Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-11-11
! HAZELTON NEWS. !

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J. b Todd has been quite sick for
several days but is now better.
Mrs. Ayers has been sick for several
days with pneumonia fever She is now
recovering.
R. B. Mckee has been laid up for re.
pairs for several days but is now gain.
ing his usual health.
j. F. Gamble and w. b. Combs have
bought the CrowelI elevator recently
built ON the Santa Fe track.
Spencer Davis has bought the Potter
so acres half mile east of town and
will build on IL. Consideration $500.
The way wheat is growing since the
late rains IS calculated TO make the old
cows mouth water just to look at it.
Frank Hardesty has bought out Nj.
III. Whites interest on the ScoYille farm
east of town and will take possession
next Wednesday.
Burnett Brothers believe in taking
time by the forelock, and acting on this
belief they have ordered large stock
OF holiday goods.
HaZelton is now making a de
EeTmined effort to get couple OF rural
mail routes established. We believe
they will finally succeed.
At the last meeting of Charity Lodge
A. F. & A. M. Reese Clark and o. M.
Wilson received the third degree and
are now full Aedged masons.
Miss Josie Horton has been kept out
OF Der school for the past two weeks on
account OF sickness. She Will make All
effort to take charge this week.
Charles PearsCll and Ed. Goodan
have returned from their visit to Ken.
lucky and neither of them is inclined
20 want to go back there to stay.
s. S. Kincaid is filing protest
against having public road establish
ed through the middle of his farm and
cutting off one field from water prlvi-
leges.
M. II. White is making the necessary
arrangements to move back to the Shar-
On community. He has leased a farm
there and will quit our locality in
AbOut two weeks.
The viewers on the J. E. Circle road
did not think anyone was entitled to
damages and hence S. s. Kincald Will
have to make his fight before the coun.
ty commissioners, If he gets any dam.
age.
Why IS it that when the democrats
were in control of the government and a
bank happened to fail that every repub.
1lcan paper In the land raised the howl
that 1t was one of the results of demo-
cratic lncOmpetency and that the dem
Ocratic party was wholly to blame for
these failures. Nov when the republi
cans are in control and some big con-
Germ goes to the wall the democratic
papers all join in and try to keep the
people from getting scared and causing
panic. Is it possible that the repub-
cans were willing in order that they
mightget at the public trough-that
they were not only willing but anxi.
Gus to bring on panic and thus sweep
the democrats from power? Is it pos
Sible that the democrats are so much
more patriotic that they are willing to
let the republicans continue in power
rather than have the country plunged
1oto another panic? Not 80 with the re.
publicans. 1t certainly looks as though
the democratic editors were much more
interested in the prosperity OF the peo
pie than they are in getting in power.
IL also looks rs though the republicans
would be willing to see the people suf-
Ter, II by sodoiDg, they might remain
in control Of the government and make
soft place Cor few Of the big guns to
rest.