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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-10-14
HdzeHon Items.

Mrs. ]. L. Hyatt left last weel
for visit in Kentucky.
A good crowd was out Saturday
and everybody seemed to have {
good time.
The oyster supperSaturday night
was we'll patronized and the bal
boys realized a nice sum.
At the general roundup Saturday
the Hazelton boys showed the At
tica boys how to play ball to the
tune of 5 to 4.
@. w. Smith has sold his farm
to Mr.. Mills of Lewisport, Ken
lucky, who will make this his fu-
ture home. The consideration was
$1,000.
Oliver Lester and wife are here
from Colorado visiting. Oliver is
one of the many Hazelton BOYS
who have gone from the farm to a
fine position in the schools of Col
orado. He is now principal in one
of that states big schools.
Nearly all the Democratic and
Republican candidates were here
making medicine Saturday. Prior
to the oyster supper the affair was
turned into republican meeting
and each candidate made a speech,
Samuel Griffin and G. M. Martin
being the principal orators.
Jack Landreth broke all records
in colt sale on the streets of Haz-
elton in the big gathering Satur-
day. He exhibited a span of suck
ing colts that he recently sold to
B. L. Drake for 5000. They were
giants and while the price looks big
the colts are we'll worth the money.
When Jack quit railroading and
went to farming he made a, ten
strike.
AS an evidence of what is being
done in the line of farm sales and
the way values are advancing
want to cite one case. About five
years ago a farm two miles north
of town sold for s., 2oo,i in less than
two years afterward the same farm
sold for $500 and one day last
week it sold for $1,000. During
all this time it has paid a good
profit on the various prices paid
for it.
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To The Public

Having sold my mercantile business in
Sharon, | take this method Of thanking nv
many friends and customers for their lib.
eral patronage during the years it has beer
my privilege to serve them and to assure
them appreciate my business relation
ship with them which | hope has been
Of mutual benefit.
For the present | am occupying an Of.
6ce In the Sharon Valley State Bank
where will be pleased to meet all my
old friends.
My successors, SchneIle & Sons, are
energetic and able gentlemen who vii
be found worthy Of the patronage given
me in the past.
Very truly yours,
HYDER H. FAIR:
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-10-14
First published In The Barber County Index
October IA, 1908.
Road Notice.
state Of Kansas, !
Barber County. es'
County Clerk Office,
October 10, 1908.

OCIOUSL 1SUSs
Notice is hereby given, That on the 9Th
Gay OF october, 1905, petition signed by J.
n. 0arner and 10 others, was presented to the
boaro OF county Commissioners of the coun-
" and State aforesaid, praying for the es-
tanusnment or certain road described as
follows, viz:
commencing at the southeast corner of the
northeast quarter ~ OF section Eve (5), towL-
snip thlrty-four GA south, of range ten Q0),
west OF the 9th p. m, in the road now rum
and nve. and running from thence due east
on half section line through section four
ana crossing road running north and south
between sections three and four, thence due
east on half section line through section
tnIee, crossing a road running north and
south through the center of section three
10 the southeast corner of the northeast quar-
Ter (t) OF section three. and from thence due
north one-half mile TO the northeast corner
OF the northeast quarter "a of section three
on the section line between sections two and
running east and west, and there terminal
Ing. Said road to be two and one-half miles
in length.
Whereupon, said Board appointed the fol.
rowing named persons, viz: The Board of
county commissioners viewers. with instruc-
lions to meet in conjunction with the County
surveyor, at the commencing point of pro-
Posec road in Hazelton township on Tues
day the III day OF November, A. D. 1908, and
proceed to view said road and give to all
parties q hearing.
By order of the Board of County Commits.
sioners.
(sEAL) 8. w. IRELAND.
County Clerk.
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Sun and Lake City Happenings
A cool shower last Sunday.

