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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-09-02

Id. Sparks and wife and daughter,
Louise, went to Wichita last Wednes-
day to visit with Guy c. Sparks and fam
lily. They returned home Monday
night
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-09-02

The politicians who attended the
political gathering at Topeka last week
have returned home but they do mol
express themselves very enthusiastically
about the republican platform.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-09-02

Mrs. M. M. Holmes and her mother
Mrs. Boyd, left on Tuesday of last week
for visit at LaF GILLETTE, Indiana.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-09-02

Elder BarDum, wife and little daughter
returned home from their visit IN Kan
sas City last Thursday.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-09-02

Forsyth's mill is the right place to get
your feed. Corn chop, kaGr chop, bran,
shorts and chicken feed always on hand.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-09-02

We are closing out our Wagons and
Buggies in preparation for receiving an.
other car load. See us for bargains
Woodward & Froman.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-09-02

Emmett McClearey is assisting in the
bookkeeping department at Chase Hard
ware Companys.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-09-02

Harry Newkirk and wife Of Kiows
visited Mrs. Newknk's sisters N the city
Sunday and Monday.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-09-02

Mr.. and Mrs. Aspey and daughters
arrived home Monday from their vaca-
ton trip. Mrs. Aspey was in an auto
mobile accident at Hutchinson, being
thrown out on the pavement and suffer-
ing severe bruises about the head and
shoulders.-Attica Independent.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-09-02

Mrs. S. |. Field and Miss leila
Thomas left on the early train for Wich-
tia this morning to visit few days.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-09-02

For sale or rent. My residence prop
erty on south Main street. Mrs. Sarah
Hayes.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-09-02

Miss Edith Noble Of AIva arrived in
the city last Wednesday, the guest oil
Mrs. P. E. Unger.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-09-02

Misses Allie and Minnie Murphy re-
turned home from their visit at Girard,
Kansas. last Wednesday. They were
accompanied by their uncle and cousin,
MIR. Adam Murphy and son, Harry, who
are visiting relatives here.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-09-02

For Sale. A hicyle pIow and an
Emerson Gangplow, nearly new.-C. N.
Marshall.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-09-02
C. ". B. N. Meeting

The Christian Women's Board of
Missions will meet at the home Of Mrs.
Alta Hoyt, Friday, Sept. 18th. Mrs. l..
H. Barnum, leader. Program:
Devotional period.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-09-02

Mrs. r. H. Hall and daughter
Dorothy, returned to their home al
Wichita last Thursday and things at
Silver Springs are not as lively now as
they were during their visit there.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-09-02

Mrs. w. H. McCague and SON.
Thomas P. McCague, went to Alva on
Saturday to enjoy a weeks visit before
the opening Of school. They are expect
ed home on Saturday of this week.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-09-02

Wanted-Parties to break 10 acres
Of prairie. Will pay $l.75 per acre
Geo. Larkin, Lake City, Ks.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-09-02

Winter seed barley for sale. Otis
Coyle, Medicine Lodge.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-09-02

Mrs. ]. E. McCorkle and daughter
returned to their home in Harper last
Wednesday.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-09-02

Is. Runyan and wife returned home
from Colorado yesterday and look one
hundred per cent better for their short
outing.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-09-02

The skating rink closed for a week
Saturday night. 1t will reopen nexI
Saturday night.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-09-02

The Ladies Aid Society Of the M
E. church will have lawn social at tn,
home Of Mrs. M. E. Cook next Tues
day evening, September 9th. Every
body come.-Secretary.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-09-02
CHASE HARDWARE COMPANY

for all kinds Of moving machines and
corn harvesters.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-09-02

Cold drinks, ice cream and ices serv-
ed in all Aavors and fashions, at Luallen's S.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-09-02

Miss May Ellsworth returned to he
home at Capron. Ok. last Wednesda,
after visiting the past two months witt
her grandmother and uncle, Mrs. H. H
Hardy and S. T. Hardy.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-09-02

