La Junta tribune., 1906-02-28

For RENT Four-room house. fur
nished Inquire of Mrs. c. ID.
Steward.
Mayhew House Furnishing Co..
Undertaking. embalming. Phone,
AZ black; night phone. 462 red.
For RENT Ten room house on
the corner of Belleview and Seventh
street. Inquire Of J. NJ. Lyon.
For RENT Two furnished rooms
for light housekeeping. Inquire
firsr door east of public library.
Monthly school report cards, good
for any school district in Otero
county, for sale at the TRIBUNE
Office.
For RENT Five room brick house:
three and one-half blocks from the
postofiice. Inquire at the Harvey
House.
Miss Lulu Slayten returned Mon
day evening on No. 10 from Trini-
dad. where she has been visiting
her sister. Mrs. John Cain. for the
past month.
The gentleman getting the wrong
fedora Stetson hat at the card party
at b. NJ. Spalding's Monday night
will please kindly return it and
oblige the owner.
Mrs. j. A. Thomas. accompanied
by her three daughters. leaves
Thursday night for Fort Worth.
Texas. to join her husband who has
been located there for some time.
To watch the trains it looks like
the people of the east are falling
over one another in their mad rush
to Kansas. They get off at Garden
City by the carload. Garden City
Herald.
W. f. Roop writes and notifies us
to change the address of his TRIBUNE
from La Junta to La Veta. Colo.
where he expects to remain for
eeyeral months in the hope of being
Benefited in health.
No marriages or deaths were re-
corded during the past week. The
increase and multiply record. how
ever. was something fierce on Wash
ington's birthday. one doctor offici-
ating at the initiation of three new
born babes.
Walter Dubree has just completed
the plans for the saloon building
to be erected in Swink very soon
by the Swink Townsite company.
The building will be a brick struc-
ture. one story in height and will
contain two store rooms. Ii will
cost about $500 and the work of
construction will commence before
the close of the present week.
VIM. LeBaron, of La Junta. has
entered upon his duties as Super
intendent Ayers chief clerk, sue
ceeding John S. Cady. who recently
resigned. Mr.. LeBaron has been
Western Division Superintendent
Parker's stenographer for some
time. He will move his family here
from La Junta just as soon as he
can arrange to do so.-Dodge City
City Republican.
John Slower and family leave today
for Denver. and will locate perma
nently. Mr.. Slower having acquired
an interest in one of the leading
plastering firms of that city. Mr..
Slower has been a resident of this
city for two years or more and has
made many friends, all Of whom will
join the TRIBUNE in wishing him un-
bounded prosperity in Colorado's S
great capital citv.
J. w. Vandiver has secured the
contract of moving the Swink store.
the blacksmith shop and the Kint-
ner residence and started the work
yesterday morning. The Swink
store will be moved on the rear of
the lots facing on Columbia avenue
at the corner of First street. The
Kintner domicile will be moved to
residence lots in the southeast part
of the townsite. where the barbecue
feast was held.
Nearly $50 men are now employed
in the local shops, the largest num-
Der in its history. The premium
system" which has proved such a