Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-12-11
Sun and Lake City Happenings

robes.
Roll Ward is busy reducing the
forest to frewood.
Shigley's display of Christmas
goods is hard to beat. !
Sun City talks of having a Xmas
tree again this year.
Mrs. Landon Mills was shopping
in Lake Saturday p. m.
Lake City school will give an
entertainment Xmas eve.
John Surher has just returned
from a trip to California.
Joe Massey shipped out a large
herd of cattle last Saturday.
Fred Lake received $500 worth
of woven wire fencing lately.
Albert Redwine has greatly i'm
proved in his line of business.
Master Charles Miller Sundaved
with Buffalo Bill Campbell the 9Th
inst.
A trio of Lake City ladies made
drive to the Sun vicinity last
Sunday afternoon.
Deerhead Bruce was in Lake
Saturday purchasing few shorts
for the old cow.
Miss Edith Hoagland returned
from Alva last week to remain at
home for awhile.
Boyd Latchard accompanied by
his wife and driving horse rolled
into Sun Sunday afternoon.
A series of meetings began at
Lake last Monday with Revs. Har-
ris and Summers at the helm.
George Campbell of Tennessee
was in this part of the Lords vine
yard of late looking for a place to
light.
Orville Eager is busting" a new
chrome" as the days go by. He has
quite herd of horses, ponies and
such like.
Fred Phye,sr., arrived at the
Skinner ranch last Wednesday
morning looking fully able to press
the collar.
I. G. Jackman, the Sun depot
agent, says that business at that
place far exceeds what he expected
when he first went there.
Where's that man who is always
promising so much2 They call his
name "Quirk." Say, Mr.. Photogra-
pher, it's time you was "Jimmin"
about some.
The serenade that was given the
Eager Martin company Wednesday
evening was one of the old fash
Toned kind. The boys with their
shot guns and six-shooters made
things lively for awhile.
Johnnie Jumpup," the lark who
was severely chastised for disturb
ing the peace at the Sun box sup
per week ago, has pulled his
freight. He said the people there
didn't treat him we'll. Poor John
ME!
Rip VanWinkle, the weather
prophet and fortune teller of west
Barber, was in Sun lately and
among other things he said, "look
out for mild weather and many
marriages." The indications are
that daddy is going to hit pretty
well.
]. M. Olmsted was in Lake Sat-
urday afternoon on a deal with AL
bert Redwine for the Lake City
barber shop. MIR. Olmsted is fine
barber and should he buy the shop
1t will be sweet relief to the hairy
gentlemen of this town and COM
munity.
Wars, financial agonies and
storms maylcome and 60 and yet
the marriage business doesn't seem
to be discouraged. Last Wednes-
pay Jake Eager of Pratt, who has
been weary of bach life for some
time, took to himself a wife (the
very thing that Chas. Marsh ought
to do the probate Judge of said
city putting on the work. Imme-
diately after the knot was tied they
picked up their bed and did walk
to Lake City where they tarried
with relatives until morning. Jake
is a thrifty Pratt county farmer
who believes in big families and
good time. His better half form
erly Mrs. MARTINI gave her hubble
two children as difference in the
deal, a boy of ten and a girl of six
years. They will be at home near
Pratt. May life of contentment
and success be theirs.
People say that the finest grocer