Barbour County index., 1907-07-24

Cecile Lewis received message on
Monday Stating that his brother was very
critically Ill at Hutchinson. He left I'M
mediately for his brothers bedside.
H. H. Case went to Kansas City
Monday to confer with President Van
Laningham Of the Great Western Life
and to attend to other buiness.
Dick Collins and wife have returned
from Harper. Mr.. Collins will work at
the carpenter trade again and Mrs. COL
hns has re-opeaed the Handy Kitchen" !"
She has purchased ]. c. Walstads con-
fectionery and will conduct business there
until Vim. Schmidt's new brick building
is built when she will sccupy one Of the
rooms.
The kiowa Journal has discarded the
old eight column blanket size and comes
out IN neat six-column quarto. The
Journal, by the way, has shown mark
ed Improvement since Bro. Cox took hold
Of it. When Harry Glenn. the owner,
was appointed postmaster at kiowa he
had so much on his hands that he could
not do the paper justice and he finally
leased to Mr.. Cox.
Geo. Stewart of Sharon township
came very near getting knockout blow
Saturday and will be laid up for several
weeks. While bridling a mule the mule
threw him across the manger breaking
three Of his ribs and producing slight
conclusion Of the brain. George was
unconscious until Sunday night when he
was revived to consciousness. DR.. Don
ovan attended him and thinks he will
recover rapidly with no permanent dis
abilities following.
Late news from the bedside Of Mrs.
Verne Gibbs at Bethany hospital con-
tinues to be encouraging. Aletter receiv-
ed by w. L. Bragg from Mr.. Gibbs
Monday States that specialist had jua
made careful examination of Mrs,
Gihts condition and he reports no rea-
son why she should not recover. How
ever, he thinks it will require about six
months for her to be able to walk. Mr..
Gibbs expects to bring her home within
the next two weeks.
Henry Wisner Of Chicago, brother of
Charley Wisner Of Sharon township, ar
rived last Thursday to visit and possibly
to locate. He had not seen Barber
county for twenty-five years and things
looked so differently that he could not
realize that he had ever been here before.
When the Wisner boys FIRST struck south
em Kansas in the '7Os the sod house
was the prevailing habitaton and the
buffalo and Indian had undisputed pos
session Of the public domain. Fences
and farms and orchards were not even
thought about and altogether there was
little prospect Of settlement at that time.
They made several trips out and back
but in 1882 Henry concluded to give it
up and go back to Chicago and stay
while Charley renamed. Nov Henry
has almost concluded to return again.
He was greatly surprised to see the
Sharon Valley as it is today contrased
with what it was twenty-five years ago.
The kiowa News-Reyiew's criticism
Of the M. E. ladies Of this city is very
unjust and entirely unprovoked. The
Review states that while the ladies
OF the church at kiowa are assisting to
relieve the tornado sufferers Of this city,
the M. E. ladies Of this city are selling
cook books to beaudfy their parsonage.
The fact is that the books were on the
press before the tornado befell the city;
the ladies. early in the spring, undertook
to raise funds to build new parsonage,
the old one having become unsafe as a
dwelling house, and the cook book ven
tre is only small portion Of what they
have done to raise funds. Since the
storm they have given a great deal Of
their time toward assisting the victims of
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