Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-04-28

Gravel for sale at 20 cents per load.
NJ. Best.
B. L. Drake Of Hazelton transacted
business here last Thursday.
Better than other" shoes for sale by
]. K. Richardson, Gerlane. Every pair
guaranteed.
H. H. Case brought in his new white
Buick motor last Thursday. 1t is cer-
tainly a beauty.
F. NJ. Shell closed his term Of school
in the Williams -Reutlinger district three
miles west Of this city on Friday.
P..B. Cole is building a brick addition
on the rear Of the grocery side Of bis al
ready large store. P. B. is a hustler.
]. C. Gain departed the first Of last
week for Chicago to buy big stock Of
furniture. He returned home on Mon
day.
Mrs. T. M. Kidd visited with her
daughter. Mrs. L. D. Sparks, in Wichita
the greater portion Of last week. She
returned home on Friday.
Mrs. Springer has just received another
shipment Of Pattern and Dress Hats nice
|y trimmed. The ladies Of Medicine
Lodge and vicinity are cordially invited
to come and see them.
Several citizens from the northwest
came to town last Friday in response to
a certain advertisement that appeared in
a newspaper but failing to find what they
went home disappointed.
Judge Gleason is building a l5x25
addition to his Main street buiIdipg-the
building occupied by w. E. Stout. Mr..
Stouts business has grown to such an ex-
tent that he must have more room.
Probate Judge Garrison performed
the marriage ceremony Of Orville Eager
and Edith Broughtin, both of Lake City,
last Wednesday. April 2lst. They are
well known in the Lake vicinity and their
friends extend good wishes.
Jas. Smythe has sold his farm in Eagle
township to Vim. Angel and is preparing
to take trip into southern Oklahoma and
northern Arkansas with view to buying
more land. If Jim finally decides to quite
old Barber he will make the greatest MS,
take Of his life.
1t is announced uno6cialy that better
freight and passenger service is to be
granted to this end Of Barber county soon.
AS told to us. it is to be a double run
every day from Belvidere to Kiowa o,
from Belvidere to Atica. By all means,
let it materia6ze quickly.
The lynching Of four cattlemen at Ada
Okla, shows the fuility Of suppressine
publication Of court trials as a means oI
keeping down popular excitement. The
newspapers, in obedience to the court.
order. kept silent. but the worst tragedy
in the history Of the new state was enact.
ed just the same.-K. c. journal.
There is at least one man in Medicine
Lodge who has earned all the money
paid to him, during the past week, fol
services rendered. Robt. Tyrell who
dug the cess-pool in the court house yard
had strenuous time Of it. At distance
Of IL feet he struck sand and two day.
were spent in controlling the repeated
"caveins." Finally when brick and
lumber failed as a curb, cement was used
and the hole was completed. MIR. Ty.
rell took the contract from the county to
dig and wall the cess-pool for 80 dollars.
1t is 20 feet deep and II feet in diam
eter. After he pays his help he will no
have very large wages left. The job
however, is a good one.
The Shumla Colony Lands lottery IN
Val Verde county. Texas was pulled Of
last week and many Barber county citizen.
made winning. Some twenty or thirty
Barber county people took advantage d
the drawing and each got business loI
and a residence lot IN the town Of Shumls
and FIVE acres Of land closely adjoining
the town. These lands comprise about
10000 acres lying between the Pecos
and Rio Grande rivers and are said to
be very fertile and especially adapted to
fruit growing. The Barber county citi-
zens who drew lots and tracts each IN
vested 500 and this entitled them to
two lots and FIVE acres. but they had to
take chances m the matter Of location.