Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-05-28

! HAZELTON NEWS.

ming and badly damaged but fortunately no
one was hurt.
Dan Edwards spent part OF the week in
Wichita but bear in mind Dan was not attend
ing the Democratic State Convention, he is not
built that way.
The hail Thursday night thinned the wheat
just little SO as to give it little room to
spread. 1t also knocked little of the fruit
from the apple and peach trees.
If this announcing for Office is kept up
much longer in the Cresset we are going TO
drive up to the Lodge just as soon as we can
get our corn plowed and strike Otis for a loan.
for he is getting all the surplus cornered.
This at times seems to be cold, hard.
friendly world to live in. Now then some one
is talking of putting stop to our opportunity
of getting good cold beer these hot day with
out having to go all the way to Kiowa for it.
After the roadoverseer gets through repair
ing the damage done by recent heavy rains,
there are not going to be many wagon bridges
that have not had some work done on them,
and q good many will have to be rebuilt from
the foundation.
Dan Edwards was so completely taken with
the Kansas City Commercial Club that he
stayed with them until they went to the end
of their journey south and also until they got
back as far as Attica. Dan Is one OF the best
stayers we have.
Any man that would leave Kansas to look
for place where it rams after what we have
had The past few days ought to be located
right about the middle of the Mississippi river
for little time just to see how much less
water Is there than we havein Kansas.
Dr.. jacobson seems to haye struck place
i+ &c. To Ia i'm hjISt m
UP with what he has TO do. He is now assist
ing in the drug store along with his dentistry,
and taking the two together don't allow him
any time to witness any of our excellent ball
games or side shows.
Last Thursday when that "oget there in Kan
sas'' or Kansas City Commercial Club was in
Hazeton it Was raining as it can do some
times in Kansas. Quite number of the Haz-
elton people were at the depot to take a look
at them, but they had to stay inside or get
good Kansas soaking.
Upto Friday evening N. c. Cavanaugh was
perfectly happy over his fine lake adjoining
| town on the east. He had hemmed up the wat
| er on his salt basin and had lake that cover
| ed about so acres of the farm but he didn't
keep it hemmed and now he can view the land
| where his lake formerly was
| Another dance Friday night and this time it
| was all at Harry Fox's building. 1t seems
| that double header dance like the one
| week ago did not give as good satisfaction as
was hoped for and in the future the two par
| ties will be run as one or on the trust plan,
thus doing away with competition.
After raading last weeks Cresset we sup
| posed thu most of the aspirants for Office in
| that party had already announced themselves
| but since then we have been informed that
| Ed Sample is a candidate for county attorney
| so there is not going to be any difficulty in
| finding plenty of good material to fix up
| a ticket June 14th. a ticket made up Of the
best material they have will be good thing
for the opposition for it will make them get
up and hustle to defeat it.
One of the most interesting events that has
ever taken place here for a long time occurred
last Friday. Spencer Davis had ordered a
double barreled cultivatOr through our
Hardware firm and Wesley Prock and Will
Gamble undertook to set it up. They spent
the day at it and at one time theres were a:
many as seven assistants ut work at it. About
supper time they declared tie job completed
and that it was in running order with severa
| pieces left over.
Last Friday night while Ralph Keller was
1 enjoying himself at the dance some of the
| boys posted smallpox sign over his door ant
Saturday morning when the people opened VI
for business everyone thought Ralph wa
guaranteed and, Of course, was inclined t
give him all the street and then some. b
couldn't get near enough to anyone to say
| good morning When Ralph found out wha
was the matter with himself he was hot all ov
er in spots and tried to bride US not to men
ton 1t to anyone, he even offered us 81 and 81
bits to say nothing, but we let him know we
were not for sale-nor at that price. Ii Ralpl
finds out who posted that rag over his doc
it is going to go mighty hard with the guilt
party. We don't suspicion anyone but we nc
ticed that Jesse Caudill knew just where to G.
and which ladder was the right length to ge
= the rag down. We don't know just how b
found out which ladder would fit unless b
had tried it before.
We predicted last week that some of thes
times the Hazelton first nine would yet win
ball game, and they did 1T last Saturday. The,
played the second nine and won easy. 1t wa
, one of the most interesting and brillian
games ever witnessed by the Hazelton people
, Every body was intel csted part of the tim
and about every two innings the game wa
called of for about ten minutes for the boy
, to engage in a fist fight. But only limite'
number were permitted to take part in the
fights, as only u few tickets had been issued
AT one time quite humber made application
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