Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-05-27
HAZEL NEWS. /:

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III. Chidester of Alva. one of the first
to settle in fiaZelton. visited and trans
acted business here one day last week.
George Shaw Is contemplating NOV
ing to Wichita or some other city TO
work at his trade. that of painter and
paper hanger.
Dan and Ounce Circle each bought
quarter section OF land last week of
the HaZeltOn Land Co. This makes
the boys full section all in BODY.
Mrs Bowers returned to HaZelton
last week to settle up her business af-
fairs. Sue will perhaps make her per-
manent home at Rose Hill, where her
daughter resides.
Our big rains are getting worked in
so close together that it is hard to tell
where one begins and the other lets UP.
but no one as yet seems to be inclined
to find fault with the weather.
Saturday morning after the big storm
in Woods county. a good many leaves
from the black jack trees were picked
up on the streets Of Hazelton, having
been carried here by the wind dis
lance of IS or 40 miles.
j. 2. Caudill sold j. F. Gamble three
business lots last week. Mr.. Gamble
sold Mr.. Caudill one lot aud IL. w.
Morton three. We did not learn the
consideration in any of the deals as
they were all partly in the way of an
exchange.
Yesterday was the day set apart to
complete the job put up last fall to in.
sure the Hon. Chester 1. Long the sen.
atorship, even though 1t costs the tax
payers of ttis district one hundred
thousand dollars.
Road OYerseer S. H Dicks has graded
about IL miles of road south of town
this spring and it is now getting so that
when we want to take load 20 town
we simply load to compare with the ca
pacity of the wagon and not the
strength of the team.
During thelast 13 months Charity
lodge No. 263, ~. T. 81 A NJ has init
ated 81 persons, passed q and raised
% and has some more that have been
elected to take the degrees. We doubt
If there Is another town in the state
the slZs Of Hazelton that has made a
better record.
A subordinate order of the anti horse
Of ioti
Saturday with fourteen charter men,
berS. The following were elected Of
icers to serve until the regular election
in September: w. G.. Afford. president:
Joseph Pfaff, vice president; f. g. Nc
Lain, treasurer; j. E. Lester, secretary;
E. W. Elder, Marshal; r. II. Garvin,
guard. The order is not looking for
any stock to be stolen, but are simply
preparing for war in time of peace.
The ladies of the Eastern Star WILL
give an ice cream social Monday night,
and will give public installation of
officers under their charter, which was
granted them at the Grand Lodge meet
ing at Wichita. The members of the
Masonic lodge got onto the fact that
they were going to give the social and
they stole march on them and ordered
the cream and will by this means have
some more inducements 20 take an in
terest and help make it complete sue
cess.
We have learned by long experience
that there are very few people but what
are strictly honest IN all of their busi-
ness dealings, but there seem to be a
few who are not yet educated up to the
standard of what it takes to make a
strictly honest man. Que now and
then will take every advantage of one
who'is not we'll versed in business and
beat him for all they can, and one now
and then who would not think of try
ing TO get any undue advantage of a
man in business seems to think it Is all
| right to take every advantage possible
when dealing with woman or an or
phan. and do things that they would
never think of doing in dealing with
men. This class of people are the ones
that are to be feared most, as they take
advantage of the helpless after their
protector is beyond their reach and can
no longer take care of their interests.
/ Fortunately. however, there are but few
of this class and their transactions do
not profit them much. What little
they gain does not begin to balance