Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-08-27
! HAZELTON NEWS. ]


Robert Garvin has bought a new
buggy and set of harness and has q
matched team To drive. He has about
the finest turnout in this part of Bar
Der.
Tandy Bros. of Anthony have got the
contract OF moving Mr.. Pfaff's barn
from where it now stands to his farm
adjoining town on the southeast, dis.
lance of about 2 miles.
Mrs. l.. A. Burns has sold the land
belonging to the Burns estate to j. f.
Circle. 1t only required some Is or Is
signatures to this deed to make a good
conveyance of the title.
Next Saturday night the Odd Fellows
expect to organize lodge here. They
have made arrangements with the Ma
sons to use their hall one night in a
week If needed that often.
We, in company with r. I Keller.
visited the Lodge last Saturday. We
had the pleasure of shaking hands with
something over multitude of cand1.
dates and didn't get half around either.
A. s. Burns has sold his farm to J.E.
Circle and is going to try his luck In
Missouri. Alb ought to know by this
time that a Kansas man can't live and
be content in Missouri after living a
few years In Kansas.
The Hon. Vernon j. Rose. fusion
candidate for congress, will speak at
kiowa. Sept. 18th, at p. m. We g.
dict for him in advance one of the best
crowds he has had in his campaign,
population considered.
September 18th is the day decided on
to take the kids off the streets and put
them in school at HazelIon. In our
last items we got Miss Hortie instead
OF Miss Hulda McMillion as one of the
teachers. However, we kept in the
family.
1t begins to lock like the prohibition
ISIS are playing in the hands of our re.
publican county officials so that thew
can get all the cash out of the treasurer
before our fellows get in. Anyway
they are making lots of paying business
Ior the county attorney and sheriff and
The tax payers have to pay the freight
q. w. Payne has completed j. r. Cir.
cle's barn anG dwelling and is now
building a lalge barn for Frank Angus
tine, east of town. Mr.. Payne Says he
is several weeks behind with his car.
penter work. and that without any
more contracts he Will not get Caught
up any before cold weather The SIM
pie fact is that this part of the state is
slowly, quietly and surely building I'D
on the tirmeSt foundation that 1t ever
has.
For great many years we were firmly
OF the belief that the Lord had a great
deal TO do with the creation of all in.
telllgent and rational beings. and that
when He implanted IN their breasts the
essence of friendship, morality and
love, that it was 50 perfectly done that
nothing could eradicate that spirit from
one of Gods creatures. But of late our
faith has been greatly shaken, and we
have to confess that we are getting
rather skeptical, and are almost ready
to say that we have been wrong from
the beginning. This has been brought
about by our gaining information that
one OF our prominent and influential re
publicans of Barber county has boosted
that he woult get one of the candidates
on the prohibition ticket drunk before
election day. He makes this boast tor
the simple reason that this party has
some time in the past been tempted be-
yond his power to resist. yet he had the
manhood to take stand for the light.
and has for some time past been living
life that was credit to himself and
family. In the face of these known
facts, this creature that would be class
ed as respectable citizen, and does as
soclate with respectable people, has
fallen so low in the scale of humanity
and has so far forgotten his duty
toward his fellow man and society that
he would, If in his power, again tempt
this man that is trying to live down his
past mistakes, and drag him down to
his own level. Have we been mistaken
all these years, or is it possible that
there are few images of men that the
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