Barbour County index., 1910-04-27

Gravel for sale at 20 cents per load
NJ. Best.
Pansy and tomato plants for sale by
Mrs. ]. L. Brady.
]. D. Montgomery and family moved
into rooms over the Index Office Monday.
When you want new suit or pair
Of trousers. see H. 0. Cress. Merchant
Tailor.
A. B. Wilkins is replacing his barn
with an uptodate garage. F. r. Hayes
is the mechanic in charge.
Take your shoe repairing to Frank
Foss at w. E. Stout's harness shop.
and it will be done promptly.
Mrs. A. R. Trolter. Freeport. Kan
sas, was the guest Of Mrs. D. S. Jones
last week and part Of this week.
The cattlemen Of Barber county are
after cattle thieves. See their reward ad-
vertisement in The Index this week.
A. E. Honey Of Goats was in the
city last Thursday. MI. Honey was
formerly publisher Of the Goats Courant.
c. w. Spawr went to Enalewood
last week, to represent. The Great West
ern Life Insurance Company in that To-
caEty.
Ed Boots and wife, Miss RaIston and
Chas. Myers went to Medicine Lodge
Wednesday and returned home the
same day.-Isabel Tribune.
Riley MacGregor departed last We'd
nesday for Los Angeles. California,
where he expects to spend the spring
and summer with his sister, Mrs. Jessie
Cavanaugh.
j. S. Runyan spent Sunday visiting
with Medicine Lodges sick folks in the
hospital at Wichita. He returned on
Monday. Mrs. Runyan will probably
return today.
Miss Ella Simpson and mother return
ed home from Wichita last Friday. They
had been at the bedside of their sister
and daughter, Mrs. A. M. Houchin.
during most Of her sickness.
The executors Of the Holmes estate
j. S Runyan. J. P. Hall and DR..
Donovan-spent the latter half Of last
week at Aetna where they attended to
business pertaining to the estate.
Mrs.W.R.Forsyth went to Wichita on
Saturday to visit few days with Mrs.
c. w. Wilson and other former Medi-
cine Lodge people who now live in that
city. She returned home yesterday.
A THO Of railroad brass collars from
Hardtuer-Jacob Achenbach, w. ].
Sterling and ]. H. Morgan-were in the
city last Wednesday in consultation with
the companys attorney, Seward |. Field.
They made the trip by auto.
J. M. Williams, assessor of Eagle, fl
ed his returns with the county clerk on
Monday. But the assessors returns are
uninteresting from Johns point of view
just now. The August returns are the
ones which he is thinking about. He is
the insurgent candidate for register Of
deeds.
One Of the winners of first prize in
the Kansas City Journals subscription
contest--Miss Lena House. Of Peabody,
KANSAS niece of J. C. Clayton Of
this city. The prize is a free trip to
Europe. all expenses paid. That is bet
ter than an automobile, pianos or dia-
monds and the lucky girl is justified in
feeling proud.
The Metz Lumber Company Of Wich-
ita is building additions costing $780,
600. About twenty-five years ago ].
w. Metz was man without means and
manager Of the Long-Bell lumber yard
at Kiowa. Today he is the principal
stockholder Of large company owning
and operating fourteen lumber yards,
eight in Kansas and sw in Oklahoma
the Wichita yard being one Of the larges
in the two states
Tip McCracken returned Sunday
from Atchison where he delivered cattle
He informed US thatphe drove severa
miles in heavy snow storm that ragec
in that part Of the state Sunday. The
bluegrass was fine in the pastures he