Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-12-01

; home. Ten dollars down and FIVE
dollars month will get you one.
Ewings Music Store.
The city of Harper is claiming
a matrimonial distinction that has
no parallel. Twin brothers mar.
rled twin sisters on Thanksgiving
day. We shudder to think of
what the harvest will be.
J. Harry Gay, the we'll known
| Ophthalmic Optician and eye sight
specialist, will again be in Medi-
cine Lodge at the Grand Hotel
Friday, Saturday and Sunday, De-
cember 10th, nth and I2th.
Mrs. D. S. Smoker and son and
daughter, who visited last week
and part of this week with Will
liam Rule and wife, departed on
Monday for their home at Knox.
vile, Tennessee. Mrs. Rule IS
Mrs. Smokers aunt.
Rev. w. T. VanHorn, the new
Presbyterian minister who has re.
Gently accepted a call as perma-
nent pastor of the church in this
city, is expected here with his fam
lily today. His household goods
arrived on Friday. The family
come here from Arizona.
d. A. Cummins was over from
Attica on Saturday. He has been
doing cement block building there
the past month and has few more
weeks work there. He has con-
tracted to build the Bragg Rackley
concrete building on Kansas avenue
east in this city and will probably
begin the work the first of the year.
]. L. Ellsworth and wife of Cap
ron, Oklahoma, arrived last Thurs
day morning to spend Thanks
giving with Mrs. Ellsworth mother
and brotheT,>Mrs. H. H. and S, T.
Hardy. Mr. Ellsworth returned
home on Saturday but Mrs E lis.
worth isstill here. She will return
home the latter part of this week.
Mrs. L. D. Sparks and little
daughter, Louise, arrived from
Wichita last Thursday morning to
visit Mrs. Sparks's parents, TN.
Kidd and wife, and other relatives
and friends. Mrs. Sparks Joined
them ou Monday morning and all
returned home this morning. Their
Medicine Lodge friends are not
disposed to forgive them for max
ing the visit so short.
Miss Alma Palmer entertained a
large number of her friends
Thanksgiving evening in honor of
Misses Grace Dainton and Marian
Richardson, of Kiowa, who were
her guests from Thursday until
Saturday. At the close of the So
clal anusements a three. course
luncheon was served. A most de.
lightful evening is reported.
The case of H. H. Case VS.: F. l..
Gordon of Lake City was set for
trial before Justice Collins yester-
day afternoon but it was continued.
1t is a suit on promissory note
and the amount involved is $500.
| The statement published in "cer.
tain newspaper" to the effect that
F. B. Gordon of this city is the de-
fendant in this suit is mistake.
| If the celebrated 'corrector" now
doing service on that paper is look
ing for an engagement, here is his
opportunity.
| A. B. and Jess Lasswell depart
ed for Texas last Wednesday.
Both go expecting to buy land near
Houston. A. B. has already pur-
chased tract of two hundred and
forty acres and expects to buy more.
He has recently sold all his land
and his store at Lasswell, in Eagle
township, and intends to invest all
his money in Texas land which is
selling at very low figure but is
| gradually advancing in price. Jess
will also buy land there and both
families will move south the first
of the year.
| Now that the feline is out of the
bag and the Cresset's detectives
have actually discovered this pa
| per's society editor, the said S. E.
pleads guilty. Furthermore, he
warns the Cresset editor that if he
does not look after his orthography
and grammar more carefully, then
he, the aforesaid society editor,
will, without prior notice, enter
the up-street sanctum sanctorum
and take personal charge of that
papers society department. alec