trip to Iowa. While there he
bought a piece of Iowa land at $44 per
acre. He will do we'll if he makes as
as he made in Barber county in the
| same length of time.
| AS result of SIX months quarrel
| between two of our citizens, they
came together Thursday and when they
parted one had piece pinched out of
his nose and the other had his chin bit.
ten clean off and the piece lost, so he
had to go to the hospital and have a
piece grated in. And still the quarrel
isn't settled.
| Medicine Lodge need not think that
she is the only town that harbors citi.
zen that can write description of their
neighborhood and thereby win a prize.
Miss Alpha Tincher in about five min.
ntes time, wrote description of the
ueighbOrhood in which she lives just
for pastime) and they wrote her that
her letter had been accepted and they
would give her pass over the Santa
Fe anywhere in Kansas and return.
She will take hers to Kansas City and
60 on to Browning, Mo-. to visit rela.
tives two or three weeks before her
school begins. She starts today IN on.
day.. Miss Alpha is to be congra tn
lated on her success we believe the pa.
per that awarded her the prize Is call.
| ed 1.-The Earth.''
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