The Elbert County tribune., 1902-09-04
LOCAL AND PERSONAL

Miss Amy Foote OF Greeley is the guest
OF Elbert friends this week.
Wayne Gammon of Oklahoma was Wis
iting his brother Lee a couple Of days
this week
Mesdamcs Taylor Green and G. j.
Schrader spent Sunday with friends ut
Elizabeth.
s. L. Griffin and son George went to
Florence last evening to visit Mr.. Grit
fms aged parents.
A. G. Van Cleave and family were the
guests of A. r. Georgia and wife, at kio-
wa, last Wednesday.
Frank Prule OF Ebert and Joseph
Stanner Of Fondis are recent additions
to our subscription list.
Mrs. f. w. Schenk and daughter
Frances went to Denver Monday to
spend the week with friends.
Mrs. Julia Dittman OF Mesa, accompa-
MED by her daughter Cora and son Earl,
visited relatives in this vicinity last
week.
John +. Miller returned home last
Wednesday from his trip west. He was
well pleased with the country in Oregon
and Idaho.
Misses Frances and Claudia Hefiley
were guests at the home Of j. ID. BlalSley
last week, departing Sunday for their
home in Denver.
Oliver Long has been confined to the
house for the last week. and to his bed
portion of the time, being sick with the
mountain fever He Is now out again.
Mr.. and Mrs W. S. Epler and daugh-
ter Hazel returned home Saturday from
Fricndsville, Illinois, where Mrs. Epler
and Hazel have been spending the sum
mcr.
Bert Barnes, who has been clerking in
the Gates store at Eastonville, takes his
brother Roy's place in the companys
store here. Roy expects to go to Denver
to attend business college.
Services next Sabbath at the Prcsby
tcrian church, morning and evening.
Subjects s-morning, Peters FALL even
ing, "Come Into the Ark Everybody
invited. II. S. Childs, Pastor.
John Lough's twenty-year mare
became scared at the train Saturday
evening and, breaking the shafts loose
from the buggy, ran away, demolishing
the shafts and harness. No one hurt.
Edgar Hull left for Fort Collins Inst
Thursday to enter school at the State
Agricultural college. His sister, Miss
Clara, left on Tuesday and will also be-
come student Mt the agricultural col
lege.
s. !. Higgins, the Buckeye machinery
salesman, left Sunday for his home at
Clay Center, Kansas. Mr.. Higgins ex-
pressed himself as being well pleased
with the seasons sales in this region.
He will return next year.
w. S. Will, pharmacist, with Reed 4
Dickerson, nt Elizabeth, was an Elbert
visitor Saturday. Mr.. Will was in the
newspaper business in Indiana before
coming to Colorado n year ago. He is
well pleased with life in the Centennial
state.
II. A. Moore, manager OF the Fondis
cheese factory, drove over from Fondis
Tuesday and took the evening train to
| Colorado Springs. Mr.. Moore reports
the milk supply at the factory falling
off some, receipts during the last month
running from 1900 to 2500 pounds daily.
A. G. Putnam shipped four carloads OF
feeder steers to Denver Tuesday morn
ing. The bulk of the shipment came
from the Xxx" ranch in FL Paso county
and they were the choicest lot Of feeders
shipped out of Elbert in long time.
Put" is doing big cattle shipping bus
iness.
Miss Park closed successful term OF
school in the Aulesbrook district, twelve
miles west Of Elbert, in Douglas county,
Friday, and departed Saturday for her
home near Parker. She has been en-
gagged to teach the winter term OF school
in the same district, which will begin
about October 10.
j. M. Uric and wife of Delta, Iowa, are
visiting VIM. Cochran, a brother, and
Mrs. f. b. Hall, sister of Mrs Uric, at
their homes east OF Fondis. Mr.. Coch-
ran drove his guests over to Elbert last
Wednesday to meet Mrs. Hannah Knox,
also from near Delta, who arrived that
evening from Loveland. The TRBuNE
received pleasant call from these Iowa
people, all Of whom are from Keokuk
county, where ye editor grew up.
Last Friday, August 20, little Frances
Schenk celebrated her fifth birthday
with a number of little friends. Games
were played, a peanut hunt" affording
much amusement, and u pleasant after
noon was spent by the little ones. Ice
cream and cake we're served. The birth