Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-08-06
HAZELTON NEWS. :

| farm south OF town to Mrs. Wares
farm northeast of town and Mr.. Robin
son has moved In the house vacated by
Mr.. Wheaton
Now while you are trying to find a
place to keep cool, don't forget that on
August 18th, at s p. M, Hon. Claude
Duval, democrat and Populist nominee
for secretary of state, will speak on the
political issues Of the day at HaZelton.
Every body is invited to come out and
heal him.
G.. w. Payne and David Stephens
have just completed large bin for j.
r. Circle. There are two rows of bins
each 40 feet long and 10 high with q
driveway between them and hay NOW
above. He is also having them build
quite an addition to his dwelling.
The prohibitionlsts have succeeded In
closing the joints but have not stopped
the trains from running and also bring.
Ing little beer occasionally for the
| boys to take just for their stomach's
sake. They just have to have 1t, joint
or no joint.
John Noble has sold his interest in
that new thresbing machine and from
this time on will only be one of the
| hired men. John has at last made the
right start in the threshing business
and Will not have any OCCASION 10 lose
| sleep over deferred payments when the
old machine begins to run down.
Wheat is making an average of about
10 or possibly II bushels, and oats runs
about 40, while rye is hardly worth
threshirg, that IS, what little has been
thresbed. Ten bushels OF wheat with
the price running from 45 to so cents IS
not very paying crop for the farmer,
but it is perhaps about the best the
administration can do for US at this
time.
Farley Track leased farm over east
of HazeltOn for Il fall crop and was to
take possession August l. Some time
in July Ed Bryant came back to this
country and got in Oh this farm aud
when the 1st arrived Track went to
take possession but Ed. was there load.
ed up to the muZZle with a pitchfork
and persuaded Track to get off. This is
proof that there IS demand for farms.
1t is also pretty strong proof that
Frack can be cOaxed to move. but the
end Is not yet. The game IS only just
started. Track has the next move.
1t has been claimed for long tlme
that the majority of the voters are in
favor Of prohibition in this county and
now we have fine opportunity to test
the matter at the polls. We are willing
to bet cigars to mot ordinary cam
paign cigsIs tut good. Ones) that the
prohibition ticket will not get an aver
age of ten votes in Hazelton township.
They never practice what they preach.
For 364 days in the year they favor pro
hibitiOD and the other day they vote
for the old PARTY and let prohibition
rest.
AT the annual meeting in district So 1t
was voted to have no school but to send
the pupils to Hazelton, thus saving
big expense and getting the benefit of
firstclass graded school, Last year
they voted II mills tax and this year
only 3 mills. The annual meeting in
the Hazelton district failed to make
connections as the new clerk failed to
have his report ready and the treasurer
had not prepared his report, hence they
met and adjourned to another day to
give these two officials time to get their
reports ready. l. G. Rugg was re elect
ed treasurer of district SO aud your cor.
respondent director.
These nice warm days there is q coz
tinual stream of wagons loaded with
wheat or oats coming into HaZelton
aud our business men are reaping a
rich harvest of good paying trade. This
is claimed to be the result OF the pres
ent republican administration, in fact
had it not been that they were in pow
or the wheat crop would have been a
total failure. the corn blasted and the
feed crop cooked by the hot sun. Of
course the administration can't help
sthe low price of wheat This is some.
thing they have nothing to do with.
They can only give US the crops.
Sheriff Gano came down one day last
week and as we had no good place to