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Prof. Cowgill was here last Friday. For School books and supplies go to the P. O. Book Store. 20-tf Remember the political appointments for your neighborhood. The eastern mail gets here on time nearly often as it fails. Don't forget the basket social next Wednesday night at Fairview. Riley Lake was a representative from the west part of the county to the Wichita fair. Judge Pierce is attending the county commissioners' meeting, but is not feeling as well as usual. Our cement works shipped two cars of cement to St. Louis, last week, which will help advertise our city Wanted-I want to buy four good young mares, to weigh from 1,000 to 16 1,200 pounds. S. A. Hayes. We do not doubt the election of eyery man on our ticket. The question is about the size of the majority. We devote all of our surplus space this week to Mr. Plumb's old sp eches. They make good reading just now. Now is your time to get those fine Cabinet Photos taken at Young's Gallery. Best grades $3 perdozen. 28tf Board. F. Smith and Vernon J.! Miller, two of Coldwater's business men and capitalists, were in the city last Friday. R. A. Cameron took in the "wet" day of the Wichita fair last Saturday, and went from there to Topeka on legal business. Jim Dobbs has been reported twice as having gone back into business in this city, but has not yet made up his mind to do so. Dr. Yant will leave the first of next month to attend dental college. All persons wishing first-class dental work 16-4 should call at once. Kiowa will probably turn her picnic into a big barbecue. We will keep our readers posted. But barbecue or not, it will be a rousing picnic. "Blind Amos," who was on the bill boards for the opera house, for Monday evening failed to fill his engagement for some unknown reason. There will be a mush and milk social at the school house at the head of Bear creek, on the 10th of October, for the benefit of Union Sunday school. td Cory Cool carries his right arm in a sling now, and the machinery at the sugar mill runs on just as though he hadn't "monkeyed with the buzz-saw.' The county commissioners met, last Monday afternoon, and will probably remain in session a couple of weeks. Considerable business is to be transacted. One fare for round trip tickets to the Inter-State fair, at Kansas City, Mo. Tickets on sale October 5th to 11th, good to return to the 12th. W. O. Horr, 19 agent. Wanted-A farm; will pay good rent for a large or small farm. Must have at least three room house and a stable. Address J. L. M. INDEX office, Medi18 cine Lodge. The old Boyd cattle cases have all been settled up and dismissed from the docket. This matter was compromised, and the money paid over. We are glad the matter has been settled. The First National Bank at Coldwater, was closed last Saturday, a week, and is now in the hands of the examiner. Too much real estate, speculation, and boom days is the cause of the suspension. The Medicine Lodge News Co. occupy a space among our advertisers this week, and call the attention of the children to their school supplies and the public in general to their new goods lately received. James Dobbs left here yesterday, for Wellington, where he will spend one night with relatives, and from there he goes to Kansas City on business and will also take in the Kansas City interstate fair and exposition now in progress there. Dispatches state that thousands are starving in Russia. If the speculators can get possession of our wheat crops the price will go up to $1.50 or $2 per bushel. Russia will pay our price when she can't get wheat at her own price, and our farmers are better entitled to the rise than the speculators. Farmers, hold your wheat. Dr. E. P. Miller and Eli Benedict, two of Barber's most enterprising citizens, were at Wichita, last week, taking in the great Southern Kansas fair, and looking at the fat cattle, the pinknosed pigs, the big "muel," the mammoth corn and large pumpkins, and never forgeting to say a good word for Barber, Medicine Lodge and our sugar industries. Hyder H. Fair, J. M. Fair, U. Kemp and Billie Huffaker were a jolly crowd of Sharon young gentlemen who took in the Wichita fair. The "boys" report a way-up time, and Hyder Fair tells an Indian story that can climax the thrilling encounters of Kit Carson or put the kibosh on the daring deeds of Col. Sam Houston and his Indian days. The story will shortly appear in book form, and is entitled: "The Indian I Drowned at Mid-night, or An Encounter on the Banks of Dixie." Geo. W. Orndorff, of Cherubusco, Ind., owns a farm in Barber county, and reads the INDEX. He read about that big corn grown by John T. Jesse, where each stalk had two big ears, and a gourd holding a quart of shelled corn. grew up with each stalk. He came out Monday, and made a straight run from the train to the INDEX office, where he saw the samples of corn. Mr. Jesse