Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-11-03

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Fish. Oysters and Celery at Cole &
Sons meat market on Friday.
VIM. Cochran. Sharon's piano tuner.
was calling on Medicine Lodge friea6s
on Monday.
Scott Boggs departed on Monday for
Tulsa, Oklahoma. where he has secured
permanent employment.
Instead Of how'd you like to be the
ice man" it will be how'd you like to
be the bus man, in few days.
Wanted: -Gophers, trapped on 300
acres Of alfalfa. viii pay Sc for each
scalp.-W. P. Gibson, Isabel, kans.
D. M. Circle of kiowa was talking
automobile in the city on Monday. He
seems to be keeping up the summer
record.
Anyone desiring to buy turkeys can
get them by inquiring of any Of the
Methodist ladies. They have. quite
number for sale.
Geo. Kelbaugh gives legal notice this
week thai he will PROVE up a quarter
section Of school land west Of this city.
H. T. Warnstaf has bought the w.
+. Wright cottage and will become
permanent resident Of Attica. Good for
H. T.-Attica Independent.
School will dismiss this afternoon for
the remainder Of the week. With posi-
bly, three exceptions. the teachers will
leave at $50 for Topeka to attend the
State Teachers Association which will be
held on Thursday and Friday.
The rainfall in October this year, a.
reported by Judge Garrison, local OBJ.
server. was 2.82 inches. In October of
last year it was LIZ. This explains
why the wheat fields look so much bet
ter this fall than they did year ago.
Miss Pearl Muller is taking the initial
typo lessons at the Cresset Office. Miss
Gertrude Rhoads who has been work
ing there 70. more than a year, expects
to bid adieu to the trade at the end Of
the present year. Other and more In
teresting announcements later.
B. D. Porter, one Of the plutocratic
farmers east Of town, went through the
city Monday afternoon with a big 5
passenger. 30-horse motor car which he
purchased in Pratt. Emory Grouse, as
agent for D. w. Blaine,is filling this part
OF the country up with Molines.
Misses Agnes and Margaret Long en-
tertained party Of girls at Halloween
party Saturday night, from 7 to II.
The indispensable Jack-o'- Lantern and
ghostly apparel constituted the promi-
nent features Of the entertainment. The
young people report an excellent time.
Prof. VIM. higgins Of Elm Creek is Is
building nice new residence on his
farm. 1t is suspected that he has made
selection from that catalog Of marriage
able women and that he is fixing up q
suitable rest for the bird he expects to
capture. Here's looking at you, Bill
Sawyer News.
Geo. Sellers Of Isabel was in the city
on Saturday. Mr.. Sellers was a fire.
quent visitor in the heat Of the campaign
a year ago but now only the most urgent
business calls him to the county seat.
He says he is out Of politics, but we
expect him to warm up next year when
the ball begins to roll. George takes to
politics like duck to water and he is a
shrewd politician.
Lawrence Stevens and his bride re.
turned home before schedule time last
week or else the pencil pusher Of this
moral guide was misinfomed. The
BRIDE and groom arrived home about the
same time the paper came off Of the
press announcing that they would be
home on Saturday. incidentally, the
small boys and a number Of the larger
ones. made the air resound with strange
noises on the night following the day Of
their arrival. but the charivari party was
received with bows and smiles and good
will.
County Superintendent J. E. Thomas
had the misfortune to lose his large i'm
ported Percheron stallion last Wednes-
day. The horse took sick on Tuesday
and died in the afternoon Of The follow.