Barbour County index., 1910-07-20
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Wheat is selling for o5 cents and oa.s
for 25 cents.
c. I. Phipps has threshed his wheat
and part Of it averaged 33 bushels per
acre.
Floyd Lester of Wellington, brother
OF our J. A, is visiting here for few
days.
M. V. Salmon threshed a l2O-acre
field Of wheat Saturday that made an av-
erage Of 25 bushels.
E. B. Fullerton sprained one of his
ankles one day last week by a horse
he was riding falling on it.
w. M. Campbell, our rural route
2 man, is smiling over the arrival of an
other boy at his house.
The rain last week was a corn maker
and smile broadener and started the
farmers blowing for another wheat crop.
Jake George, northeast Of town, takes
the cake on wheat yield. He had one
field that threshed out 40 bushels per
acre.
D. @. Edwards and ]. C. Dimmick
have installed uptodate Lighting systems
in their homes. This put us out Of their
class altogether.
This is the time Of year that members
Of the school boards get the only real
pleasure out Of their jobs. They are now
being visited by lot of awfully good
looking lady school teachers.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. B. Mcmillan, repre-
senting the Wichita Beacon, are in town
this week helping the ladies Of the
ChristiaA church get fine Kimball piano
by securing subscriptions to the Beacon.
They are having good success and no
doubt will install the piano in about ten
days.
Last Friday was the hottest day in
1910 to date. Official registration by
Observer Garrison. los.
Dr.. Gilbert reports the birth Of nice
large boy to A. A. Pardee and wife Of
Eagle township on Saturday, July 10th.
All doing nicely.
= EasesE-asFol of bills, on gypsum hills.
Owner call at Citizens State Bank, de-
scribe bills and pay 25 cents for this no.
tice.-feB. Warren.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. B. Austin and daush-
ter Of Lincoln, Nebraska, arrived on Sat-
urday to visit with Dwight P. Mills and
family about week. Mrs. Austin and
Mrs. Mills are sisters.
Elder Hendrickson who was formerly
pastor ofthe Christian church at Sharon,
writes The Index to send hi: paper to
Wichita, to which city he has recently
moved to reside permanently.
w. H. Thompson was at Winfield
on Saturday to hear and see Uncle
joe Cannon. On Sunday he went to
Wichita to visit few days with his son,
]. w. Thompson, who is foreman in the
"ad" rooms Of the Eagle.
Ex-senator c. L. Long returned from
New York and Washington Monday.
1t is understood that he will devote the
next two weeks to the Wagstaf- Stubs
campaign which is now at the boiling
point.
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Z. P. Ball and daughter, Miss Grace,
departed on Monday for Colorado
Springs. Miss Balls health ha. been
failing lately and on advice Of physicians,
she will spend the next three months at
the springs. Mr. Ball will return within
a month.
r. II. Hall, MIR. Richards and Mr..
and Mrs. Arthur Alexander Of Wichita
visited the, latter part Of last week with
Judge and Mrs. c. w. Ellis m thi. city.
They returned home on Sunday even-
ing. Mrs. Hall. who had been visiting
here several weeks. returned to Wichita
with them. They made the hip by
auto. -
Mrs. ]. H. Mnick planned very IN
teresting birthday surprise u honor Of her
husbands 6lst birthday Saturday even
ing. Many neighbors and friends re.
sponded and an evening Of unlimited
pleasure was enjoyed. The guests present
ed Mr.. Minick with an elegant rocker
which was received with great apprecia-
hon. Ice cream and cake were served.
jim i.is mighty spry and young
looking for a man Of 81. He looks -as