Barbour County index., 1910-09-28
VII Serve Dinner

should be sure to attend. Terms
cash.
VIII Serve Dinner
The ladies of the Cemetery Asso-
citation will serve dinner and supper
on Wednesday, October 18th. Every
body is asked to patronize them on
this day.
1t is also requeSted that all who
have promised to raise S5 for the
Association and have not already
done so, pay the money into the
treasury on that day.
Mound City Paints may cost
trifle more, but-!-J. r. Young
Drug Co.
Mr.. and Mrs R. H. Hall returned
to their home in Wichita last We'd
nesday.
Wanted-300 head of cattle to
winter. F. W. Schnelle, Sharon,
Kansas.
]. C. Richardson returned on Tues
day of last week from a ten days
buying trip to eastern cities. AS
usual he has purchased a large stock
Of dry goods, clothing, etc., and is
prepared to give the people of Bar
Der county the benefit of the bar
gains he has found.
J. A Fair of this city has the
distinction of exhibiting the best
corn at the State Fair at Topeka,
but because he overlooked putting
the name of the variety on his tag
he lost out on the prize. 1t is stated
that the judges expressed regrets
that this was overlooked. Jim will
be more careful about this hereaf-
ter.
Ulys Kemp accompanied Hon. Lot
Ravenscraft opfhis return to Ashland
yesterday. Mr.. Ravenscraft attend
ed the Sharon Fair on Mr.. Kemp's
invitation, on Saturday, and visited
in that vicinity on Sunday and Mon
day on condition that Mr.. Kemp
would go with him to Ashland to at
tend an Old Settlers Picnic.ef Clark
county to be held the last three
days of this week. Ulys will spend
about a week at Ashland.
Commissioner Riley Lake and J.
B. Harbaugh were in the city Mon
day evening. They were out west of
Hardtner to inspect the bridge over
blackberry. The old bridge is beyond
repairing and the commissioners will
order a new bridge built in its place
to accommodate the increasing travel
in that part of Barber county. The
Commissioners travelled in Mr.. Lake q
automobile, starting for home at a
rapid gait Monday evening g.-Kiowa
News-Review.
The Nashville Record is thing
of the past. 1t belonged to Mr.. Nip
per formerly editor of the Isabel
Tribune. He kept it going even af-
ter the Isabel paper petered out, but
the owner of a mortgage on the
plant swooped in and took it from
the publisher. The Zenda Citizen
will close out the subscription. Mr.
Nipper has been most Unfortunate
in his newspaper ventures sfF South
ern Kansas.-Sawyer News.
S. P. Wilson and family moved
back from Wichita on Tuesday of
last week and are Medicine, Lodge
citizens again. They moved to
Wichita early in the spring on ac-
count of their sons (Jeff) having
been with the Stewart Lumber Com
pany of that city, but since Jeff is
travelling, they have concluded to
live here. Mr.. Wilson's (Jr.) ter
ritory is so arranged that it will be
convenient to spend most of his Sun
days in Medicine Lodge. We are
glad to have this family with us
again.
Since Uncle" Dick Lawry has
become the owner of the lots lying
north of the west end of Second
avenue things look different in that
portion of town. The old tree
stumps and brush have been cleared
out, the ground leveled and made
productive and the tall weeds are
conspicuously absent. There are
many just such places on the edges
of the city and if we had several
Dick Lawrys the town would lool
one hundred per cent better. Man!
neglected lots could be converted in
to nice building spots if the owners
only knew it. Owners Of insight.
lots should go to Mr.. Lawry ani
get few pointers
/, Guilford Davis returned home OF
Saturday morning from Roswell, New