Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-04-09
: HAZEL NEWS. ]

A A. Kinkaid is expecting to move
to his claim in Beaver county i'm a short
time. lie already has most of his
stock there.
G. G. Perry now has dwelling house
(26x26) about completed in tie west
pant town aud is going to quit paying
house rent.
G. w. Payne is working on dwell
ing for b. E. Henson. (26x2S). and b.
+. is going to quit trying to dodge the
rent collector.
w. w. Fain for want of more grass
land has bought a farm ten miles north
of Garden City and will move there
about the first day of May.
Frank Baker is evidently expecting
to get lay Off and is making prepare
lions to take it easy, at any rate he has
planted out good supply of shade
trees near his dwelling.
AT Sim Halls sale Saturday every
thing sold very low and it was said by
a good many that were there that Sim
had made mistake in his selection of
man to do the talking act.
Ed Goodan has treated his business
house to new coat of paint and laid
IN fine stock of about everything the
boys Will want, and expects to soon
have an Increased bank account.
A new department. has been added to
the Hazelton schools, to enable the pm
pils.to put on the proper face when af-
fiicted with humps. Several are now
taking lessons and a few are about
ready to graduate.
Ed Vanmeter has taken the Lamar.
Colorado fever and nothing is going to
give him relief except trial of that
country. hence he has leased his prop
erty In HaZelton for a year and will
make the trial.
@. f. Wheaton attempted to sell
some of his cattle Saturday but after
disposing of q small number he decided
that the prices were not what he ought
to have, hence he closed the sale and
will hold till fall, hoping for bet
ter demand
For the past few days when J. p.
Caudill began to feel like it was time
for dinner he got ont and looked at the
sun to get the time of day he was
forced to the habit by some one steal.
ing his watch one day last week.
One day last week we got onto the
plan of making cheap mule shed. and
how to do it quick. George Chamber
LAIN poured about two gallons OF coal Oil
on his grey mule to remove the hay
seed from his hair, and now that old
grey mule is about as devoid of hair as
the average undertaken is of con-
science when fixing price on casket
or embalmlng corpse
Sheriff GanO was in the city last
week with written invitations for our
people to attend a Temperance social
TO be held at the Office of the county at
tOrney the first of the week, and our
people, being noted for their extreme
temperance views, will, send quite a
fair representation to take part IN the
entertainment.
Some Of the boys about town go: to
feeling rather good one day last week
and conceived the idea of having some
first class fun and to make it interest
ing they used a winchester for a musi
cal instrument and came very near
shooting one or two who happened to
be too close when the dance started.
G. E Knorp now has his house about
completed and appears to be as well
pleased with his Kansas home as he
was in Woods county, O. T and why
shouldn't he, for it IS q we'll known
fact that Barber is equal to any county
in Oklahoma when it comes to making
a home. 1t is true it Is not up to Okla
hOma when it comes to land prices but
that in reality is an advantage to Bar
ber
Last Friday morning about2 O'Clock
the large ware room in the west part of
town belonging to j. C. B. Hargis was
discovered on fire and before anything
could be done to check the fire the
building and contents consisting OF
considerable machinery we're destroyed
and we understand there was no lnsur.
ance. Cause of the fire unknown but
supposed to be the work Of a few boys
trying to act like men by trying tt
learn to smoke.