The Elbert County tribune., 1905-01-26
ELBERT, COLO, JANUARY %, 1905.
Local Happenings

day.
Miss Nora Chapman of Breckenridge
is visiting relatives and friends in Elbert
and vicinity.
Mrs. Adam Speck and Mrs. William
Forster and sister, of the neighborhood
east of Fondis, were Tribune callers Fri
day.
Miss Emma Dodds, who has been Wis
iting at the Alex. Brazelton home for
couple Of weeks, returned to Denver last
Thursday.
Mrs. Laird, who has been visiting her
mother, Mrs Rachel Knight, and other
relatives in this locality, returned to her
home in Denver Sunday.
ID. ID. Detwiler is rebuilding and ad-
ding a room to the house on his ranch
down Kiowa creek and will have com
Portable home when completed.
w. II. McAlpine of Denver, former
resident of this section, spent several
days last week visiting friends in the
.Will Dittemore" neighborhood, west of
town.
Mrs. Lee Cannon and two youngest
children, Lora and Leroy, went to Colo
RADIO Springs Wednesday of last week,
where they spent several days visiting
friends.
Mrs. Schollay, who has been visiting
Captain and Mrs. Robert Johnston since
before Christmas, left for Denver Satur-
day and will start on the 29th for her
home in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
Abbie Rinnert, who has been engaged
in the ticket brokerage business in Den
yer for some time, will go into the coun-
ty clerks Office February lst as deputy.
Abbie will be a competent deputy.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Taggar. have
rented furnished rooms at the Mowrey
home for the remainder of the winter.
Mr.. Taggart has sold an option On his
800 acre ranch east of Ebert to party
from Nebraska.
While at Fort Collins last week A. G.
Cornforth purchased of the State Agri
cultural college magnificent specimen
of registered Shorthorn bull calf, which
he received Tuesday. The animals six
teen months old and weighs l 200 pounds
The Elbert school is closed this week
by order of the directors on account of
several cases OF scarlet fever in the dis
trict outside OF the town. The cases are
none of serious nature, but as pre-
cautionary measure it was thought best
to close the school.
The Tribune has purchased 23-inch
Chandler & Price lever paper cutter and
is now better prepared than ever to do
all kinds job printing on short notice.
We believe we have one of the best
equipped country newspaper Offices Of
any small town in Colorado.
The young people, and some of the
older ones, have been enjoying the sport
Of coasting down the long hill at Edge
wood since the recent snow. The coast
ing has been fine and the excitement in
riding down steep hill on a "bob" at a
speed of a mile minute-well there's
nothing like it.
Editor F. P. Murray of Elizabeth was
: elected member of the executive
committee of the Colorado State Editor
ial Association at the annual business
meeting of the association held in Den
yer Monday. The editor of the Tribune
attended the meeting, the proceedings of
which will be found on page five
Tho Trihnna bac dpr;n1 +bo x~o.t
month mailed statements to several hun
dred subscribers, informing them how
their accounts stand on our subscription
books. Our increasing business compels
us to purchase considerable new mater
ial for the Tribune plant and we hope
that those in arrears will be prompt with
their remittances.
The fourteen-year-o daughter of
George Smith, living southwest Of Ell
bert, in Douglas county, died Wednes-
day, Jan. Is, of infammatory rheumatism
/ and was buried Thursday in Spring Val
ley cemetery. The Smith family seems
to have more than its share of misfor-
tune, Mr.. Smith having lost his wife. one
son and daughter in less than two
years.
The Denver daily papers have had
much to say for the past week about
various railroads passing into new hands,
one rumor being that the Rock Island
had secured control of the Colorado &
Southern The Tribune cannot vouch
for the truth of these rumors, but would
welcome most any kind OF change
, which would insure better train ser
vice for the people living along this line.