Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1904-10-05
Hazeit0n Items.

sights at Wichita last week.
| G. A. Pond is rushing his work pre-
paratory to making visit with friends
in the east, and will also take in the
wonders at ST. Louis while away.
j. G. B. Hargis was hauled up be.
fore his Honor, Esquire OIinger, last
week and fined small sum for leaving
the carcass of dead animal in town
too long.
L. r. Maltbie now has a pretty bad
fever that is causing him to want to
take another trip to Colorado, but If
Mrs. Maltbie comes home soon he will
be all right.
JIG. Betty is on the Kansas City
market this week with fat stock. so we
were informed, and anyway John has
gotten away from us, and we take the
report as being true.
Ii. l.. Drake is looking for few COW
boys to help drag his horses In the new
barn the first time. They just don't
know what to make of it, meyer
having been broken to barn.
W. T. McClung and wife, w. F.
| Burns and wife and A. +. Buckles and
wife are among the many who will see
| the sights at st. Louis from this place.
They will start there the first of the
week.
S. S. Kincaid is getting things in
shape for big new barn on his farm
south of town. In fact the people who
| aren't doing something in the way of
improvements are hardly counted i'll it
down here.
Prof. Ira Stout was HaZelton visitor
one day last week. He says his school
is starting off well with a large attend
ance, and we can say further that Ira
will be found doing his part to keep it
on the road to complete success.
Is there anyone in the county that
will say that j. M. Miller is not as well
qualified for the Office of Register of
Deeds as w. l.. Bragg is? And then
he don't have to endorse the last legis.
lature in order to get nomination.
Can the other fellows say as much?
The school in district SO is getting
along in first class shape. and the re.
port has gotten out that Miss Alpha
Tincter is the right person in the right
place, and some of our neighboring
districts are wanting TO enter their
kids for real good school year.
About twelve or fifteen persons took
the examination for mall carriers on
our new routes to be established here
the 1st of November, and, by the way,
we stated in our last that the examina
ton would be on the 4th, but it was
the 1st instead of the 4th.
Did you ever hear a man that knew
what he was talking about, say word
against o. 2. Z. Ewell, or is there a
man who believes that he would accept
the Office of representative if 1t was
tainted with fraud or if he had to take
it on some clerical error? He IS not
that kind of citizen, and time will
prove it, too.
Ebert Gamble and Miss Lula
Stephens have decided to travel life's
journey together, and were made hus.
band and wife Sunday This is another
just cause for Ralph. Jake and George
to feel bad, but it is their own fault If
they have to spend the balance of their
days grleying over lost opportunities.
Ebert and Lulu are among our most
popular young people, and all wish
them much happiness.
We have been looking for Homer
Hastings to make us a visit and get
''sorter" used to our people down here.
We have know Homer since he was a
little kid and can say truly that no
better boy ever lived than he is and we
are perfectly confident that when he
takes the chair now occupied by Judge
Gleason, that he will come up to every
requirement of the office, and never
make scip or bad break. Homer is
all right and deserves even a better
Office than the one offered him.
Ed Lester and Blanche Lynde were
married the other night, and the next
morning we noticed Uncle Jake Keller,
Ralph Keller and George Haron had
Ed cornered evidently trying to
to get him to tell them just what 1t
required for one to find a partner.
We didn't learn what Ed told them,
but from their appearance the report
was satisfactory, and while we are on
that subject we will just say that Ed
and Blanche have both made an excel.
lent choice, and we are among their
host of friends that are wishing them
an unlimited amount of happiness
and success.
And, by the way. we have heard some
remarks regarding the next NAH to
take charge OF our county schools and
it has been said by some that Roscoe