Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-08-21
HazeHon Items.

H0zeft0n Items.
/ w. H. Smith of Kiowa has Sc
cured the contract for pa hitting the
schoolhouse in district So.
| Frank Baker has secured the con-
tract for doing the repair work on
the schoolhouse In district So.
j w. S. Kirkenhall's mother arr;y-
ed here from Missouri Saturday to
make an extended visit with w. S.
and family.
The Star Elevator Company
dumped their first load of wheat
last Sunday and from now on will
do away with shovelers.
Threshing is about all done in
this immediate locality and the
past several days have been ideal
weather for that kind of work.
Miss Ella Williams has returned
from her long visit in Kentucky
and will likely teach school at
Maple Grove the coming winter.
Gene Wright has turned down
all the nice Kansas girls and
brought back with him from his
old Kentucky home real nice help
mate; Anyway Gene showed good
judgment in his selection.
Last week we mentioned that L.
M. Landreth's wheat made an av-
erage of II bu. per acre, which was
wrong. We also mentioned that
someone shot into DR.. Burnett's
window, which was right. Now
the funny part of it is that Land
reth has never made kick on the
wheat report while we were round
ed up on the shooting report. This
convinces us that it is just as apt
to be the truth that gets. one into
trouble as mistake.
We have often said and st i'll be-
lieve that Hazelton has number
of the best people on earth and a
large majority of them are in that
class, but we are sorry to have to
say that Hazelton also has a few
that have as little regard for the
law and order as any place we
know Of. We have resided in and
near Hazelton since March 1884
and there has never been a time,
to our knowledge, during that time
when the law was held with as lit
tie respect as now or when the
rights of law-abiding people were
disregarded as they are now. There
is certain element here that seem
to have no regard for the rights of
others, nor but little respect for
themselves. All they seem to care
for is to have time drinking gam
bling and other kinds of disreput-
able doings. Will the time never
come when such are made to know
that Others have rights that they
must respect and that while they
are riding rough shod over the laws
and rights of others they are also
doing the town and themselves a
! great injury? Don't they know
that people looking for location
are not, as rule, looking for one
where law and order does not pre-.
vail? Don't they know as we'll as
anyone that quiet,peaceable, law
abiding town has attractions for
hundred people where the lawless
town attracts one and don't they
know that if they wish to increase
the value Of their property they
can't adopt a better way than to
make every reasonable effort to see
that the rights of everyone are re.
spected and that law and order
prevails to its fullest extent. Yes,
they all know this, but will they
do it? If so,why not make the start
now and not wait another day.
There is no better time than right
now to turn about and start right
and then keep right. Now we
wonder who will take this to him
self and jump on us about it. Ger
tainly not one who is trying to do
right for we are not talking about
that kind of a fellow. The shoe
doesn't fit that sort.
See w. H. Haun for baled hay,