The Elbert County tribune., 1905-09-21
Local and Personal.

better take advantage of the Tribune's
anniversary offer this week.
4 Joseph Eisenborg. the painter. is paint
ing the exterior of the /. o. o. f. build
ing
County Clerk T. c. James and wife are
the happy parents of girl baby, born on
Monday, Sept. IL.
Surveyor Taggart was at Kiowa Tues
DAY consulting with the county commits
toner's on road matters.
Purley Foote was at Pueblo last week
attending the State fair. he thinks the
iair was great success.
Mrs. Joseph Brazelton and three chill
uren, hive miles west of town. are all sick
with the whooping cough and Joe is hav-
ing pretty tough time of it.
Jesse Grouse. who came here recently
from Rayyille, Mo-, has bought quarter
section of land south of Elbert, Just
across the line in FL Paso county.
Salt!-In order to give us more room
IN our warehouse for other goods. we
viii sell for cash No. l Kansas salt at
sl.5O and No salt at 81 40 per barrel
kpler, Brazelton & Co.
U. NJ. Maroon has purchased from The
hlbert Mercantile company the building
adjoining Epler, Brazelton & Co.'S store
on the west. He will open a real estate
otfice in one room and rent the other.
Miss Florence Bergman of the Table
Rock locality, southwest of Elbart, has
Iibeen confined to her home for month
with severe attack of the mumps and
was not improving very rapidly at last
Ireport.
Walter Carver came over from Steam
boat Springs this week and will attend
school here this winter His mother ac-
companied him and will remain for a
week or SO with relatives and friends
Castle Rock Record.
! The United Brethren people are con
templating the erection of home in Ell
bert for their pastor. This matter has
been under consideration for some time
and there is no doubt of the ultimate
Success of the undertaking.
When in Colorado Springs stop at the
| Spaulding House. Everything neat and
clean. Electric cars from depots and to
all parts OF the city. Rates 81 30 to e. 90
a day. Special rates by the week. Opp.
new court house. J. Himebaugh, Prop'r.
4uI ahu NlrS. -. H. JonrSOn ana TWO
children, of Lucerne, Mo-, spent several
ldays last week at the w. II. Bass home
| in Prosperity Ridge. Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis
James, of Pollock, Mo-, are guests at the
Bass home and will remain until after
the fair.
Fred Meyer, a contractor and builder
OF Alinden Mines, Mo, was in Elbert
isssveral days last week, visiting his old
! friend, John Perkins. This was Mr.. Mey.
ers' first trip to this part of Colorado and
he was favorably impressed with the
country.
At the state meeting of the Young
Peoples Christian Union of the United
Brethren church in Colorado, held in
Lovuland last week, Rev. j. n. Davis,
pastor OF the f.lbert U. b. circuit, was
highly honored by being elected presi-
dent for the coming year.
According to an estimate, Colorado
Springs has entertained between $4,000
and 5000 visitors since June /, and of
| this number there are about 1000 whose
tickets are now on deposit. The $4,000
is made up of $4,000 G.. A. r. tickets,
5000 Epworth leaguers, 1000 Eagles and
2O,OOO other tourists who took advantage
of the low rates TO Colorado Springs.
Now while the good roads movement
Is on, and the yellow press is calling at
tention to the treatment of convicts, why
isn't it good time to agree that the
very best and most humane thing we can
do for the convict is to put him to work
making these good roads the public is
crying for? Resolutions and oratory are
all very WELL but they don't build high
Ways-Forr Collins CoiIricr
Verne Casaretto of Colorado City,
while cutting corn on the ranch of his
uncle Edgar McAlroy, near Hustled last
Thursday was severely cut on the ankle
by the cutter, which almost severed his
foot, and he probably would have bled
to death before medical aid could have
been summoned had not an automobile
from Colorado Springs appeared just as
the accident happened. The tourists
were summoned and brought Mr.. Casar-
etto to Monument, where the wound was
dressed He was then taken to the
Emergency hospital in Colorado City for
surgical aid and was afterward removed
to his mothers home. An amputation
may be necessary Monument Messen-
ger.
A loafer on the street whose wife was
probably at home getting out neigh
boris washing to make money to buy the
children shoes, asked busy man the
other day il he ever saw baldheaded
woman. "No, never did, replied the
busy man. "And | never saw woman
waltzing around town in her shirt sleeves
with cigar in her teeth and running in
to every saloon she saw. Neither did
ever see woman sitting all day at the
street corner on dry goods box telling
people how the secretary OF the treasury
should run the national finances. ! have
never seen a woman go fishing with a
bottle in her pocket, sit on the bank all
day and go home drunk at night. Nor