The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1904-12-09

Ellwood hog fence. The johnson
Supply Co.
John Slaughter made a business
trip to Pueblo the first of the week.
The next meeting of the Ladies
Sewing circle will be with Mrs. l.. II
Angevine. Thursday, Dec. 18th, al
the usual hour.
Geo. S. Lovett will go to Denver
to morrow night 10 spend a few days
transacting business and taking in the
sights of the capital city.
Alfred Erlandson was down from his
ranch in the Carmel district to-day
and paid the CHRONICLE pleasant
visit. renewing his subscription for
another year.
A. B. Erich was down from Mount
Blanca the first Of the week to get a
contract for the completion of the an.
nual work on the Commodore mine
from the La lara Minir & Milling
Co.
Dame rumor has it that pronli-
nent young professional man of one
of our neighbor towns will carry off
one of La Jara's daughters as his
wife before the holiday season closes.
Gilbert Oliver and Tommy Trujillo
were two of the La Jaraites sum-
moned to serve as jurors at this term
of the district court. Tommy's wife
being sick, he succeeded in getting
excused.
Geo. Durham arrived home We'd
nesday morning after having enjoyed
the most pleasant month OF his life,
visiting the old folks at his boyhood's
home near Krksville, Mo. While
his sojourn there was most happy
one, he states that for place to live
there is no location like La Jara and
he is now stronger in the belief than
ever.
An idea was furnished of the extent
and variety of the Denver election
frauds by the opening of the ballot box
for precrnct 8. ward 5. 1t WAS opened
to discover stuffing charged by wit
ness and the first thing found was that
about forty straight Republican votes
had been counted as Democratic. The
false counting and the stutiing to-
gether cost the Republican ticket in
this precinc. AT votes, the correction
of which alone elects two Republican
representatives. What will the others
show?
DR.. Hamilton underwent tho pain.
fulexperlence of being thrown from
his buggy last Wednesday morning as
he was starting out on drive to the
La lara canon to visit a patient.
In crossing the Arroyo, Just west OF
town, his team became frightened at
the cracking ice and bolted. The
buggy tipped sufficiently to unseat the
doctor and the team got away, Chas.
Pursley afterwards catching them near
the home of VIM. Neff. While no,
seriously injured, DR.. Hamilton suf
fered severely bruised shoulder and a
general shaking up. No particular
damage was done to the team or
buggy.
Mr.. Gilbert McClurg, of Colorado
Springs, was in La lara yesterday an ]
to day and addressed meeting of the
citizens at the town hall last evening.
Mr.. McClurg is lecturer of pro-
noupced ability and during the past
season gave illustrated lectures on
Colorado throughout the east. That
his work was great success is ad-
mitted by all who have had an oppor-
tunity to witness the results that have
followed. Next year be will again
take up the work where he left off and
he and Mr.. Armstrong, of the Colo
RADIO Promotion and Publicity Co., are
now out canvassing the state for funds
with which to carry on their enter
prise. They asked the town council
for an appropriation but no action
was taken at last nights session.
TurkevS Wanted.