For best bargains in land and farm
loans, see Vim. Palmer.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-09-02

Chas. Tiltoa and family have returned
to the city from Pratt and will probably
reside here at least until spring.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-09-02

Laundry woman wanted at Grand
Hotel.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-09-02

RI. Taiaferro and wife departed
yesterday for Latham. Missouri. where
Mrs. Taliaferro will take special med
ical treatment several weeks. They
expect to be gone at least three weeks
and perhaps longer. and will doubles:
have fine time visiting among old
friends.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-09-02

Remember the prompt and satisfactory
settlements made by the Royal after the
tornado last summer, and when in need
Of tornado or FIRE insurance, call on H.
H. Case, Agent, Medicine Lodge.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-09-02

George Broush Of near Kiowa was
transacting business IN the city on Mon
day.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-09-02

Hon. w. c. Afford, Democratic
candidate for representative, attended
the committee meeting tn this city Sat
urday. Mr.. Afford has not yet entered
into his campaign. His crops have de-
handed his attention so completely that
he has been unable to leave home al
all. But In the course of few weeks
ne expects to get out and call on the
voters Of the county.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-09-02

Mrs. M. r. Winter went to Lecomp-
ton, Kansas the fore part Of last week to
visit her mother, Mrs. J. M. Heise. She
returned home on Monday accompanied
by her mother and her brother and wife,
J. w. Heise and wife, who reside at
Arapaho, Oklahoma. Her mother will
probably remain here until spring. Mr..
and Mrs. Heise will leave for Arapaho
today.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-09-02

K. II. Faxon comes out strongly
against the bank guaranty plank in the
Garden City Telegram. He says he is
with Taft in this matter and against
Stubs. Yet Ralph is whoop;ng it up for
Roscoe and Joe. O consistency! thou
art-nit.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-09-02
Peaches and AppIes for Sale.

have peaches and apples for sale al
my orchard one mile north and two east
Of Sharon. at the following prices:
Peaches. ..............25c to 75c per bu
Apples. -. ...... SOC to s. per bu.
HOMER WHITE,
Sharon, Kansas,
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-09-02

"Balaam" submits to the Index for pub
lication, an exhaustive defense Of himself,
but in the absence of the usual advertis-
ing fee, we can not find room for it. He
isn't complaining so much about having
TO serve time at the old DO ding house
but he is particularly sarcastic in his ref
erence to County Attorney Cloud and
Judge Miller Of Kiowa. You may trav-
ell the world over but you will never find
another BALKAN"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-09-02

Last week the Index stated that
Noble& Tincher, VIM. Gesner's attorneys,
were the only lawyers in the state who
took the view that contest for the NOM
nation for representative must be filed
within three days after the county canvas
sing board adjouns. in order to be legally
heard. Since that time they have gained
a recruit. An assistant in the attorne,
generals Office has finally twisted an ole
statute into the same meaning.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-09-02

J; c. Garten Of Lake City, and hi.
mother. Mrs. Nancy Garten, Of this city,
returned last Friday night from a three
weeks outing in Colorado. They spent
most of the time in and near Steam.
boat Springs and Palmer Lake, and
they enjoyed themselves immensely
MIR. Garten says fishing was splendid
and between that sport and breathina
the mountain air. he had great time
Mrs. Jerry Simpson Of Wichita arriv
ed in the city Saturday morning remain
ed until Monday noon. She was here
principally on business connected witt
the sale Of her book, The Story o
Jerry Simpson" She informs us tina
she has already sold over 700 copie
and has not been out over the state
outside Of a few local trips, at all. Tn,
book is very interesting one and
worth several times the small price asked
There is a great deal Of complain
about certain parties who make it thei
business to injure the Baptist church var,
fence every Sunday night during tn
union meetings in the court house ward
We understand committee has bee,
appointed to do little detective worI
and that some Of the guilty parties wer
discovered. We are told that anothe
repetition Of the ofense viii result II
court proceeding.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-09-02

