Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-01-14
! HAZELTON NEWS.


j.. S. Wright is spending a few days
visiting in Hazelton. He is now locat-
ed at Cherokee, 0. T.
The literary society at Pleasant VAL
ley is growing in interest. People are
coming seven aud eight miles to see,
hear and take part in the exercises.
b. F. Brockhous has bought the town
property formerly owned py Mrs. E. E.
Robinson. 1t is we'll arranged house
with z rooms and Is we'll worth the price
paid-S8OO.
NJ. G. Reed. former citizen of this
county, was up from Oklahoma last
week renewing acquaintances. He has
decided to quit farming and will 90 into
the hotel business at Byron.
j. G. Dimmlck of W oods county. Ok,
has bought the farm southwes of town
belonging to the heirs of j. w. Reed,
deceased. He will get possession in
the spring. Consideration, So. 500.
NJ. 9. Cayanaugh recently became the
owner of the 80 acre farm adjoining the
tOwnsite on the east. A little over $500
was the cash necessary to get it.
While it is little late yet we will
just state that at the Masonic installa-
tion of officers they had fine supper
with 1lS Masons and their families and
friends took supper on the occasion.
j. l.. and j. n. Stephens are now
doing good big lot of threshing of
kaffir corn and cane. It is a little
cold for the business but it has to be
done in the winter.
Over at Fairview they have been hay
ing some little trouble In their school
and We have been Informed that one
scrap has already been pulled off and
others are expected to follow.
Jim Ayers and Frank Blanton are
out west looking at the country. We
predict that on their return to Barber,
they will be content to let we'll enough
alone and stay where they are.
There is some talk of another black
smith Shop being opened here in short
time. We can see no good reason why
one more could not do good business
by holding lot of trade that has been
going to other towns.
Police Judge J. D. Keller has not
done much official business since he
was appointed to that office. He Was
able one day last week to rake in fine
of five dollars and costs from one of the
boy g that got funny and accidentally
let his pistol go off at the wrong time,
The Masonic lodge is making prepar-
alton to fit themselves up with a good
hall over d. O. Edwards store. If this
is done it will again give us a public
hall for other purposes and at the same
time the Masons will have much bet
ter hall than the one now used by them.
joe Mccoy is back in this locality,
after trying to live at other places for
about Is years. he was very much
surprised to find that since he left here
that almost an entire new lot of people
had taken possession of this part OF
the country. He is now looking for a
location and if be can be suited will
once more try his luck with our people.
They all come back In time if life is
spared them.
There is some little kicking down
here over the high taxes. but most ev-
eryone realizes that money is required
to pay just debts or at least legal claims
against the county, hence they are not
making any great amount of fuss over
it. ard believing that by taking q big
dose now it caHbe made less at some
other time. and perhaps at some time
when we are less able to stand a heavy
draft. One thing We will all agree
on and that Is the.more we hear of this
calamity howl about high taxes the
fewer people are there that will invest
their money in Barber county farms.
But 1t may be that these big kickers
don't care anything about the. price OF
land. or whether We have any more
people in the county or not. Or course
: this class of people are perfectly justi
, fed in kicking and rs rule these fel
lows are the oues that were few years
ago bowling themselves clean out o1
breath because some OF the people
wanted to acdpeint the people of tn.
> fact that they Were being robbed b,
: unjust officials
r A new lot of waistings. Dress goods