Good heating stoves at Lakes
hardware-wood or coal.
Miss Martha Redwine began the
study of the guitar last week.
Miss Minnie Boswell is one Of
Prof. Fields boarding pupils
Uncle Reub Lake is building an
addition to his general supply
house.
Green Adams purchased a num-
Der of cows at the Elsea sale last
Thursday.
Eben Douglass is remodeling the
old Sun City school building for a
residence.
Isaac Sherrod, Sr., of Knoxville,
Tennessee, is a welcome visitor n
these parts.
Mrs. Will Morris and son are Wis
lting with her mother, Mrs. Saun-
ders, at Sun City.
Harry Miller left Monday to take
in the Wichita carnival and look
after other business.
Mesdames Massey, Hatfield and
Lott made a drive to Lake last
Wednesday afternoon.
The Lake City school has an en-.
rollment ofo5 with more to follow.
Everything is moving along nicely:
Miss Chloe Harmon of Isabel
came to Sun last Friday to see her
niece, Blanch Harmon, who is sick.
Misses Norma and Inez Hide
brand were in Lake Saturday and
remained until after the box sup.
per.
Messrs. G. NJ. and Fred Hoghton
and company came through Lake
with their steam touring car Mon
day week.
The first few cool snaps are the
ones most keenly felt. Good heat
ers at Fred Lakes. Any kind and
at any price.
People in this locality who have
pianos to tune will please be on
the lookout as ]. B. McCray will
be here on the 18th.
L. B. Dotson, of Sedgwick coun-
tvs leading stockmen, stopped off
at Lake last Thursday a short time
as the guest of ]. A. Campbell.
Sun school has reached its half
hundred mark and with two very
competent teachers at its head there
will be nothing short of success.
The Lake City barber shop has
changed hands oftener than any
business house in America. Mr..
DeGeer comes in and Mr.. English
makes his exit.
Fred and Homer Clements are
putting down wells in the Lake
and Sun vicinities. Fred has fol-
lowed the business for several years
and can do good job.
Clifton Hatfield will "tog up"
and go to Pawnee, Ok, this week
He never tells people his business
but it is supposed that he is look
ing after "the other girl"
Rev. Moore of the Lodge who
preached a funeral sermon at Coats
last Tuesday returned home by the
way of Lake City and spent the
night with Rev. Summers.
Homer Hastings left Monday to
be present at the Odd Fellows as
sembly at Salina. Doubtless he
and Harry Miller will hold little
meeting in Wichita when they
meet.
Just think of it, ]. w. Young
took wagon load of alfalfa seed
to Sun City last week that brought
nearly $500. 1t was shipped to
Crescent, Ok. He received S12
per bushel for it.
George Campbell who came
here from Tennessee last March
and rugged himself up for farming
is already pulling up stakes to re.
turn to Tennessee. He is a rail-
roader by preference and is going
to accept his old job pulling a jack
engine. The cultivator evidently
doesn't make speed enough for
him.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-10-14
First Published in The Barber County Index
October IA. 1908.
Publication Notice.

The state OF Kansas, to B. F. Hanson and
r. J. Schwartz and the unknown heirs and
utors and trustees OF B. F. Hanson, and T. J
Schwartz, deceased.
You and each OF you will take notice that
you have been sued by H. H. Fair, In the Dis
unless you answer the petition Med by the
said plaintiff in the said action on or before the
26th day OF November 1906. said petition will be
taken Gs true aud Judgment rendered against
you and each OF you accordingly, of the follow
ing nature. to-wIt: adjudginR that the said
plaintiff 10 the absolute owner in fee simple,
and is In the quiet. peaceable, open. notorious,
undiBturbed, exclusive and adverse possession
of. all of the following described real estate,
situated In Barber county, Kansas. to-wit:
Lot three CO, in block sixteen U6), IN Hem
toms addition to the town of Sharon.
And that neither you, nor any or either OF
you. have any right. title, estate, interest,
claim. lien or encumbrance. in. to, or upon said
real estate or any part thereof; that all title.
or claim which you or any or either of you may
estate or any part thereof, be forever barred,
foreclosed and exunguished; and that you
and each and every one of you be forever bar
red, estopped and foreclosed from ever set
ting up or asserting any right, title or claim In
o. 10 the said real estate or any part thereof.
Judgment will also be rendered in said Ac-
ton in the alternative as though each and ov-
cry one OF said defendants were alve al the
commencement of the said action; and against
the unknown heirs and devisees, and the un-
tees OF each OF them. as though each and every
one OF said defendants were deceased at the
commencement of the said action. Judgment
will also be rendered that the mortgages re-
corded in the Office of the Register of Deeds OF
Barber County, Kansas, and held by certain
of the above named defendants are paid dis
charged and satisfied aud canceling the same
OF record.
witness my hand and oficial seal this 18th
day Of october, 1908.
Attest; z. ID. RACKLEY,
ISeall Clerk Of the District Court
By Il. McClearey. Deputy.
SEwARD l. FIELD, Attorney for Plaintiff.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-10-14