The Index admires consistency, wheth-
er it manfests itself in friend or foe, and
for this reason it desires to compliment its
competitor. the Medicine Lodge Cresset,
in disapproving the republican state plat
form. The Cresset for many years has
been unalterably opposed to any restric-
tion Of corporations or anything that has
the semblance Of reform, and now that it
has been overwhelmed in its ranks, it
steadfastly refused to join in. However
while. consistent so far as platform mat
tiers go, it is not consistent IN its declaration
for Stubs and Bnstow. The Cresset
has criticised both Of these men very harsh
ly and has even assaied their personal
integrity. in way, and it should have the
independence to refuse to support them.
True, with the ideas it holds, it could
not support the Democratic candidates
but that is no valid reason for supporting
Messrs. Stubs and Bristow if it does not
propose to subscribe to their platforms
and their publicly expressed political
doctrines and policies.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-09-02

w. B. Clarkson. Democratic candidate
for clerk Of the district court. was up
from Kiowa Saturday to attend the
committee meeting, and to meet the
people In this end of the county. The
more the voters see Mr.. Clarkson, the
more they become convinced that he
should be elected.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-09-02

Mrs. Eugene Youmans and daughter,
Miss Eugenia. will be home from their
visit in Missouri to-day. Their return
will be hailed both with delight and fear
by the husband and father. Delight, be-
cause Mr.. Ynnnans will he h.-nv m Gee
them after an absence Of two months,
and fear, because Gene has been GO
ing at rather lively pace while they
were gone. The Index does not make
it a practice to publish all that men do
while their wives are away but IN Gene.
case. the books at Judge Coles Sore tell
part of the story. Judge Cole is author
lily for the statement that the ledger shows
a pair of French heel shoes and silk hose
charged on Genes account. The Index
would not even publish this much but
for the fad that It is already matter Of
record.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-09-02

The Ladies Aid Society Of the M.
E. church have planned a new move
ment that will aid them materially and at
the same time prove a benefit to the
town by clearing the yards and streets
of all waste paper. They would like
everyone to save all their paper for
them, and committee will call for it.
Please put the brown paper in a sep
arate sack from the newspapers and
magazines.-Secretary.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-09-02

