Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-07-10
Sun and Lake City Happenings


Mrs. Jacobs, her son and daugh.
ter spent the Fourth in Kiowa.
The busiest time of the year is
now on, tho it will be of short du-
ration.
Miss Flora HAMMER recently
spent week in Goats with her sis.
ter, Mrs. ]. F. Skinner.
Lloyd Latchaw and wife went
to the Lodge last Saturday to
prowl around for awhile.
The corn crop thus far promises
to be as good as last year. If this
should be true the luck is good.
Miss Cornea Purdy went to Bel
vldere last Friday morning to Wis
1T awhile with her grand parents.
The natural bridge folks had a
delightful time but we imagine
they were pretty we'll Shot" when
the day was done.
An eleven and half pound girl
baby was born to Oliver Blanken-
ship and wife Monday night, July
Ist. DR.. Rodgers was there to
perform the usual part.
The Skinner ranch seems natur-
al again since Fred Phye and ia
Their have come back. Fred was
IN the thickest of the tornado at
the Lodge but he carries no scars
or gray hairs.
A shooting match occurred on
Main street of Lake recently be-
tween Charley Hildebrand of
Deerhead and one of Lake City's
sportsmen. Deerhead won the
chicken; for particulars see Riley
Lake.
John Young has created a new
industry-that of raising skunks;
this is something out of the ordi-
nary and of course there will be a
rush in the skunk business before
Johnnie is much older.
Rollie Bib came down to the
Bibb ranch last week where he is
holding down the position of first
assistant kitchen mechanic. If
Rollie bankers carter" this Job as
ne does music his services will
surely give the best of satisfaction.
: Had opportunity to see the
wreck and ruin of Medicine Lodge
last Thursday and to see how
people escaped with their lives is
more than we can figure out; sup
ernatural power must have played
a very important part at the crit.
cal moment.
It's with vain regrets that we
learn that Jackson Clark's connec.
ton with the Sun and Medicine
Lodge hack line is a thing of the
bygone. Rain or shine, Jack push
ed out provided it suited the mail
carrier. Here's wishing him an
other good job of a similar kind.
After the push" is over Bert
Carr talks of going up in Nebraska,
accompanied by our bosom friend
John Sines) where he aims to blow
himself for some real estate; a good
idea Bert, get you a coy little
home and, cas- the feller SAYS" get
married and all things else shall be
added unto you.
Walter Saunders returned re.
Gently from Mexico where he spent
several weeks just to satisfy his
curiosity. He says the particular
place he visited was all hills, hol-
lows and rocks and the people lived
on rabbit tracks. "No Mexico for
Willie" says he.
A crowd of Lakeites (all sizes)
loaded themselves on a hay rack
last Thursday and headed toward
the natural bridge where they
spent the day celebrating the Clio
rious Fourth as all good people
should do. According to reports
they must have had a rare time.
The families of Shigley, Red wine.
Campbell, HAMMER, and Harper
were represented. Fred Lake was
the only bachelor on the spot.
That the land lying along the
Medicine river has special adapta-
bility for producing alfalfa, needs
no proof other than for one to take
a careless glance at the immense
quantity of hay that is taken care
of each season. In our limited OBJ
servation we have seen several
alfalfa fields in Kansas, but have
not yet seen any spot that will be-
gin to grow the plant so vigorous
ly as it does along the Medicine;
for instance A. ]. Hargis has grown
alfalfa on his place this year near