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

c. w. Harper is having a &C.
ment walk placed in front of his
Office.
Bill Roark and family feasted
with the Burgin family last We'd
neday.
Sun City had a splendid program
and full tree of presents for
Christmas eve.
Misses Rosa Purdy and Jessie
Hargis have been spending the hol-
idays with folks at home.
Charles Marty went to Kansas
City last Wednesday to visit
couple of weeks with his parents.
Our worthy neighbor, Riley Lake
had an attack of the old-time
rouble-chronic headache-F l.
day.
Mrs. Hildebrand and daughters,
Misses Inez and Norma, attended
the Christmas exercises at Lake
City.
E. Shore and son, Howard, were
in Lake City Saturday doing bust.
ness with the Metz Lumber Com
pany.
The young orchestra at Lake
City with Harry Miller to trill the
leading string is making good
progress.
Maude Redwine and Lula Haw-
kins joined Blanche Campbell in
a chrome busting" contest last
Wednesday.
Mrs Harry Miller and children
left last Thursday for a few days
visit with parents and friends at
Woodwa I'd, Ok.
Miss Stewart, teacher of the
Shore school, was in Lake Satur-
day afternoon and enjoyed a visit
with Mrs. David Freemyer.
Homer Has tings boarded Sam
Henry's freight last Friday after
noon and came to Lake, returning
on the same aforesaid "kar."
Charley Anderson was in Lake
City last week for the first time in
a long while. He says his girl has
been off her feed for a week or two.
For an all around man Everett
Phillips can't be beaten, even if he
is from Missouri. He is jolly in
the field, jolly at the table and ev-
cry place you will find old Everett
the same.
One man can do more injury by
lying and meddling tongue than
forty men can rectify. Literally
speaking, the longest noses are US
ually hung on those who have no
business of their own.
Mrs. Sarah E. Pierce and Mrs.
Jane Daugherty together, made our
good pastor, Rev. Summers a pres
ent of suit of clothes. G. @. Shig-
ley also presented him an inter
esting bunch of cash.
When a man tries to be anything
but his real self he invariably falls
down. Better use your own talk
and walk your own walk rather
than have your friends tickling
under the shirt at your unnatural
nerve.
It's too bad that there are some
buffers who can't take in a Christ
mas occasion without putting some
slangy Inappropriate sell on the
tree. A good joke is all right but
it is altogether wrong for one to
make himself rotten by abusing
Joke.
A number Of the Sun young peo-
pie gathered themselves together
on Saturday eve and went to the
home of w. Nj. Ward and gave
Monte a touch of high life. But
Monte is no spring chicken; he has
been all along the line and takes
life as it comes.
Prof. !. NJ. Walsh, his wife and
daughter, Kathleen Mavourneen,
helped themselves to Mr.. Turkey
with John Campbell and wife
Xmas day. The Professor evident
ly enjoyed his dinner immensely
since he seemed to be dead to his
surroundings for the time being.
The recitation, darius Daugh-
ter" which was so eXpressively
rendered by Miss Edna Durfee on
Christmas eve was listened to by
an almost breathless audience.
This masterpiece was written by
John Trotwood Moore, editor of
the Taylor Trotwood Magazine of
Nashville, Tennessee, who is said
to be one of the ablest writers of
the South,
Just before Christmas, man
supposed to be a liveryman locked
his horses in the corrall and went
n NOV, 1aoviDcr tho baoctc xr,i+ho,1t