The Elbert County tribune., 1906-03-01
ELBERT, COLO, MARCH /, 1905.
Local and Personal


ing.
Joseph Smith Of the Prosperity Ridge
neighborhood is plastering the new U. B.
parsonage.
John Butch OF Denver YVES visiting
friends in the Prosperity Ridge neigh,
borhood last week.
d. X. Burnside and William Leach
we're passengers to Denver on Wednes-
day mornings train.
II. Shay, was here Monday to attend the
funeral of his sons wife.
George w. Knifton came out from
Denver Friday and visited over Satur-
day at Forest Glen ranch.
S. A. Hardy OF Fowler came in from
Denver Tuesday evening and went over
to Bijou Basin for brief stay.
Mr.. and Mrs Walter Nelson have gone
to Denver, where Mr.. Nelson expects to
secure employment at his trade.
The box social advertised for Tuesday
evening, Feb. 81, by the Ladies Aid soci-
ETY., has been indefinitely postponed.
William Hanna and Arthur Meader,
OF the Bijou valley country, were in town
Saturday and called at the Tribune office.
Will Foreman came in from Yuma
county Monday evening. where he has
been staying since just before the holi-
days.
r. A. Egerer of Alcott, Colo, is new
subscriber to this paper. Mr. Egerer
owns ranch in the Fondis neighbor
hood
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. Eli Coole, seven
miles southwest of Elbert, Tuesday, Feb
q, son. Mother and boy are reported
to be doing nicely.
A young son of Jacob Heffley, hving
northeast of Elbert, has been quite sick
with pneumonia, but is now thought to
be out of danger.
N. 7. Reno OF kiowa is steadily i'm.
proving in health at Pueblo, where for
some time past he has been taking treat
ment for rheumatism.
Elmore Jewell has moved on to the
ranch south of town which he has leased
for the year. Mrs. Jewell will come up
from Melvin this week.
The Red Men held a very successful
masquerade dance last Thursday night,
40 dance tickets and a number of spec
tators' tickets being sold.
There will be services on Sunday,
March 4, at st. AIMS Catholic church,
kiowa, at o a. N. and at st. Marys
1t will pay you to list your ranch with
B. M. Maroon if you really want to sell.
Don't put price on it that is unreason-
able. What l want is your taking
price.
L. G. Dameron and bride returned to
Elbert yesterday, after having spent
portion of their wedding trip at the
home of the groom's parents at Here
| ford, Texas.
| Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. Adam Ditto
more. eight miles southwest of Elbert,
| Monday, February 20, a daughter.
Mother and child are reported to be
doing nicely.
| Mr.. and Mrs. G. E. Whitehead and
daughter Maude, of Niwot, Colo, ar
rived here Tuesday evening for weeks
visit with Mr.. Mrs. G. A. Matthews, old
friends and former neighbors, residing
five miles southeast of town.
The various committees for the far
mers institute to be held here on March
u are making some progress and the in.
dications are that the institute will be
great success. We will probably pub
lish the program in our next weeks
issue.
During the funeral Monday, while
Taylor Green was working with a smok-
ing stove, the blaze suddenly shot out
the. stove door, singeing Mr.. Green's
eyebrows and hair. Fortunately for Mr..
Green he was far enough away from the
stove so that he was not seriously burn
ed. He was badly scared, however, for
a few moments.
The Rebekahs have secured the ser
vices OF the well known Dietermann or
chestra Of Kiowa for all their club dan
ces, the next one to be held on the night
OF March 3, to be followed by one on the
night of March II, st. Patrick's day.
See their dance dates published in an
other column of this paper When the
Dietermanns play the music is always
satisfactory.
A. j. Peterson has bought the l. r.
Keller ranch, consisting Of 440 acres OF
land located one mile southwest of the
Bijou Basin postoffice, in Ell Paso coun-
ty. The consideration was $1,000. This
is one of the best dairy ranches in Biiou
basin and contains considerable good
farm land. The property is we'll i'm
proved with substantial buildings and
fences, and there is an abundance of
good water on the place. Mr.. Peterson
has secured bargain in this ranch.