Barbour County Index from Medicine Lodge, Kansas • Page 8

-THE BARBER COUNTY INDEX, MEDICINE LODGE KANSAS, JUNE 1G 1921 THE BARBER COUNTY INDEX Published in Medicine Lodge, Kansas, on Thursdays. JOE SIMS, Editor and Owner FURNITURE PRICES Furniture can be bought today for lots less money II than it could last year because lumber and mirrors and i igrtartiV i my I other raw materials can be bought for less'. WE TAKE OUR MEDICINE We have secured exact figures on what all of our furniture would cost today and have decided to take our loss all at once. We have cut our prices to just what they would be if we were buying each article today and we can conscientiously tell you that everything in our store 'mx- fife fej SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year, in advance Six Months, in advance $2.00 $1.00 .75 Ig is priced today at. only a fair profit over what it would cost us to replace it.

COMPARE OUR PRICES WITH OTHERS We can't print in this advertisement pictures and prices of everything in our II in and see the goods exactly Compare these prices with anywhere for the same class iiir W. R. FORSYTH 1 SON FURNITURE AND UNDERTAKING Mdicine Lodge Kansas -t FOR LADIES ONLY- City Marshal Woodward is in receipt of the following letter, which we print as nearly like it is written as possible: Oswego, Kansas, May 30 City marshell: Kind Sir i will drap you a few lines in regaurd to harvesting is thair goin to be eny writh you and say i am not fooling about this do you know of a job i can git and i want to no if you no of a good widow lady that wants to take a fair good boy to rase i do not chew smoak drink nor go with the girls but i go to church and i want to get a good widow or i would take a single girl not to young i can do any kind of work on a farm, will you pleas rite soon and if you no of any nice ladys that wants a chance tell them to please rite at once and i will and i will try and anser any thing they want to know, pleas write soon youro truly. p. s.

now if you find me a good lady i will pay you for yur trubble. i forgot to tell you my aige is 45. (Name given upon application at the Three Month3, in advance In Canada and foreign countries, Only 198 days until Christmas. Do your Christmas brewing early. That dropping sound you hear is the price of automobiles.

We stop long enough to mop the noble brow and remark that summer will start on June 21st. And, also, do you think Edison can answer the Irish question The Printer's Strike The falling price of motor cars Resounds throughout the states, But striking printers try to hike The nineteen twenty rates. The Wichita Eagle refers to John R. Eeeching.as "eloquent." John R. musta been going to speakin' school.

Old Sweethearts Our old sweethearts we often picture As fairies flitting o'er the lea, But real life shows they sometimes measure Around the waist 'bout fifty-three. It seems that all that effects the proper enforcement of the 18th A. is that there is too free use of alcohol as a beverage; too free use of physicians prescriptions to get a drink; too free use of home-brewing; too free use of the smuggler's art; too free robbing: of government warehouses. This is what the retiring prohibition enforcement officials say. In other words, the 18th A.

works in the big cities just like the Dodo flies. Dempsey is getting Ills alibi all set. He quit the other day on account of a cut over his eye. Dempsey is supposed to fight Car-pentier the Frog Poilu on the second of July. If it was, a plain job of carpentering he might get by having had experience in the ship yards.

"West a serial now running in the Saturday Evening Post is the story of a fillum actress who is making a trip across America by auto, her idea being to teach Americanism. Crossing Kansas she says she didn't find anyone who needed teaching. We don't want to brag but Trotsky came from Girard, Kans. and there is the Nonpartisan League. Admiral Sims is again in hot water.

We hope he was misquoted "for the sake of the family." Y'know we Sims must hang together, altho some of the Irish, hyphen, Americans seem to want to hang Ad. separately. 'v We hasten to deny that we are the Sims who is occupying the front page 80 much here of late. We are generally in trouble of some kind, but with years comes discretion and we rarely hunt trouble with the Irish we troup now a fine scar we got in a friendly argument with an Irishman named Tommy Ryan. The wets are to parade in New York half million strong.

If this parade fails to bring about the repealing of the 18th Amendment they should hold an indignation meeting and if the worst comes to the worst and that don't fetch her, get outa petition. add 1 cent per week for mailing. A young lady walked down Main Street, (ours, not Up Sinclair's) with her stockings rolled down and her skirt at half mast and when a young soldier to "make it snappy' she gave him the S. O. L.

sign. Weill Hardly Unseen Full many of nature's wonders' Are born to blush unseen. But not on the modern" chicken, If you get what we mean. Married Men How doth the busy married man Improve his working days? By working like a noun' dog At least that's what he says. And then the busy little man Will start for home at once, Where wifey dear will tell him She's saved him several stunts.

She says the flivver's out of fixr-The lawn needs mowing too, The garden sadly needs a hoe He knows it all is true. The screens are nearly falling off, There's pictures' to be hung, The rugs all need a'cleaning, The kitchen chair a rung. The busy married man then sits Him down and reads the news, Gets up and eats his pinner-Then takes a quiet snooze. When Ma is Sick When Ma is sick, She pegs away; She's quiet though Not much t' say. She goes right on A-don' An' sometimes laughs, Er even sings.

She says she don't Feel extra well, But then it's just A kind of spell. She'll- be all right Tomorrow, sure, A good old sleep Will be the cure. An' Pa he sniffs An' makes no kick, For women folks Is always sick. And Ma she smiles, Let' on she's glad When Ma is sick; It ain't so bad. When Pa is Sick When Pa is sick, He's scared to death An' Ma an' us Just hold our breath, He crawlsj in bed, And puffs and grunts, An' does all kinds Of crazy stunts.

