Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-05-13
Sur and Lake City happenings

Hurrah for Harper!!
]. Nj. Walsh and "house" Sum
dayed with ]. A. Campbell and
family.
1t seems as result of "bach life"
Robt. English is not looking quite
so bouyant.
Misses Z. and Bessie Stewart and
Myrtle and Winnie Cooke were in
Lake Saturday afternoon.
Yes, "we monkeyed" with loco
at odd spells last week but as yet
we have not gone buggy"
Fred Huntington, the relief agent,
is managing the business at the de-
pot in the absence of Mr.. Dorr.
Mr.. Jackman and wife have re-
turned to Sun after spending a few
days on their farm in Oklahoma.
Charles Miller took a while off
last week and enjoyed fishing with
Clyde and Mckinley Campbell.
Fred Lake has purchased the
Redwine residence property and
now has coy, commodious home.
Frank Cooke has discarded the
old horse he used while counting
and has handed out the cash for
better one.
Frank Buck had little"mishap'
with his big car last Sunday. He
said, if the d thing was going to
act that way he didn't want it.
Fred Lake will receive a car of
American woven wire fencing this
week, also large supply of barb
wire. Get your orders in early.
For some reason the ball game
that was to have been played last
Saturday by the Sun and Wilmore
teams did not materialize. Guess
Wilmore got sick of their job.
A big girl baby was born to Mr..
and Mrs. c. w. Harper last Thurs
day night with DR.. c. B. Rogers as
attending physician. c. w. stood
the excitement quite well they say.
The most attractive nook in Bar
Der county is the A. J.. Hargis al
falfa ranch. We have been from
one end to the other of the Medi-
cine Valley and see nothing that
has it bested.
| Jenkins & Woods of Pratt coun-
ty were in this vicinity selling stock
in Colorado gold lands Saturday p
m. Jake Warnstaff made heavy
purchase while Scott and Frank
Buck are con the fence
Pratt county farmers and mer
chants have discarded their buggie!
and carriages and have substituted
the automobile. If this adds to tn.
enjoyment of life it certainly is the
proper thing, since ''life is what we
make it.
One of the most interesting mum
bers of the musical Friday evening
will be solo, "The Way of thu
Crcss, rendered by Mrs.G. q. Shig
ley. This is a companion piece to
the "Holy City and will be wei
worth your hearing.
The Lake City Sunday schoo
has set about making arrangement
for Children's Day entertainment
and with Mesdames Freemyer and
Lake to push it along is guaran'
tee the work will come up abou
= right.
Sun City will have an elevator i
the interested parties can onl.
buy the ground to build upon. |
: looks as Thought would be tn
proper thing to "open up to sucl
a proposition as this and even
necessary, donate a lot since
, will remunerate the donor more
than the price of the gift in TIL
long run.
Another thing that has been talk
r ed of for some time and has trul,
come to a "head" is the elevate
proposition. Riley Lake, in his US
, ual enterprising manner, has clos
} ed the contract with some gentle
men to construct this much needet
something. This will be a hnan
cial advantage to both owner AM
patrons and general means Q
helping the city.
e The hotel talk is about to devel
;. OPP into a real hotel. w. B. Fuller
ton, who is particularly intereste
! in this business, is on a deal wit
q Riley Lake for lots to build upon
!: there being only small sum be
n tween them. 1t is nearly certal
that an uptodate hotel will be &c
ing up in a few days. There ha
been a howl in Lake City for
place called a boarding house"fc
a several months and they must hav
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