The Grit-advocate., 1906-04-06

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composed of local and foreign capi-
| tali>ts: he is interested in the com
pany himself. will control IA majority
of the stock and will have The man
agement of the business The Stvle of
the new firm will probably be the
John a Cass Lumber Company. Mr.
/ Cass informs The Grit-Advocate that
his company is backed by plenty of
capital. ana ttat the present invest
ment, which is nearly $50. .COo.00 will
/ be doubled by the building of a new
elevator and the addition of new fea-
| lures to the business.
The county commissioners met in
regular quarterly session last Mon
| day and continued in session until
meeting the entire time was taken up
in settling with the court house con-
! tractor and others who had claims
against the county for work done on
| the building. These claims were paid
| upon the basis agreed to by the board
of arbitration which considered the
matter a few weeks ago. The con-
tractors claim and all other claims
were prOrated at 50 cents on the $l.oO
! The official report of the two days
session will be published next week
Fl. S. Hartman disposed of his live
stock and farming implements at pub
lie auction yesterday at his ranch ten
miles west of Julesburg. His ranch
was sold some time ago. Mr. Hart
man has not yet decided as to what
business he will engage in, but is now
figuring on opening billiard hall
and bowling alley in Julesburg, pro-
vided he can make satisfactory ar
engagements to that end.
j. B. Hale and wife. of Mnneapo-
lis. Minnesota. have been the guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. j. H. Brown since
Tuesday evening. Mr.. Hale is trav-
cling salesman for the Aultman &
Taylor Machinery company, of Mans
field. Ohio. and may dicide to locate
in JuleSburg. Mrs. Hale is the dau-
ghter of Mr.. and Mrs. Brown.
a. b. Gray and O f. Rhodes. rep
company, of Denver. were in Jules
burg last Saturday looking over the
situation with a view of asking the
town board for franchise for a light
ing plant. They install acetylene gas
plants. which are claimed to be about
as good as electric plants.
Joseph Labaree. of Lafayette. Indi-
ana, arrived in .IuleSburg Wednesday
evening and will spend the summer at
the home of his brother, w NJ. Laba-
rec Mr.. Labaree spent several
months here six years ago: he is an
expert painter and paper hanger and
may conclude to move his family here
later on.
Water was turned into the intake
ditch OF the .julesburg reservoir Tues
day evening. Only Il small head is
being run and every precaution is be-
| ing aiken to prevent the banks of the
ditch from breaking. a large force of
men is patrolling the ditch and the
/ flow will be increased as rapidly as
/ possible.
! Mr.. and Mrs. G. l.. Vernon. of
| North Platte. Nebraska. arrived in
.lulesburg Wednesday evening for ii
week visit with Mrs. Vernon's par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. G. NJ. Harris
They We're accompanied by Miss Lois
! Drake, who had been visiting them
| for week.
! A large amount of space in this is
/ sue of The Grit-AdvOcate is filled with
the semi-annual statement of the coun
/ tvs finances This will no doubt be
Interesting reading to our SubScrib-
ers. hence no apology is needed be-
cause of the exclusion of local news
matter.
j. w. Broadhead, of Fulton. Hi
nois. arrived in Julesburg Wednesday
evening with his mother. He is now
engaged in closing the purchase of the
Jeffrey Mercantile company's stock of
groceries. and expects to move his
family to this place in short time.
Last Monday Postma ster Wallace