Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-10-23
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Tom Hackney, an old timer, was
here one day last week.
Some of the farmers are still get
ting rid of their hogs by the cholera
route.
w. NJ. Campbell was made a
Woodman in good standing at the
last meeting of the Hazelton camp.
Miss Minnie Horton has been
quite sick for the past few days but
is reported better at this writing.
We have heard that some offers
of so cents a bushel have been
made around here for corn lately.
Claude Betty has bought the Ell
mer Jones property. 1t is our
guess that this means a wedding.
Marion Fox has bought the quar-
ter adjoining him on the south.
We understand the price was some
thing over $4,000.
S. Robinson hasn't told the half
about those school books. They
are dandy lot, an imposition on
the schools and the public in gen.
eral.
S. S. Kincaid is hauling lumber
for his new house from Sharon.
We would like to know how the
Sharon lumber men can undersell
Hazelton?
]. H. Drake got so lonesome af-
ter the other boys went to the
Lodge last week so he bought a
ticket that enabled him to spend
the night on the road.
il. Stephens and E. H. Nc
Broom will start for Colorado this
week to spend the season in the
sugar beet factory. Elmer Gamble
will follow in a few days by rail
while the other boys will drive.
We have been reading some lit
tie about the new state tax COM
mission and from what we can
learn, about the kind of a man
they want for county assessor in
Barber county is the man we have
in mind and one that will fill the
bill to perfection, that is if he will
take the place. He is we'll known
all over the county and is a man
that is big enough to fill the office
to the entire satisfaction of all.
His knowledge of the value of
property makes him the right man.
His hrmness and honesty and dis
position to treat every one fair is
what makes us think he would be
the best man in the county for the
place. We have reference to H..
A. Bailey of Kiowa, and we hardly
think our commissioners could fad
a better man for this important
position.
We don't know what they are
selling or drinking in Hazelton at
the present time, but if half of the
reports are true of the way the
boys did last Friday night some
of them must of had something a
little stronger than two per cent.
Anyway we have it that there were
seven or eight fellows on a glorious
drunk and one young man had to
have medical aid and two of the
boys had to trot him up and down
the street for time to get him in
shape to 60 home where his old
father and mother, no doubt,
thought he had been for some time.
To make matters worse one or two
old men of families that had no
spare money to spend for such a
debauch were among the crowd.
Such conduct is a disgrace to the
town and to those that engage in
it. 1t seems that something ought
to be done to put a stop to such
things. When boys under age and
men whose families need every
cent they earn, will get down in
the dirt like beasts it is certainly
time that some one was taking
this matter up with the authorities
and see if something can't be done
to make the town so unpleasant
for such characters that they will
either be men or go where such
conduct is approved. If they
would only stop and think what
they are doing for themselves to
say nothing of the general public it
wouldn't be long until all such con-
duct was unknown; but it is not
their nature to think of their own
or the public good. They go on
till they get so stepped in their
lawlessness that they don't seem to
care for the respect of any one.
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