Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-04-02
I EHAZELTON NEWS.

G. e. knOrp IS building a house on
his farm southeast of town to take
the place of the one burned down during
the winter. Mr.. Welsh is doing the car
penter work
Mr.. A. j. Yorden, from Oklahoma,
bought farm two miles west of town
last week and will move here In a short
time. He got the farm now occupied
by Sim Hall
Sim Hall, having been sold out of
house and home, will now dispose of
his surplus stock, and try his luck in
Colorado. He Will probably locate at
or near Lamar.
n b. Blanton, after an absence of
about eight months in the new coun-
try, is now at home getting the spring
work under way, preparatory to anoth-
er trip down there.
Oats seeding is about all done and
some little corn planted, anu the farm
ers are well pleased over the condition
IN which the recent rams have left the
ground for spring work.
Messrs. Burchfel & Connell of An
thony are buying two and three year
Old steers of our people, and during the
past week have picked up quite num-
Der of'that class in this locality.
Dan Morton and Mrs. Morton are the
possessors of 6ne heir that they think
is about the finest one now in exist
ence and Luther Fullerton is answer
ing to the name of Uncle Luther.
F. a. Eastmen and Eli Buckles each
have bought large bill of fruit trees
to put out this spring on their farms
north OF town. They own the farms
formerly owned by Ed and Dan Cor
man.
Harry Fox is figuring on building
business house here this spring, and
putting in good stock of furniture
something that is badly needed He
will build two stories and use the up.
per part for hall.
Uncle John Hart, as everyone calls
him, will probably go to Lamar, Colo
RADIO and see what is in store for him
out there, and if he does as we'll there
as he has in Barber county, he will
soon be wearing diamonds.
The farmers in this locality have the
best prospect for a big wheat crop that
they have had for the past ten years at
this season OF the year, and this will
doubtless be the means of our getting
good elevator put up between this
and harvest.
The Masons carpeted their hall Sat
urday and are now prepared to not on
Iy do first class work but to also ac-
commodate their visiting brethren IN
much more satisfactory way than form
erly. Their hall Doesn't look like it did
few weeks ago, Us they have made con-
siderable Improvement on it.
j. z. Caudill is hay +ng the hotel re-
nodded inside and out, and when he
quits will have one OF the neatest look
Ing buildings in town. O. II. Dunbar
and T.R. Maltbie are doing the plaster
ing and rebuilding of flues. and G.. w.
Payne the carpenter work. All are
first class workmen and never leave a
job till it is finished.
What is there in a name anyway?
If man steals small sum of your
money OF some article of small value,
it is called petty larceny; if he meets
You on the highway and at the muzzle
of gun takes your money, 1t is called
highway robbery; if he breaks into
your house and steals your money OF
goods, it is called burglary; if he is
called III to take charge of a corpse,
furnishes $50 cashet and charges $50
or $50 for it, enbalms the corpse at
cost of about So, and charges from $50
to 500, it is called business, for want
of proper word to designate it, as it is
to our mind graver crime than any
of the others mentioned, aud yet not
quite grave enough to- be called MUIR
der.