Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-09-03
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Miss Bertha Case, of Wellington, Is
visiting relatives and friends here.
!. b. L. Drake shipped two cars of fat
cattle to the Kansas City market last
week.
Mrs. A. Self, of Polk county, Mo-, IS
visiting her father, Jesse Olinger, re-
siding southwest Of town.
Albert Schenkel. of Harper, was in
the city one day last week looking after
his property interests In this locality.
A. S. Burns has bills out announcing
the sale Of his personal property. Alb
is getting rather anxious to see his
mother again.
Hooper Warren, of st. Louis, with
his family. are visiting with his father.
j. A. Warren, east of the city two
miles. They will be here about two
weeks.
A travelling medicine man visited
Hazelton last week and fished for suck.
ers part of one day. He found it rath-
er dry fishing as only few suckers
would bite.
j. w. Wright has returned from his
trip to Kentucky, and he is better
pleased with Kansas than ever before
and says he would not live in kentucky
for the best farm in his old locality.
Spencer Davis has returned from his
visit TO Washington. He is now of the
opinion that he is as far west as he
cares to be. He says that his two sons
who reside in that state are coming to
Kansas to find home.
Prof. Ira Stout and family returned
from their trip to the mountains last
week. MIR. Stout is we'll pleased with
the trip and is confident that he is in
the best of condition to take charge of
the Hazelton schools for another term
The Odd Fellows organized a lodge
here Saturday night. We understand
they had some 20 members to start in
on. There is lot of awful good ma
terial in this locality to build up first
class working lodge, if tney Will run it
in and use it.
e. l.. Graves, one of the candidates
on the prohibition ticket, did business
in Hazelton one day last week. G.. l..
is one of the best men in Barber coun-
ty, and If he hadn't got switched off on
the wrong ticket we would like awful
well to support him.
S. S. Kincaid has brought IN some
60 or 70 head of cattle from his rarch
west of here and they are looking so
well that 5. S. sleeps out i'll the pasture
with them at nights He has evident
ly become attached to them and no h.
, ing but hard rain will ever separate
| him from those cattle.
never saw our people in the condition
they now are. One day they get word
that KiOwa is dry. and probably the
next day the news is that all is we'll
With these conflicting reUorts 1t puts us
where We dun't know whether to go
down there or not-hate to make a trip
for nothing.
Harry Black, after returning to Ken
lucky and seeing just what it looked
like compared with Kansas, and after
spending over a year there, is again in
Kansas with his family and thinks that
HaZelton and Barber county are far in
! the lead of Kentucky.
We heard leading republican re-
mark the other day that the reason the
present county officials were pushing
the prosecution of the joint men was
that they had to do something to hold
the prohibition republicans in line for
November, but that after election they
could afford to let up and let things
run as they had in the past.
1t has been reported that G. W. Payne
was married but until we get it direct
from headquarters we are not going to
take much stock in the report, but If
true. we can only say that the lady, be
her whom she may, has certainly cap
tured one of our most honorable and
reliable citizens.
Not much wheat is being marketed
these days owing to the belief that the
present republican prosperity is not up
to their ideas as to the real definition of