Munsing underwear-have
you ever worn it? If you
have, you will want it again.
Come and see what we are
showing in this line.-Rich.
ardson & Longman.
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Mng Items

Co. Supt. Thomas was a visitor
at district IS Monday week.
Mr.. and Mrs. l. H. Ray visited
their son, ]. T. Clawson, over Sun
day.
illness Adams of Goats visited
his sister Mrs. Dan Kidd over Sun
day.
A. ]. Hargis was in this vicinity
last Thursday locking after his
horses.
]. B. Gano sold a good team of
black horses to Earl Bowman last
Thursday.
Mrs. w. c. MilIar of Belvidere,
visited with Mrs. ]. B. Gano last
Saturday.
Frank Knowles will deliver his
wheat Monday at Croft at 90 cents
a bushel.
Mrs. Port Unger was visiting he,
parents, ]. B. Gano and wife the
past week.
Port Unger is a fisherman with
good luck. In three days he hook
ed As pounds.
Miss Myrtle Moad returned from
the Lodge last Thursday morning
for weeks visit.
L. T. Walker and son Allen, de-
parted last Thursday for Califor.
MIA to spend the winter.
Who said H. c. Walkers cider
was not good? Please pass it
around so all can sample it.
VIM. Cloutman was hurt in the
quarry last Friday by some dirt
caving in on him but not seriously.
All King turned out to see the
first piano unloaded in this vicinity
for H. G. Walker. Oh! the disap-
pointment, it did not come.
Irwin Walker, who has been here
Strengthening up his business affairs
left Saturday for Coldwater, and
will go from there to Arizona.
Ladies' union suits, some.
thing better than you have
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Farm Loans.

Unlimited money to 2oan
on good, we'll improved farms.
Liberal terms, annual inter.
est-no second mortgages.
Call on
T. L. LINDLEY & Co.
Medicine Lodge, Kans.
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ALL HOME CAPITAL

No piece OF banking business too small for large 70,
our eaP banking business conducted Strictly conservative principles
merits patronage Trust business and you our money
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-10-14

Ladies' union suits, some.
thing better than you have
been getting at a higher
price, per suit 48c.-Richard.
son & Longman.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-07-09
tg DCJK MAILED FREE.
CHARMS AND NOMINATIONS
How Some Pcnnsylvanians Use Then
for Remedies Against Ills.

Witchcraft superstitions are still
widely prevalent in Eastern Penn.
sylvania, according to William w
Neifert, who in the Pennsylvania.
German, cites a number of favorite
charms and incantations:
To cure snake bites: God has ere.
ated all things and they were good.
Thou only, serpent, art damned.
Cursed be thou and thy sting. Zing,
Zing. zing.
To prevent accidents. Garry with
you, sewed to your right sleeve, the
right eye OF wolf.
Security against mao dogs: Dog,
hold thy nose to the ground. God
has made me and thee, hound.
To Danish the whooping cough:
Let the child drink out of a blue
glass tumbler. (This disease was
known as the blue cough" and on
the principle that like cures like"
the child drinks from blue glass"
to cure a blue cough.D
To cure badness: Rub the scalp
with the hemisphere of a divided on
ion. (This was strong charm II
the vegetable was frcsh.)
To cure fits: Take off the ch.lds
shirt, turning 1t inside out while do
ing So, and then burr the garment
To destroy warts: Stick pin
through the wart, and give away the
Fin, when the wart will follow the
pin.
To make the best cider Sinegar:
After the cider is put into the casl1
cali up the names of three of the
crossest and most sour-tempered
old women in the community, and in
loud voice utter their names into
the bung hole, and Immediately cork
1t up, and you Will have the best and
strongest vinegar in the neighbor-
hood.
A remedy against SANDER: II .'ou
a:e illuminated or slandered to your
very skin, to your very flesh, to
your very bones, cast It back upon
the false tongues. Take off your
shirt. and turn 1t inside out, and
then run your two thumbs along
your body under the ribs starting at
the pit of the heart. thence down to
the thighs.
To bring thief to confession ard
make him restore stolen property:
From the door sill over which the
thief has passed take three splinters
in the name Of the Trinity. Fasten
them to wagon wheel removed
from the spindle, and through the
box or hub, pronounce the following
prayer: Il pray thee, Thou Hoy
Trinity, to constrain the thief who
has stolen my (name of the article
stolen) to be stung by remorse and
restore it to its rightful owner"
This done, the wheel is to be re-
placed by fastening 1t to the wagon.
when 1t was given three revolutions.
and the stolen goods were expected
to be returned.
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JUMPED OVER THEsRAn.

