Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-08-07
H0zeH0n Items.


John Veltman received notice last
week Of a raise m his pension from So
to $l2 per month.
Gene Wright has gone back to Ken
lucky to make a final decision as to
whether It viii be a Kansas sin on a
Kentucky gnl.
Miss Maggie Pfaf ha: been employed
to teach m district s.. Last week II
was thought the board had employed
Miss Ford Of Harper but she notified
the board that she had better offer and
nearer home.
Mrs. L. M. Pressnall, another good
christian woman. departed this life sun
day morning. after a long Illness. She
was good woman, highly esteemed by
all who knew her. She and her hus-
band have resided m this locality for
perhaps twenty years and during all this
tune we have never heard a word
against her. The funeral was held at
the c. P. Church on Monday and the
remains laid to rest IN Rose Hill Gene
tery.One by one we are fast passing from
this to better world, where sickness.
sorrow and death can never enter. 1t is
a great comfort to know that when one
like Mrs. Pressnall goes she is admitted
to that place. The friends and relatives
have the sympathy Of host Of people
In their bereavement.
A few more seasons like last and this one
will convince good many farmers that
it pays to stack their wheat. 1t is the
cheapest even # we didn't have any
rams on the wheat. Wheat left In the
shock Is very apt to be more or less
bleached before it is threshed and not IN
condition to bring the highest price.
Some clam that they would stack If it
were not for the scarcity Of labor, but
the same labor is required when they
thresh out Of the shock. -Four men and
two teams can stack from 10 to II acres
day and after the stacking is done
and the rains come they could 20 to
blowing for another crop without losing
any time waiting for the machine which is
sufficient inducement for farmers to stack
their wheat. The recent rains have wet
wheat that IS shocked from top to bot
tom and much damaged wheat is being
threshed.
Mrs. Mamie Drake. wife Of B. l.
Drake, died at the Wichita hospital Frii-
day night from the effects Of an opera
ton for rupture and was brought home
Saturday. Funeral services were held at
the c. P. church IN Hazelton Saturday
morning. Rev. II. w. Cummins Of Cald-
well preached the funeral sermon to one
OF the largest congregations perhaps.ever
assembled IN the church. after which the
remains were laid to rest IN Rose Hill
cemetery. Mrs. Drake was one Of the
best women that ever lived. She wa. a
very faithful worker IN the church and
Sunday school and was an everyday
christian, one whose example one could
safely follow and we know Of no one
who would be missed more in the church
and Sunday school than Mrs. Drake.
But her good deeds and Christian work
did not stop at the church, she was al
ways ready to assist those IN trouble and
IN sickness she was always doing all she
could to assist suffering humanity. No
one will be missed more than she viii be
among not only the churches and Sum
day schools, but among neighbors and
friends as well, and while it is sad to have
to part with those who are doing SC
much good for the people yet it is a
pleasure to be able to say that she was a
good christian woman, an afecfionate
wife and mother and that she lived a life
that is worthy Of imitation by Others
The grief aricken family has the sympa.
thy Of host Of warm-hearted friends al
over this community.