Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-07-08
Sun and Lake City Happenings

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Wednesday for Colorado.
Hay making and the Fourth Of
July are the topics of the day.
Mrs. Eben Douglass went to To-
peka last week to visit with Mrs.
"Shorty."
Liveryman Douglass will build a
new residence north of the Har-
mon place.
Charley Hartley was in Lake
last Saturday and carried off honors
as marksman.
Pat Skinner came up the Medi.
cine last Sunday morning in his
new Buick auto.
Mr.. and Miss Orrison of Colora.
do Springs are visiting with Riley
Lake and family.
Mrs. Pearl Hart has been very
sick for the past few days but IS
now on the mend.
Robert English went down the
line last Sunday morning to see
his wife and babies.
Mrs. Taylor Nichols of Denver
is visiting friends and relatives in
and about Lake City.
The Redwine Hotel will have
three stories instead of two, as was
mentioned in the Cresset.
Mrs. Fred Bissantz and son. Ed
gar, OF Wichita, are the guests of
Louis Bissantz and family.
Joe Hargis went toDBelvidere
last Saturday where he says fishing
is good and "Budweiser" plentiful.
A number of the Lakeites and
DR.. and Mrs. Rogers of Coats spent
day recently at the natural
bridge.
The farmers of this part are re-
Ginning on their "negtivity," eat
ing June apple pies and predicting
big crops.
Rollie Bibb of Goats is on his
fathers ranch near Sun demon.
stratlng what lad of IS summers
can do. He is hummer to work.
Fred Buck is now enjoying the
hospitality of the old home place.
CALIFORNIA; attractions are nothing
to him as compared to his native
city.
Mrs. Moad and Miss Abbie Claw
son went to Coats last Tuesday
and barely reached home in time
to escape a hard wind and rain
storm.
The recent moisture will mean
one cultivating less for most of the
corn OF this locality. Moisture
produces better crops than the cul-
tivator anyway.
Murray Davis was over taking in
the burg last week and, by the way,
he remembered to pass over a
PUNK for the Index. He says his
crops promise something big.
Court day in Lake was big &C.
casion. All kinds of hayseeds and
hoodoos were in town and with
fearful eyes rehearsed the sad story
OF the red pig-arise and sing.
John Purdy took his initiatory
job of stacking alfalfa for John
Campbell last week. One would
think him an old hand at the bust
ness to see how skilfully he han
dies the fork.
Orville Eager has been suffering
severely lately with tonsilitis and
went to Wichita last Wednesday
to take treatment. His condition,
while better at this time, is not
most pleasant.
Gene Bullock has sold his thresh.
ing outfit and other belongings
and is setting his pegs to travel
next month. He says he is going
to California to make his home.
We're from Missouri.
Ed Hoagland went to Coldwater
last Wednesday and returned with
a new Price & Temple piano. Ed
has quite knack for music and
evidently believes that charity
should begin at home.
A. ]. Hargis has rented his home
ranch-'lock, stock and barrel
to two Kiowa gentlemen. This is
one of the best grain and alfalfa
farms in the county besides having
a large acreage of grazing land.
They say there has been some lit
tie jar along social lines in Sun of
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