Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-07-31
HGzeH0n Items.
G. r. Follett has been visiting friends her.
the past few days.

G. r. Follett has been visiting. friends here
the past few days.
There arebut few bri iges left in this town.
ship and wheat haulers IL IL ever gets dry, will
nave kick coming if they are not fixed up
soon.
Miss Jessie Ford OF Harper has been offered
| the school in district 50 at q salary of $50 for
six months term.
D. w. Stephens left last week to hunt up a
location In Colorado and when he gets loo ated
be will send for Mrs. stephens and that little
democrat TO make home worth having.
Mrs. Ed Pfaff and Miss Lena Robinson have
returned from trip to Gueda Springs much
improved and are speaking in high terms of
tne good enects of the water of the Springs.
T Well. if that rain Friday night supplement-
ed by bigger one Saturday night don't Az
the corn crop in this locality we don't know
what 1t would take to do it for they were 10th
big ones.
Kentucky last week to accompany her mother
back to Barber county and we are satisfied
that means one more Kentucky family in our
midst in the near future.
Friday night during the big rain lightning
struck the hotel and for a time it looked like
1t had killed one Of Mr.. Barmoorc's girls but
after an hours work the DIR. was able to bring
her out all right box car on the Mo- Pa
CHIC track was struck also but not very badly
damaged.
There has been considerable talk of prose.
cutting 6. L.. Martin for brutally beating one
I of his horses one day last week and if the re-
ports are true he deserves to be punished to
the full extent of the law but as we have no
| personal knowledge of the ms tier We can on
| ly form our opinion on what others say. We
| Will say this, that any man who will cruelty
beat and abuse his faithful horse that is doubt
less doing all 1t Is able to assist him in making
living is certainly devoid of any sympathy
| from any source.
We have heard some fault finding and claim.
ing that there was combine among our
| teachers to keep the price up but we can't see
that there ts any more reason against this
than for farmers to unite to force wheat to
dollar per bushel. We are with the teach ers in
this matter. Treat all a like If one class COM
bines let the others do so till we finally get to
! the point where we will all be organized into
| to see whether it'pays or not. Equal rights
! to ali and special privileges to none. ia our
| motto so let them combine to their hearts
| content.
| AS an evidence that Barber county lands are
/ a good Investment we will just uenton the
| fact that J. II. Thompson harvested 80 acres
of wheat from farm that he recently paid
J $50 per acre for and the wheat crop was worth
about SEA So he has the land about clear
panning out: Marion Fox, s0iacres- averaged
| 70 bu.. j. L. Knorp. 40 acres - bu., W. b.
Robinson, 12O acres IL bu., G. E. Knorp. 100
| acres IA bu.. Joe Flynn, ITO acres 26 bu., j. 81.
Thompson. 200 acres % bu. F. A. Eastman.
we think about 200 acres q bu: Joseph Pfan,
A. w. Moore, 30 acres 30 bu. Now this is TAX
J ing II as IL runs and not selecting the best to
make good showing. Some of those men,
toned had wheat that made up in the thirties
but only q part of the fields made these big
yields and we have taken the average.