Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-05-23
Sharon items.
Now Will you be goodl

Now will you be good!
How do you like the street grading?
Congratulations to the city council
for ordering the streets graded.
Sharon's business men have done a
big business in corn sleds this spring.
Mrs. Josie Sturgeon of Guilds, Miami
county, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Dol
lard.
Will Langhart and Miss Ruth Good
of the Lodge visited in Sharon Sunday
afternoon.
Sam Cole and Ed Quick went fishing
Friday afternoon and caught nice
string ''of EN-"
Wheat is looking little disappoint-
ing in this vicinity except where it is
On new ground.
Joe Stolebarger went to Kapsas City
Monday with car of cattle and re.
turned Thursday.
Can't begin to report the number of
times Gene Blackmore goes fishing but
he is pretty regular.
Joe Stolebarger has erected a nice
yard fence something modern, substan.
tial, neat and com plete.
Dirt can be haul ed on tie street with
advantage whenever 1t is needed as it
is now well drained since it has been
graded up.
There was an ice cream supper at
Dawson Browns Friday night. There
was large crowd and splendid time
is reported.
Chas. Cushenbery, ST., who has been
tussling with sickness the past ten
days is reported improving under DR..
Atwel's care.
Guy Sparks and Jas. Huffaker each
bought new haystacker and sweep
rake which came Saturday. Now watch
the alfalfa hay go up.
S. w. Hayes, the road boss, com.
menced to grade up main street Tues.
day. Some of the citizens that objected
at first humbly admitted afterwards
that it looked better.
A. W. Schnelle returned home Wed
nesday from trip to Missouri. On
his way home he stopped off a few days
in Greenwood county to look after his
farm there. He says he has ''bo-
nanZa" of farm there.
We are little careless in Sharon
about letting paper blow about 1t
cost the town something last week for
wagon tongue that was broken by a
team getting scared at a large paper
blown around their feet.
Mr.. LOngstreet finished painting I'm.
Gle Billie Wilson's house Saturday
which greatly improves the looks of it
| now since 1T is repapered and painted
inside and two new coats outside. I'm
| Gle Billie wants things to look new,
neat and clean.
Coley Cole, M. p. Dewitt and many
others say every farmer ought to build
fish ponds on their farms as it causes
rain fall in neigkborhood where ponds
are plentiful. Then think of the nice
/ fish one could have whenever they
wanted them.
Uncle Dave Clough has possessed
himself of a new manure spreadel
which he bought of Fair. His head is
on right for the time is not only com
ing but is right here when farmers will
be compelled to resort to manure to
keep up the fertility of their land.
Frank Down went to New Mexico
Tuesday to secure one of those farms
down there that Uncle Sam is giving
away. He returned Saturday full Of
hopes for the future of that country:
says he got dandy" piece of land
Good for Frank for he is hard work
ing and deserving kind of man.
Heard grert many favorable re
marks from farmers in regard to the
street grading in Sharon; they said il
ought to have been done long ago. One
man, a newcomer, said he had intended
to go elsewhere to trade as he disliked
to come to town that showed so little
progress. He will now continue to
trade here.