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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-08-04
Twin Daughter Dead

The little daughter of O. E.
Handy and wife of this city died
at 10 o'clock p. m, Saturday, July
3Ist, after struggle with malarial
and typhoid fever about one month.
Until a week before death the
chlld's condition was not regarded
critical. The sickness at the be-
ginning was pronounced malaria
but later it developed into typhoid.
Its condition first became alarming
on Thursday and by Friday even
ing DR.. Coleman became convinced
that it could not recover. The
funeral was held at the Baptist
church at 4:3o Sunday afternoon,
conducted by Rev. F. w. Imboden,
pastor of the NJ. E. church, and the
little body laid away in Highland
cemetery.
Alma Esther Handy was born in
Stafford, Kansas, October s, 1906;
died in Medicine Lodge, Kansas,
July 81, 1909, aged ? years, Q
months and p days.
The taking away Of this sweet
little girl separates a pair of twins
that were a source of constant 10Y
to their parents and leaves them
with only one child, a boy, Orsini
Lesther. The twins were an even
size and two of the prettiest, sweet
est little children we have ever seen.
That one of them should be taken
away so suddenly in its innocence
and purity is one of those seeming
ly cruel DEGREES of fate that surpas-
ses all understanding and those cf
us who have stood at the open
grave and heard the pronunciation
of the fiat, ';dust to dust" can truly
and sincerely sympathize with Mr..
and Mrs. Handy whose hearts have
been made heavy.
The grief that comes with the
parting with the little ones is of a
different character than that oc-
Casioned by the death of one who
has lived his allotted time, and the
memories of the child's prattlings
and simplicities inpresses one in
peculiar way. 1t is hard indeed
for the afflicted parents to be com
forted and the sympathy of all goes
out to them.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-08-04
BLOOMER GIRLS COMING
National Boston Bloomer Girls will
Play Ball in Medicine Lodge
August llth.

The National Boston Bloomer
Girls will be here to play ball with
the home team Wednesday, August
nth, instead of the 5th and 10th
as first announced. This will be
the only time lady ball players
will visit the town this season and
perhaps for many seasons to come.
They are fine players, having met
the best league teams of Oklahoma
and Texas this year and having
won 81 out of IS games. The
home team is also putting forth
extra effort and will have a strong
team for the occasion. The game
is sure to be worth going many
miles to see, both on account of
the fine game that will be played
and the fact that lady players of
national fame will be here.
The home team has guaranteed
SIS to secure the Bioomer Girls
and the people should respond lib.
orally to raise this money.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-08-04
Light Fingered

Ray Foster who works for B. E.
WadSworth west of the CITY was
relieved of $37 Saturday night
and there are good prospects of
landing the thief any day. Ray
sleeps in the upper story of the en-
glne house and the thief, who evil
dentlE knew of his sleeping there
and having money, entered about
midnight. Just as he was making
his exit Ray awoke and spoke,
thinking perhaps Mr.. Wadsworth
had come in to awaken him. At
this the thief ran swiftly and when
he got outside the dog gave chase.
The fleeing man became entangled
IN some grass and fell, losing his
hat and also Fosters watch which
he had stolen, but he got, away
with the money. Mr.. Wadsworth
is almost certain that he knows
the hat and its owner and Sheriff
Mathews, while so far unsuccess-
ful, has a warm trail and thinks
he Will get the thief soon.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-08-04
Suit on Bond

w. L. Bragg and w. T. Collins
of this city were sued in district
cour. last Wednesday by The Con.
necticut Fire Insurance Company
of Hartford, to recover $14I with
interest at six per cent from No.
vember, 1908.
Messrs. Bragg and Collins were
sureties on a bond given to, the
company by S. D. Batson when he
became its agent. Batson failed
to turn in certain money collected
and the>company now seeks to re-
cover. Batson is now in Oklaho-
ma but will probably be brought
here on a subpoena when the case
comes to trial.
It~is claimed that Batson turned
his horse and buggy in to the com.
pany to cover this shortage and
the company accepted them.
Last winter when the agent was
here Mr.. Bragg also rendered him
what he thought was his part oi
the obligation but it lwas refused
He now says he will pay none of it
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-08-04

