Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-12-18
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pills at Pleasant Valley on Friday
before Christmas.
Tuesday night Charity Lodge
No. o63, A. F. & A. M. will elect
their officers for the ensuing year
and will probably install on the
evening of the 27th.
G. E. Berry of Garrett, Kansas,
has been looking the country over
for several days with view of TO-
eating. He found the land all right
but prices were just little higher
than he had expected.
Last week we stated that the
Hazelton banks were all right, now
just read the last statement of the
State Bank of Hazelton and see if
we were not right so far as it is
concerned. Anyway about double
the legal reserve on hand is not
bad showing for these scary times.
Since 0. H. Dunbar has opened
up his restaurant the booze fellows
now have only one location to
which they can resort and take a
few social drinks per day. Just
one more change like Dunbar's
will come pretty near putting the
booze fellows out of business in
this town.
Last Thursday and Friday the
crossing between the bank and
postoffice was SO muddy that it was
hardly possible to get across with
out wading the mud and Mr.. O. H.
Dunbar, about the oldest business
man in town, was the only one that
had public spirit enough to get out
and scoop the mud off,
At their meeting Saturday the
A. H. T. A. added four new mem.
bers to their list. The order is tax
ing on new life in this locality.
They voted to change their time
of meeting to Friday night on or
before the full of the moon in each
month. This will enable the farm
ers to attend and have moonlight
nights to go home.
Editor Leamon has traded some
of his Oklahoma real estate for a
drug store over at Perth in Sum-
ner county and has man in charge
coming money for him. Since max
ing this deal we look for him to try
to get into that salt we'll company
with our other capitalists as he
will very naturally want a safe
place to inves his profits.
We have heard a great deal Of
kicking among the farmers about
the big money that our grain men
are making off of them, but if re-
ports are true, one of them in Haz.
elton, the Farmers elevator, came
out just little bit in the hole. Il
the others have done no better ther
it is their time to kick and not the
farmers for no man likes to do a
losing business even to please hi
most intimate friends.
Miss Minnie Horton after Ions
and hard fight against the typhoid
fever and with strong hopes at on,
time that she had started on tn
road to recover her health, took j.;
turn for the worse a few days ago
and died Thursday morning. He
case was very difficult one to
handle on account of heart trouble
The family and relatives have tn
heartfelt sympathy of a host O.
friends in this locality.
The order of the Eastern Star
held their annual election las
Thursday night and elected the fol
owing officers for the ensuing year
to-wit: Worthy Matron, Mrs. Alvi
Brown; Worthy Patron, w. c. Al
ford; Associate Matron, Mrs. DELL
Hardesty; Conductress, Mrs. Bell,
Webb; Associate Conductress, Mr.:
Lizzie Stephenson; Treasurer, C. F
Betty; Secretary, J. o. Webb. TIL
appointive officers have not ye
been named. They will install
their officers on the evening of Dec
27th, 1907,
One day last week it was report
ed that one of the farmers IN TIL
locality had gotten scared and dre'
his deposits, amounting to $3.50
from one of our banks and placed
with the other bank and by this re
: port someone evidently hoped t
start a run on the bank. But i
the first place the report was a Ii
. for the simple reason that this pal
ticular farmer naver had had an
: such a sum in either of the bank
and in the second place our peopl
have get enough good sound bus
sense to make due allowance fc
such reports, especially when the
know the source fiom which the
come. The party who started tn
reDort was evidently q ho1L 0ort