Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-08-28
Sun andLake City Happenings

OnaIIey ADAMS ana DETER IVY o.
thirds visited relatives in Sun last
Sunday.
c. w. Hildebrand and wife were
IN Lake last week and supplied the
city with garden truck.
Bessie Bissantz has been quite
sick for the past two or three weeks.
DR.. Hutchinson is her physician.
G. G. Shigley left last Wednes-
day morning for Denver where he
will join his wife and daughter.
Real estate has been whirling
about in Lake City to beat Jesse
for the past two or three weeks.
Terry Lott has smeared his old
buggy over with a coat of red paint
which helps its appearance won.
derfully.
The steady patter of last Tues
days rain caused the ducks and
chickens to meet in joint conven-
ton at old man Jones barn.
| A. ]. Hargis' goo arrived home
from the Kingman fair on Saturday
afternoon looking ragged and dirty
unshaved and without money.
Cashier Freemyer's smile is get.
ting wider every day. He says
the deposits are at high notch
and still they are coming in,glory!"
William Briggs has been away
for some time working with a
bridge gang, but we'll wager that
Willie will not stay away much
longer.
Gene Bullock and his iron-clad
separator have been doing splen-
did business. Will Shuts says he
never saw machine that would
do better work.
While peaches and apples are
not at all in Kansas yet we see
some grapes as we go along. Bill
Ward has some that will make a
man froth at the mouth.
Don't forget the ball game next
Friday afternoon at sur between
Sun and Ccldwater. A dance in
Wards grove the same evening.
Come and give your "rugamug'' a
shake. ~
Rip Van Wrinkle came to Sun
last Friday burdened- down with
watermelons. Daddy means we'll
but he can't tell ripe from green.
The greater part of his life has been
spent in Missouri.
Miss Rose HAMMER who has had
only two or three weeks experience
as clerk in general store, trips
about with the same ease and con.
venience of one who has been in
the business for years.
The Metz lumber yard at this
place received one car of cement
and five cars of lumber last week.
Those who want building material
can get it as cheap in Lake City as
anywhere in the state.
The continued wet weather has
damaged large per cent of the
wheat that remains in the stack,
but for all that the corn, cane and
kafflr corn are going to be some
thing immense. In many instances
the. corn husk is insufficient to con.
ceal the ear.
School ma ans of this acre have
all located their respective places
of performance" for the coming
school year, and while. many OF
them are in the collar for the first
time, yet, they have the qualities
that go long way toward making
their profession a success.
| John Young's nephe " and fam
| lily who recently came up from Ok
lahoma, have moved into the house
formerly occupied by Bert Young.
This family is full of energy ane
industry and are just the kind O
goods that builds up community
Mrs. Young is an active church
| worker.
| Jim Campbell, one of the few
men of this part who does much
and says little, still moves, live.
land is getting his hooks on larg'
Iportion of this worlds goods. jim
was cow puncher in times past
but now has grown to be railroad
magnet, otherwise known as sec
| ton boss.
| The people of Coats have gotter
| improvement in their heads and nc
ordinary thing can get it out. DR.
| Hutchinson has just completed {
large roomy brick structure ano
now that the townsmen are push.
ing the cement sidewalk business
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