JUMPED OVER THEs RAIL.
line as she stood. with back up and
hair on end, at the foot end of our
bunk.
What was still more strange,
both my wife and had been dream
Ing of shipwreck when the cat
awakened us, and the i'll omen was
so apparent that | told Mrs. Bates
to dress and ! dressed myself. On
the watch | found Simpkins, the
mate, and five members of the crew,
all working desperately to save the
Maiden which was wallowing In a
sea such as had never seen be-
fore.
Matters kept growing worse
every minute from the time got on
deck, and 1t was shortly before dawn
that the cat went over the side. That
settled the crew and the men who
had been working at the pumps,
with the water gaining on us every
minute, decided that | should Or
der the boat lowered and cut away
from the Maiden. The schooner was
leaking like sieve, and one might
as we'll have tried to pump the At
lantic dry as to pump the MaldGn
free of the briny.
We'll. what happened to the
scho jner need not take long to tell.
She went down like a lump of lead
and we had barely time to get the
boat away before the topmasts DIS
appeared under the water. My wife
and l and the crew of six drifted for
a dozen hours before a Far East
tramp bound for Savannah showed
her lights and stopped for us. We
were taken to Savannah where we
received every hospitality that could
be extended to as dreay lot Of
eight shipwrecked mariners. includ-
ing one woman, as ever drifted
around the coast.
will my wife go to sea again?
Well. l reckon yes. The next time
l get a ship you'll see her shipmates
with me. and she has told me that
we won't go to sea without q cat
either, for the meowing of the NAL
den's tabby undoubtedly saved our
lives"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-07-09
A New GunpOWder.

There has been invented in Ger
h,any e powder which is said to give
no bareback whatever, even In guns
of the largest calibre. The compo-
sition of the powder is not known.
but it Is supposed to consist OF nitro
glycerin. nitro-cellulose and vase
line. The prevention of the fare
back. however, Is believed to be due
t. the incorporation In the POWDER
o. small amoun. of some chemical
ich has proved to be thoroughly
effective.
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HoW's This ?

We offer One Hundred Dollars
Reward for any case of Catarrh
that cannot be cured by Halls Ca
tarrh Cure.
F, ]. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, o.
We, the undersigned, have known
r. J. Cheney for the last IS years,
and believe him perfectly honora-
ole in all business transactions and
financially able to carry ont any OBJ
iigalions made by his firm.
WALDING, KINNAN & MARVIN,
Wholesale Druggists. Toledo, O.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken in
ternally, acting directly upon the
blood and mucous surfaces of the
system. Testimonials sent free.
Irice rs cents per bottle. Sold by
all Druggists.
Take Halls Family Pills for con-
stipation.
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now ANARCHISTS MAKE BoMns
Manufacture Then Out of All Sorts
Of Articles and Utensils.

The bombs empIJyed by anarchists
nowadays are very simple contriv.
ances, az compared with the elabor-
ate "infernal machines" OF thirty or
forty years ago.
That this is 20 is largely due to
Herr Most. who. In his Scientific
Revolutionary Warfare" taught his
disciples how to manufacture bombs
out OF all sorts OF articles and uten-
sils in everyday use. from sauce
pans to sardine tins.
The grenade that exploded prema-
turely recently at the unemployed
demonstration in New York, for in
stance, was constructed by Silbsr-
stein out of one of the brass balls
which were screwed on to the posts
OF his bedstead.
Morals bomb. which slew twenty
three people and injured nearly 100
others at the Spanish Kings we'd
ding two years ago, was merely an
ordinary glass water bottle. II
was, Lor'ever, fllled with nitrogly-
cerln, the most powerful explosive
known to science, and the basis of
dynamitc.
The French Anarchist Valiant
utilized small kettle wherewith to
manufacture the bomb that he after
ward exploded with terrible effect
in the chamber Of deputies at Paris.
A saucepan filled with blasting gela-
tin sufilced Emile Henry, vaillant's
chosen comrade, who by its aid sue
ceeded in simultaneously blowing to
pieces six unfortunate policemen.
Ravachol used upon one occasion
a metal fuse-box filed with fulmi-
nate of mercury. and upon another
a glass ink bottle with a screw ton.
in order to destroy life. The bomb
which Bourdin carried to Greenwich
Par, In 1894, intending to blow up
the observatory there. but which
exploded prematurely an killed
him, was just an ordinary piece of
iron piping. with a couple of roughly
made caps screwed on at either end.
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THE MALDEN's CAT.
Meowing Of the Feline Saved Cnp-
tain, wife and Crew.


