The Elbert County tribune., 1903-11-19
Local Happenings

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Kiowa will have broncho busting
contest on Thanksgiving.
Born. to DIR. and Mrs. r. II. Dcnney,
Wednesday, November Is, 1903, son.
Mrs. +. W. Schenk. who has been ser.
iously Ill for two weeks, is improving
slowly.
Robert McNnmara went to Edgewater
Sunday, where he has employment for
the winter.
Mrs. i. :. Baldwin has been seriously
III with heart trouble but is better the
last few days.
The locsl potato market took quite a
boom Monday, spuds going as high as a
dollar hundred
Otto c. II. Wisco and Mrs. Augusta
Fuchs Of Bijou Basin are new subscrib-
ers to the Tribune.
Easy shoes for uneasy feet. A pair Of
shoes and pleased customer 20 with
every sale at Gates
Mrs. John f. Epler and baby went to
Denver this morning to spend several
days with relatives.
Funeral furnishings -caskets, all sizes
] anu KIdutS. buflttl CIV
Gatewcod, Elbert, Colo.
Old age got the best of Mrs. Aux's
faithful buggy horse last week after
many years OF good service.
NJ. T. Alumbaugh has recently moved
from Peyton to Colorado Springs, where
he is conducting dairy with good sue
cess.
Rev. A. Jay Garrison of Denver will
preach at the James schoolhouse next
Sunday morning and evening at the us
ual hours. Everyone invited.
The Elbcrt County bank has put in a
telephone and has direct connections
with Kiowa. The use of the phone will
I be free to the banks patrons.
Miss Sadie Hunt of Grand Rapids,
Mich, who spent several months here,
has gone to Denver to spend the winter
and will be joined there by her mother.
County Supt, Georgia visited the Ell
bert school Friday. Mrs. Georgia is do
ing good work for the schools OF the
county, and her visits are many and
often.
1t is reported here that little son Of
Mrs. Alex. Oaks died in a Denver hospi
tai Wednesday of last week. We have
been unable to learn any further partic
ulars.
T. w. Halliday, county surveyor, has
been appointed statistical correspondent
by the department of Agriculture Of the
government at Washington, ID. c., for
Ebert county.
The coal strike is felt already in FL
bert where the supply among the local
dealers is exhausted and none in sight.
The price was increased week ago to
$500 ton, delivered.
l.. G. Jewell and Joseph Smith, two of
our good friends from the Prosperity
neighborhood. called Monday and made
arrangements Tor supply of good pa
pers for their winter reading.
Sheriff Putnam of Elbert county, who
has many friends throughout Douglas
county, was Castle Rock visitor Wed
nesday. having come over to interview
the district court ollicials.-Journal.
There was large crowd at the Clark
sale last Saturday and stock sold at %
to 30 per cent above market prices. III.
ID. Martin and another Denver man bid
in all Of the stock and drove il to Den
yer.
/ w. C. Whiting and family moved to
Elbert last week from their ranch north
west OF town and are living in the Rich
mond house. Owing 10 poor health Mr..
Whiting is net able to do the hard work
on his ranch.
The Lincoln County bank opened for
business Monday at Hugo. Gordon
Jones, president of the Union Stock
Yards bank. Denver. and Elbert County
bank Elbert, is president, and h. |.
Thompson of Hugo is cashier.
NJ. G. Brown and J. c. Kulp. Of Dem
Yer, were guests at the George Corkett
home in Biiou valley over Sunday. Mrs.
Lauren Chapman, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Corkett, accompanied by her little
son Is also visitor at the Corkett home.
The list OF delinquent taxes of Elbert
county for the year 1902 will be found on
page five. The list is twenty per cent
larger than that of last year. 1t will be
noticed that but few pieces of property
in southwest Elbert are advertised as
delinquent.
j. e. Woodland and son Merritt drove
to Elbert Friday from their home twelve
miles north of Ramah to have dental
+ work done, and were compelled to return
without it owing to the non-appearance
of the dentist. Mr.. Woodland reports an
exceptionally dry season in the locality
east of Fondis and north of Ramah, and
crops correspondingly light.
In stating last week that the Red Mn
would build their hall on the corner lot
across the street south from tho Elbert
County bank, il seems that we were mis-
informed, as the location has not yet
been definitely settled. 1t was not the
intention Of the Tribune to deliberately
make a misstatement regarding the loca-
ton OF the building, hence this cor
= rection.
Through the efforts of Commissioner
Mulligan new road has been opened on
the township line. leaving the Elhert-