On account of the increased enum>
Grafton in this district of nearly
one hundred pupils over that Of last
year and the filling up of our high
school, extensive improvements are
being made at the school building
to accommodate the big increase
IN attendance in September.
Another new room in the base
ment has been hoored and plastered
for one of the grades while third
room on the second floor is being
fitted up for the new Physics and
Botany laboratory.
The new Normal Course which
was approved by the State Board
of Education is being organized by
the superintendent with reference
to subjects, apparatus, and refer
ence library, new compound micro.
scopes, dissecting microscopes, her.
barlums, illustrative slides, labo-
ratory tables etc. The southeast
room on the second floor will be
used as the Laboratory. Four new
sectional bookcases will be install
ed to house the reference Libraries
in Pedagogy, Botany, English and
History, Science Mathematics and
Latin. At the opening of school
the first Monday in September, the
Barber County High School of this
city will be unsurpassed by any
other school in Southwest Kansas
in the matter of Laboratory and
Library equipment.
Those high school pupils who
elect to take the Normal Course
during the fourth year and gradu.
ate from our school are entitled to
take the State examination for a
State certificate, which is renew
able. There never was a better
opportunity for young men and
women III Barber county TO secure
a first class high school education,
and if they desire a State certificate,
than will be given this year in our
high school. This tuition in the
high school is absolutely free to
all residents of the county who are
qualified to enter.
The High School Bulletin, con-
tanning full information, will be
ready for distribution next week
when copy will be mailed to all
the common school graduates and
any teacher or parent who may be
interested in the school.
In the meantime any information
concerning the school can be had
by calling on Mr.. Major, the super,
intendent, at his home or by ad-
dressing him at Medicine Lodge,
Kansas.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-08-04
DR.. KocielI-Continued

A second information was filed
in THE district court of Barber
county against DR.. S. Kociell of
this city by County Attorney Field
last Thursday charging the Doctor
with having sold intoxicating lia-
our. There are four counts in the
Information. Twocharge sales on
July 18th, and two charge sales on
July Ist. DR.. Kocietl gave a bond
In the sum of $1,000 for trial in
district court. His bondsmen are
George Larkin and Henry Larkin
of Deerhead.
A number of witnesses were ex.
amined by County Attorney Field
and Mayor Skinner on Wednesday
and as a result of the inquisition
and testimony obtained DR.. Kociell
was arrested for the second time on
a charge of violating the prohibi-
tory law.
lhls last arrest is really coun-
terpart of the first arrest made at
the time the raid was made on the
defendants residence and Office.
The original charge was maintain
ing nuisance but no sales of
liquor were alleged. The second
arrest is intended to make a strong
er case for it is rarely that a con-
vlctlon on the charge of maintain
ing a nuisance is secured without
producing evidence showing that
liquor was sold.
As matters now stand, DR.. Ko-
ciell, if convicted, could be made
to pay a fine of $4,000 and serve a
Jail sentence of one year and six
months, should he be convicted on
all the counts. The minimum. if
convicted on the FIVE counts, would
be a S 500 fine and five months in
jail.
He still proclaims his innocence
and his attorneys profess to believe
that he will be acquitted, while
the prosecution are just as certain
that they will convict him.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-08-04
Happily Welded

Two handsome young couples
were made happy by Probate Judge
Garrison at his office Monday,
August and.
The young people were Willie
B. George and Florence Through
ton of Hazelton, and Harry A.
Stafford of Floris, Oklahoma and
Lulu Vincent of Freedom, Oklaho-
ma.
Both couples went on their way
rejoicing Immediately after the re-
Spective ceremonies.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-08-04

