Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-09-04

All are invited to attend.-Sec,y.
Elder Barnum did fhe auetioneer act
at the Williams sale Saturday and no
body will believe any longer tina, he is
an amateur. He handled it like pro-
Judge Garrison began the weeks
business Monday by making two souls
happy. Bonnie Belcher and Hettie Root
both Of Cherokee, Oklahoma, were the
parties to the fortune.
An exchange sizes the railroad service
up this way. and he is nearly right: IF
you order goods by freight your grand
children will get them; if you have them
sent by express you will have to mortgage
your estate to pay for them.'
There was a great deal Of disapoint-
ment among the knocking" fraternity,
when school opened Monday 1t was
freely predicted up to the latter part Of
last week that the school house would
not be ready. The 81 told you Sc"
crowd was knocked out for once.
There will be sale Of the remnants
and slightly damaged goods cf the L. T.
Williams Stock held in the Cook block
Sept 9TH. China, Furniture
and many useful articles on sale. This
sale is in charge Of the M. E. Ladies
Aid Society. Col. John MacGregor,
aueai0neer. Sale begins at 2 p. m.
Roy Stafford. publisher of the Daily
Oklahoman Of Oklahoma City and a
former Medicine Lodge boy and at one
time printer in the Index Office, is the
democratic candidate for state senator of
the district comprising Oklahoma county.
1t is almost safe bet that Roy will win
in walk and when he goes to the FIRST
legislature in the new states histosy he
will be one Of the strong men in that
body. We're proud to hear Of laps"
ascendancy.
Judge c. w. Ellis returned from his
summer vacation in Maine last Thurs
day. He picked up wonderfully while
gone and looks and acts like young
man Of 30. He says he would like to
have renamed a month longer but had
to come home to look after his cattle.
The Judge accounts for his robust coz
diion from the fact that he did not
spend much Of his time among the hilar-
ious gentry on the coast but remained
back in the interior among the pines IN
contentment. Speaking Of the apple
crop in the New England States. he says
it is immense and he has arranged to ship
some out in the fall for his own use.
They will come high but will be worth
the price. The morning Judge Ellis left
Maine there was heavy frost in that
State. Here the thermometer was up to
about l02 at the same time.
Speaking about rate discrimination, the
Santa Fe railroad company sells round
trip tcketfrom Atica to Medicine Lodge,
via kiowa, for $l.l5 but from Medicine
Lodge to Atica, via Kowa, it COSTS | 70;
one way. This is rank and cannot be
jusi6ed from any system Of reasoning. but
there are those who say it is the railroad $
business and is all right. The man who
objects and says that the rate should be
the same to- everybody is dubbed a
"belyacher." Whenever the people Of
Medicine Lodge become intelligent
enough to Stand unitedly and demand
things for the town they may get on an
equal footing with neiehborins towns IN
the way Of railroad accommodations but
as long as a per cent Of the business men
give il out that the town IS satisfied with
anything the railroad does. the discrimii-
nation can be expected to continue.
Any person or persons who are inclined to
doubt the statement Of facts herein made
can have them subssantiated By inter
viewing Johnson Bros, contractors and
builders. who are working N the city.