Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-02-07
Sun and Lake City Happenings
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III iasI frl0ay.
Louis Bissahtz, received a car load of
flour last week.
Miss Pet Thompson visited with Lola
Shuts last Monday.
Mrs. Morg Adams Is very sick with
iLflammatory rheumatism.
Mrs. Lon DAVIS made a short visit
with Lake friends last week.
G. 6 ShIgley aud daughter took in
the Lodge last Wednesday.
Frank Cooke is the Lake City barber
Try one of his clean shaves.
.. j. Corliss is past navigating this
week. Something very unusual.
Bert Young killed an eagle last week
that measured feet from tip to tip.
COnfound If this isn't the dullest week
yet, nothing going on but tobacco
chawin.'
This beautiful winter weather means
many extra dollars in the pocket of the
cattlemen.
Mrs. BssantZ, Miss Grace and Roy
made brief stop at the Pierce hotel
last Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dowell, of Wellsford,
visited last Saturday and Sunday with
Mrs. Olive Thomas.
The Coats aud Southwestern Tele
phone Co. have extended their line west
as far Belvidere.
Harry Clements says "a boomin' lit
crazy at the Clements school house ev-
cry Friday evening""
Drummers Warstein, BLY, and Ander-
son, were in Sun aud Lake last week
singing their little song.
Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac Mccullough have
occupied the DR.. Rogers house and are
as snug as bug In a rug.
III. w. Skinner has moved bunch of
cattle to the Cooke ranch where he will
administer the oil cake freely.
Chas. Marsh after sailing about for
some time in search of place, has FIN.
ally landed at the Warstaff homestead.
Bullock and Balding are getting
along rapidly with the Sun hotel and
will soon have 1t in sufficient shape for
dance.
Frank Buck was In town Saturday
laying in stuff for next Xmas. Frank
Is all right, and knows when he is up
against bargain.
A man named Fullington of Kiowa
has rented Mrs. Meaders' place. This
is the result of an "a !" in just one
number of the Index.
Prairie chickens are wood hunting
this week; they think it's great thing
to have in family where there are
children. Sure thing.
T.. Ii. Parr of MingOna came to
Lake City Saturday evening to attend
lodge and seemed to be in the proper
mood to cruelty candidate.
Noah Mills has changed his walks of
late by pulling his freight across the
sand draw which is same as work, but
says he-"It's dis as easy"
Lake and Sun had might as we'll quit
chewing the rag about the railroad as
1t neither adds to nor takes from IN the
least. The subject is already worn to
a fragile and then little.
A disease, not very we'll understood
is killing off quite a number of horses
in this part of the country; so as to
make the loss as small as possible, Roll
Ward skins them and sees that their
shoes are taken care of.
What about young men.(?) who will
saunter about at the dead hour of night
and Just for fun crash the windows
Of church or school house. Such
characters are objects of pity and need
remodling the worst way.
You can't always tell what's in a
mans head, was struck by the idea that
the Index correspondents should dig"
just little harder to make their items
more interesting, for it may be that the
"head men" should like to give their
little helpers some kind of a picnic
when the summer days get long.
Horse dealers are acting scandalous
of late. Walt Sears sold team for $3.50,
Clarence Harris released his outfit for
S175 and Nal Eubanks bought the John
Adams Blacks just happened to
think while speaking Of horses, that
someone said Nal was going into bust
ness by himself, that's all right If he is,
and it's nobody's business If he does get
married. This thing of counting ten or
fifteen years isn't what it's cracked up
to be anyway.
Sheriff Brattain ofGrant county, is
visiting with old friends in Alva, He is
on his return home from looking after
land interests in Woodward county.
He is an old Barber county man and
wall known IN MANY of our cytizana