Barbour County index., 1908-02-12
Sun and Lake City Happenings
Call the dogs!

recently transacting important
business.
Mr.. Shigley says Westfall ha:
actually been captured. Ask him
for particulars.
Pedagogist Lake and his friend
Mr.. McGrath, were callers in Lake
City last week.
Harry Miller, the 'hustlingest'
hustler in Lake City, is laid up
with the la grippe.
A. ]. Hargis and son, Andrew,
left last Friday with four cars of
cattle for the Chicago market.
H. w. Skinner left first of the
week with a train load of fat hogs
and cattle for the K. G. market.
The Hon. Quirk of the Lodge
was out taking some Photographic
views of the A. ]. Hargis ranch
last week.
Miss Bessie Stewart, teacher oi
the Elsea school, and Miss Freeda
Elsea were Lake shoppers Saturday
afternoon.
Orders for Prof. Walsh's new
popular song are coming in from
all parts of Kansas. Get one and
be in the push.
A baptismal service will occur
at Sun City in the near future
Watch the next Index for definite
announcement.
Your pen, pusher was knocked
forty-hve somersaults by the grip,
last week, which accounts for the
absence of items.
Sun City is to have another gen.
eral store. Homer Hoagland will
furnish the slough" for the con-
struction of the building.
That "Bah" creek "feller" that
tried to tell about the phone, failed,
"world without end,' yes, he fz-
zled. No "ussen' for him.
Of all the bachelors on earth
who are making plenty of money,
loving the girl, and taking life easy,
Harry Clement may be said to wear
the crown.
J. M. Walsh and wife had a sew
ing machine shipped from Tennes-
see five months ago. They receiv-
ed it last Tuesday. Coin some!
Lake City is getting to be quite
a commercial center. About 25
wagons loaded with wheat and
humanity were in last Saturday
afternoon.
Fred Lake and his call in all"
left for a few days visit with Kan
sas City relatives. Scott Buck
will have charge of business during
Mr.. Lakes absence.
Roll White has been causing
modification among the coyotes
during the past two or three
months. He has scalped over 80
of the "onery'' beasts.
What if Wortie Bibb did make a
mash on that pretty, hazel-eyed
girl, one can help 1t, and it's
nobody's business. Even Wortie
himself cannot help it.
There has been wave of grip
and bad colds in western Barber
atmosphere for the past two weeks.
Nearly everybody and their daddies,
too, have been and are confined to
their rooms.
Neighbors Carter and Tackman
had a warm discussion recently
concerning the stability of insur-
ance companies. Their animos:ty
was at rather high pitch but no
damage resulted.
Miss Ruth Saunders has put on
her working clothes and will make
the poultry business hum, this
spring. It's mighty good thing
to form industrious habits while
young, they say.
Dave Freemyer recently had a
rich uncle to die in Missouri and as
a result he fell heir to a large
amount of finance. David is we'll
healed now and panics to him will
be like pumpkin pies.
Owing to the smallpox scare,
Lake City schools have been closed
for week or two. While there is
probably no danger whatever, yet,
the majority of the patrons consid.
cred it expedient to close.
For gosh sake pay in those 40
year old Index dues before "me''
and Bud McCracken breaks YER
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