Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-10-28
be having quite bit of expensive
sport NOWADAYS.

be having quite bit of expensiv,
sport nowadays.
! Dave Freemyer has been adding
to the attractiveness of his yard
until he now has a dandy. Thing:
must have an up-to- date appear.
ance about David.
Frank Day is making arrange
ments to get married they say.
A $50 suit of clothes has been
ordered and the hddlers have been
notified. Let 'er come.
All the Buck Brothers auto lacks
being complete is having Gatlin
gun attached, so as to meet the
emergencies like those that occur
red last Tuesday night.
c. w. Harper went to the
Wichita carnival last week. He
took in all the side shows, talked
with the old man and returned
home Saturday looking rather
"bum."
Everything considered, c. c.
Painter should certainly be our
man for the Office of Register of
Deeds, politics or no politics.
Be sure you are right and help
Charlie.
In the concert at the Lodge last
Tuesday evening, Miss Waterman
seemed to be the favorite, although
F. L. Gordon was very favorably
impressed with the lady of dark
hair and rosy cheeks.
Frank Buck made a shipment
of some fine fat cattle to Kansas
City market last monday. AS a
grower Of good cattle and stock
dealer generally, Frank is up and
coming with the best of 'em.
The meetings which are in prog
ress at Lake City are gaining in
attendance. Rev. Summers is
putting his best foot foremost. Mr..
Welsh of Macksville is also render
ing valuable assistance unsteady.
Prof. Fields is making an effort
to get class in vocal music at
Sun City. He is up to the
scratch" as a vocal teacher and
those who desire instruction along
this line, should get busy as this
opportunity is not always afforded.
Frank Day has purchased a corn
shredder of a Chicago firm and as
soon as it arrives he will shred for
Campbell & Skinner. 1t is said
that the-shredder is a great econ.
omizer, since it puts the feed in
condition that stock otherwise
would not eat it.
The phonograph rage has about
subsidized, and people who love real
music want the kind that is pro-
duced by an educated mind and
we'll trained fingers. Mechanical
music soon becomes monotonous
and even annoying. Let us sell
you high grade piano at bottom
rock figures.
1t is common talk for some
people to say, that "Southern folks
are behind the times That may
be so, but if some of them who
make this claim could travel their
piked and screened highways in.
stead of being shaken to pieces
over Barber county's hills and
washouts there might be slight
change of mind.
Charles Rutledge, young man
who halls from the sand hills oil
south Barber county, but formerly
of Missouri, was in Sun City last
Friday afternoon and made the
boys stump speech bearing on
the issues of the day. Charles is
) the son of his pap" the man who
made himself famous in old Mis-
souri, in early days fighting the
Indians and making sorghum
molasses.
1t seems the alta liza mill like the
brass band proposition is dwindling
dwindling, dwindling. But the
wouldbe stockholders are not to
blame for this. The farmers and
ranchmen of this vicinity are no
suckers, not by long shot, and no
guy need come in and throw out
mis- line with the expectation Of
making catch. There is a con.
siderable area of alfalfa within the
Sun and Lake limits and it is hop.
ed that at an early date an alfalfa