, 1903-11-19
PRICE FIVE CENTS.

the city to meet him.
II. c. Marsh, who has been visiting
the family of j. F. Crawford the past
week. returned to his home at the
Florence mine Monday morning. via
the stage line to French.
r. F. McAllister is over from the
Medicine Bow and Rockdale coun-
tries. His family are spending the
winter in Laramie. where the child
rem are attending school.
Mrs. H~ollingshead of Pearl, Colo,
came down from that place Saturday
and left on the stage for the railroad.
She z es to Georgetown, Colo. on a
visit to relatives of several months.
Wallace and Arthur Harnden, who
owned a large ranch and a bunch of
stock on the head of Foote creek.
have sold out to their brother. f. A.
Harnden, and have moved to Lara
ME.
Miss Jessie Moore, the manager of
the telephone office, who has been
i'll for the past two weeks, is improv-
ing and hopes to be to able to attend
to her duties at the Office again in "A
few days.
The young people are having a fine
time skating since the cold weather
sat in. The slough above the Hot
Springs property is in fine condition
and there are gay parties out there
every night.
1t will be well for parents to look
well after their children this winter,
and see that they do not venture on
dangerous ice, without some near
who can rescue them in Ease they
break through.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Chase were
down from the Foreman saw mill
Monday. They will move to town
later OF in the winter in order hat
their children may have the benefit of
our public schools.
Hon. William Plat and I. C. Plat,
of Beaver creek, were down from that
country Friday and Saturday Of last
week Ike paid a visit to DR.. Sender,
the dentist, and they had a very pleas
ant session of the House, with Ike in
the ''chair."
Mrs. A. W. Eager, who has been in
Meeker, Colo, for the past two
months, in attendance upon her son
Lewis, who was so dangerously i'll
with typhoid fever, returned home
last week. She left Lewis improving
slowly, but it will be six months be-
fore he will be able to again engage
in any kind of employment.
The merciful man is merciful to
his beast. A man rode into town the
other moraing, when the Thermometer
was down to 10 or 10 degrees, tied
his sweating horse to a rack and
spent the entire morning around town,
while his poor beast shivered in the
cold. twenty-five cents would have
made his horse comfortable.
Mrs. Moerke, who has been engag-
ed in carrying the mail between this
place and the Brush creek tie camp.
leaves shortly for Laramie, where she
will spend the winter keeping a
boarding house. She expects to re-
turn in the spring. A. w. Ainsworth
will take up the mail contract on hat
route and run it during the winter.
Our school notes are becoming very
interesting. The scholars in each de-
partment are trying hard to make a
record, and they should he encourag-
ed in every way possible. Parents
should aid their children in getting
off to school, so that their attendance
will be punctual. Tardy marks are
always discouraging things for a
scholar to have against his name.
The stage from the railroad broke
down yesterday, about a mile and "A
half out of town and the passengers
all had to walk in. One of the thor
ough braces broke and the body Of
the coach luached over into one of
the wheels, breaking it to pieces. An
other coach was rugged up here and
the stage took its load of passengers
and express on through TO Encamp-
meut.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. p. Moore came
down from French Tuesday. bring
ing Peter Hill, an uncle of Mrs.
Moore's this far ON his road home to
Mcpherson, Kansas. Mr.. Hill, who
owns a large farm at Mcpherson,
has been here about u month, and il
he can find "A place to suit him, will