Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-10-16
Sun and Lake City happenings

/ The land merchandise house is
doing business.
Ralph Massey enrolled at the
Hutchinson business college Mon
day.
]. c. White and L. M. Brady If
Ohio are stopping at the Likes
home.
We are told that M. F. Casio is
losing some of his cattle from
black leg.
| Sam Eager and son are putting
up a string of hog fence for John
Campbell.
Misses Grace Bissantz and Chloe
Harmon attended the lecture at
Lake Saturday night.
Frank Cooke, the night hawk,
came grinding into Lake City af-
ter shutdown Saturday evening.
j.. M. Bickel was in this locality
last week taking an observation of
the old gyp plant.
Albert Heflin gave his daughter
Pearl surprise party last Friday
night, it being her 18th birthday.
Prof. Walsh and wife will give
their school an hours spelling next
Friday night. All we'll behaved
people are invited.
Charley Marsh has purchased
the pump gun formerly owned by
John Purdy. Better look out
Charley is a 'sbadin."
Real Estate McOsker made a
flight into Lake last Tuesday but
didn't even stay for dinner. He
returned on the flyer for Kiowa.
IF the present birth rate contin-
ues about here guess it will be
necessary to import a few extra
nurses. There's been something
doing lately.
Miss Tracy Likes left last Satur.
day to take Frank Williams place
as teacher for few weeks. Mr..
Williams has been off duty for
several days.
Quite number of railroad me-
guls came up last week to pass
judgment on the spur which is be-
ing attached to the main line a
few miles east of Belvidere.
DR.. Martindale's lecture Saturday
night pertaining to his recent trip
to Europe was interesting in every
detail. He gave the same talk TO
the Deerhead people Sunday.
| The boys, Homer and Ed, surely
didn't find anything up in Nebras-
ka that : looked good to Willie.
They came back home believing
Barber county to be genuine par
adise.
Milt Ward is erecting a place to
live in in the north part of the city;
the building was begun first of last
week and will likely be completed
before another sunset. Quick
work, eh?
The same old story-a boy baby
born to Tom Marsh and wife last
Wednesday. Tom claims to be a
democrat but he seems to be advo-
eating the Roosevelt doctrine
straight through.
Arepublican boy baby was born
to the Lake City banker and wife
last Friday:David is unusually iol-
ly and seems to be already reioic-
ing in the thought that his son
may some day cast his vote for the
republican party.
The field of Alfalfa lying lust
west Of Lake, owned by A. ]. Har-
gis, is subject of comment by all
who see it. The yield is so great
that space can hardly he found to
build the ricks. There are about 80
ricks 80 feet long by IS feet wide,
standing high in the air, occupying
8 acres.
1t appears here that these old
second hand threshing outfits are
poor stuff to take the plaster off
mans farm or to paw mis- store bill,
or even pay for an old yaller hen
and chickens. Geo. Foster has one
of these figs and of course. as
natural consequence, it is adver-
tised for sale and George, like the
label on a bottle, is not in it. He
says he's not going to tamper with
the darned things any more.
Stop that crying and go to Muir
ray Davis and get your meat. He
will dry your tears and quiet that
raving hunger by giving you
chunk of tenderloin, spare ribbs or