HA1NA AAA~ viz NIONll OA IlIS
rearrest largely belongs.
1t was Bitler's love for his wife
that proved his direct downfall.
On Monday, July u, letter
was written by Sam BitIer at
Memphis Tenn. 1t was sent to
Little Rock, Ark, where friends
re-addrressed it and sent it to
Hutchinson. The letter was ap-
pretended here by the authorities
and it was then that Bitler's where.
abouts were first known. 1t was
July 20 when the letter arrived IN
Hutchinson. Mrs. Bitler later got
the message.
Sheriff Duckworth Immediately
communicated with the Memphis
horities telling them to keep on
the watch for the man. 1t was for
the purpose of taking part in his
capture that Sheriff Duckworth left
over the Rock Island railroad for
that place.
Further communications receiv-
ed from Memphis say that Bitler
appears unconcerned about his re-
arrest. He willingly told of how
he escaped from the Reno c,,unty
Jail and his trip to Eureka, his old
home, where he stayed for several
days.
There is one thing that Bitler is
holding back, and that is the name
of the persons who aided him in
his escape. 1t is known that he
went from Hutchinson in a ma
chine, according to his statement,
but it has been impossible to locate
the persons. An investiga ton is
being made by the authorities, and
several arrests are promised in con-
nection with Bitler's notorious es-
cape.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-08-04
Looks Like Robbery

County Clerk Ireland received a
decided shock when he went
through his mail Monday morning
and found an epistle from the state
board of levy saying that the state
tax levy for Barber county had been
raised from nine-tenths of mill to
one and one fourth mills. This
makes the county's share of state
tax for the ensuing year $22,123.o2
against I4,722.18 last year-an in.
crease of 7,4o1.74 in one year.
To say that this is an outrage is
expressing it mildly. The county's
share of state taxes now runs right
up to what it costs to pay the run
ming expenses of the county, build
bridges and make necessary in
provements.
When County Clerk Ireland and
Commissioners Lake were before
the state board last month they
were assured that the county's
Valuation would not be disturbed.
The board kept its word SO far as
the valuation is concerned but they
took the other route by increasing
the levy.
This, together with the legisla-
ture's interfering with the business
of school districts and cities, in
.creasing expenses, will put taxa
tion above what it was last year
and if it keeps on,a few more years
will find great many delinquent
tax payers on the tax rolls.
1t appears to The Index that the
state is loaded down with graft
somewhere. How long are, you
going to endure it, Mr.. Taxpayer?
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-08-04

The state tax commission decid-
ed the valuation matter in the cas-
es of the Badger Lumber Co. oil
this city and L. B. Hill of Kiowa
a few days ago. The Badgers S
valuation was fixed at So, $40
which is $3,34o more than listed
by the manager and $40 less than
fixed by the county assessor. Mr..
Hills mercantile stock was valued
at $25,74o which is $500 less than
the county assessors figures but
about twice as much as returned
to the deputy assessor. In each
case the county board of equaliza-
ton raised the county assessor S
figures but the state board con-
cluded that the county assessor was
about right.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-08-04
Medicine Lodge I3; Attica |

A base ball game played in this
city Saturday afternoon ended in
the figures above given. It was a
tame event. The Attica boys were
outclassed everywhere and the
home team ''played horse nearly
all the time. If they had tried
very hard they could have doubled
the score and shut out Attica en-.
tirely.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-08-04

] MS makes a total IN tins city
of 20 mills which is exactly
two pei cent. This is three
mills higher than last years
levy. The valuation in the coun-
ty and city is considerably greater
also. The increase is due to the
larger levleS necessary to raise
funds for state and city expenses.
There is little difference in levies
in the county, school district and
township. In the meantime watch
your tax receipt grow while. you
endorse existing extravaganza in
public affairs with your vote.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-08-04

Irving A. Oldham left SATURDAY.
to visit few days in Labette
county, Kansas. He will return
today.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-08-04

]. F. VanHook, c. w. Wilson
and ]. E. Holmes of Kiowa, were
closing up some matters in probate
court here Monday, in the Owen
estate.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-08-04

Commissioner B. E. Wadsworth
took sick Monday morning and
was unable to attend the levy meet
ing OF the board.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-08-04

