Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-01-29
HazeItOn Happenings.

La grippe has got Charlie SHILLING
down again. He got up and went to
work too soon. C. T. Neal, after sew
eral days contending with the grippe,
is able to be out again. Arthur Noble
takes his place at the head of the hunt
ing class. He killed wolf, Thursday.
-. DR.. Franklin, of Wellington, is
stopping here for few days, and is a
match tor our best posted protection
list in an argument on the tariff They
are getting afraid to say protection"
when he is around; and 1t is not sur
prising, either. when we examine the
tariff list, and find that the cost of
wooden hats is increased go per cent. by
the tariff I; ready-made clothing is in
creased one-thlrd ; carpets about IS per
cent; dress goods, 35 !; clocks. So; sew
ing machines, As; watches. 25; lamps,
45; stoves, 35; table knives, 80; farming
implements, So; salt. So; lumber, 50 per
1000 feet; castor oil, so cents per gal
lon; linseed oil, 25 cents per gallon;
putty, SIS to so per cent. In mention
ing the reported joint in Hazelton, in
my last letter, / hardly expected it
would be noticed, but since the people
have got hint, the evidence is becom-
ing more satisfactory. ;. Fred. Noble
is assisting w. l.. Peck to lick postage
stamps, while Charlie SHILLING Is sick.
IS. s. Robinson this week received
fine registered Poland China brood
SOW from Isaac Wood, of Oxford, Kan
sas. This is another good addition to
the large list of fine stock in this vi
cinity. :. "A dance at Masonic Hall, and
an oyster supper at the M. E. church,
were the means of entertaining the
people Friday night. La grippe caus-
ed Miss Ada Shilling to miss school last
Monday, that being the first day she has
been kept out of school, by sickness, for
eleven years. "A farmer sold load of
corn, one dav this week, for 10 cents a
bushel, or about Is cents per hundred
pounds. He then went to store to buy
corn meal, and found that 1t was worth
80 cents per hundred pounds. He tg-
ured it up. and found that grinding the
hundred pounds of corn had increased
its value 50 cents, and that it was worth
nearly four and a-half times what his
corn would bring. =. "A couple of good
and kind-hearted republicans visited us,
the other day, to show us the beauties
Of protection. We got them to agree
with us on an estimate of the amount
of sugar and syrup for an ordinary fam
lily for year. Then we took the tariff
rates as they now stand, and found
that the tariff on two articles alone cost
about $A. They both concluded that
the tariff should be materially changed.
We are still unchanged in our belief
that the present tariff is little, if any,
better than highway robbery, robbing
the poor TO benefit the rich making
paupers, tramps and millionaires at
lively late. DR.. carp, of Winfield, oc-
cupied the M. E. pulpit Sunday and
preached very able missionary SER
mon. MIR. McAdoo and family ar
rived here from Tennessee Sunday and
will make this his future home. Aside
from his politics, we are we'll pleased
with his appearance. w. l.. Gamble
is wearing a broad smile over the ad.
vent of another girl of regulation
weight. !. w. III. Virgins has had to
quit work to help spank a 9-pound girl
at his house. w. G.. A.