Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-09-11


Mrs. D. S. Jones was m Kansas City
and St. Joe last week purchasing millinery
goods.
Miss Margaret Cartan Of Washington,
D. c. arrived last Wednesday to visit
with relatives.
Miss Laura Farley has renewed her
work IN the kelo School of Music al
Wichita. She left on Saturday.
Ed Skinner has rented E. E. Haser-
mans residence on north Main street
and will probably move this week.
Miss Elizabeth Fitzgerald of Nippa-
walla township will leave on Friday for
Manhattan. Kansas. where she will en-
ter the state agricultural college.
w. D. Miller and wife Of the Isabel
country were in the city Monday. They
favored the Index with brief visit and
left dollar on subscription. Thanks.
The ladies of the Christian church
will continue the exchange in the Spring
er building each Saturday in September.
Ice cream will be served in the afternoon.
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C. w. Hendrickson returned home
last Wednesday. He is pasturing a
bunch Of Steers IN eastern Kansas and
had been there to see how they were
getting along.
The Pythian Sisters will meet tomor-
row Thursday at 2 o'clock p. M. at
the home Of Mrs. McCague. Very i'm
portant business. Let the attendance be
large.-Secretary.
Ayers Electric Theater" was a tent
attraction here Friday and Saturday
nights. 1t was 2x4 concern without
any visible attractions. But fakes will
travel through the country so long as the
sucker tribe is large enough to keep
them going.
The show man who was robbed Sat
urday night informed the Index Monday
that he traced the money to a crap game
at the depot Sunday. We don't know
whether he is right or wrong in his con-
clusions but about the crap game being
In progress there is little doubt.
Sheriff Bud McCracken and County
Attorney Cloud, Of Barber county, were
pleasant callers at the Record office Fri
day. While here they shook hands
with many old friends and remained to
hear the Hon. Lee Cruce speak that
evening.-Alva Record.
The weather man continues to fool
us. We were complaining about the
hot weather Saturday and Sunday. and
Monday afternoon a cool wave came
from the north. Monday night there
was light frost but probably before the
week is out the same old 100 in the
shade" will be with us again..
Prof. w. Lee Lewis and wife Of
Chicago arrived last Wednesday to visit
month with Mrs. Lewis mother and
brother, Mrs. M. E. Cook and son, Her
bert. Mrs. Lewis was formerly Miss
Myrtilla Cook. This is her FIRST visit to
Medicine Lodge since leaving about
eight years ago, and the visit is a mutu-
ally pleasant one.
J. w. and T. D. Finley returned
home from their months Stay at Colora-
do Springs last Thursday. They had a
fine outing but, like the rest Of them, got
all Of Colorado they needed. They say
that the postofhces at Colorado Springs
and Colorado City are unable to take
care OF the monstrous mail during the
summer months. 1t is the general COM
plant among tourists that their mail does
not make connections.
Mrs. Jas. Brown Of Oklahoma arrived
Sunday night to visit with Barber county
relatives. She visited until Monday ev-
enlng with Mrs. E. H. Williams and
then went home with her nephew, Lester
White. Of Isabel. Mr.. and Mrs. Brown
resided on Elm Creek in Elm Mills
township before going to Oklahoma.
They moved away eighteen years ago
and consequently Mrs. Brown sees manu-