He wants "Doc" Brown An' mighty quick; For when Pa's ill He's awful' sick. He gasps and groans, An' sorta sighs, He talks so queer, "5 An' rolls his eyes. A Ma jumps an' runs, An' all cf us, 1 An' all the house Is in a fuss. An' peace and joy V' Is mighty skeerce When Pa is sick. i It's something fierce.

Christian Evangelist wis AKNOS PuaOW A FMWEU EDES A parous 4' store, but we ask you to come as they are. those made by any other firm of Index office or Woodward's Matrimon- ial Agency.) -o-o- Poverty and Splendor. 1 saw many poor, whom I supposed to live In affluence. Poverty has. in large cities, very oMfforent appearances; it is often coneenletl in splendor, and often in extravagance.

It is the care of a great part of mankind to conceal their Indigence from tiie rest; they support themselves by temporary expedients and every day is lost In contriving for the morrow. Dr. Samuel Johnson, BACK TO PRE-WAR PRICES On all bakery and fountain goods at MEIXNER'S BAKERY. Must Be Qualified. According lo morning paper another antarctic expedition is to he or-crfinlzed very shortly.

We understand that only rhoe yvho ran stsmr! a north i ern wind on nil four sides need apply. I'UMC-h. London. REMEMBER THAT William Palmer Son are always prepared to take care of all good Real Estate loans at lowest possible rates. OA in the Hardware line" Around Town Gossip VS CECU Ctt UURAUtE VUVAEW OW XCE0 TO SEU, Aoro msoAuca OKI HVS 7 1 8 XX tx II ii HARVEST GOODS OF ALL KINDS LAKE CITY NEWS Louis Nelson, of LaVeta, Colorado, spent a few days last week in this city.

B. Davis of Eureka, and Lon Davis of Turkey Creek were attending to business matters in this city Thursday. Francis Davis visited from Thursday until Saturday with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Scott Buck.

E. E. Darnell made a business trip to. Medicine Lodge Thursday. Mrs.

Scott Buck returned Wednesday morning from Winfield, where she attended the funeral of a nephew. Mr. and Mrs Frank Buck and son Harris did not return until Thursday evening, and Mrs. Nell Lewis and Mrs. Will Carbray and daughter Katherine came with them to visit a few days both Buck families.

They left Monday morning for Alva, where they will visit relatives. M. F. Stewart and son were in town Friday afternoon. Paul departed Saturday morning for Wichita, where he will go to school, this summer.

Fred Carr of Deerhead was in our city Friday. Cole Goff was down from the Sawyer neighborhood Thursday. L. E. Thomberry of Aetna was a city visitor Friday.

Mrs. W. B. Rhoades shopped in the county seat Friday morning. Mrs.

Riley Lake and daughter Inez returned from Lawrence Thursday night. Geo. Bodenhames have moved into the Fred Branson property. Fred Branson and family have moved to Freeport, where they will make their home. Earl and Fred Hendrickson drove to Medicine Lodge Saturday afternoon.

Mrs. John Matthews returned Monday from a ten days visit with friends and relatives in Alva, Okla. 'Miss Pattie Cooke spent Saturday night and Sunday with her sister, Mrs. Ed. Larkin and family.

Miss Marie McNeill left Saturday morning for an indefinite stay at Coldwater, Kansas. Mrs. Riley Lake and Miss Inez spent Sunday at Mr. Austin's near Isabel. Mr.

and Mrs. Scott Buk, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Buck and Harris, Mrs. Nell-Lewis and Mrs.

Will Carbray and daughter Katherine visited at -Lon" Davis's and Fred Buck's Sunday. Dave Freemyer made a business trip to Wichita JMonday. o-o WHEN in Medicine Lodge visit our Sanitary -Fountain Serfice and Quality. MEIXNERS BAKERY. By Charles Sughtoe Western Newspaper Union rU vX9ao)EVAEUT ou WMTUV OUVXSEl-NJSWLEtU nkjsu tvv ovsues L.

M. Hubbell, father-in-law of the editor, arrived on Wednesday night for a short visit at the home of his daughter. H. A. Coughlin of Arkansas City called on Medicine Lodge business friends Monday.

MEATS FOR HARVEST Get our special prices before buying your harvest meats Farmer's Store. Mr. and Mrs. J. A.

Jordan left for the B. E. Holmes ranch on Wednesday. They ivvere accompanied by Mrs. Ailene Duke and daughte.

They expect to be gone several days. The Willing Workers of the Christian church entertained their husbands on Tuesday night with a delicious, two course lunch. The affair was held in the basement of the church. Prairie Dog John Wells is once more sojourning in our midst for a few days, as he ran out of rattlesnake poison. John says he thinks in a few more years he'll be able to train the snakes to bit the prairie dogs, and as the coyotes will eat the dogs, it will ccon rid Barber county of pests that is, animal one.

Mrs. B. L. Gaitskill made a business trip to Isabel Wednesday. B.

H. Howe of Kansas City was here on business the first of the week. F. J. Wren j.nd W.

L. Bragg motored to Sharon Sunday. HARVEST GROCERES We got 'em. Farmers Store. RUINCUG Affcs You wers fooHeh to gtt angry with Marie just fcec2uss she kept you waiting.

Jack But, Great Scott, I was waiting for her with a tsxs. Paying for 'Em Nov. What has become of the old-fashioned man who thought a gown was something to sleep in? Dallas News. AT OUR FOUNTAIN Service and Quality MEIXNER'S BAKERY. r-r AW -UaS SE.CVA eOO0 tUx tlVA nUM" -UEN OX 4 A.

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