Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-09-10
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Hazelton now has two good Sunday
schools in running order and each has
a good attendance.
The farmers are now as busy as bees
putting up mighty good feed crop of
sorghum, kaffir and other rough feed.
The past week has about cleaned up
all the thresh,ng in this part of the
county, only scattering job here and
there left.
B. F. Henson IS evidently looking for
a cyclone. At any rate he is preparing
good cyclone cellar to get in when 1t
does come.
Will Maddox is having Thousand
dollar dwelling built on his farm north
east Of town. 6. w. Payne is doing
the carpenter work.
A good many HaZelton people are ex-
pecting to visit Kiowa next Thursday
j. Rose, make one of his excellent
| speeches.
| George Martin is going to build a
good dwelling on his farm northeast of
Hazelton this fall. The people around
here are evidently preparing to stay
from the way they are improving their
homes.
We have begun cribbing our corn and
are in position to state with fair de-
gree of knowledge that it is making
| OF hIlcH olo no
is not firstclass. 1t got dry too early for
it to fully mature.
Friday night, so we are Informed,
there came very near being real bad
scrap. One party drew his gun and
neither of them was in the least afraid
of the other. Cooler heads prevented
anyone from being hurt.
Just at time when we really wanted
water the worst the city well has gone
back on us, or rather the wind mill has
given out and it is about as hard to get
water at the public we'll as it is to get
wet goods at Kiowa.
The prOhibitionists are going to have
their inning at HaZelton on the Goth.
Their nominee for governor is to be
here as we'll as their candidate for coun-
ty attorney. We are Offering to bet a
bottle of wet goods that the home man
can make the best speech.
j, A few land buyers have visited this
vicinity the past week, but it is little
dry for them to take a hold. They
want to wait and see if it will ever
ain, which twill in due time, and just
few moments before it is too late.
That is the way it always has done.
Mrs. M. E.. Severance, of Wichita,
visited with HaZelton friends part of
last week. Mrs. Severance was one of
the first persons to locate here, and has
seen it build up. go down, and again on
the road to its former position among
Kansas towns.
. E. II. Nixon and w. G. Millar spent
8 part of one day in the city last week
T Or course politics had nothing to dc
}. with their visit, but still they talked
q some on political matters to the deal
, people, and if Judge Lester had beer
n here he would have gone right HON,
and written an apology for the next is
sue Of the Cresset for stating that E
III. was silent candidate. He wasn'
silent any Of the time he was here.
/ A. S. Burns had good crowd at hi
u sale last Thursday and part OF his stui
y sold fairly we'll but cattle sold very low
in fact the lowest of any sale In thi
: locality for long time. A. S. intend
It to leave for poor old Missouri about tn
y 18th, and when he once gets to max
IS his mother real good visit he will b
|. so home sick to get back to Barber ths
d nothing but real bad sickness will hol
him there.