Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-10-30
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Lewis A. Ulrich of kingman
county bought the E. NJ. Bradley
farm southeast of town last week.
Consideration $4,000. He will
take possession in February and
make this his home.
G. NJ. Cotner of Annes, Kansas,
was here last week looking for a
good farm and found SO many of
them that he had to take time to
consider the matter before deciding
on which he would buy.
Spencer Davis now seems to have
gotten the right kind of an inven-
tion for keeping moving machine
sickles sharp, anyway it is working
all right on our machine and we
are willing to risk a recommended
ton, if our recommend is worth
anything; that is,where we are best
known.
Seward |. Field was here about
half of last week representing the
Miller Mutual Fire Insurance Co.
in taking dispositions in the suit
filed by ]. G. B. Hargis against the
company for his loss when his ele-
vator was burned. Mr.. Handy of
Kansas City, Mo-, was Mr.. Hargis'
attorney in the case here.
Andrew Peterson last week
bought the vacant lots in Hazelton
owned by Seward l. Field, being
the lots adjoining the G. P. church
property. Mr.. Peterson will engage
in the chicken raising business and
if successful, we are inclined to
think he will have all the preach
ers wanting to preach for the G. P.
folks when the chickens get ripe.
We were very sorry to learn Sat-
urday evening that our old friend
and one of the first settlers in this
part of Barber, o. H. Dunbar, was
at present very sick at the home of
one of his sons in Illinois and that
he had been taken to a hospital.
We hope the report is not as bad
as it appears and that he will soon
be able to get back to Hazelton
where he had fully intended to
spend his last days.
We have heard one or two per-
sons borrowing trouble for next
year byiadvancing the idea that
the green bugs will get our wheat
sure. P6sibly they may, but s. up
to date ID alltof our drives around
here of late we haven't had the
misfortune of meeting a single in
dividual of the green bug family
and SO long as this is the way they
are going to keep in the dark we
are not looking for any damage to
the wheat crop from that source.
Let us wait and see if they do
come, then is time enough to feel
bad andynot get so far ahead of
our troubles.
At a meeting of:the city council
one evening last week the pool
room boys were hauled upon the
carpet and given. to fully under
stand that if they hoped to con-,
tinue in their present line of busi.f
ness they would have to cut out all
kinds of vulgar and profane lam
guage in and. about their place,
take down all blinds, allow no
gambling, or selling of prohibited
goods and in fact run a decent
house or quit. Mighty good advice,
and if followed will no doubt have
much to do with doing away with
a good deal of the present crit
cisms being hurled at such places
by a good many people.
We understand that one or two
petitions are being circulated in
and around Hazelton petitioning
the mayor and. council to take steps
to close up the pool halls and two
per cent joints and that they are
getting lots of signatures to them.
Well, anyway now would be a
splendid time for the boys to quit
for they could just go right out and
find lots of work at good prices
and get their systems toned up for
good summers work while the
days are short. We know from
long experience that it is very
healthy life to live, eat pork and
corn bread and sleep with an as
surance that no one has a better
right to his rest than one who has
done a hard davis work