Barbour County index., 1910-03-09

| Mrs. Mayme Holmes returned from
her outing at the Springs on Saturday
Mrs. w. E. Stout visited with her
parents. L. M. Lambeth and wife, at
| Hazelton last week.
H. H. Ca Sc has been fortunate Cor
uofortunate) enough to be summoned on
he y. S. petit jury at Wichita. He
will report fox duty next Monday.
The ladies Of St. Marks church will
give their Easter Bazaar in the Episco-
pal church basement Saturday. April End.
A cordial invitation is extended to every
body.
| Claude Morlan and family have moved
in from the farm west Of town and are
living in the Baxter property. Claude
has been employed as teamster at the
Metz Lumber yard.
The ladies Of the M. E. church will
meet with Mrs c. N. Marshall Teurs-
day tomorrow afternoon. Each lady
is requested to bring piece Of work for
the April Bazaar.
The Pittsburg Plate glass Company 5
Red Seal, and other wood filters, varnish-
es. ETC., sold by Dwight Mills, can not
be excelled by any other and are guar
anteed by the largest concern in this line.
Mrs. Emma Rankin, Of this city, and
her sister-in-law, Mrs. Kernohan, Of Sha-
ron township. departed on Monday for
Marshall. Indiana, in response to a mes
sage stating that Mrs. kernohan's sist er
was critically i'll and could not recover.
This is indeed sad news.
Harry Luallen returned home from
Bethany hospital. Kansas City yesterday.
He went there two weeks ago to have
an operation Performed on his side,
where an unnatural growth is forming, but
the physicians whom he consulted Deem
ed ltunwise to operate.
Operator |. M. Goman for many
years with the Santa Fe at this station,
manipulated the keys at the Mo. Pacific
station during the absence Of Operator
Jackson on account Of the illness aud
death Of his son, Ralph, several days
this week. Mr.. German has sold his
residence property on south Fifth street
to w. H. McBlair and will remove
with his family to Texas, to engage in
rural pursuits, in a short time.-kiowa
News-Review.
There are eighteen deputy assessors
In Barber county who are being paid to
do the assessing. When they finish the
job two men in each township. and two
additional in the cities Of Medicine Lodge
and kiowa, must go over their work,
and the county clerk, as county assessor
ex-o@cio. has complete supervision Of
the entire bunch. This gives us a grand
total Of 6fty-nine men on the payroll to
assess Barber county. And this is only
a drop in the bucket compared with the
state payroll under the new tax law. 1t
seems that about all our legislatures are
looking after is to provide ways and
means to spend public money. And
the taxpayers are feeling it.
A. M. Houchin and ]. c. Davis
each cashed a 20-year policy last month
which they paid out, in the Northwest
tern Mutual of Milwaukee. Each was
a thousand-dollar policy but neither yield
ed the returns promised although in both
cases the amount paid exceeded the
premium paid in. In the twenty years
Mr.. Houchin paid $65l tn premiums
and drew out $7l2. Mr, Davis paid
"a little more and drew about $3.50. 1t
amounts to. practically. having carried
$1,000 insurance twenty years without
cost, but they did not realize the returns
on their money they were promised and
had right to expect. 1t would be a
difficult matter for this company to get
any more business here.
The Isabel Tribune which was to
make its appearance last week. died in
the shell. The publisher. Mr.. Slemmer,
went broke before he got out his 6ra
numter. He had been printing paper
at Zenda, but loaded his plant in the