Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-01-29
Sun and Lake City Happenings

Take notice-Earl Bowman is
sporting a new mustache.
The Rev. Summers left last Mon
day for Stafford county to see his
to-be.
John Sines, L. L. D. has again
landed his geese at the A. ]. Har-
gis ranch.
death in the pot" by Evange-
list Caldwell Sunday afternoon
was hummer.
Jess Swindlor-some call him
WiDkler, was in Lake Saturday af-
ternoon, blowing his bazzo.
Alfalfa is being baled and ship
ped out of this part of the county
almost by the train load.
Fred Lake and wife drove to the
HAMMER farm Saturday evening,
returning home Sunday afternoon.
Tom Marsh a high flyer from the
south was pressing his way through
the Lake City throngs Saturday.
Bill Brown, the bald head bronze
buster has started on a journey to
the sea. Let him 60, we don't
need him.
Prof. and Mrs. Walsh Spent the
latter part of last week at the
county seat as the guests of Judge
McCague and wife.
Mrs. Milton Clements returned
last Friday from New Mexico
where she has been visiting her
father who is quite i'll.
Mrs. Freemyer, who was appoint
ed teacher over class No. I in Lake
Sunday school, seems to be at home
in the work. She is a very COM
petent teacher.
The western country, especially
the parts where cattle herding is
the main occupation, bow-legee ed
gentlemen are no rareity, living in
the saddle accounts for this largely.
Rev. Summers put his best foot
forward Sunday morning and de-
livered one of the best sermons in
our judgment that he has ever CIV
en- Lake City audience.
Robt. Crane, a man of musical
qualities, was in Lake last We'd
nesday and in the meantime pur-
chased a few copies of "Where the
Plains of Sunny Kansas Stretch
Away which he sent to his ILL
nois friends. Robert knows a good
thing when he sees it.
Lake City philosophers and To-
gicians seem to be divided as to
the construction of certain Scrip.
tural passages and persist in occa-
sional conhabs, but for all that,
perfect harmony prevails and all
mot all the town are marching in
the good old way.
Last Friday morning cinders
from the railroad engine set fire to
the grass and stubble at various
places along the line and did con-
siderable damage. Hastings and
Lott lost several tons of good hay
and the Rockefeller ranch suffered
considerable loss. 1t might be a
good idea to screen the smokestack.
Quite party of Lake young
sters put on their Sunday buds last
Saturday evening and made a dash
for Sam Fager's where they gave
the head of the family and his bet
ter half the customary surprise. At
ter spending awhile playing games
chewing gum, cracking nuts and
such like. They deserted the south
side.
Evangelist Caldwell of Indiana
is assisting Rev. Bailey in the meet
ings at Sun City and IS one of the
most effective pulpit orators that
struck this part of the west in
many a day. He fires the gospel
at his subjects without one sugar
coating whatever, and while his
sermons seem rather fierce, yet the
people say "he's telling the truth"
and are taking their medicine like
lambs. His discourse to men Sun
day afternoon was especially fine
and was heard by quite number
of the masculine kind. Meeting
will continue until next Sunday
and probably longer, depending on