Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-01-01
HdzeIton Items.

visiting 1rlendS.
F. A. Eastman and wife visited
their daughter and family in Col
orado during the holidays.
Everybody SO far as we know had
a Merry Christmas, and there was
nothing to indicate that Santa had
even heard of the financial trouble.
The Masons and Eastern Star
lodges installed their officers Fri
day night, as it was public in
stallation they had a very good
crowd out.
DR.. and Mrs. N. NJ. Burnett are
SPEEDING the holidays with Mrs.
Burnett'S parents at Lamar, Colo
RADIO. The will be there only a
short time.
DR.. n. M. Burnett has got it in
for US. Up to last week we were
perfectly contented to smoke 5 cent
cigars, but last Tuesday the DR..
presented us with box of 10 cent
ers and now we have formed a hab-
it for that class of goods and our
cigar bill will be just double, new
ertheless we appreciate the gift.
We were at w. Nj. Fullerton's
one day last week and felt a little
like Dragging about a family
Christmas tree at our house. We
boosted that we had 10 present,
but w. NJ. braced up and said they
had outdone us nearly two to one,
besides they had turkey while we
had to put up with chicken, so we
resolved not to 'brag any more.
The Index will reach most of its
readers on the first day of the New
Year and we are of the opinion
that before we get too much alb
sorbed in the contents of the paper
that it would be an excellent idea
to Just make a resolve that during
the coming year we will turn over
a new leaf and try and make a bet
ter record than in any of the past
twelve months of our life. Wish
ing every reader of the Index a
Happy and Prosperous New Year,
we will close our correspondence
for the year 1907 with the resolve
that we will try and make our let
tiers more interesting the coming
year.
Whom the gods would destroy
they first make mad. We were led
to this thought by reading an arti-
Gle in the Kiowa News Review
last week purporting to have been
written a by farmer" and as this
poor deluded farmer saw fit to
hand US few we are disposed to
say few of advice to our brother
farmer. Now one of the very first
things a good farmer should do is
to keep at his trade and not ven
ture out in the unknown and un-
tried experiments, and this is Just
what our brother farmer has fail
ed to grasp. He hands us one be-
cause of what we said recently
about one of the elevators having
failed to come out with a good
profit. We think if this farmer had
first taken the trouble to have ask
ed few questions before taking
his pen in hand he would not have
mentioned the matter; or if he had
even had some one make a few fig.
ures for him he would perhaps not
have said what he did. We did
say that the Farmers Elevator had
failed to show up with a profit and
we had for authority one of the
stockholders and he gave US the in
formation just a day after the stock
holders had looked over their books
to find how they stood. We are
charitable enough to assume that
Brother Farmer didn't know this,
nor did he know that at the time it
was talked by some of the stock
holders of at once closing down the
plant and waiting for a better bus
mess outlook; nor does this good
Brother farmer seem to realize that
in trying to give credit to the Star
Elevator, he shows by his figures
that it was the other elevators that
made the farmers that big money,
for he shows that they were bid
ding above the Star from quarter
to a half cent, and we leave it to
ANY fair and impartial man as to
whether it is the high or the low
bidder that is the greater benefit to
the seller. Our Brother farmer al
so complains over an imaginary
/ grievance concerning the Farmers
State Bank of Hazelton. Now |
will submit this matter to the read
erS of the Index as to whether or not
have treated each of the banks
fairly in all that was said each
time except one, given one as
much praise as the other, and the