The Elbert County tribune., 1905-02-02
ELBERr, COLO, FEBRUARY 2, 1905.
Local Happenings

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! Curt Dittemore visited in Colorado
Springs over Sunday.
Mrs. Augusta Fuchs went to Denver
Tuesday on business trip.
Charlie Harding came up from Colo
RADIO Springs Monday on business.
Prof c. II. Shay of Erie was in town
over Saturday night visiting friends.
b. F. Cook has badly crippled right
leg, caused by bursting blood vessel
There will be no services of any kind
next Sunday at the Elhert Presbyterian
church.
DR.. r. II. Denney is confined to the
house, suffering with severe attack of
tonsolitis.
Rev. G. X. Powell is confined to his
home at Elizabeth with severe attack
of lagrippe.
Mrs. f. w. Schenk, daughter and
niece went to Colorado Springs Tuesday
to visit her sister.
Jack Baldwin has returned from Pey-
ton, where he has been working for the
Gates Mercantile company.
George Gardner, book keeper for the
Ebert Mercantile company, has moved
into rooms in the Beulah hotel
Robert Mcnamara has been confined
to the house for couple of weeks, suf
fering with severe attack of lagrippe.
The school in the James district,
Miss Ella Lundy, teacher, was closed
last week on account of sickness in the
neighborhood.
S. l.. Griffin has been seriously Grip
pied for couple of weeks, having in
jured his right side while engaged in
putting up ice.
w. S. Porter has purchased 320 acres
of land, joining him on the west, from
James Barnes and wife, paying $500
for the half section.
l.. G. Jewell has bought of George
Gresham the building located two doors
north of the Cottage hotel and will use
the same for a residence.
Mrs. w. III. BiclSford arrived Monday
from Arizaba, Mexico, and will make her
home for the present with her brother,
}. G. Smalley, northwest of town.
Frank Fahrion has moved his family
back to his fathers ranch near Kiowa.
The house they were occupying has been
sold and they were unable to procure an
lotbnr b,ne. l., thn t,,,n
George Schillinger went to Colorado
Springs Saturday to make arrangements
to move his family to that city, Mr..
Schillinger will have a public sale Mt his
old ranch on Monday, Feb. 20.
j. G. Smalley, who recently purchased
1000 acres of land northwest of Elbert
from j. f. Miller, is a new Tribune sub
scriber. Mr.. Smalley comes from Mimi
eapolis, MINI. He is well pleased with
this country.
Denver retail merchants are advertis-
ing Divide potatoes for the first time in
years, and get from ten to twenty cents
more than Greeley spuds sell for. The
Divide spuds are superior in every way
to the irrigated potato.
George Schillinger has sold his 800
acre ranch, seven miles southwest of Ell
bert, to James Neeley, the consideration
being 5000. Mr.. Schillinger and family
will seek lower altitude in the spring,
probably removing to Oregon or Wash
ington.
Mrs. Mary Chenoweth, who has been
staying on her claim southeast of Fondis
and visiting friends in Elbert and vein
ity for a month, returned to Denver
Wednesday. Mrs. Chenoweth expects to
go to Mexico in May in company with
her son.
The fine prize winning exhibit of grains
and grasses from Forest Glen ranch, ex-
hibited by A. G. Cornfortn at the Eibert
County Fair, has been taken to Denver
and placed on exhibition in the Chamber
of Commerce building. All who saw
this exhibit at our fair pronounced It
the best they ever saw in the state, and
it will no doubt prove to be big adver-
tisement for this non-irrigated country.
Experience has taught every news
paper publisher that it is impossible to
publish paper that pleases everyone
People frequently take exception to
something published in the paper when
there was no intent on the part of the
editor to cast any reflections or injure
them personally or in business way. In
this connection we want to state that
the Tribune never publishes anything
with the deliberate intention of injur-
I inty man Woman or rhild