Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-05-09
Hazelton Happenings,

Mel. Klinek left for his old home in Illinois
Tuesday; that takes another one out of the
band at Hazelton.
Only eleven townships failed to send repre-.
sentatives to the republican convention, but
straws indicate the direction of the wind.
]. A. Mckenzie bought a mule of Frank
Flowers for 800.
F.F Severance and J. A. Mckenzie traded
b orses last week and they each made about
$25 in trade.
A. H. Peck has rye on his farm adjoining
Hazelton that measures nearly five feet high.
Frank Flowers bought two COWS of ]. A. Nc
Kenzie for 800.
A man by the name of Turner has come to
take charge of the creamery and is waiting for
the machinery to get here; IT has been shipped.
Old Mr.. Talley died Thursday night with
Rright's disease.
Rev. Burton wall called away Thursday by a
telegram, stating that his infant child was
not expected to live.
A. L. Hazelton started to his home in Penn
sylvania, Wednesday evening.
Frank Taylor and wife started east on a two
months visit Thursday morning.
Mrs. Moon and C. F. Beck's little girl started
to Pennsylvania with MIR. Taylor's family
Mrs Moon expects to re away until fall.
y. D.. Ia
sey COW for $40.
George PAYNE expects TO return to his
home In Illinois in a few days; his family lives
there and George wants to get home to vote for
| Cleveland.
Oscar Haberline, our trustee, says he can't
find but three or four men in Hazelton who
own dog. That speaks well for our citizens,
but there is evidently large number of stray
1 dora in taa off " hate bo lr;IH
A mad dog went through town Tuesday and
bit three dogs. If he had been successful in
biting about thirty dogs i'm the presence of
witnesses, we would feel that mad dogs arc of
some use after all.
We have asked several farmers this week
how many acres of crop they had out and how
many teams they mad to do the work. and be-
below are their answers: Hazelton Stock farm
600 acres, didn't get the number of their
| teams; ID. r. Smith so acres, one team: S
| p. Mcdaris 45 acres, one team; A. Wright "a
| acres, one team; Harry Hardin 100 acres one
team; Oscar Haberline 40 acres. one foam.
| VIM. aud Thomas Cunningham 200 acres fo,1r
teams; A. w. Poe ITO acres, one team: o. r.
! Mason % acres, one team; c. d. and F.. +. Sew
erance $50 acres. two teams; w W. Fain 100
acres, two teams; T. Fox 100 acres, two teams:
w. L. Gamble 20 acres. one team; r. ID. Breaky
13O acres, two teams; Frank Collins * acres.
one team; Burt and George Brown 40 acres.
two teams; George and Johnie King I40 acres.
two teams. Total 1850 acres and q teams:
average per team 81 Is acres; this leaves out
the stockkfarm- This win represent all In this
vicinity, as We maze no effort to select the
largest farmers, but simply asked each one as
we saw them. Now, is there another county in
the wide world where man can farm any
more land to the team2 Forty acres was con-
sidered big crop for team in Illinois. yet
these men have put in an average OF g. acres;
most OF them have part Of their corn worked
over once and they have done this on short
| feed and teams wintered as cheaply as DO ssibIe
last winter. When You find better quality Of
sol and more gritty and energetic class Of
psople than We have in Barber county. you
win have to discover new world to do il,
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