The Elbert County tribune., 1905-08-03
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Local Happenings

Nels Pearson lost valuable mare by
lightning last Thursday.
Mrs. II. b. Wilmot of Denver is a guest
of Mr.. and Mrs. Taylor Green this week.
Mrs. b. Grebe is having neat porch
built on to her residence on South Ec-
cles street.
William Leach was in Denver Monday
and Tuesday, buying stock of fresh
vegetables and fruits for his market
Found On the road leading north and
west from Ebert, black shawl. Own
cr can find shawl at the Tribune office.
County Surveyor raggart is doing
some county work down near Kiowa this
week. Gus Dietrich is assisting him as
chairman
The new bank bdilding is nearing
completion and Cashier Mayer will soon
move the Elbert County bank into its
new home.
Mrs. j. N. Davis was successfully OPP
Grated on in Denver last week for the re-
moval of growth in the nose and is now
getting along nicely.
John f. Miller has sold the remaining
100 acres OF his ranch northwest of town
to Mr.. Sidmore from Kansas. The
consideration, we understand, was SO
per acre.
The fair officials expect to close con
tract soon with a well known aeronaut
for balloon ascension and parachute
leap for Thursday, Sept. 21, the big day
of the fair.
w. b. Pope, brother of the editor,
is learning the printing trade in the
Tribune office, and in the course of few
weeks will become full hedged print
ers 'tdevil."
There is quite demand IN Elbert for
houses to rent and not an empty dwell
ing in town. 1t is said that sonle of the
landlords have raised their rents, owing
to this condition of affairs.
Mr.. and Mrs c. d. Totten and daTgh-
ter Helen, of Washington county, Kan
sas, were guests several days this week
at the home of j. G. Brace, nephew of
Mr.. Totten, west of Ebert.
The heavy rain last Thursday after
noon washed out about 30 feet of road
bed for the Colorado & Southern mile
north of town, delaying the southbound
train three quarters of an hour.
Letters addressed as follows remained
uncalled for in the Ebert postoffice on
August L: Mr.. Charles Smith, MIR. John
Coce. When calling for above, please
say advertised. j. I'll. PURDEN, Post
| master.
Good rains have fallen all over the di-
vide country during the last week and
crops of all kinds have been greatly ben
Gifted thereby. Haying and the cutting
of rye have been somewhat retarded by
the rains.
l.. q. Jewell has purchased the Diet
rich residence property across the street
from the Presbyterian church. The
property consists of two lots and five
room house and is occupied by John
KERN and family.
When in Colorado Springs stop at the
Spaulding House. Every thing neat and
clean. Electric cars from depots and to
all parts of the city. Rates Sl.50 to $500
a day. Special rates by the week. Opp.
new court house. j. Himebaugh, Prop'r.
The following well known ranchmen
have recently purchased new binders in
Elbert: Q. f. Monez, Messrs Casey and
Jones, Albert Maui, l. r. Keller. of the
Bijou country; Messrs. Theodore Neu-
man and Wrockloff, of the Comanche 10
cality.
Mrs. William Leach came up from
Colorado Springs Saturday and visited
until Monday with friends here. Mrs.
Leach expects to leave soon for Cincin-
natl to visit her father and sister whom
she has not seen for 20 years. She will
be gone month.
The sheep shearers finished their work
at the Hugo sheds yesterday, the iiocks
OF Lon E. Foote being the last to be
sheared. These sheep were the heaviest
wooled at the sheds this season and
sheared 10 pounds to the fleece. At 20
cents a pound, this gives Mr.. Footc the
nice profit of 800 head, the best price
per head paid in this locality this year.
Hugo Range Ledger
The Colorado Telephone company has
completed its new line into Elbert from
the south and has made connections at
the Elbert Mercantile companys store.
The line will be completed into Eliza
beth this week and the entire line finish
ed by the middle of the month. The
line is good one, copper wire being used
altogether, and will be great convent
ence to the people along its route.
Sensible item from an exchange; Our
publlc schools should teach pupils how
70 STAND ana SIT; how to walk and talk:
how to read, write and spell correctly;
how to be polite and how to live ration
ally; These are the things that enter in
to the every day lives of everybody. and
these are the accomplishment that
should go along with shook learning. "
we iollop and slouch, shuttle and stun
BILE. humble and maunder. little
more attention to the common thinns of
every day life and a little less attantian
to the 'ologes' would TO our mind be
about the rinhi ihi.... -. u.