Elias Gibbs and wife returned to their
home at Alva last Wednesday. They
spent month visiting their son. ".
Gibbs. and their daughter, Mrs. w. L.
Bragg. and families. in the city. besides
meeting many old-time friends. and they
enjoyed it. Before leaving, Elias told the
Index to send for him if politics get to
the boiling point. He was here during
the primary election and maintained
order. We may have to send for him.
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fit through the hotels like lost spirits
and recall the dear dead days when
there was politics in this mans town.
and railroad attorney with a book Of
transportation was a bigger man than
old Grant And that's what your re-
form has done. Put a lot of Willies
in serge suits-'nine ninety-efght.
marked down from fourteen fifty
into control of the destinies of our
great republic.
What has become of our common
heritage?" exclaimed Mr. Handy. way
ing his glass wildly. Where is our
manifest destiny? Who's gone and
stolen the pride pointer and the alarm
viewer? Is it in the platform? No,
you reformers are making terms with
Gompers and Taft's liberal views. >
as they call them, are going to pre-.
vail over the fine conservative views
Of our peerless leader, our grand old
man, freedoms champion. the defend.
er of the faith of the fathers. the man
whO-the man who-the man who
reiterated Mr.. Handy-'the man who
i refer to Hon. j. G. Cannon of Dan
vile, III.
Where's your keynote speech in
this convention? I'll tell you; it's
fastened in Burrows time lock. Who
is going to sound a clarion note here
to-day? There will be no clarion note.
The name of the gallant Blaine will
not be heard in the hall. The party
that saved the country. that broke the
shackles on 100000 slaves, the party
that preserved the Union, is represent.
ed here by the allies. and they are
tossed around like lot of last years
alfalfa. They came here asking for
the presidency; they were willing to
compromise on the vice-presidencv
and sprung the name of Jim Sherman.
1T reminds me of the time Col Ana.
doneran J. Balderson of our town
started out to be minister to England
under Cleveland's first administration
He found that job gone, and compro-
missed by applying for assistant secre-
tary of state. Failing in that, he asked
for United States marshal. Failing in
that, he asked for the postofice at
home, and then, failing in that,
Strengthened himself up and said:
Thank heaven. we have a Democratic
governor in Kansas, and he will not
turn me down
He came home three months later
with a pair of Gov. Clicks old trous.
ers, and to that end has your reform
brought those who for 40 years have
been fighting the party's battles"
Mr.. Handy rose proudly and said:
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS crimes are
committed in thy namei"
The Big Crowds Tribute.
What curious thing rs big crowd
OF civilized men and women gathered
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Young men with stiff straw hats and
boyish faces are dominating the
crowd
What can you expect" asked the
colonel, earnestly, as he drifted out of
the Taft headquarters, "of a gang like
that? No whispering-no one coming
out of the consultation room like a
man from a dentists office-with his
teeth in his hands-a sadder and wiser
man; nothing but idle speculation
about the vice.presidency"
sehs for the Old Days.
The colonel waved for the waiter
and sighed and shook his head and
said: "A promise is a promise-when
your wife issues the door keys-yes,
another bottle Of those liquid hair.
pins"
Then he resumed his lamentations:
Il saw some forlorn fellows solemn
ly hayfooting 1t down Michigan ave-
nue. this morning They had a band
and were in a procession. Was it a
funeral? It was not. Was it the
doomed man walking to the gallows
with firm step after eating a hearty
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ture, and the applause fer La Toilette
merged into the futile, stupid ATTEMPT
to stampede the crowd to Roosevelt.
and for quarter OF an hour the
yelling continued
II was quieted as the roll call on
president began and continued down
to Iowa. There a silence fell. and con
ti7u'd Until TAFT was nomi"a-=1
Now written down here in a thou
sand words. this seems like the story
OF a stirring episode Yet it covers
events that lasted from 10 o'clock
until $50. There was some formal
cheering of something like two and
siX-elevenths seconds for each of the
allies, and this is the best part of it
all-those who had sought the nom
ination the hardest, Cannon and
Knox and Fairbanks, got no more
than Foraker, who took what he
could pick up. There were no diff
ferences between the $75 picture fire
works and the ten-cent roman candle
they all nzzled and went out in
gloom.
Abner Handy Talks.
But to go back to some of the earlier
days Of the convention, some of the
days before the fireworks were all ex-
ploded, the days when only the fuses
We're sizzling. 1t was on SUNDAY. |
think, that | met my friend Handy
Abner Handy from the Ninth Kansas
district Mr.. Handy who has been out
OF politics in Kansas since 1902. was
unable to get to the convention before
Sunday on account of floods in the
Kaw bottoms, and until his arrival the
pre-conyention milling had been rath.
er tame. But the arrival of MIR. Handy
In his Prince Albert coat and black
SLOUGH hat, with his massive head OF
