Barbour County index., 1910-10-05
Lake City


o. Mills went to Butler, Mo-, last |
Wednesday on business.
First number of the lecture course
October, 18th Don't forget
E Sam Eager visited with his wife |
and daughter in Pratt last Sunday.
Quite a crowd in town last Sat
urday attending NJ. A. Davis's sale. |
Mrs. Frank Buck and son return
ed Saturday from a visit in Alva,
Okla.
Mrs. William Roark suffered |
painful sprain last week and as |
result can hardly walk.
Grandpa Draper returned from |
SUMMER visit in Danville, ILL.,, and |
western Indiana last Saturday.
Isaac McCulley was called to Mon
ia Rosa, Mo, last week by the Sc
rious illness of his grandfather.
A little girl came to make her
home with Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Cooke, Wednesday, September 2Sth.
William Waltz and family, who
have been visiting with relatives
here started back to Kentucky last
Wednesday.
c. G. Nichols is acting as assistant
cashier in the bank during the abb
sence of Isaac McCulley. Looks
natural to see Clarence in the cage
again
The defeat of the Republican par
ty was foretold almost 1900 years
ago by no less a parsonage than the
Nazerine himself. See Matt 18th
J chapter and 25th verse.
Mrs. Kinkaid, who has been Wis
iting in Pennsylvania several months
d. returned home last week She was
accompanied from Wichita by her
daughter, Mrs. Dave Freemyer
Mrs. Tackett is conducting a first
class restaurant one door east of
the hotel. This is an enterprise
that Lake City has long needed and
deserves the support of the public.
!, The Cresset, in it's last issue, ad-
vances the time-worn advice to"vote
her straight" Why? "To make it
easy for the election clerks and
judges. ."Of all the inane arguments
ever used, this is about the worst.
Last week the Metz Lumber Co.
received a car of cement and one of
lumber. The mill got in two cars of
hay and two of oil cake; besides
this, two cars of merchandise came
in
Draper & Son bought six lots
situated just north of O.Mills's res
idence last week, and have already
commenced to build residence.
Lake City is not having boom
just a steady, healthy, growth.
Lew Draper bought the livery
business from Tom Sallee last week.
Lew starts out right, see his add
in this weeks issue of the. Index.
Those knowing him have no doubt
but what he will be successful.
G. G. Shigley has been stung by
the microbe responsible for the
housecleaning fever and is making a
little alteration in the interior of
his store which will add consider
ably to the available space, as we'll
as improve the stores appearance.
7 Pratt and Kiowa have had race
l wars or race troubles or something
of the, kind recently. Lake City, mot
to be outdeafe by the neighboring
towns, has also had case of race
trouble. 1t was all confined to the
s dusky race, however, and occurred
l in this wise: Dick Fuller and his
spouse, commonly known as Auntie
Fuller, agreed to disagree and af-
4 ter dividing up their worldly goods.
Auntie betook herself to parts un-
4 known, in company with another
J. dark completed individual whom
Auntie thought might be her soul
d mate. Reads just like some of the
: romance CD of our eastern multi
millionaires, culled from the metro
d politan dailies, doesn't it?
: Only last week we heard some OF
the progressive element of the re
: publican party in this bailiwick con-
graduating themselves that the or
y gan of that party in this county had
/ ceased to disparage the insurgen'
movement; that the Cresset, if moi
: converted, had been convinced that
i it would be good policy to keeI
Il Equiet at least until after election
: Vain hope. This weeks editorial:
condemn in. no uncertain terms the
. insurgent movement by comparing i
: with the free-silver agitation, thar
: which nothing is more odious to the
/ 6. o. P. Another spasm blames the
e direct primary with the defeat o
y Stand-pat Tawny and also of Elk
Senator Long. tboth good arguments
for it if only viewed aright). An