The Citizens bank stockholders
have decided to erect a brick build
ing on the Adams & Co. corner.
Work will begin next week.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-08-04
Tax Levy of 1909

The board of county commits
Sioners met as a board of levy
Monday and made levies as follows.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-08-04

Wanted: Piano scholars. Ralph
L. Ewing.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-08-04

Mrs. Frances Stafford is visiting
with relatives and friends in Pueb.
10 and other cities in Colorado.
She will be gone several weeks.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-08-04

Inc citizens bank stockholders
have decided to erect brick build
ing on the Adams & Co. corner.
Work will begin next week.
Mrs. Frances Stafford is visiting
with relatives and friends in Pueb.
10 and other cities in Colorado.
She will be gone several weeks.
G. Southworth and wife and
son, Otto, and Guilford Davis and
Miss Alice Rudolph made an auto
trip to Kingman and return Sun
day.
0. ]. Corliss, the Coats JERSEY
specialist, took a car load of his
cows to Anthony the first of this
week for both advertising and sale
purposes. He has a good prospect
to sell the entire load.
Glenn Ellis, who has been sick
the past week with typhoid fever,is
holding his own and IN some re-
spects is improving. He is being
cared for by Mrs. StrohI at her
home. DR.. Coleman is attending
him.
Miss Gertrude Rhoades left on
Monday to visit a few days with
her sister, Mrs. Lusk, in Anthony.
From Anthony she expects to go
to Hennessey, Oklahoma, to visit
with Mrs. Jas. Mitchell and family.
She will be gone about a month.
The Sawtelle lCalif.) Sentinel of
July 2Ist, says: "Mrs. Vina Macy,
of the famous town of Medicine
Lodge, Kas., the home of "Sockless
Jerry" Simpson and Carrie Nation,
who is here visiting and taking in
the Elks' conclave, and also visit
ing old-time friends and neighbors,
has been the guest of her former
neighbor, Mrs. Ella Clark, of
Sawtelle."
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-08-04
Odds and Ends

A published report to the con-
trafy notwithstanding, we still in
cline to the belief that there were
81 days in July, 1909.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-14
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AMUSING GAME FOR YOUTHS.
Details of an Interesting Pa.time That
Can Be Played Indoors or on ~,
the Lawn. =

Mark of on the playground a dia-
gram like the illustration shown here
with, making it of any size to suit the
desire of the players. The center
square, surrounded by the spaces l.;
2, 3, 4, is the White House. The spaces
marked off at the corners of the out
er square are the points where the
.pla yers stand :.
The game is played by any number
of persons, each having fiat blocks of
wood or stones, on which are written,
one on each, the names Of all the pres
idents of the United States and with
each name the number of years he
served The blocks should be appor-
toned as evenly as possible among
the players.
At the beginning of the game the
blocks are all placed face downward,
and the players select them at random
In turn. The player having George
Washington block plays first, and the
object is to throw the block into the
White House in the center.
II block lands in the White House
1t scores as many points for the player
as there are years marked on the
block, but If it lands in one of the
four spaces around the White House it
takes of from the players score as
many points as the number on the
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-14
cor HARPOON MIRO DEVI FZSH

est ray. The other boats came to the
assistance and made fast in an effort
to keep the first boat, which was
being fast towed seward by the mon
ster devilfish, but the five boats and a
launch which had come up in the
meantime were towed down the river
with as little effort as if they had
been mere toys invented for the play
things of this queer-shaped monster.
After several minutes of the widest
excitement which has ever been expe-
r1enced by fishermen in the Panuco
they succeeded in dragging the mon
ster into comparatively shallow water
and were congratulating themselves
on the probable capture of the great
fish when the monster gave a mighty
flop that threatened to engulf all the
small boats, dashed under the launch.
almost capsizing it, and succeeded in
tearing out the harpoon and thus es-
capped. This fish is said to measure
at least 18 feet from tip to tip of it's
wing.shaped fms or flippers, while the
two others, from the glimpse gained,
were nearly the same <size.-Tampico
Correspondence Mexican Herald. ;-.:s
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-14
DAINTY LITTLE GIRL MASCOT.
Pretty Margaret Hall Occupies That
Distinguished Position in the
Maine Legislature. !

