, 1903-11-05

for a tumor in his nose He is get
ting along finely and will soon have
recovered.
Please look up the date of your
subscription on this paper and if you
are in arrears please come in and paw
up, and save us the trouble of having
to send you a notice.
Mr.. and Mrs. W B. Harden came
up from the ranch of W. II. Mead,
on Pass creek Friday and remained
over until Saturday, when they re-
turned to the ranch again. 1t will
be two months yet before they will
be through with their work at that
place.
The new coal bank, the opening up
of which was mentionel IN these col
umns a short time since, is improving
as depth is gained. If the vein
proves TO ~ as good as the Philips
or Petty u VIM mines, it will be a
great help to the town, as it is very
easy OF approach.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Fl. Blickenefeldt
and family, of Minneapolis, Mimi,
arrived here Sunday. Mr.. Blicken-
fedt is looking for a location for the
Improvement of his health and there
is ID strong probability that he will
purchase property and become "A res
ident of this valley.
One of the most annoying instanc
es the business man has to deal with
is the man who dips his pen in thei ink
and then jerks it off on the floor, win.
dow, carpet, or whatever happens to
be in the way. Instead of being
careful, and take just enough ink for
his purpose, he must needs load the
pen up and then sling the surplus
off.
Winthrop Condict, of Condict
Bros, Brush creek, was down Tues
day and met his son, Winthrop, who
had Just returned from Cheyenne,
where he had been in att ndance on
the High School. Young Winthrop
reports that the public schools of that
city were closed on account of the
prevalence of smallpox and that there
are "a cases of that disease in the
city.
Mrs. Heath is having her household
goods packed up, preparatory to NOV
ing to Rawlins to live. She will
leave here in a few days, in company
with her father and mother, Rev. DR..
Huntington and wife. These people
have been residents OF this city for
many years and have a wide acquaint.
ance and will be missed very much.
Raw'ins will gain, in a social way,
what Saratoga loses.
Frank White is telling u potato
story that is causing his fellow ranch
men to give him the Ha ha; but he
sticks to it. He says that he sem to
New York for Two pounds of potatoes
called Mortgage Lifters," and
from the two pounds he raised PIP
pounds, weighed after having been
dug a month. Mr.. White says he
can make good by showing up the
potatoes,
Mark Crawford left Sunday for
Pearl, Colo, where he goes to take
charge of the Pearl Mining Times
which he and George Hollingshead,
of Pearl, have purchased in partner
ship. Mr.. Crawford has had six or
seven years experience in running IA
weekly newspaper and, as that exper.
fence extends to every department
and every possible part, from devil to
editor-in- chief, he ought to be able
to get up a paper that will be read
able, as we'll As present a nice ap-
pehrahce typoBraphlcally.
The game of quoits mentioned last
week seems to have lost much of it's
interest for the men of the town and
is now being industriously followed
by some boys who, to all appearance
should be in school. We would sug.
gest that if the parents Of these BOYS
cannot, or will not, look after them,
that the City Marshal be empowered
to show them the way to the school
building. To raise boys up in ignor
ance, when there is a fine free publ,
school for them to go to, is to rails,
them up to crime and a life of hard
ship.
From a private letter to the editor
of this paper it is learned that A. C
Moon, formerly Of this place, is now
L.. --..1.. rs it,