Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-01-16
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visit In Arkansas last week and was aw-
full glad to get back to Kansas.
! Just before the coal famine got too
hard for US to bear While Bros. opened
up coal yard and now we are feeling
pretty safe on that question.
Frank Fullerton came home from
Sharon few days ago very sick with
pneumonia fever and IS still very low but
we hope not In any great danger.
A young fellow put in his appearance
at jun Ayers last week who will be old
enough to vote the democratic ticket In
about twenty-one years, that is if Jim
gives him the proper training as to how
| to vote.
A. E. kntz sold out his personal
property and left for his new home in
kiowa county last week, thus taking one
of our best and most energetic neighbors
and mighty good farmer out Of this
township. We wish him every success
in his new home.
! Oliver Rhodenbaugh and OF Fausett
had little hog deal to settle laa week.
When they got through it reminded us
of the time we tried to use skates the
FIRST time; their general appearance indi-
Gated that the settlement had been in
earnest. Police Judge Simpson let them
off with small fine and some good ad-
vice.
| We heard man say the other day
that if the farmer who had land to sell
would just ignore the real estate agents
and do his own selling that the parties
would be ahead the amount Of the agent
commission. Now let us see how that
looks. Did it ever enter this man head
that there is no class of men doing more
to build up Kansas with the assistance Of
the newspapers, than the real estate
agent. Did he ever take time to think
just what would be the results to Kansas
if all Of the real estate men would just
for one year stop advertising Kansas?
Did he ever notice that every newspaper
in Kansas, and great many in other
parts Of the world, are publishing to the
world every day IN the year some of the
great advantages Of locating in Kansas,
did he ever stop to think that to the real
estate men more than all other means
combined. are the people indebted for
the great advance in land values here?
Let them lay down for year and you
would find people leaving Kansas like
rats from sinking ship and going to
some place that was being advertised by
real estate men. Just think Of it, the
real estate agents Of Kansas are spend
ing fortune every month to call the at
/ tention Of homeseekers to the ADVANTAGES
Of locating in Kansas. You cannot pick
up even the most obscure Little paper IN
the state but what you will find some
one trying to show the homeseeker that
Kansas is the place to locate, and all Of
this advertising costs vast sums of money
but they pay it with the hope of on.
ly getting reasonable dividend for theil
money invested, but also they have de-
sire to build up the state, and is there a
man so small that after he considers all Of
this that will say that the real estate asen,
is not entitled to fair commission for hi.
money invested in trying to help h.
neighbors, his county, his state, and the
, people generally. Would any othe,
class Of men be expected to spend SC
much money and not be considered a.
entitled to some returns from his none,
spent. The real estate business is JUS
as legitimate as any other line Of bust.
ness and if the farmers had to wait 70,
buyers till they come without any adver-
Using OF our country, most Of them woulc
: 1--we and die on the old farm whether the,
!. wanted to or not. Every man who
comes here from the older states j.
brought here by some advertisement o.
a real estate agent, if not directly at leas
indirectly. But there is another class O
( men who are doing business that are
{ what are termed curb stone agents. The,
are not intended to be included in Thu
, class for they are more Of vulture thar
] anything else. They don't spend pen
t ny to advertise the country, they dom
have enough public enterprise about them
to induce them to take any chance b,
paying out little money to our news
papers to try and build up our state
They lay around or sit around and wal
tor someone to come in, in answer to
the advertisement Of some honest rea
estate man. and then they gather hole
Of them, sell them land at higher price
than the regular and legitimate asen,
would ask them for the same land, pu,
all Of the commission in their pockets,noi
a cent goes to the press for advertising,
not penny goes toward helping to
make our country any better, not a day
is lost by this class Of men and the simple
; fact is that they like vultunes are simply
living off of the honest labors and sacn-
fees of Others who have enough love Fl,