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

PuoiiS1Cu report 10 the con-
trafy notwithstanding, we still in
cline to the belief that there were
81 days in July, 1909.
Another sad feature about the
tragic death of the two Mexicans
which occurred accidentally at Bel :
vIdere recently, is that it reduces
the population of Kiowa ?.
Notwithstanding the fact that
Jamaica Ginger has been promi-
nently before the public in this
town for nearly a month, there are
several writers, who still do not
know how to spell Jamaica.
The court house boys. have all
become converted to the idea of
woman suffrage recently. w. L.
Bragg, deputy county treasurer,
presented the argument that
brought the bunch over to his way
of thinking.
Gov. Stubs declares that he
would veto the tariff bill if he
were president. 1t is presumed
that the Governor, also, would
have done differently in the Stone
affair had he been president.
If Father Adam could live it
over again and begin right here in
Medicine Lodge, he would be proof
against downfall without regard to
the severity of the temptation. If
you are doubter. price the fruit
that is being offered for sale here.
Unless some of the trains that
come and go in this immediate
vicinity take to carrying mail oc-
casionally, it is our intention of
doing the sack. clock and ashes
stunt. Heretofore we have spoken
in terms of praise of the new r. R.
schedule.
Medicine Lodge abolished s'2 Der
cent last spring but she will have
it in double doses next November
and December. The fall dose is
one we will all have to take wheth-
er we like it or not. That which
was abolished we did not have to
take if we didn't like it.
The engagement of Eddie Cuda-
hy,son of the millionaire packer, is
announced. 1t will be remembered
that Eddie was kidnapped when
he was, a small boy and it took lots
OF cash and ttoucle 10 secure MS
freedom. This time he will find it
still more difficult to get loose.
Are the young men getting worse
or are the old ones becoming fool
ISL? is problem that is agitating
the minds Of several of the local
gosslpS. If Dame Rumor prevari-
cateth not several of our handsome
young men have been denied the
privileges of the vine and fig tree
by "her" father.
We do not know how we'll the
dog ordinance is being enforced but
unless nine-tenths of the dogs that
occupy the streets and alleys are
merely visitors, the ordinance
should yield sufficient revenue to
defray all the running expenses and
pay off the bonded Indebtedness
without imposing a general, inter
est or bond levy.
Speaking of Dame Consistency:
A public official who was pictured
in the recent city campaign as a
law nullifer and dangerous man
generally, is furnishing the princi-
pal intellectual power in prosecut-
ing alleged violators of the prohib.
itory law while Old Purity who
has preached so loud and long in
the cause of law enforcement has
been retained to defend an accused
rum seller. "By their acts We shall
know them"
Sickness has been more prevalent
in Medicine Lodge this summer
than we had suspected. We get
this information second hand. In
a recent legal proceeding some
thing over a score of men testified
that they have been under the care
of a physician during the entire
spring and summer. In each case
cure was effected but on account
of professional 1nodesty the physi-
clan in charge does not care to have
his name published.