There's one thing in which cats
and rats agree" said Captain Charles
w. Bates. of the Boston chuoner
Maiden, as he wandered across the
floor of the Maritime Exchange. land
that is. that they both will leave a
sinking ship. so II wasn't SO much
or a surprise to me when the crew
OF the Maiden grew a bit supersti-
tious when our tabby leaped over
the rail with piteous wall and sank
In about forty fathoms off the the
coast of Georgia.
Wed been fifteen days out from
San Juan. bound for a Florida port,
but gale drove us several hundred
miles further north than we has In
tended going, and when the NAL
den's pussy leaped to her death we
all had been guessing for forty
eight fours what would happen to
our vessel
Lyfg on her starboard beam
one moment and on her port the
next, with seas washing over us so
that we couldn't move across the
Geek, the Maiden was acting crazy
enough for any shipload of deep sea
mariners. The night before the cat
went free of the schooners rail IL
mad dream. to which my wife and
/ can testify. for we were awak kened
by the ghastly meowing of the e.
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than he did in those happy, care
free days of his recent past
Notwithstanding his objections,
however, Kartoom now has securely
smxed to his right hind foot large
leather and metal shoe, the second
elephants shoe on record since the
beginning of history. SO far as
known. Some time ago. DR.. Blair,
the animals family doctor. found
Congo. tie pigmy elephant. toeing
In badly and invented a shoe which
cured him of the habit. Recently
the Bronx Park M. d., found that
hartoom, as a result of long lack Of
exercise was developing weak
ankle and gave a rush order to the
zoo blacksmith. for a special shoe
Tor the Soudan elephant also.
The shoe instead of causing Kar-
toom any pride or delight. only ex-
cited his disgust and anger. He
stayed awake all night industriously
trying to dislodge the newfanglcd
contraption with his trunk. hut the
geological bootmakers had done their
work we'll and at sun up Kartoom
gave up.
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Could Readily Believe II.

An old country gentleman re-
mrnlng home rather tie, discovered
yokel with lantern under his
tiichen window, who when asked his
business there. stated he had only
come a counting. Come q what?"
taid the irate gentleman. "A-court-
ing sir, I'se courlng Mary" "It's
, lie! What do you want lantern
0rE l never used one when I was
yount' man." 'No, SIR" was the
yokefs reply; II didn think yer
al. Judging by the missus."
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An Elephants Shoe

Kartoom, the young male Soudan
elephant in New York city's wild
animal preserve in the Bronx. is a
much puzzled pachyderm Just now.
AS matter OF fact Kar-
toom ought to be very proud,
but he isn't. Shoes may be all
right for some elephants, but Kar-
toom is a "close-to-nature" pachy-
derm and is clearly opposed to all
modern improvements. In the
heart o. the African jungle he found
no need for shoes. and doesn't see
aay more reason for pinching his
tootsy-wootsies" with :hen. now
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Turks Objected to Horses Names.

The horses belonging to the late
British Ambassador at Cnstantinople,
Sir Nicholas O'Connor. have been
sold by auction. The usual notice
was put in the local press, but the
censor took exception as there We're
horses In the list with the names
Pasha. Selim and Haroun, which he
considered was offensive to Turks.
and the list had to appeti without
the names.-London Telegraph.
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SOUTHWARK

Trains No q and 90 mixed, second class.
Daily except sunday. Daily Sunday
only. Flag stop. W. G. SNYDER, Supt.
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