The Elbert County tribune., 1903-04-23
LOCAL AND PERSONAL

! Colin d. Campbell of Colorado Springs
was an Ebert visitor Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. L. Barnes drove across
country to Colorado Springs Tuesday.
Mrs. d. r. Burnside, Mrs. W. s. Epler
and Perley Foote went to Denver Tues
day.
Mrs. Mary Schillinger Of Colorado
Springs il visiting relatives in Ebert
and vicinity.
Frank Eubank returned to Denver
Saturday, much improved in health after
two weeks rest.
c. A. Mathews is building new tele-
phone line from the central Office to his
home south of town.
Rev. Il. B. Gramcko and w. j. Watts
went to Denver Monday to attend
meeting Of the Presbytery.
The ,:edy of an infant child Of Mr.. and
Mrs. e. Barkley was brought here Sat
urday from Littleton and inferred in
Elbert cemetery.
W. S. burns OF Pueblo came Sunday
and spent several days with his family
near Fondis. Mr.. Burns is employed at
the big steel plant OF the Colorado Fuel
a. Iron Co.
There will be an entertainment and
box social and dance at the school house
in school district No. 36 on Saturday
night, May ., for the benefit OF the dist
rict. All invited.
A suspicious looking character, who
was playing deaf and dumb, was round
ed up Tuesday night and taken in charge
until morning, when he was turned
loose and ordered out of town.
W. II. Gatewood has bought the 33x
124 foot lot adjoining his property on the
south, making him total frontage Of
30 feet. Would that the town had few
more citizens like Mr.. Gatewood.
Spud planting has begun in this sec
ton aad the tubers are. going into the
ground Mt rapid rate. James Cole will
plant 40 acres in potatoes and Alfred
Peterson will put in between 40 and 80
acres.
p. II. Skinner, who has been residing
in the Biiou valley, has bought ranch
near Scdalia, Douglas county, where
there is plenty Of adjoining range, and
will move on to his new possession next
week. The Sedalia community will gain
n couple OF good citizens in Mr.. and Mrs.
Skinner.
The first semi.annual statement Of the
Elbert County bank is published in this
issue. The showing made is very
creditable one for a new institution, the
deposits alone amounting TO more than
$4,000. This bank is a solid financial
institution and is gaining new patrons.
almost every day.
A movement is now on foot to hold
big celebration in Elbert July 4th. 1t
is probable that one or more of our lodge
organizations will have charge of the
affair, which promises TO be the biggest
4th of July celebration ever held in the
county. Plan ahead to celebrate in El-
bert; you will be well entertained.
The dog poisoner got in his work here
last week, u half dozenfdogs dying from
the effects of poison. The person re-
sponsible for this dirty work would no
doubt have felt pretty small could he
have heard some of the remarks made
about him and his work. The profes-
sional dog poisoner as rule is pretty
low down in the scale Of humanity.
Gordon Jones of Colorado Springs,
president of the Elbert County bank,
was in town Thursday and Friday. Mr..
Jones is particularly well pleased with
the splendid patronage the business has
received during the six months of its
existence. He is erecting n two-story
stone and brick building at Fountain
for his Fountain Valley bank, which has
recently been changed into a national
bank.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. f. Dittemore we're
greatly surprised Tuesday morning to
find a strange team of horses in the barn
Mr.. Dittemore at first thought the team
had been stolen and left there by the
thieves. Later he found card tackled
on the barn door on which was written:
"Presented to Mr.. and Mrs. j. T. Ditto
more There was no signature on the
card. Mr.. Dittemore says he has no
idea whore the team came from, who the
donors are or how the horses got into the
barn without his knowledge.
The handsome cover of The Designer
for May is significant of the many good
things which follow. prominent among
which are, of course, fashions and milli-
merry for spring and summer, also many
novelties in trimmings, all of which are
most attractively illustrated. "A May
Day Celebration and "a Hunting Party"
are suggestions for entertainments, and
directions for making many handsome
novelties in crochet supply the fancy
work. "What Women Are Doing and
"Helps Along the Way are two depart
ments which grow in interest each month
points on Dressmakingp treats this
month of the making of shirred garments,
and the Lesson in Millinery" tells how
to make a Shepherdess hat. "Novel In
teriors," "Selections for the Recitation
ist' and poems by Theodosia Garrison,
Edwin l.. Sabin and Others add still fur
ther attraction to this remarkably at
tractive number.
Due Notice Is Served.
Due notice is hereby served on the
public generally that DeWitt's Witch
Hazel Salve is the only salve on the
market that is made from the nure nm