Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-05-27
Sun and Lake City happenings

Harry Lott is looking after Geo.
Bullock during his sickness.
G. G. Shigley made a business
trip to Goats last Wednesday.
Mrs. Roark of Oklahoma is Wis.
iting her son, William, and family.
Misses Martha Redwine and
Lena Shigley attended the ball
game at Pratt last Friday after
noon.
Jim Smith and VIM. Briggs took
a fishing flight recently, returning
heavily. IL den with stuff for the
stomsch's sake.
Children's Day will be observed
at Lake City next Sunday week.
Starch up" your linen suit and be
ready for the meeting.
Quite number of alfalfa faces
were disappointed in Lake Satur-
day afternoon because of the alb
sence OF Barber English.
Boone and Albert Redwine are
doing carpenter work in Deerhead
vicinity. These boys have the tools
and capability, what more need
they NAnt.
It's a mighty good time to hunt
jack rabbits. The weather being
warm makes them too lazy to run
fast, giving the man at the gun a
good show.
Charley Hartley was in Lake
Saturday afternoon with his face
very much "sploched" up, tho he
claims to have had the small box
long time ago.
Our Lake City hardware m an,
H. F. Lake, is kept so busy making
sales this spring that he hasn't had
time to say bad word-yes it
pays to advertise.
Frank Eager and Henry Durfee
left recently for Pratt where they
boarded the train for Texas. 1t is
something very unusual'for these
boys to shift about like that.
The Macksville paper gave our
parsons wedding occasion a halt
column write-up, speaking in "tur.
bulent' terms of both man and
wife. 1t was properly said.
Uncle RUDE Lake is building two
houses in the north part of Lake
City. He is the kind of a man " he
possesses the kind of energy anc
enterprise that cannot be crushed
1t is mistake about the north
pole having been moved to Phila.
delphia. Some movers had it in
their possession as they were going
through Barber county this spring.
| Yves Triton saw it. ~
Judge Lester caught an even doz
en- of fish last Friday. All were
nice size channel.cat. H. u. and
Harry Campbell are very much Of
the same type when it comes to
fishing. They always return with
meat.
A fierce wind struck here last
Wednesday night and aroused
many sleepy sleepers from their
rest and caused them to retreat to a
hole in nanny earth. A few trees
were blown down but we learned
of no further damage.
Small pox did you say? Not
that we can. swear to. Science
teaches that man scales off tc
such an extent that at the end OF
every seven years he is new crea.
ture. This is the spring of the year
you know which accounts for an
unusual dropping off OF the epider.
mis-. That's all.
! Some friends Of the beast who
murdered Mrs. Rosenberger are try
ing to put up the plea of insanity:
This seems to be common rotten
resort and should not be regarded
An emery man can play idiot
when he thinks it will open the
road for his release. The law should
certainly have i,s-full length in
this case.
| In the first place had we thought
the boys were going to get on
''hio" about Darwin" or "whose's
the daddy" we would not have
'lowd them to write any on the SUBJ
ject. But say what you're mind
to, the Teller that scrubbed "Pari-
dy Fore" has said the most and is
a man after mine own heart since
he keeps on the lively side of life.
That man can see funny things at a
funeral.
| Last Friday morning Frank a nd
Scott Buck. Harry Miller and your
scribe boarded Bucks touring Car
for Pratt and to say that we had a
glorious day is only telling the
story in part. Being we'll supplied