Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-01-01
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his barber shop and is as proud as q
boy with new top.
The telephone people put in machin-
cry for the bank last week So that they
can now tell US just what amount our
over draft is without having to face US
down in it. 1t Is not near so embarras-
sing as the old way.
Anyone wanting to get out OF Hazel
ton on short notice can take their chan.
ces of either getting out going east at
l2:45 p. m. els p. M, $40 a. m. &. or 9:2T
III; or Il they prefer to go west they
can 90 at l1:3 q. NJ. las p. M, 1923 d.
m., or 2 .. m. Now take your choice if
you don't like the town
Within the next few days j. 2. Cau. :
dill will move the old hotel fropi it's
present location to the lots immediate.
ly west of the Fisher block, and will re-
model 1t and bit it up for first class
hotel. Jesse is the best hotel man
Hazelton ever had and We predict that
he will make it complete success.
Charity Lodge, No. 263, A, F. & A.
M. installed the following officers FRI
day night: w, M, d. o. Edwards: y.
W., w. Q. Afford; j. W.. l., w. Full.
lertOn: Treasurer, 5. III. Dicks; Secre-
tary, }. +. Gamble. No changes were
made il the elective Offices We have
misplaced the names of those appoint.
ed. hence will not attempt To give
them.
Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Webb were over
from Caldwell and spent their Christ.
~ IN O. or
Ayers, hence it is not necessary for ma
to bother the barber for some time as
those two little grand children, Earl
Webb and FlOrence Ayers, have taken
particular pains to see that our wbisk.
ers didn't get an oyer.growth while
they were here.
S)me OF the Hazelton young peopIe
were at q dance at Corwin Christmas
night and 1t is presumed they had a
good time rs we learn that only one
fellow got thrashed to perfection. and
he no doubt deserved all he got and
| then some. A dance at Abe Buckles
the same night was an attraction for
part or the Hazelton young people but
they didn't have quite so much fun aa
no one got dressed down there.
Quite number OF Ladies and n few
gentlemen visited Ed Goodan's lunch
rooms one night aud expressed a desire
| for Ed not To sell any intoxIcants. Et
| Informed them he was perfectly inno--
cent, and offered as proof to let them
| sample his goods, and We think Ell ia
for any man that would drink enough
| Of that malt to get drunk ought to be-
rode ON a rail and drummed out of
town and never show his face again
Professor Ira Stout. principal of our
| schools, spent Christmas week wills
rk.IA a al nd ria ~
Daisy Needs spent Christmas holiday
with home folks at Kiowa and Miss.
josie Horton enjoyed weeks visit
with home folks. All of them have
done everything in their pOwer To
make the school success and are on.
titled to all the enjoyment and pleasure
they can get during the holidays.
Christmas eve night the church peo.
| pie gave an entertainment and treated
most of the little folks. and so far as we
have been able TO learn all except thos3
| that were overlooked in the distrIbu-
tfnn or presents went awav feeling that
| this is fine Old world to live in. The
| oHly bad feature in these entertain.
| ments Ia that there are ALWAYS few
| that get no presents and it usually hap
pens that 1t Is the Door children that
| are overlooked. This. OF course. leaves
the impression that they were neglect.
ed on account of their poverty.
/ Fred Dicks aad Eta Afford were
married CHI. r.stmas day, and it Is safep
I'd bet that they will never do The like,
again on that particular day, for II
| they didn't get to Listen To all
| Of the noise the BOYS could think of
Christmas night, We don't know what
| 1t takes. We have q slight personal in
terest In their future success and couIds
| not help but feel that they deserved ALI
they had To endure that evening. IL
| will have II tendency tO make them Ic.
the future sympathiZs with others i'm
| like trouble. That marriage makes us.
father In law To a half interest in a
grocery store. AMI III lie future we ex
| pect to provide little better for our
family. we Can get edit now.
Saturday evening the dwelling occu-
pied by Mr.. James Stephens, two aud a.
half miles southeast Of HaZeIton with
its contents was destroyed by IRE. The
| fire is supposed to have caught from a
defective fiue. The roof was about
ready to fall In when the fire was dis.
| covered. A portion of the goods i'm the
| lower rooms was saved but everything
| in the upper rooms was lost. Mr..
| Stephens was in town and when he saw
| the fire he started home and in at
tempting to gain time got on bycicIe.
got thrown of and his collar bone brok.
en-, and his face badly bruised. Neither
the building nor contents were insured,