hair protruding fiercely. and his little
Sits Of eyes keenly measuring I'D the
situaton-Mr. Handy is an expert on
the situation"-added new life to the
crowd in the Annex, and one may say
that the convention began with his ar.
rival.
1T has been ~ years since I at
tended Republican convention" said
Mr.. Handy, as he lolled In red plush
divan in alimony alley and spat
through his teeth at the onyx mop.
board, and | meet a great many new
faces. | first saw Fairbanks in the
St Louis convention, and have Just
been talking to one of his managers
one Of the new men in Indiana poll.
tics-born since left the state-a Mr.
Ade--George they call him. Clever
young man. apparently. He tells me
there is strong undsrcurrent for Fair.
banks, aud wanted me to help him
bale 1t up so that there would be some
surface indications.
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heavenly choir. Boutell Of Illinois
began it-naming Cannon.
The crowd stood for him with some
patience, though no one listened to
him.
Gov. Hanly Of Indiana, an unusually
able governor, and an otherwise sane
man, came little afterward and got
In a row with the convention because
1t laughed at him and Ieered him dur
ing the last half of perfectly I'M
necessary speech.
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est. The visitors in the galleries are
there only to see the hero crowned
and once the ceremony is over, and
the shouting has worn itself out. their
interest in the convention rapidly dies
away-the show is over.
Thursday was a hot day, and the
perspiratien that the thousands shed
would have fioated all four Of the pres.
ident's battleships, and the real trou
bic OF the convention-in dav of
trouble-began after the invocation
had been spoken after Senator Hop
kins had given a visible demonstra-
ton Of the platform. which no one
heard and no one seemed to care to
hear, and after Congressman Cooper.
on behalf of the minority of the com
mittee on resolutions, began scolding
the convention
His speech, of course, did not con.
vince. II was a protest, rather than
an argument, and anyway the conven.
ton would not have changed that
platform, which it believed TO be In.
spirsd from Washington, if the minor
tty had offered the Ten Command.
ments. But Cooper scolded, and when
the authorized representative from the
railroad engineers and firemen and
trainmen appeared and warned the
convention that the railroad employees
Of the country were dissatisfied with
the anti-injunction planks, that made
no difference, either.
Gabriers trumpet would have been
laid on the table for the regular order
bv the convention. Its face was set.
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Re assured the convention that
u-der Fairbanks here would be no
government by impulse. and the
crowd knew what he was driving at,
and his usefulness as an orator was
ended.
New York has a sense of humOr,
and when the deleg cation was called
for New York the delegates rose
laughing and let Gen. Woodford make
the shortest and most appropriate
speech of The day. nominating Hughes
And when he said that only two men
beyond a doubt could carry New York
one being in the White House and
the other in the governors office at
Albany-he made Inc crowd FESTIVE
and quit just before his credit gave
out
The Clarion Note.
The only real clarion note of the
convention was sounded by Knight
of California, seconding Tafts nom
ination. For knight has a voice. and
Mr.. Burton of Ohio. who put Tafts
name before the convention grace
fully. was not heard as well as such
speaker should have been heard.
Knox also ives tastefully nominated
with proper eclat and without too
much windiammiug.
And if the young football player,
Cocnem Of Wisconsin. who gave the
convention la Folleue's name, had
cut his speech in two, it would have
made the hit of the afternoon. BuJ
he slid past the crowds limit and the
smile which caprivated every one
wore off and he grew angry, and the
subsequent proceedings interested
him no more"
1t was Mr.. McGee-remember the
name-who, seconding the nomination
Of La Toilette. started the whoop
heard round the world There seems
to be no question that of all the can
didates besides Taft, La Toilette got
the best demonstration
But after that complications oc-
Cured. Some one walked across the
gallery back of the speakers platform
with a flag containing Roosevelt's pic
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REPUBLICAN, CONVENTION
Story OF the Great Gathering Told
by a Master Pen.
Incidents and Sideligfts-Picture OF The Nomination
of Secretary Tait-The Old Politician Talks of
Politics OF Yesterday and Day
BY WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE

ChicagO.-A national convention is
all over but the shouting. VIXEN
the presidential nomination is made.
1t is for that that the delegates assem-
Bile. High-browed men wrangle over
party platform plarks. and fight it out
among themselves as to who shall
be forced to accept the vica-pres.dan-
tial place. but in al, Of taaae tA.ngs
the general public has bat H,t.e inter
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1908-06-25

breakfast of bacon and eggs? Not at
all. Was it a delegation of flood suf-
ferers or a chain gang? No, but it
looked ike the melancholia ward of an
asylum out for 2 mornings airing
and it was the Knox Marching Club,
They are here The band is here.
They have to do something's they