Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-03-07
Ningona Items.

Miss Coy Martin visited her friend,
Mrs. Tedrow. Tuesday night.
Jesse Shamberger dug well Tuesday.
He had To go seven feet for water.
Mrs. Heise expects to go to her moth
er's near Topeka soon, and make that
her future home
The Doles school closes next Friday
and the Mingona school Monday. The
Mingona school expects to give re
cital Monday night.
Following are those who expect to
move the first of the presen. month:
Dave Funk TO the Heise place; J. g.
Casey 10 town; Bert Groves to the Gus
ey place; Mrs. Woodward to hsr place;
Frank Anderson 30 Colorado; Tom and
Jlp Par TO the Dake place; William
Clarke to the English place; and Tom
Wickersham to the ShutZ place.
tReceived too Late for Last Week.
Mrs. l'edroW visited school Friday.
Mrs Hese IS back on the place again.
Ralph Nurse is building granary
for Mr- Lemon.
MIR Appel moved to his new home on
the.Amck place last week.
Qlite crowd of railroaders attend
ed Sunday school and G. E last Sunday
We have not heard of literary, a
dance or party Except few finch par
ties) this wi1ter.
Mrs. Foster, accompanied by her lit
lie daughter, is here from Missouri
visiting her grandmother, Mis-. Thack-
er.
Both the Mngona and. Forest City
Sunday schools and G. E. are being well
| attended and good interest is manifest
ed
Ga account of vacation in the Ktowa
schools Miss Ermine Osborn spent
Thursday, Friday and Saturday al
home.
Jeff Mills has rented place In Co.
manche county. and expects to soon move
there. With the removal of jeff we
loose one Of the old timers.
Ae'f AAhi oiudoiCi . Ls Will pIo6Cu
after which be will hold sacrament of
the Lords supper at Forest City school
house, Wednes lay night, March 7th.
Mrs. Wesley Reid, who died at Alya
two weeks ago, was Rama Thompson
who lived IN this township with her
parents from the settlement of this
country to the opening of the Strip.
Frank Anderson is selling his house
hold goods, farm implements and stock
preparatory to leave. Bert Strickland
bought his mules and a set of harness
and traded them to Tom Wlckersham
for horse.
The farm trade between MIR. HOag
and Mrs Thacker as announced in the
papers last fall has fallen through.
She is now blowing ground for nice
field of alfalfa.
Dave Funk received telegram last
week, Monday, stating that his brother
Allen, was quite sick at his home in
Wichita of heart disease Dave return.
ed Friday and said his brother was bet
ter. Allen lived with his parents or
the Rayl and Berry ranch about fifteer
| years ago
w. G. Osborn was circulating peti
ton last week for r. F. D. to extend
from Medicine Lodge to Jack Clark
thence north and west to Rev. Sham
5eFger's aud back by the hill road L
town. This is good move, and ough
to be pushed. With an r. F. d, R r
and rural telephone line we will hard
ly know the valley.
There are some strange beings ives
CT Mlngona. There is a nurse who
never tends the sick, an English man
who is anatIvs of America, three smith
who do nothing but farm, palmer
who has not been to the Hol,
Land, a miller who does not run q mil:
a parr which has no price, a dark whicl
Is seldom seen except by daylight,
yoke neither tyrannical nor made t
wear on the neck, two sails upon DIR,
ground. martin with neither feather
nor wing, lemon which is not sour,
CANT which is neither poor nor hungry
and strangest Of all, mills withou
wheels.