Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-08-28
HazeHon items.

| c. E. Knorp is hauling sand and
material to build himself a fine
cement henhouse.
T. I. Mayheld,is building a large
grain bin in which to store that
big wheat crop he has in the stack.
Ed Webb of Girard, brother of
]. O., is here visiting and looking
for good place to make his future
home and fortune.
The protracted meeting being
conducted by Elder Ingle is being
well attended and apparently re-
sulting in much good.
c. H. Stewart is making the nee
essary preparations to build a fine
large barn and grain bins on his
farm southwest of town.
Last week we only had rain four
days out of six but part of the time
it was good rain so we sorter
managed to pull through with the
four days.
Sheriff McCracken and County
Attorney Cloud were hereSaturday
keeping an eye on any that might
feel disposed to get off of the beat.
en- track of right.
Saturday was show day in Haz-
elton and about everybody took in
the show. Of course, the parents
had to go to take the children, and
not for any interest that they
themselves fel in the show.
L. P. Graves got home from his
sixty days layof with about thirty
days to spare and is now ready for
business again at the old stand
where he has always given the best
OF satisfaction to everyone.
The wires got crossed in our last
weeks items and made us say that
the first load of wheat was dumped
Sunday. Now our. people don't
work on Sunday, they all attend
church like good people ought to
do.
Farmers are now turning the
land for wheat at a rate never be-
fore witnessed in this locality. The
rains came just at a time when
about all of the fields were cleared
of wheat and nothing in the way
to stop the plow but the extreme
heat.
1t was a pretty hot day Saturday
but not so hot but what a number
of parties had to have stimulants
in order to keep up. Along about
the ordinary bedtime several had
taken enough that they seemed to
have swimming in the head or a
weakness of the knees,perhaps they
had taken an over dose.
A few years ago the Legislature
enacted very strict law aga inst
gambling of any kind and in a
good many places the law is being
reinforced fairly we'll. But there
seem to be few people in Hazel
ton that have not been informed of
| this law, and just to save them
from any trouble in the future we
are making mention of it for if it
is kept up here to the extent it has
been for the past few months, some
are going to get themselves into
a whole lot of trouble and will
stand good chance to pay out
more money to keep out of the
state prison than they have taken
in at their games for some time.
Now if we have been rightly in
formed, it has only been a short
time since the boys caught what
they supposed to be sucker, and
latter he had gotten through with
them or they had gotten through
with him, which ever way you may
choose to take it, one man that has
a family, and who needs every cent
he can rake and scrape to support
AlIS WaS Odl SOlllC o.
| Another married man was out near
the same and another not far be-
hind. Now if a single man hasn't
lany more brains than to squan-
tder his living this way it does look
lquite so bad but when it comes to
/ married man and one that is so
hard run that he can scarcely keep
his bills paid up, sitting down in a
poker game and squandering thirty
or forty dollars that his family and
creditors are justly entitled to,
then we think it would be about
fright to give such a one a dose
lof the law, administered in full
doses. no broken doses ought to be
given in a case of this kind. Poker
playing is said to lead to other
Grimes, and if so why not here as
| well as at other places, and the