The Elbert County tribune., 1902-12-18
LOCAL AND Personal

j. d. Blaldey was Denver visitor
Saturday and Sunday.
The Rev. Irl r. Hicks 1903 Almanac
for sale at this office. Price. % cents.
Mrs. Joseph Oaks has been quite i'll
this week at her home, north Of town.
Mrs. NJ. A. Borden of Colorado City
was the guest OF Elbcrt friends Satur-
day.
Henry Matthews and e. w. Moulton
shipped two cars Of cordwood to Denver
this week.
There will be turkey shoot in Ebert
on Monday, Dec. -, commencing at 10
o'clock a. m.
Alex. Elsner, the efficient book keeper
for the Elbert Mercantile Co., went to
Denver Monday.
s. L. Barnes, A. G. Putnam and Rev.
Gramcko were passengers on Monday
mornings train to Denver.
Ralph Graham of Denver was guest
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Brazel-
ton several days this week.
The Elbert schools will close next
Wednesday for the holiday vacation and
will open again Monday after New Year.
Drop in at the ladies bazaar and buy
nice Christmas present for your wife
or sweetheart. Two doors east of the
drug store.
Rev. Il. Il. Thompson will preach at
the james school house next Sunday,
morning and evening. All invited to at
terd these services.
This cold weather has created an in.
dealers are shipping them out as rapidly
ns they can load the cars.
The sale of delinquent taxes for the
year 1901 will be held Saturday, Dec 20,
commencing at 10 o'clock u. M, at the
office of the county treasurer.
Judge Fahrion and Colonel Pace drove
up from Kiowa Saturday and attended
the annual election of officers of Elbert
County Post, G. A. X. Major johnson
OF Fondis was also present.
The snow storm which ragged here all
day Saturday and Sunday extended over
the entire state. About six inches fell
here and we noticed number of people
enjoying their first sleigh ride OF the
winter.
There could be no more suitable
Christmas present for the folks back
home than years subscription to the
TRIBUNE 1t will reach them fifty-two
times year and is big, newsy letter
each week.
Lucky indeed is the man who raised
his own Christmas turkey this year.
Turkeys are now retailing in the Denver
market at twenty cents per pound, and
will probably be worth twenty five cents
before Christmas.
Curt Dittcmore has sold his G00-acre
ranch, located seven miles southwest of
Elbcrt, to his brother, Adam Dittemore,
and will move to Colorado Springs to re-
side. He got house and lot in the
Springs in the deal
Workmcn have the foundation laid
for new barn for DIR. Denney. The
building will be 1Sx27is feet and it will
be a substantial and well put up build
ing. The doctor has also recently com
pleted modern chicken house.
Elbert County Post, G. A. r., elected
the following officers for the ensuing year
at it's meeting held here Saturday: Com
mander, W. c. Whiting; senior-vice,
Francis McCarten; quartermaster, d. i.
Epleri chaplain, James III. Johnston;
officer of the day, John Pace.
Kiowa will have broncho busting
contest Christmas day. Liberal purses
will be given to riders and large num-
Der of the busters from different parts OF
the county are anxious to come here and
ride. among them Steve Girardot of Schley
and number from Byers, Record.
Profanity Preventatives Gold collar
buttons at Gates.
A large crowd attended the turkey
shoot Tuesday at Charlie Harding's s, near
Table Rock. Although they had fifty
turkeys they ran short of fowls before
the crowd was supplied. Some good
shooting was done hy nearly all of the
marksmen present.
These chilly mornings, when it is al
most impossible TO arouse Yourselves