Little Miss Margaret Hall, aged sew.
en- the daughter of Representative
Willis B. Hall of Caribou, is the mas
cot of the Maine legislature, says the
Boston Globe. OF the many boys and
girls that fit in and out of the big
stone building where stern lawmakers
are busy framing the statutes, she is
the most observed, partly from her
always radiant smile, her cute sayings
and her rollicking disposition.
Miss Margaret does nothing all day
but enjoy herself, and in this pastime
she finds plenty of people to assist
her. Now and then some legislator,
in leisure moment, will sit down and
tell the bright-eyed little miss some
story or anecdote that seems to de-
light her heart
When the men go to- this big hall
for their first meeting, they reach into
little box and take out d slip Of
paper with a number on it:::n is the
number of the desk they are to occu-
py during the legislative session
When it came Representative Halls
turn to take a number out of the box
for his seat, he let Margaret draw it
for him, and, as 1t accidentally hap
pened, she picked out one ofthe best
in the hall. All the. other men saw her
as she sat on her papa's shoulder, and
1t made them smile and clap their
hands.
She has already made the acquaint-
ance of many of the lawmakers and
public officials about the state house,
and they look: for her coming regu-
larly as one of the welcome events of
the day.
In the state house there is. an ele-
vator and the man who runs it was
formerly soldier in the civil war, He
is very fond Of little girls, and he has
told her a number of thrilling tales
about the war. So interested does she
become that she often rides up ard
down in the elevator for a half-hour or
SO at time. Margaret and the ele-
vatOr man are now great chums.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-14
TALKING IN A LETTER.

A business letter is like little talk
on paper.
If you would be natural and easy in
your style of letter writing, imagine
that your customer is sitting beside
your desk and you are telling him A.
briefly and simply as you possibly can
exactly what you have to say.
You are privileged to use colloquial
phrases such as would be proper in re-
fined conversation. You ought to be
perfectly easy and natural, and even
write in confidential tone to q
stranger, if that will help your bust.
ness along.
Under all circumstances avoid words
and phrases which would never be
used in talking, as they are certain to
make your letters stiff and awkward.
You would never use the phrase
referring to same" 1--WE will give
same our attention" in talking; do not
use them in letter.
In talking we would not say, 1--WE
beg to advise" and we should not in a
letter.
VoluCu d1lu CoI0Clucu dlV u0V0I
used in conversation in the sense in
which we find them in letters.
These words are nothing more nor
less than commercial jargon. They are
a bad habit in which letter writer's for
generations have INDUCED, but a habit
that the commercial world is now try
ing hard to shake off.
Personal craftsmanship means cordi-
atty, po]iteness, easy manners, intelli-
gence, tact and enthusiasm.
Craftsmanship in letters means ex-
actly the same, except that you must
make your impression in a hundred
words instead Of a thousand, and the
power of imagination must be used to
see the customer who is thousand
miles away and appreciate just what
will please him best.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-14
But That Was All Party Of Fishermen
In Mexican River Gould Ac-
complish.

A party, of. English fishermen had
an unusual and most exciting expert
ence in the Panuco river with large
sting ray or devi}fish. It is very rarely
that these fish are seen in the river,
for they are supposed to con{1ne them
selves to the ,sea; although, they are
often encountered n@qr ths coast along
the south Atlantic ana IN this Gulf of
Mexico. Occasionally a small devil fish
is taken by flshermen, naar. the coast
of Florida, but their appearance In the
Panuco river sis: somethinE unheard' of
before. II .e'ts ~. ~ .''f'>' Ky
The party Of fishermen iii question
consisted Of Capri. Page, Capt Molly
neaux, Sir Charles Cost. Maj: Ramsdsn
Capt. Robert Duff and Lady Juliet
Dun, who wore out in small boats in
quest Of tarpon when three OF these
monster rays were encountered. One
Of tho boats being supplied with Z
email hArpoon threw it into the near.