Barbour County index., 1910-12-28
HAzELToN ITEMS

| friends.
E. L. Smart shipped the county
clerk lot of wolf scalps, to get
him a few Christmas presents, but
We notice he hasn't got them all
killed off yet
Miss Beatrice Rugg and Leland
| Edwards are home from their re-
spective schools to spend their
Christmas holidays where the most
presents are supposed to originate.
AS this is our Christmas letter to
The Index, we are going to wish ev-
cry reader a merry Christmas, and
hope they will all have enough Joy
and good cheer to cause them to not
forget their Christmas of 1910.
Several of the boys are reported
to have had a general mix-up on
Saturday evening, but as no one
seemed to take enough interest to
file a complaint, nothing more will
likely be heard of the mill
Last Sunday County Attorney Field
and Sheriff Mathews, were in Haz-
elton fishing for evidence against
persons selling fire-water contrary
to law, and it is reported that
enough evidence was procured to
warrant the arrest of y. C. B. Har-
gis on some ten or a dozen counts
Editor Hyatt got hold of what is
marked the foolish dictionary, and
after looking the field over decided
we were about the only one in 'Haz-
elton who actually fit this kind of
a book hence he made us a Christ
mas present of the book and we are
now studying on the definitions of
some awful hard words, and think
when we master this book we will
go to editing a newspaper for we
never knew before where the printer
got all of his knowledge of big
words
1t seems that about everybody has
bought Christmas presents, but we
notice that they are not so much on
the foolish line and are mostly use
full articles, and we wonder if the
people are at last at the point where
they are going to lay aside their ex-
travagance and get down to more
economical system of doing business.
This long drouth in the southwest
may work more good for the people
than harm, if it has a tendency to
make them more careful as to how
they spend their money.
We have always liked the Hazel
ton business men, and have received
a good many favors from them, and
now we are going to ask them for
just one more favor this year, and
that is to remember that we have
large family of children and grand
children ,and we want them to please
remember this and don't for the
love of Mike bring any of those un-
J paid bills until we have had time
J to recuperate and replenish our
! slabsided pocketbook We hate to
make this request but it is no worse
than to have to send you away emp
{, ty-handed and disappointed.
Some time ago someone told OFT
Fausett that wheat would sprout and
grow for the second or third time
after the top growth had died, but
OFT was from Missouri and wanted
} to be shown, so he had some early
! sown wheat that the top growth had
died. He dug it up and the top was
so dead that it simply crumbled on
being handleG He planted the seed
Z and gave it moisture, and in a short
} time it put out new growth, he
\ left it grow awhile and dug it up
\ and let the tops die again, and then
replanted, and gave it more of the
I needed moisture, ,and it is now grow
ing and looking as good as if it had
7 heen amply supplied with moisture
from the start. OFT now talks Of
planting some of the dead tops and
see what the Kansas soil will do fol
I them, for it seems that there is nc
limit to what Barber county soil
1 will do if given the proper amount O.
moisture.
The following item was taken from
I the Macoupin county Enquirer, oul
! old home paper in Illinois, and goes
= to show that Kansas is not the on
\ ly dry place on earth:
"DROUTH CAUSING TROUBLE"
"The dry weather is getting to
be a serious matter in this part o
the country. Stock water is getting
Z low and scarce, cisterns are goini